Integrating Agronomic Principles into Production Function Specification: A Dichotomy of Growth Inputs and Facilitating Inputs
提出一个概念框架，将农学原理融入经济生产分析，将作物投入分为生长投入和促进投入，并据此设定非对称生产函数。利用荷兰马铃薯生产的作物层面面板数据检验，结果支持该框架，且非对称设定能更好代表潜在生产技术。
This article presents a general conceptual framework for integrating agronomic principles into economic production analysis. We categorize inputs in crop production into growth inputs and facilitating inputs. Based on this dichotomy we specify an asymmetric production function. The robustness of the asymmetric framework is tested using crop‐level panel data on potato production in the Netherlands. The test results do not reject the proposed framework, and the asymmetric specification better represents the underlying production technology.