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Malmquist and Törnqvist Productivity Indexes: Returns to Scale and Technical Progress with Imperfect Competition [PDF]

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Caves, Christensen and Diewert proposed a method for estimating a theoretical productivity index for a firm using Törnqvist input and output indexes, augmented by exogenous estimates of local returns to scale. However, in order to implement their method,
Diewert, Erwin, Fox, Kevin J.
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Improving resource allocation and incomes in Vietnamese agriculture [PDF]

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This paper uses data collected in an extensive survey of farm costs in the Dong Nai River Basin of Vietnam to estimate the parameters of production functions for rice, vegetables, and coffee.
Dewbre, Joshua
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LABOR SUBSTITUTABILITY IN LABOR INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE PRESENCE OF FOREIGN LABOR [PDF]

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The Morishima elasticity of substitution (MES) is estimated to address factor substitutability in Florida agriculture during 1960-1999. By adopting a profit maximization model of induced innovation theory, the MES's between hired and self-employed labor ...
Emerson, Robert D.   +1 more
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Learning in Organic Farming An Application on Finnish Dairy Farms [PDF]

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Organic farming technology may be relatively unknown to farmers at the time when they switch from conventional into organic farming. Therefore, experience gained over time and learning by doing may be important determinants in the efficiency of organic ...
Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M.   +1 more
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SHORT- AND LONG-RUN DEMAND AND SUBSTITUTION OF AGRICULTURAL INPUTS [PDF]

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Short- and long-run Hicksian and Marshallian elasticities are estimated, along with Morishima elasticities of substitution, using a restricted profit function and a series of decomposition equations.
Fernandez-Cornejo, Jorge
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