Technical change, prices and factor demand: fertilizers in Argentine agriculture

Marcos Gallacher ()
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Marcos Gallacher: Universidad del CEMA (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Revista de Economía y Estadística, 2022, vol. 60, issue 1, 55–78

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to analyze the relative importance of technical change and input prices in explaining factor demand in Argentine agriculture. Motivation for the paper is the fifteen-fold increase in fertilizer demand observed in Argentina in the 1990-2019 period. Results show that in the 1990 – 2019 period increase in fertilizer demand was a result not only of a fall in the fertilizer/crop price ratio, but also on increased marginal productivity of the fertilizer input. It is suggested that this is a result of the increased importance of “knowledge inputs” in the production process./ El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el impacto del cambio tecnológico y de precios relativos como determinantes de la demanda de factores en la agricultura argentina. Motiva este trabajo el incremento significativo (x 15) en la demanda de fertilizantes ocurrido en el período 1990-2019. Los resultados muestran que en período 1990-2019 el incremento en la demanda de fertilizantes resultó no solo de bajas en el precio relativo fertilizante/grano, sino también del aumento de la productividad marginal del fertilizante. Esto sugiere la creciente importancia de “insumos asociados al conocimiento” en el proceso productivo.

Keywords: Technical change; fertilizers; relative prices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 Q10 Q12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.55444/2451.7321.2022.v60.n1.37161

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