Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach

A Generalized Maximum Entropy (GME) approach is adapted to empirically estimate crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture. Despite a modest behavior assumption about equal marginal returns of non-land inputs among crops, this method does not require price information, which is usu...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Xiaobo, Fan, Shenggen
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 1999
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161300

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