The normalized quadratic expenditure function

Contributions to Economic Analysis

Volumn 288, Issue , 2009, Pages 149-178

  Diewert, W Erwin ^a   Fox, Kevin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Elasticities; Expenditure function; Flexible functional forms; Normalized quadratic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897772044     PISSN: 05738555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0573-8555(2009)0000288009     Document Type: Article

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