Estimating Crop-Specific Production Technologies in Chinese Agriculture: A Generalized Maximum Entropy Approach
A generalized maximum entropy approach is adapted to empirically estimate crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture. Despite a modest behavioral assumption about equal marginal returns of nonland inputs among crops, this method does not require price information, which is usually distorted in a centrally planned economy such as China. A multi-output technology for Chinese agriculture is estimated and input allocations for each province are recovered simultaneously. The estimated multi-output production technology and input allocations imply that China may have greater grain production potentials than previously thought. Copyright 2001, Oxford University Press.
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2001
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Authors: | Zhang, Xiaobo ; Fan, Shenggen |
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA. - Vol. 83.2001, 2, p. 378-388
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Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA |
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