Production Structure and Productivity of Japanese Agriculture [electronic resource] : Volume 1: Quantitative Investigations on Production Structure /
Kuroda, Y.author.
Analyses quantitatively in a comprehensive, consistent, and integrated manner the production structure and productivity of post-war Japanese agriculture for the latter half of the twentieth century, more specifically, 1957-97.
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""Cover""; ""Production Structure and Productivity of Japanese Agriculture, Volume 1""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables""; ""List of Figures""; ""Foreword by Takeshi Amemiya""; ""Foreword by Keijiro Otsuka""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I The Production Structure of Japanese Agriculture: (I) Total Cost Function Approach""; ""1 Empirical Investigation into Production Structure""; ""1.1 Introduction""; ""1.2 Analytical Framework""; ""1.2.1 The Multiple-Product Ordinary Translog Total Cost Function Model""
""1.2.2 The Multiple-Product Stevenson (1980)--Green (1983) Type Translog TC Function Model""""1.3 The Data and Estimation Procedure""; ""1.4 Empirical Results""; ""1.4.1 Results of Tests of the 12 Hypotheses""; ""1.4.2 Some Comparisons of Empirical Results Based on the Multiple-Product Ordinary and S--G Type Translog TC Functions""; ""1.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks""; ""2 Allen-Morishima-McFadden Substitution Elasticities""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 Analytical Framework""; ""2.2.1 The Allen, Morishima, and McFadden \(Shadow\) Elasticities of Substitution""; ""2.3 Empirical Results""
""2.3.1 The Multiple-Product S--G Type Translog TC Function""""2.3.2 Own-Price Elasticities of Demand for Factor Inputs""; ""2.3.3 Estimates of the AES, MES, and SES""; ""2.4 Summary and Concluding Remarks""; ""3 Dual and Primal Rates of Technological Progress""; ""3.1 Introduction""; ""3.1.1 Problem-Setting and the Objective""; ""3.1.2 An Observation of Background Data""; ""3.2 Analytical Framework""; ""3.2.1 The Dual and Primal Rates of Technological Change""; ""3.2.2 Impacts of Changes in the Factor Prices and Output Mixon PGX""; ""3.3 Empirical Results""
""3.3.1 Dual Rate of Technological Change (PGX)""""3.3.2 The Impacts of Changes in the Factor Prices on PGX""; ""3.3.3 Impacts of Changes in Output Mix on the PGX""; ""3.4 Summary and Concluding Remarks""; ""4 Factor Bias and theHicks Induced Innovation""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Methodology""; ""4.2.1 A Brief Survey of Studies of Technological Change Biases""; ""4.2.2 Estimation of Biases of Technological Change in Input Space""; ""4.2.3 Biases of Technological Change and the Hicks Induced Innovation Hypothesis""; ""4.3 Empirical Results""
""4.3.1 The Pure, Scale, and Overall Biases of Factor Inputs""""4.3.2 The Observed and `Corrected' Factor Cost Shares""; ""4.3.3 Year-to-Year Changes in Observed Factor Cost Shares and Cumulated Factor Biases""; ""4.3.4 Factor Biases and the Hicks Induced Innovation""; ""4.4 Summary and Concluding Remarks""; ""5 The Output Bias of Technological Change""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.2 Analytical Framework""; ""5.2.1 Hicks Technological Change Bias in Output Space""; ""5.2.2 Demand and Substitution Elasticities of Factor Inputs""; ""5.2.3 Impacts of Changes in Output Mix on Factor Biases""
""5.3 Empirical Results""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Analyses quantitatively in a comprehensive, consistent, and integrated manner the production structure and productivity of post-war Japanese agriculture for the latter half of the twentieth century, more specifically, 1957-97.
Regional economics.
Spatial economics.
Environmental economics.
Development economics.
Environmental policy.
Macroeconomics.
Agriculture.
Regional/Spatial Science.
Environmental Economics.
Development Economics.
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Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.
Agriculture.