Tests of Representative Firm Models: Results for German Manufacturing Industries

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 251-270

  Koebel, Bertrand ^a,b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Demand system; Exact aggregation; Heterogeneity; Representative firm

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032345461     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018663221655     Document Type: Article

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