Accounting for productivity: Is it OK to assume that the world is Cobb-Douglas?

Journal of Macroeconomics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 290-303

  Aiyar, Shekhar ^a   Dalgaard, Carl Johan ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aggregate production function; Development accounting; Elasticity of substitution; Total factor productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349216753     PISSN: 01640704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2008.09.007     Document Type: Article

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