Estimating Crop-Specific Production Technologies in Chinese Agriculture: A Generalized Maximum Entropy Approach
| dc.creator | Zhang, Xiaobo | |
| dc.creator | Fan, Shenggen | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T14:10:28Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T05:26:44Z | |
| dc.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. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.97508 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/97508/files/eptdp50.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/97508 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/563751 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/97508 | |
| dc.title | Estimating Crop-Specific Production Technologies in Chinese Agriculture: A Generalized Maximum Entropy Approach | |
| dc.type | Text |