Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24542 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 02-63
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
This paper compares technologies across space and time on the basis of factual and counterfactual substitution elasticities and argues that differences in estimated substitution elasticities should be decomposed into two counterfactual components. While the first component is designed to indicate how the ease of substitution is altered by varied economic circumstances, the second addresses the question of how technologies would compare under genuinely comparable situations. This argument is illustrated by the example of energy-price elasticities of capital before and after the oil crisis of the early 1970s.
Subjects: 
Counterfactuals
Substitutability
Translog Cost Function
JEL: 
C3
D2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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