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Douglas W. Caves, Laurits R. Christensen, W. Erwin Diewert, The Economic Theory of Index Numbers and the Measurement of Input, Output, and Productivity, Econometrica, Vol. 50, No. 6 (Nov., 1982), pp. 1393-1414
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