Spatial variation of output-input elasticities: Evidence from Chinese county-level agricultural production data

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 139-157

  Cho, Seong Hoon ^a   Chen, Zhuo ^b   Yen, Steven T ^a   English, Burton C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural production; China; Geographically weighted regression; Output input elasticity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; GIS; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; MAPPING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33947707946     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2007.00113.x     Document Type: Article

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