Aggregate returns to scale and embodied technical change: Theory and measurement using stock market data

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 191-233

  Laitner, John ^a   Stolyarov, Dmitriy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregate returns to scale; Embodied technological change; Productivity analysis; Technological revolutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346937464     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2003.07.001     Document Type: Article

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