Essays about: "CDE functional form"

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  1. 1. Analyzing and testing the structure of China’s imports for cotton : a bayesian system approach

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Ruochen Wu; [2013]
    Keywords : China; cotton import demand; generalized Armington Mode; CDE functional form; Bayesian Bootstrap Multivariate Regression; Allen elasticities of substitution;

    Abstract : China is the biggest importer of cotton in the world, and it is of great interest to analyze its import demand system for cotton. Noteworthy is that cotton is deemed an intermediate commodity for textile production instead of a direct consumption one, hence this thesis adopts a two-stage cost minimization procedure resembling the Armington Model to study China’s demand for cotton differentiated by their countries of production with a focus on the substitution effects and weak separability between various sources. READ MORE