Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92569 
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Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 719
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
This paper examines empirically some of the reasons why Japanese manufacturing firms frequently fail to satisfy concavity conditions of the cost function. We focus on the 'bubble period' in the 1980s when land was in great demand for reasons related to both production and speculation, and land prices soared. By estimating the translog cost function with land as one of production inputs for manufacturing firms, we find that violation of concavity resulted from borrowing constraints and large adjustments of employment. We also demonstrate that elasticities of substitution between land and other inputs and input demand with respect to land rental prices are both estimated with large biases if the firms violating concavity are not excluded from the analysis.
Subjects: 
Land
Translog cost function
Concavity
JEL: 
D24
R14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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