Elasticities of substitution and complementarity

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-89

  Stern, David I ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Elasticity; History of economic thought; Microeconomics; Production; Substitution

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960065057     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-010-0203-1     Document Type: Article

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