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Elasticity of substitution and technical progress : Is there a misspecification problem ?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Saltari, Enrico Federici, Daniela |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | In Saltari et al. (2012, 2013) we estimated a dynamic model of the Italian economy. The main result of those papers is that the weakness of the Italian economy in the last two decades is due to the total factor productivity slowdown. In those models the information and communication technology ( ) capital stock plays a key role in boosting the efficiency of the traditional capital, and hence of the whole economy. The other key parameter to explain the Italian productivity decline is the elasticity of substitution. Recent literature provides estimates of the elasticity of substitution well below 1 — thus rejecting the traditional Cobb-Douglas production function — though there is no particular value on which consensus converges. However, these estimates are affected by a theoretical specification problem. More generally, the technological parameters are long run in nature but the estimates are based on short-run data. Our aim is to look more deeply into the estimation procedure of the technological parameters. The standard estimation results present a common feature, a combination of a high -squared and serially correlated residuals, pointing towards a spurious regression bias. This bias is generated by a misspecification issue: the standard estimation approach is static in nature since do not incorporate frictions and rigidities. Our modelling strategy takes into account, though implicitly, adjustment costs without leaving out the optimization hypothesis. Although we cannot in general say that this framework gets rid of the serial correlation problem, the statistics for our model do show that residuals are not serially correlated. JEL classification: C30; E 22; E23; O33. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/53741/1/MPRA_paper_53741.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/54474/1/MPRA_paper_54474.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.siecon.org/online/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Federici-Saltari-44.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Ankle Assumed Autocorrelation CHI Departure - action Elasticity (data store) Estimated Estimation theory Financial cost Mathematical model Mathematical optimization Muscle Weakness Nonlinear system Paper Population Parameter Relevance Specification (regression) Statistic (data) Substitution (logic) Thomas Dickey |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
