Empirical economists using flexible functional forms often face the disturbing choice of drawing inferences from an approximation violating properties dictated by theory or imposing global restrictions that greatly restrict the flexibility of the functional form. Focusing on the cost function, this
Monotonicity and concavity in Coulomb systems
โ Scribed by R. Englisch; H. Englisch
- Publisher
- Springer Vienna
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 403 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0177-7963
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