No mangoes in the tundra: Spatial heterogeneity in agricultural productivity analysis
In line with the wider macro productivity literature existing studies of agricultural production largely neglect technology heterogeneity, variable time-series properties and the potential for heterogeneous but correlated total factor productivity (TFP) across countries. Our empirical approach accom...
| Published in: | Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics |
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Wiley
2013
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0084.2012.00720.x https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3182497 |
| Summary: | In line with the wider macro productivity literature existing studies of agricultural production largely neglect technology heterogeneity, variable time-series properties and the potential for heterogeneous but correlated total factor productivity (TFP) across countries. Our empirical approach accommodates these difficulties and seeks to model the nature of the cross-section dependence in a sample of 128 countries (1961-2002). Our results suggest that agro-climatic environment drives similarity in TFP evolution across countries with heterogeneous production technology. This provides a possible explanation for the failure of technology transfer from advanced countries of the temperate 'North' to arid and/or equatorial developing countries of the 'South'. © 2012 The Department of Economics, University of Oxford and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
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