Development Accounting, the Elasticity of Substitution, and Non-neutral Technological Change

We apply the tools of development accounting to a broad panel over the period 1970-2014. However, we depart from the traditional Cobb-Douglas hypothesis with Hicks-neutral technological change, and assume a CES technology, which allows for a constant but non-unitary elasticity of substitution, and f...

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Main Authors: Marcelo de Albuquerque e Mello, André de Souza Rodrigues
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Getúlio Vargas
Series:Revista Brasileira de Economia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71402017000100093&lng=en&tlng=en