英文摘要 |
In housing production, land input and capital input are the two most important factors. The substitutability between land and capital is even more crucial for a place with a high population density and with a high land price. In order to estimate an appropriate housing production function and to estimate related elasticity of substitution between land and capital, we estimate two traditional production functions, namely constant elasticity of substitution (CES) and variable elasticity of substitution (VES), by applying a firm-level data set in Taiwan from 1981 to 1992. We found that the elasticities of substitution between land and capital in housing production in Taiwan vary among different areas and among different years. Therefore, we conclude that VES is more appropriate in describing housing production behavior in Taiwan. |