A shadow-price frontier measurement of profit efficiency in Chinese Agriculture

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 146-156

  Wang, Jirong ^a   Wailes, Eric J ^a   Cramer, Gail L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Production efficiency; Profit frontier

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL EFFICIENCY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; MODELLING APPROACH; SHADOW-PRICE PROFIT FRONTIER MODEL;

CHINA;

EID: 0030459590     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1243786     Document Type: Article

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