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Prices And Productivity In Agriculture, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin
Prices And Productivity In Agriculture, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin
Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications
Developing countries often tax agriculture heavily, a practice that might affect the productivity as well as the quantity of resources allocated to agriculture. A variable-coefficient cross-country agricultural production function is estimated, with past price expectations among the determinants of the production coefficients. Productivity’s responsiveness to those expectations implies that had these developing economies eliminated price interventions, agricultural productivity would have increased on average by about a fourth.
In agriculture, as any other sector, output prices affect the amount of resources allocated to aggregate production. According to a review by Binswanger (1989) these movements along the supply function reflect an elasticity …
Measures Of Waste Due To Quotas, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin
Measures Of Waste Due To Quotas, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin
Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications
This paper addresses the issue of measuring waste due to the imposition of a production quota. our objective is to elaborate two alternative general equilibrium concepts of the welfare loss due to the imposition of a production quota, and to illustrate their use by considering costs of the U.S. tobacco program.
The Theory And Measurement Of Producer Response Under Quotas, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin
The Theory And Measurement Of Producer Response Under Quotas, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin
Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications
Tobin and Houthakker's work on consumer behavior under quantity rationing has been extended by many authors, especially through the use of duality theory. This paper uses duality theory to extend the work on demand theory under rationing to the case of producer behavior under quotas. These results permit estimation of otherwise unobservable market supply and demand structures The structure of the farm economy operating under a tobacco quota system is estimated, and the theory is utilized to infer that the supply elasticity of tobacco would be about 70 if the quotas were removed. Estimates such as this are not normally …
Protecting The Hidden Resource: The Quiet Crisis In Nebraska Pesticide And Ground Water Protection Policies, J. David Aiken
Protecting The Hidden Resource: The Quiet Crisis In Nebraska Pesticide And Ground Water Protection Policies, J. David Aiken
Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications
This 1993 Creighton Law Review article reviews Nebraska legislation for protecting ground water quality from agricultural chemical use, the 1991 EPA Pesticides and Ground-Water Strategy, and proposed Nebraska pesticide regulation legislation.
Statement By Former U. S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter, Clayton K. Yeutter
Statement By Former U. S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter, Clayton K. Yeutter
Clayton K. Yeutter, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Papers
When the Uruguay Round was launched in 1986, those of us who were present expected it to be completed in four years. Regrettably it took seven. The delay reflects the turmoil and disruptions of a global recession, termination of the Cold War, and political turnover among some of the major trading nations. But persistence paid off, this very ambitious Round is now successfully concluded, and the world will be better off for it.