This note reports the results of estimating a four-input translog production function for the mid-nineteenth century British cotton industry. It establishes the direction of technical change, and produces new estimates of the factor demand substitution elasticities.
External Notes
A hard copy is available in UCD Library at GEN 330.08 IR/UNI
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. School of Economics
Series
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series
No. 9
Subject – LCSH
Cotton manufacture--Great Britain--History
Production functions (Economic theory)
Cotton manufacture--Technological innovations
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
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