Imposing local curvature conditions in flexible demand systems

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 487-490

  Moschini, Giancarlo ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesky factorization; Negative semidefiniteness; Slutsky matrix

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033429991     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07350015.1999.10524837     Document Type: Article

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