Maintaining and testing separability in demand systems

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 61-73

  Moschmi, Giancarlo ^a   Moro, Daniele ^b   Green, Richard D ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Almost ideal demand system; Conditional demand systems; Demand analysis; Duality; Likelihood ratio test; Rotterdam model; Separability; Translog model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002975756     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1243921     Document Type: Article

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