Productivity and the Returns to Levy-Funded R&D for Sugar Production in the Eastern Counties of England

Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 450-467

  Thirtle, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; CROP PRODUCTION; PRODUCTIVITY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032745745     PISSN: 0021857X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-9552.1999.tb00893.x     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Alston, J. M., Norton, G. W. and Pardey, P. G. (1995). Science Under Scarcity: Principles and Practice for Agricultural Research Evaluation and Priority Setting, Cornell University Press, Ithica, NY.
2. Blakeslee, L. (1987). Measuring the Requirements and Benefits of Productivity Maintenance Research, in Evaluating Agricultural Research and Productivity. Miscellaneous Publication 52-1987, Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minn.
3. Davis, J. A. (1981). Comparison of Procedures for Estimating Returns to Research Using Production Functions, Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 25, 60-72.
4. Dickey, D. A. and Fuller, W. A. (1981). Likelihood Ratio Statistics for Autoregressive Time Series with Unit Roots, Econometrica, 49, 1057-1072.
5. Donovan, P. A. and Darroch, M. A. G. (1991). Estimating Returns to Agricultural Commodity Extension, Agricultural Systems, 37, 39-53.
6. Echeverria, R. (ed.) (1990). Methods for Diagnosing Research System Constraints and Assessing the Impact of Agricultural Research, ISNAR, The Hague.
7. Evenson, R. E., Landau, D. and Ballou, D. (1987). Agricultural Productivity Measurement for US States, in Evaluating Agricultural Research and Productivity. Proceedings of a Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, January 29-30, Miscellaneous Publication 52-1987, Minnesota. Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minn.
8. FAO (1986). Guidelines for the Computation of Selected Statistical Indicators. Economic and Social Development Paper 60, FAO, Rome.
9. Hallam, D. (1990). Agricultural Research Expenditures and Agricultural Productivity Change, Journal of Agricultural Economics, 41, 434-439.
10. Horton, D., Ballantyne, P., Peterson, W., Uribe, B., Gapasin, D. and Sheridan, K. (eds.) (1993). Monitoring and Evaluating Agricultural Research: A Sourcebook, CAB International in Association with the International Service for National Agricultural Research, Wallingford.
11. Jayne, T. S., Khatri, Y., Thirtle, C. and Reardon, T. (1994). A Profit Function Approach to Productivity Change in Zimbabwean Agriculture: Implications for Research and Policy, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 76, 613-618.
12. Johansen, S. (1988). Statistical Analysis of Cointegrating Vectors. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 12, 231-254.
13. Johansen, S. and Juselius, K. (1990). Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Inference on Cointegration - with Applications to the Demand for Money, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 52, 169-210.
14. Khatri, Y. J. (1994). Technical Change and the Returns to Research in UK Agriculture, 1953-1990. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, The University of Reading.
15. Khatri, Y. and Thirtle, C. (1996). Supply and Demand Functions for UK Agriculture, 1953-90: Biases of Technical Change and the Returns to Public R&D, Journal of Agricultural Economics, 47, 338-354.
16. Ljung, G. and Box, G. (1978). On a Measure of Lack of Fit in Time Series Models, Biometrika, 66, 265-270.
17. Lu, Y., Cline, P. and Quance, L. (1979). Prospects for Productivity Growth in US Agriculture, Agriculture Economic Report, No. 435, ESCS, USDA, Washington, DC.
18. MAFF (various issues). Agriculture in the United Kingdom, HMSO, London.
19. Murphy, M. (1994). Report on Farming in the Eastern Counties of England, 1992/3, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.
20. Murphy, M. (various years). Report on Farming in the Eastern Counties of England, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.
21. Sargan, J. D. and Bhargava, A. (1983). Testing Residuals from Least Squares Regressions for Being Generated by the Guassian Random Walk, Econometrica, 15, 153-174.
22. Schimmelpfennig, D. and Thirtle, C. (forthcoming). The Internationalisation of Agricultural Technology: Patents, R&D Spillovers and Their Effects on Productivity in the European Union and the United States, Contemporary Economic Policy.
23. Stock, J. H. (1987). Asymptotic Properties of Least-Squares Estimators of Co-integrating Vectors, Econometrica, 55, 1035-1056.
24. Thirtle, C., Ball, V. E., Bureau, J.-C. and Townsend, R. (1995). Accounting for Efficiency Differences in European Agriculture: Cointegration, Multilateral Productivity Indices and R&D Spillovers, in Peters, G. H. and Hedley, D. D. (eds.), Agricultural Competitiveness: Market Forces and Policy Choice, 652-669. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference of Agricultural Economists, held at Harare, Zimbabwe, 1994. Dartmouth Publishing Company, Aldershot.
25. Thirtle, C., Ball, V. E., Bureau, J.-C. and Townsend, R. (1995). Accounting for Efficiency Differences in European Agriculture: Cointegration, Multilateral Productivity Indices and R&D Spillovers, in Peters, G. H. and Hedley, D. D. (eds.), Agricultural Competitiveness: Market Forces and Policy Choice, 652-669. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference of Agricultural Economists, held at Harare, Zimbabwe, 1994. Dartmouth Publishing Company, Aldershot.
26. Thirtle, C., Beck, H., Palladino, P., Upton, M. and Wise, W. (1991). Agriculture and Food, Nicholson, Sir Robin, Cunningham, C. and Gummett, P. (eds.), Science and Technology in the UK, 116-146, Longman, London.
27. Thirtle, C. and Bottomley, P. (1989). The Rate of Return to Public Sector Agricultural R&D in the UK, 1965-80, Applied Economics, 21, 1063-1086.
28. Thirtle, C. and Bottomley, P. (1992). Total Factor Productivity in UK Agriculture, 1967-90, Journal of Agricultural Economics, 43, 381-400.
29. Thirtle, C., Palladino, P. and Piesse, J. (1997). On the Organisation of Agricultural Research in the United Kingdom: A Quantitative Description and Appraisal of Recent Reforms, Research Policy, 26, 557-576.
30. Thirtle, C. and Ruttan, V. (1987). The Role of Demand and Supply in the Generation and Diffusion of Technical Change, Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics, Volume 21, Harwood Academic Publishers, London.
31. Trueblood, M. A. (1994). An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Productivity Literature. Staff Paper, 94-26, Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minn.