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dc.contributor.authorFrondel, Manuelen
dc.contributor.authorSchmidt, Christoph M.en
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-28T15:48:50Z-
dc.date.available2009-01-28T15:48:50Z-
dc.date.issued2006-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/18589-
dc.description.abstractAny researcher would certainly agree with Hamermesh?s (1993:34) intuition about separability that the ease of substitution between any two production factors should be unaffected by a third factor that is separable from the others. This paper emphasizes that such a notion of separability needs to be more restrictive than the classical separability concept is.We thus coin the notion of strict separability that implies the classical concept. By applying both separability concepts in a translog approach to German manufacturing data (1978?1990), we focus on the empirical question of whether the omission of energy affects the conclusions about the ease of substitution among nonenergy factors. We find ample empirical evidence to doubt the assumption that energy is separable from all other production factors even in the relatively mild form of classical separability. At least under separability aspects, therefore, energy appears to be an indispensable production factor.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aRheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI) |cEssenen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aRWI Discussion Papers |x38en
dc.subject.jelC3en
dc.subject.jelD2en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordSubstitutionen
dc.subject.keywordTranslog Cost Functionsen
dc.titleOn the Restrictiveness of Separability: The Significance of Energy in German Manufacturing-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn51032231Xen
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:rwidps:38en

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