An Inter-Industry Translog Model of Prices and Technical Change for the West German Economy

1. Auflage 1983
ISBN: 978-3-540-12709-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 221, 295 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 542 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems

This book presents the results of a research project which has been carried out in the Special Research Unit (Sonderforschungs bereich) 21 at Bonn University. It is a part of the current research on disaggregated econometric forecasting models with a fully integrated input-output system with variable input co efficients where prices are explained as dual variables of the underlying production model. A similar approach has already been used by Knut KUbler "Ein disaggregiertes Prognosesystem fUr die Bundesrepublik, die Unternehmenssektoren", Meisenheim am Glan, 1977. But KUbler assumed Cobb-Douglas production functions. Mean while a new approach has been suggested by Jorgenson and others, using more flexible forms of functions, e. g. the translog function as an approximation to any reasonable neo-classical production function, see Hudson and Jorgenson "US Energy Policy and Economic Growth, 1975 - 2000", Bell Journal of Economics and Management SCience, Vol. 5 (1974), page 461 ff. ~ Jorgenson and Fraumeni, "Substitution and Technical Change in Production", Discussion paper No. 752, Harvard Institute of Economic Research, Harvard University, Cambridge/Mass. (1 980) ~ Friede, "Investigation of Producer Behavior in the FRG using the Translog Price Function", Cambrigde/Mass. (1980). Krelle and Pallaschke "A General Demand System", Zeitschrift fUr Nationalokonomie 41 (1981), page 223 ff. suggested another approximation using a Taylor expansion of any reasonable demand system. Nakamura follows the lines of Jorgenson and his collaborators but extends them into new areas and reaches much better results.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nakamura, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction.- 2 The Model.- 2.0 Introduction.- 2.1 The Basic Model.- 2.2 The Deterministic Model I: General Formulation.- 2.3 The Deterministic Model II: Model Specification.- 2.4 The Econometric Model.- 3 Empirical Results.- 3.0 Introduction.- 3.3 Performance of the Models Interpolations.- 3.4 Simulation Experiments.- 4 Conclusion.- 5 References.