جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « elasticity of substitution » در نشریات گروه « اقتصاد »

Some unique characteristics of housing goods such as spatial dependency, heterogeneity and durability make housing market analysis different from ordinary goods. However principles in ordinary goods market such as profit maximization are used by developer in housing market. one of the housing market characteristic is that land as a most important input for housing services production has low demand elasticity because of its scarcity. This always makes housing services developer in housing market to substitute capital (construction materials) instead of land. In economics, for demonstrating this kind of substitution, elasticity of substitution is used. Since land has a local market and the intensity of scarcity in cities is different so there are different numbers for elasticity of substitution in different cities and regions. This paper is trying for estimating elasticity of substitution n a median city by gathering data survey. The results show elasticity of substitution between land and capital in housing services production in city of Dorud is 1/04 percent in 2018.

The increasing demand of fossil fuels alongside its environmental pollution necessitates the optimal consumption of the fuels. In cold seasons, natural gas consumption increases and power plants of the country need to substitute their consumed fuel in order to supply electricity. This paper evaluated the substitution between consumable fuels in electricity production in six selected regional electricity companies during the years 1389-1386. Cost share equations of conventional fuels in electricity generation were estimated using the seemingly unrelated regression equations (SURE) estimator. Using the results of the estimation, equations of the own-and cross-price elasticities of the substitution of different fuels were calculated. According to the results of calculations, all the own price elasticities were negative and cross price elasticities were positive. The substitute elasticity between natural gas and gasoil was 1.56 and between natural gas and mazut was 1.3. Also, using the calculated elasticities, the substitution of fuels was applied with the aim of reducing CO2 emissions. The application results showed that the substitution of mazut with natural gas would reduce CO2 emissions, but the substitution of gasoil with natural gas would increase CO2 emissions.

The labor income share is constant under the assumptions of a Cobb-Douglas production function and perfect competition. This paper modifies these assumptions, and investigates how to behave actually dynamic the labor income share within the Iranian manufacturing industries through estimating the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor and the price markup. This paper estimates such elasticity by using of a CES production function under perfect and imperfect competition in the product market. The degree of imperfect competition is measured following the Rojer approach. This dynamism in labor income share is explained by (1) a non-unitary elasticity of substitution between capital and labor; and (2) non-perfect competition in the product market. The results show that the elasticity of substitution is 0.75 under perfect competition without price markup, but it is 0.65 under imperfect competition with price markup. These mean that the elasticity of substitution decreases due to the presence of the price markup in imperfect competition regime, while labor income share increases highly by increase in capital intensity.

Along with increasing trade between countries, the changes in exchange rate is considered as one of the most important risk factors in the financial markets. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between changes in exchange rates and asset returns in the theoretical and experimental framework of consumption based capital asset pricing model (CCAPM). For this purpose, we develop a basic CCAPM model by entry imported consumer goods in the recursive utility function of Epstein and Zin. The sample consisted of eight portfolios monthly data during the period 2003 to 2015. In the first stage, we used Euler equations and the generalized moments method (GMM) of Hansen and Singleton to estimate the parameters of the model, Estimating of the parameters of Euler equations indicate that economic agents are risk-averse and patient, the elasticity of substitution between domestic consumer goods and imported consumer goods is low and the inter-temporal elasticity of substitution is high. In the second stage, using by linear Euler equations as the asset pricing model and two-pass regression method of Fama and MacBeth, we investigated the impact of exchange risk premium, inflation, market returns and domestic consumption growth on the return premium. The results show that the exchange risk premium, inflation and market returns has a positive impact on return premium, This means that economic agents to accept more risk of these variables, apply to the more reward premium will be return on assets.

As compared to worlds Energy consumption data for Iran’s economy shows that in Iran, energy is not used optimally indexes. Increasing energy price is said to be a solution to this problem. But for this solution to work, one crucial condition is that in production process, firms have the ability to substitute energy with other factors. Otherwise, instead of substitution between energy and other inputs (i.e. capital and labor) price increase would occur (inflation). So estimating elasticity of substitution between energy input and capital or labor is very important. In this line, we have specified and estimated a production function for Iran’s economy with constant elasticity of substitution (CES). As in its primary forms, CES production function allows only for two inputs, we have introduced a compound input to have three inputs in our production function. Our estimation, using non-linear methods, showes that in Iran, elasticity of substitution between energy with labor or capital is low, and production technology doesn’t allow firm to substitute energy with other inputs. We can conclude that energy price increase in the short run would lead to inflation and lowers in production level, instead of improving energy usage.

The main goal of this paper is to estimate the elasticity of substitution between energy and other factors of production by using a multi-stage CES production function. In order to achieve this goal، we design a nested CES production function with four inputs، labor، capital، energy and investment in research and development for Iranian economy. This nonlinear production function is estimated by continuous genetic algorithms method. This method is relatively more efficient than traditional econometrics approach. In the first stage، three different functions are estimated and the best one is selected. In the next stage، we have calculated the elasticity of substitution between energy and other inputs of production. Our choice of nonlinear production function، the explanatory variables، and also the estimation method make this research different from those already done for Iran. The results indicate that one percent increase in labor force reduces energy consumption by 0. 56 percent. We also find that one percent increase in physical capital decreases energy use by 0. 59 percent، and similarly one percent increase in investment in R&D (Research and Development) might reduce energy consumption by 0. 46 percent. Furthermore، we calculate marginal products of different input for various years and observe that the marginal product of labor has increased after Iran-Iraq imposed war. Moreover the marginal product of energy has increased since 1995. This might be a result of energy saving policy implemented in Iran after this year.

The effect of government spending on private consumption، as the largest and the most stable component of aggregate demand always has been preoccupying many economists. In this article، using the elasticity of substitution concept، we investigate the substitutability of government spending for private consumption in 48 OIC countries. We use the Pesaran’s CD test for investigating the cross-section dependency in the data. Then the stationary of variables confirmed by IPS and CIPS tests and the regression equations estimate by CUP-FM estimator. According to the estimation results، the substitutability between government spending and household consumption was confirmed for OIC countries. In addition، the results of estimating tell that in case of countries with larger governments the degree of substitutability between government spending and private consumption is greater.