Grabowski, Richard; Sanchez, Onesimo - In: European Review of Agricultural Economics 13 (1986) 2, pp. 189-98
In this paper a ray-homothetic production function is used to determine returns to scale for Japanese agriculture for the period 1878 to 1940. The advantage of the ray-homothetic function is that it allows returns to scale to vary with both output and factor intensity. The results show that for...