Stein T. Holden | NMBU (original) (raw)

I am a professor in Development and Resource Economics in the School of Economics and Business at Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway. I am also an active member of the Centre for Land Tenure Studies in our university that was established in 2011 and is a collaboration between three of our faculties.
Address: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Environmental & resource economics, Mar 18, 2024

World Development, Jun 1, 2020

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2013

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Apr 23, 2015

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Mar 12, 2015

We make cross-sectional comparisons of productivity in a risky agricultural setting. To make mean... more We make cross-sectional comparisons of productivity in a risky agricultural setting. To make meaningful comparisons, we find it necessary to define a new productivity index that satisfies important axioms from index number theory (e.g., transitivity). The index can be computed without any information on output or input prices. However, it cannot be computed without an estimate of a state-contingent production frontier. We use maximum likelihood methods to estimate a state-contingent stochastic production frontier that explicitly allows for variations in input quality. We find that differences in productivity are mainly due to differences in environment and scale-mix efficiency. In turn, we conjecture that differences in scale-mix efficiency are partly driven by variations in access to input subsidies. The maximum likelihood estimator appears to do a poor job of disentangling the effects of technical inefficiency and statistical noise.

Frontiers in sustainable food systems, Jun 9, 2023

Routledge eBooks, Dec 23, 2022

Social Science Research Network, 2022

Journal of behavioral and experimental economics, Dec 1, 2022

2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2018