TY - JOUR
T1 - Simple nonparametric tests of technological change
T2 - Theory and application to U.S. agriculture
AU - Bar-Shira, Ziv
AU - Finkelshtain, Israel
PY - 1999/11
Y1 - 1999/11
N2 - Several nonparametric tests of technological change are proposed conditional on alternative maintained behavioral assumptions. The tests are simple as they require verification of axioms via binary comparisons that are analogous to those of the revealed preference theory. Our model allows a broad interpretation of technological changes, yet trivial rationalization of the data with either profit-maximization or cost-minimization behavior is excluded. The tests are applied to study the U.S. aggregate agricultural data, supporting the hypotheses of rankable and neutral Technological Variations.
AB - Several nonparametric tests of technological change are proposed conditional on alternative maintained behavioral assumptions. The tests are simple as they require verification of axioms via binary comparisons that are analogous to those of the revealed preference theory. Our model allows a broad interpretation of technological changes, yet trivial rationalization of the data with either profit-maximization or cost-minimization behavior is excluded. The tests are applied to study the U.S. aggregate agricultural data, supporting the hypotheses of rankable and neutral Technological Variations.
KW - Neutral technological variations
KW - Nonparametric analysis
KW - Rankable technological variations
KW - Revealed technological superiority
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0032746852&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2307/1244329
DO - 10.2307/1244329
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AN - SCOPUS:0032746852
SN - 0002-9092
VL - 81
SP - 850
EP - 864
JO - American Journal of Agricultural Economics
JF - American Journal of Agricultural Economics
IS - 4
ER -