On the determinants of cross-country aggregate agricultural supply

doi:10.1016/0304-4076(87)90046-7

Journal of Econometrics

Volume 36, Issues 1–2, September–October 1987, Pages 111-131

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Abstract

A sample of 58 countries for the period 1969–1978 is analyzed in order to determine the role of prices and various forms of public inputs on agricultural supply and some factor demand. The within-country analysis provides estimates of weak short-run supply elasticities. The main determinants of output, both within country and across countries are variables representing infrastructures and a measure of comprehensive capital. The results are evaluated within a theoretical framework.

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^☆: This version differs from our earlier and more detailed version [Binswanger et al. (1985)] in that it is based on revised data. We are indebted to Willis Peterson and especially to Yoav Kislev and Paul B. Siegel for tracking down a number of data inconsistencies. Our thanks also go to Fataneh Semsarzadeh and Hye-Sook Chung for assistance with the painstaking task of filling in missing values and to Ron Duncan who managed the project. Our gratitude also to those persons and institutions who supplied data.

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On the determinants of cross-country aggregate agricultural supply☆

Abstract

Journal of Econometrics

Agricultural supply response

Systems output supply and factor demand equations for semi-arid tropical India

Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics

Estimates of aggregate agricultural supply response from time series of cross country data

Conditions of agricultural growth

Demand for factors and supply of output in perfectly competitive industry

Journal of Farm Economics

Computation of the absolute maximum food production of the world

Agriculture and economic growth in an open economy: The case of Argentina

Multilateral comparisons of output, input and productivity using superlative index numbers

Economic Journal

Feed demand elasticities and agriculture's aggregate supply elasticity

Journal of Agricultural Economics

The introduction of a new technique and capital accumulation

The effects of farm price supports on the return to land and labor in agriculture

Journal of Political Economy

Price theory

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Cattle as capital goods and ranchers as portfolio managers

Journal of Political Economy