Flexible functional forms, curvature conditions, and the demand for assets

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 455-486

  Serletis, Apostolos ^a   Shahmoradi, Asghar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Almost ideal demand system; Generalized Leontief; Minflex Laurent; Normalized quadratic reciprocal indirect utility function; Translog

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547962829     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: 14698056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1365100507060154     Document Type: Article

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