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Lecture Notes on Constant Elasticity Functions

Lecture Notes on Constant Elasticity Functions Thomas F. Rutherford University of Colorado November, 2002 1 CES Utility In many economic textbooks the constant-elasticity-of-substitution (CES) utility function is defined as: U(x,y) = (αxρ +(1−α)yρ)1/ρ It is a tedious but straight-forward application of Lagrangian calculus to demonstrate ...

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