Cost functions and nonlinear prices: Estimating a technology with quality-differentiated inputs

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 444-453

  Kolstad, Charles D ^b   Turnovsky, Michelle H L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032376146     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003465398557546     Document Type: Article

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