Scale Economies and Inefficiency of U.S. Dairy FarmsAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 91 Số 3 - Trang 777-794 - 2009
Roberto Mosheim, C. A. Knox Lovell
AbstractThis study employs data drawn from the 2000 Agricultural Resource Management Survey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture‐sponsored farmers’ survey. The article estimates returns to scale relationships across dairy farms of different sizes and across different regions, incorporating variables hypothesized to influence farm performance. Results point to signific...... hiện toàn bộ
Technology Adoption and Technical Efficiency: Organic and Conventional Dairy Farms in the United StatesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 92 Số 1 - Trang 181-195 - 2010
Carlos D. Mayen, Joseph Valdes Balagtas, Corinne E. Alexander
AbstractWe compare productivity and technical efficiency of organic and conventional dairy farms in the United States. We address self‐selection into organic farming by using propensity score matching and explicitly test the hypothesis that organic and conventional farms employ a single, homogeneous technology. Utilizing the 2005 Agricultural Resource Management Su...... hiện toàn bộ
Do New York Dairy Farmers Maximize Profits or Minimize Costs?American Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 77 Số 2 - Trang 421-429 - 1995
Loren W. Tauer
AbstractThe Weak Axiom of Profit Maximization and Weak Axiom of Cost Minimization were used to determine whether each of forty‐nine New York dairy farms displayed behavior consistent with profit maximization or cost minimization. These were tested for each farm across eleven years of data, correcting for technological change using previously estimated nonparametric...... hiện toàn bộ
The Structure of U.S. Agricultural Technology, 1910–78American Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 66 Số 4 - Trang 414-421 - 1984
John M. Antle
AbstractThis paper utilizes 1910–78 time‐series data and a single product aggregate translog profit function to measure the structure of U.S. agricultural technology. Duality relations are used to devise a multifactor measure of biased technical change. A measure of nonhomotheticity is introduced which indicates the effects scale change has had on aggregate cost sh...... hiện toàn bộ
On Testing the Structure of Risk Preferences in Agricultural Supply AnalysisAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 73 Số 3 - Trang 743-748 - 1991
Rulon D. Pope, Richard E. Just
AbstractRisk preferences broadly affect many economic decisions when markets are incomplete. Common representations of risk preferences are constant absolute, relative, and partial relative risk aversion. Each of these preference classes has distinct impacts on choice. An econometric test for distinguishing the class of preferences is proposed and implemented for p...... hiện toàn bộ
Adverse Selection in Crop Insurance: Actuarial and Asymmetric Information IncentivesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 81 Số 4 - Trang 834-849 - 1999
Richard E. Just, Linda Calvin, John Quiggin
AbstractAdverse selection is often blamed for crop insurance indemnities exceeding premiums plus subsidies. However, nationwide empirical evidence has been lacking or based on inadequate county‐level data. This article uses nationwide farm‐level data on corn and soybeans to decompose incentives for participation in U.S. multiple peril crop insurance into a risk‐ave...... hiện toàn bộ
A Nonparametric Analysis of Agricultural TechnologyAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 70 Số 2 - Trang 303-310 - 1988
Jean‐Paul Chavas, Thomas L. Cox
AbstractU.S. agricultural technology and technical change are analyzed nonparametrically under cost minimization and profit maximization. Based on annual data for 1948–83, various separability hypotheses concerning the aggregate production function for U.S. agriculture are investigated. The proposed nonparametric approach also provides some insights into the nature...
A Nonparametric Investigation of Agricultural Production Behavior for U.S. SubregionsAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 70 Số 2 - Trang 311-317 - 1988
Chris Fawson, C. Richard Shumway
AbstractThis research provides an empirical application of nonparametric techniques to determine whether agricultural production behavior in the United States and ten farm production regions over the period 1939 to 1982 has been inconsistent with the joint hypothesis of profit maximization, convex technology, and monotonic nonregressive technical change.
Testing for Stochastic DominanceAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 70 Số 3 - Trang 693-700 - 1988
H. Dennis Tolley, Rulon D. Pope
AbstractA test for second‐degree stochastic dominance is proposed. The test is a permutation test using only the sample data. It is exemplified using data from Kramer and Pope. The test conclusions differ substantially from standard practice in which no statistical test is conducted.