Abstract
In this article, we propose new aggregate or ‘group’ primal and dual scale elasticity measures of an economic system (e.g. industry consisting of several firms).
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Acknowledgements
We thank Tom Coupé, Roy Gardner and Volodymyr Vakhitov. Research support from ‘Interuniversity Attraction Pole’, Phase V (No. P5/24) of Belgian Government (Belgian Science Policy) is acknowledged.
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Notes
1 For relationships between scale elasticity measures based on different distance functions, see Zelenyuk (Citation2011b, Citationc).