A note on imposing local curvature in generalized Leontief models

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 290-294

  Serletis, Apostolos ^a   Shahmoradi, Asghar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Negative semidefinite; Regularity; Slutsky matrix

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247370667     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: 14698056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1365100507050298     Document Type: Article

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