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SUBMITTER: Miller NJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6687138 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Miller Noah J NJ Bergtold Jason S JS Featherstone Allen M AM
PloS one 20190808 8
The use of elasticities of substitution between inputs is a standard method for addressing the effect of a change in the mix of inputs used for production from a technical or cost standpoint. Most estimation methods use parametric production or cost functions or frontiers to estimate these elasticities. A potentially useful nonparametric alternative is data envelopment analysis (DEA). The purpose of this paper is to derive elasticities of input substitution for both technical and cost frontiers ...[more]