SEPARABILITY IN FARM-HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS - AN EXPERIMENT WITH LINEAR-PROGRAMMING

被引：9

作者：

DELFORCE, JC

机构：

[1] Centre for International Economic Studies, Department of Economics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5001

来源：

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS | 1994年 / 10卷 / 02期

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D O I：

10.1016/0169-5150(94)90005-1

中图分类号：

F3 [农业经济];

学科分类号：

0202 ; 020205 ; 1203 ;

摘要：

The assumption of separability between farm-household production and consumption facilitates analysis, but entails several important restrictions. The implications of assuming separability are discussed here in relation to the modelling of a representative Tongan farm-household. Econometric estimation of household demand is coupled with a linear programming (LP) model of farm-household production. When analysing consumer demand, separable farm-household economics is undoubtedly preferable to ignoring the production/consumption linkages entirely. However, the restrictions which must be imposed on the production side of the separable model are such that a realistic LP solution is unlikely to be obtained. This is likely to be a major deterrent to adopting the separable approach for studies in which the main focus is on production rather than consumption.

引用

页码：165 / 177

页数：13

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