@article{Estrin:21610,
      recid = {21610},
      author = {Estrin, Andrew J.},
      title = {THE IMPACTS OF SELF-SUFFICIENCY POLICIES AND FISCAL  DECENTRALIZATION ON THE EFFICIENCY OF GRAIN PRODUCTION IN  CHINA},
      address = {1999},
      number = {371-2016-19324},
      series = {Selected Paper},
      pages = {14},
      year = {1999},
      abstract = {This paper tests the hypotheses that grain  self-sufficiency policies and fiscal decentralization  result in inefficiency in grain production in China.  Households supply grain in order to comply with  self-sufficiency policies rather than to maximize profits.   This raises the possibility that grain production is  inefficient - especially where the opportunity costs are  high (Turner, Brandt, and Rozelle).  In addition, fiscal  decentralization results in inefficiency in low-income  provinces where the small
    A multiple output distance  function is used to derive expressions for a stochastic  production frontier and economic inefficiency.  Provincial  level data for grain and rural industrial output are used  in the analysis and local fiscal expenditures and revenues  are used as explanators of inefficiency.  The expressions  are estimated simultaneously using maximum likelihood  techniques.
    The findings suggest that grain production  in China could be made more efficient by: 1.) policies that  encourage production according to comparative advantage  rather than grain self-sufficiency and, 2.) fiscal reforms  that increase the responsibility of the central government  for agricultural investment.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/21610},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.21610},
}