Christev, Atanas; Featherstone, Allen - In: Applied Economics Letters 16 (2009) 11, pp. 1165-1169
This note provides a useful property of the Allen-Uzawa partials for the translog cost function. It also suggests how the main results extend to any functional form with certain properties. The curvature of the Allen-Uzawa matrix is the same as the curvature of the Hessian matrix. Intuitively...