TY - CPAPER AB - One of the most important principles in any science is testing and consequently confirmation and falsification. In agricultural economics, the equilibrium displacement model is a popular modeling approach that presently is not testable and consequently cannot be confirmed or falsified. This paper presents four increasingly sophisticated procedures designed to overcome this limitation of equilibrium displacement models. An empirical illustration demonstrates the usefulness of these procedures in deciding between three alternative and theoretically viable equilibrium displacement models. AU - Davis, George C. DA - 2001 DA - 2001 DO - 10.22004/ag.econ.20525 DO - doi ID - 20525 KW - Research Methods/Statistical Methods L1 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/20525/files/sp01da03.pdf L2 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/20525/files/sp01da03.pdf L4 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/20525/files/sp01da03.pdf LA - eng LA - English LK - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/20525/files/sp01da03.pdf N2 - One of the most important principles in any science is testing and consequently confirmation and falsification. In agricultural economics, the equilibrium displacement model is a popular modeling approach that presently is not testable and consequently cannot be confirmed or falsified. This paper presents four increasingly sophisticated procedures designed to overcome this limitation of equilibrium displacement models. An empirical illustration demonstrates the usefulness of these procedures in deciding between three alternative and theoretically viable equilibrium displacement models. PY - 2001 PY - 2001 T1 - CONFIRMATION AND FALSIFICATION OF EQUILIBRIUM DISPLACEMENT MODELS TI - CONFIRMATION AND FALSIFICATION OF EQUILIBRIUM DISPLACEMENT MODELS UR - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/20525/files/sp01da03.pdf Y1 - 2001 T2 - Selected Paper ER -