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A note on Allen–Uzawa partial elasticities of substitution: the case of the translog cost function

Atanas Christev Department of Economics and CERT, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK, and IZA, Bonn, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Allen M. Featherstone Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University, Waters Hall, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
Pages 1165-1169 | Published online: 26 Jun 2009

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