Econometric analysis of agricultural production: new primal perspectives

Keywords:Agricultural production, production function, asymmetric specification, growth inputs, facilitating inputs, input requirement, excess capital,endogeneity, productivity growth, capital structureThis thesis seeks to rebuild and extend the primal approach in production analysis by: a) developing a new paradigm for agricultural production analysis that acknowledges the relevance of the agronomic aspects of the production processes; b) defining factor demand in agricultural production from a primal, technical perspective. The theory and approach developed are used to address aspects of env... Mehr ...