Government Policy and Agricultural Productivity in Indonesia
利用1985-2005年省级面板数据和随机产出距离前沿模型，分解政府投资、价格和研究政策对印尼农业技术进步与效率的影响，发现价格和贸易政策比公共研究贡献更大，多数技术进步源于非正式技术扩散。
We focus on the agricultural productivity implications of the complex of investment, price, and research policies the Indonesian government has employed since the end of the Green Revolution. In particular, we employ a new 1985–2005 provincial panel dataset together with a stochastic output distance frontier framework to examine how government policies have affected the nation's agricultural productivity, decomposing it into its technical progress and efficiency components. Government's primary contributions to technology growth have come through price and trade policies rather than public research. Most technology growth, however, appears to be due to informal technology diffusion.