The measurement of structural differences between economies: An axiomatic characterization

Economic Theory

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 313-321

  Sun, Guang Zhen ^a,b   Ng, Yew Kwang ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axiomatic approach; Invariance of proportional sub classification; Structural difference (similarity) index

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034348731     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00004084     Document Type: Article

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