Economies of Scale and Structural Change

Yoshimi Kuroda

Chapter 10 in Production Structure and Productivity of Japanese Agriculture, 2013, pp 260-278 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Measuring the degrees of returns to scale (RTS) is essential to identifying causes of structural change, efficiency, and productivity change. There are thus two major objectives to this chapter: (i) to econometrically estimate the degrees of RTS for the four different size classes in postwar Japanese agriculture for the period 1957–97, and (ii) to quantitatively identify the impacts of various policy instruments such as changes in the output mix, factor input subsidies, set-aside programs, and agricultural technological innovations.

Keywords: Size Class; Scale Economy; Farm Household; Intermediate Input; Scope Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137287618_10

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