CES production function

area: Growth, trade and environment · 0 papers in the last 7 days

Y = A\big[\alpha K^{\rho} + (1 - \alpha) L^{\rho}\big]^{1/\rho}

Production (or utility) with a constant elasticity of substitution 1/(1 - rho) between inputs.

LaTeX: Y = A\big[\alpha K^{\rho} + (1 - \alpha) L^{\rho}\big]^{1/\rho}

Names searched for: constant elasticity of substitution, CES production, CES utility, CES function

Key findings

CES production function was mentioned in 4 papers in the last 30 days (2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26), ranking #82 of the 104 equations and models mentioned.
By journal category: Finance (2) and Economics (2).
Most of them appeared in International Review of Economics & Finance (2), Economic Modelling (1) and Review of World Economics (1).
Often mentioned together with Consumption Euler equation (2), Cobb-Douglas production function (2) and Solow growth model (1).
Datasets named in the same papers: International Energy Agency (IEA) (1), Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (1) and World Input-Output Database (WIOD) (1).
From Apr 2024 to Sep 2026, 24 archived papers mentioned CES production function in their title, abstract or keywords, most of them in Sep 2025 (4).

Mentions over 30 months

Papers mentioning it by publication month, Apr 2024 to Sep 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
Trend	Apr 24–Sep 24	Oct 24–Sep 25	Oct 25–Sep 26	30 months
	5	15	4	24

Papers mentioning CES production function, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-07	Pollution-augmenting innovation and sustainable growth	International Review of Economics & Finance	Chang-Ho Yoon, Sang Won Yoon	Southern Connecticut State University
2026-10-05	The cost of collateral scarcity: Asset prices and misallocation in supply crises	Economic Modelling	Ye Zhang, Ying Tung Chan	Tohoku University; Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University
2026-09-30	The embodied real effective exchange rate: measuring cost competitiveness in global value chains	Review of World Economics	Martyna Marczak, Thomas Beißinger	Trinity College Dublin; University of Hohenheim
2026-09-29	Policymakers’ term limits and corporate income tax competition in a growing economy with international knowledge spillover	International Review of Economics & Finance	Noritaka Maebayashi, Keiichi Morimoto	Nanzan University; Meiji University

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Scholar4AI. (2026). CES production function. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/equations/ces-production-function

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