The Morishima Elasticity of Substitution for the Profit Function

Yijian He and Subhash C. Sharma ()
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Yijian He: Southern Illinois Univ. @ Carbondale

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Abstract: In this note we derive expressions for the Morishima elasticity of substitution for a multiple input and outputs profit function. These expressions may have important applications to empirical studies.

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Date: 1995-02-08, Revised 1995-02-17
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