Measuring Product Diversity

Joshua Gans and Robert Hill ()

Working Papers from New South Wales - School of Economics

Abstract: The diversity of a set can be defined as a function of the bilateral distances between the elements of the set. We show how the bilateral distances between products can be presented by parameters in a utility function.

Keywords: ELASTICITY; PRODUCTION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L11 L15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 1996
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