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Technological Change in Illinois Agriculture, 1982-1984

Grabowski, Richard; Kraft, Steven; Mehdian, Seyed; … - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 02 (1988) 4

This paper has two main purposes: ( 1 ) to develop a method for measuring the extent and bias of technical change which involves the use of non-parametric production frontiers and does not require information on prices or factor shares; (2) to apply this method to individual farm data drawn from...

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The impact of prices and macroeconomic policies on agricultural supply: a synthesis of available results

Mamingi, Nlandu - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 16 (1997) 1

This paper reviews the literature dealing with the link of agricultural prices and macroeconomic policies to agiicultural supply with particular emphasis on Sub-Saharan Africa. Although the study echoes the stylized facts on price elasticities underlined in previous literature reviews, the paper...

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Evaluation of the Influence of Agricultural Price Policy on Cotton Production in Cote-d'lvoire

Berte, Kama; Epplin, Francis M. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 03 (1989) 1

In this paper the impact of the cotton pricing policy of the marketing board of Cote-d'Ivoire is investigated. A … theoretical model is developed to derive the price level which maximizes revenue generated from the marketing board's cotton … in the Country response to price changes and that the pricing policy of the marketing board has been consistent with an …

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Discussion: The impact of prices and macroeconomic policies on agricultural supply: a reply

Mamingi, Nlandu - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 21 (1999) 3

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Grain price stabilization in India: Evaluation of policy alternatives

Jha, Shikha; Srinivasan, P.V. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 21 (1999) 1

Stabilization of prices is an important element of food policy in India as in most other countries - both developing and developed. However, since the magnitude of grain stocks held for this purpose as well as the costs of physical storage have become prohibitively high, there is now a need for...

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Wheat and Maize Price Policies in Hungary: Tradeoffs between Foreign Exchange and Government Revenue

Braverman, Avishay; Hammer, Jeffrey S.; Morduch, Jonathan J. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 01 (1987) 3

This paper reports on a methodology designed to examine the effects of selected agricultural policies in Hungary. The purpose of the paper is twofold. The first is to explain the methodology, dubbed multi-market analysis in previous work, which is implemented on personal computers to support...

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Effect of Sugar Price Policy on U.S. Imports of Processed Sugar-containing Foods

Jabara, Cathy L. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 03 (1989) 2

The relationship between U.S. and world sugar prices, and U.S. import demand for four categories of sugar-containing products is examined. Results from econometric estimation indicate that U.S. intervention in the sugar market has helped to increase U.S. imports of some sugarcontaining products,...

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Effects of international shocks and domestic macroeconomic policies upon Brazilian agriculture

Barros, Geraldo S. A. Camargo - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 07 (1992) 3-4

An identified vector-autoregressive model is used to analyze the transmission of external commodity shocks to the Brazilian economy. The effects of the interaction between domestic macroeconomic (monetary and exchange rate) policies and external shocks to agricultural commodity (raw material and...

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Food crops, exports, and the short-run policy response of agriculture in Africa

Lamb, Russell L. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 22 (2000) 3

The response of agriculture to changes in relative prices is an important factor in the success of structural adjustment programs in Africa. In this paper I estimate supply functions for total agricultural output, food crops and export crops in 14 African countries for the years 1975 to 1990....

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Farm size, relative efficiency and agrarian policy in Cote d'Ivoire: profit function analysis of rice farms

Adesina, Akinwumi A.; Djato, Kouakou K. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 14 (1996) 2

This paper examines the relative economic efficiency of small and large rice farms in Cote d'Ivoire using a profit function approach. No differences in the relative economic efficiency of small and large farms were found. This conclusion is robust under alternative model specifications. Agrarian...

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