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Economics Letters

Volume 54, Issue 2, February 1997, Pages 165-167
Economics Letters

Resource misallocation and mark-up ratios: an alternative estimation technique for Harberger triangles☆

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Abstract

Roeger's method (Roeger, 1995), which analyses the relationship between primal and dual productivity measures, can also be used to directly estimate from readily available data the static welfare loss due to a suboptimal allocation of the factors of production.

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