Structural agricultural land use modeling for spatial agro-environmental policy analysis

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1168-1188

  Fezzi, Carlo ^a   Bateman, Ian J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

agro environmental policy; land use; multivariate Tobit; quasi maximum likelihood; structural econometric modeling; system of censored equations

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; LAND USE CHANGE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; POLICY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 80052594964     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aar037     Document Type: Article

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