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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Capital Use Intensity and Productivity Biases
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| Autores: |
Andersen, Matthew A.
Alston, Julian M.
Pardey, Philip G.
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| Data: |
2010-08-12
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| Ano: |
2010
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| Palavras-chave: |
U.S. agriculture
Pro-cyclical productivity
Capital utilization
Primal productivity bias
Productivity Analysis
D24
C51
Q1
O4
O47
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| Resumo: |
This is a substantially revised version of “Capital Use Intensity and Productivity Biases.” Andersen, Matt A.; Alston, Julian M.; Pardey, Philip G., St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics; University of Minnesota, International Science and Technology Practice and Policy (InSTePP), 2007. (Staff paper P07-06; InSTePP paper 07-02)
Measures of productivity growth are often pro-cyclical. This paper focuses on measurement errors in capital inputs, associated with unobserved variations in capital utilization rates, as an explanation for the existence of pro-cyclical patterns in measures of productivity. Recently constructed national and state-specific indexes of inputs, outputs, and productivity in U.S. agriculture for 1949–2002 are used to estimate production functions that include proxy variables for changes in the utilization of durable inputs. The proxy variables include an index of farmers’ terms of trade and an index of local seasonal growing conditions. We find that utilization responses by farmers are significant and bias measures of productivity growth in a pro-cyclical pattern. We quantify the bias, adjust the measures of productivity for the estimated utilization responses, and compare the adjusted and conventional measures.
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| Tipo: |
Working or Discussion Paper
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/93143
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| Relação: |
University of Minnesota>Department of Applied Economics>Staff Papers
Staff Paper P10-7
InSTePP Paper 10-03
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| Formato: |
38
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