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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International Food Policy Research Institute
1999
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| author | Zhang, Xiaobo Fan, Shenggen |
| author_browse | Fan, Shenggen Zhang, Xiaobo |
| author_facet | Zhang, Xiaobo Fan, Shenggen |
| author_sort | Zhang, Xiaobo |
| collection | Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (CGSpace) |
| description | 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 usually distorted in a centrally planned economy such as China. Multi-output technologies for seven regions over more than two decades are 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. |
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| institution | CGIAR Consortium |
| language | Inglés |
| publishDate | 1999 |
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| spelling | CGSpace1613002025-11-06T05:21:45Z Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach Zhang, Xiaobo Fan, Shenggen technology crops 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 usually distorted in a centrally planned economy such as China. Multi-output technologies for seven regions over more than two decades are 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. 1999 2024-11-21T09:54:45Z 2024-11-21T09:54:45Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161300 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Zhang, Xiaobo; Fan, Shenggen. 1999. Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture;a generalized maximum entropy approach. EPTD Discussion Paper 50. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161300 |
| spellingShingle | technology crops Zhang, Xiaobo Fan, Shenggen Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach |
| title | Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach |
| title_full | Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach |
| title_fullStr | Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach |
| title_short | Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture: a generalized maximum entropy approach |
| title_sort | estimating crop specific production technologies in chinese agriculture a generalized maximum entropy approach |
| topic | technology crops |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161300 |
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