Uncertainty and Technical Efficiency in Finnish Agriculture: A State-contingent Approach

dc.creatorNauges, Celine
dc.creatorO'Donnell, Christopher
dc.creatorQuiggin, John
dc.date2017-04-01T19:49:57Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T07:12:14Z
dc.descriptionIn this article, we present one of the first real-world empirical applications of state-contingent production theory. Our state-contingent behavioral model allows us to analyze production under both inefficiency and uncertainty without regard to the nature of producer risk preferences. Using farm data for Finland, we estimate a flexible production model that permits substitutability between state-contingent outputs. We test empirically, and reject, an assumption that has been implicit in almost all efficiency studies conducted in the last three decades, namely that the production technology is output-cubical, i.e., that outputs are not substitutable between states of nature.
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.151192
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/151192/files/WPR10_02.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/151192
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/585684
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/151192
dc.titleUncertainty and Technical Efficiency in Finnish Agriculture: A State-contingent Approach
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