Efficiency and technology gap in China's agriculture: A regional meta-frontier analysis

China Economic Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 287-296

  CHEN, Zhuo ^a   SONG, Shunfeng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

China's grain production; County level; Meta frontier; Stochastic production frontier; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649120988     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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