Production Structure and Productivity of Japanese Agriculture [electronic resource] : Volume 2: Impacts of Policy Measures /
Kuroda, Y.author.
Analyzes quantitatively in a comprehensive, consistent, and integrated manner the production structure and productivity of postwar Japanese agriculture for the latter half of the 20th century, more specifically, 1957-97.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface to Volume 2; Part I Impacts of Policy Measures on Postwar Japanese Agriculture; 1 Impacts of Output Price-Support Programs on Postwar Japanese Agriculture 1965-97: A Variable Profit Function Approach; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Analytical Framework; 1.2.1 The Variable Profit Function Model; 1.2.2 Tests for the Technology Structure of Production; 1.2.3 Output Supply and Input Demand Elasticities; 1.2.3.1 Output Supply Elasticities; 1.2.3.2 Variable Factor Input Demand Elasticities; 1.2.4 Estimation of RTS
1.2.5 Estimation of the Shadow Values of Land1.2.6 Impacts of Changes in Output Prices on Output Supplies, Variable Factor Demands, Profits, RTS, and the Shadow Value of Land; 1.3 The Data and Estimation Procedure; 1.4 Empirical Results; 1.4.1 Estimates of the VP Function Model; 1.4.2 Results of Tests of Hypotheses; 1.4.3 Output Supply and Input Demand Elasticities; 1.4.3.1 Variable Factor Demand Elasticities; 1.4.3.2 Estimates of Returns to Scale (RTS); 1.4.3.3 Estimates of the Shadow Value of Land; 1.4.3.4 Possibilities of Land Transfers from Small to Large Farms
1.4.4 Impacts of Output Price-Support Programs1.4.4.1 Impacts of Output Price-Support Programs on the Supplies of Outputs; 1.4.4.2 Impacts of Output Price-Support Programs on the Demands for Variable Factor Inputs; 1.4.4.3 Impacts of Output Price-Support Programs on the Maximized Profits; 1.4.4.4 Impacts of Output Price-Support Programs on RTS; 1.4.4.5 Impacts of Output Price-Support Programs on the Shadow Value of Land; 1.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks; Appendix: Variable Definitions; 2 The Set-Aside Programs and Land Movements: A VP Function Approach; 2.1 Introduction
2.2 Analytical Framework2.2.1 Impacts of Changes in Land Input on the Five Economic Indicators; 2.3 Empirical Results; 2.3.1 Impacts of Set-Aside Programs; 2.3.1.1 Impacts of the Set-Aside Programs on the Supplies of Outputs; 2.3.1.2 Impacts of the Set-Aside Programs on the Demands for Variable Factor Inputs; 2.3.1.3 Impacts of the Set-Aside Programs on the Maximized Profits; 2.3.1.4 Impacts of the Set-Aside Programs on Returns to Scale (RTS); 2.3.1.5 Impacts of Set-Aside Programs on the Shadow Value of Land; 2.4 Summary and Concluding Remarks; 3 Impacts of R&E Programs on Structural Change
3.1 Introduction3.2 Analytical Framework; 3.2.1 Impacts of Changes in the Stock of Technological Knowledge on the Five Economic Indicators; 3.3 Empirical Results; 3.3.1 Results of the VP Function; 3.3.2 Impacts of Public R&E Programs; 3.3.2.1 Impacts of Public R&E Programs on the Supplies of Crops and Livestock; 3.3.2.2 Impacts of Public R&E Programs on the Demands for Variable Factor Inputs; 3.3.2.3 Impacts of Public R&E Programs on the Maximized Profits; 3.3.2.4 Impacts of public R&E Programs on RTS; 3.3.2.5 Impacts of Public R&E Programs on the Shadow Value of Land
3.4 Summary and Concluding Remarks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Analyzes quantitatively in a comprehensive, consistent, and integrated manner the production structure and productivity of postwar Japanese agriculture for the latter half of the 20th century, more specifically, 1957-97.
Regional economics.
Development economics.
Environmental economics.
Environmental policy.
Macroeconomics.
Agriculture.
Regional/Spatial Science.
Development Economics.
Environmental Economics.
Environmental Politics.
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.
Agriculture.