Jean-Paul Chavas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3710317 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean-Paul Chavas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean-Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Chavas |
| SIGNATURE | CHAVAS J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Economics of Poverty Traps
On food security and the economic valuation of food
Food vs. fiber
On the Origins and Evolving Role of Money
This paper explores the origins and evolving role of money. It stresses the role of money in solving coordination problems. This role is present with or without exchange. A historical overview of money stresses the evolutionary aspects of monetary institutions. The analysis develops a general evaluation of economic efficiency under transaction costs and imperfect information, and in the presence of public goods and externalities. It identifies a …
Measurement and Sources of Economies of Scope
Scope economies (reflecting the benefit of a multioutput firm) have been defined by Baumol, Panzar, and Willig in the context of cost functions. This paper uses Luenberger's shortage function to develop a general measure of scope economies directly from the underlying technology. The analysis applies under complete as well as partial specialization. Our primal measure of economies of scope is decomposed into four additive parts: one measuring com…
Responding to the coffee crisis
An Analysis of the Source and Nature of Technical Change
This paper proposes a methodology to investigate the process of technical change with a focus on the dynamic effects of R&D investments on productivity, and on the induced innovation hypothesis for both inputs and outputs. The approach builds on a nonparametric representation of the underlying technology. An application to U.S. agriculture is presented. By distinguishing between private and public R&D investments, the analysis provides useful ins…
Economic Behavior Under Uncertainty
Jean-Paul Chavas, Matthew T. Holt, Economic Behavior Under Uncertainty: A Joint Analysis of Risk Preferences and Technology, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 78, No. 2 (May, 1996), pp. 329-335
On the role of information in decision making
On Risk, Transactions, and Economic Development in the Semiarid Tropics
Singularity and Autoregressive Disturbances in Linear Logit Models
The implications of including autoregressive disturbances in linear logit models of demand systems are explored. It is argued that the normality assumption of the error terms is more appropriate in the linear logit model than in a share equation model with additive disturbances (commonly found in the literature). Autoregressive disturbances and their implications for model estimation are discussed in that context. Both theoretical arguments and e…
A Dynamic Analysis of Prices in the U.S. Rice Marketing Channel
Granger causality tests and dynamic multipliers are used to explore the dynamic relationship among prices in the U.S. rice marketing channel. The dynamic multipliers provide information about the speed and magnitude of dynamic price adjustments that is not provided by the Granger causality tests. This information is shown to be useful in explaining the underlying economic relationship among the time series of prices. KEY WORDS: Dynamic multiplier…
A Dynamic Analysis of Prices in the U.S. Rice Marketing Channel
Granger causality tests and dynamic multipliers are used to explore the dynamic relationship among prices in the U.S. rice marketing channel. The dynamic multipliers provide information about the speed and magnitude of dynamic price adjustments that is not provided by the Granger causality tests. This information is shown to be useful in explaining the underlying economic relationship among the time series of prices. KEY WORDS: Dynamic multiplier…
Singularity and Autoregressive Disturbances in Linear Logit Models
The implications of including autoregressive disturbances in linear logit models of demand systems are explored. It is argued that the normality assumption of the error terms is more appropriate in the linear logit model than in a share equation model with additive disturbances (commonly found in the literature). Autoregressive disturbances and their implications for model estimation are discussed in that context. Both theoretical arguments and e…
On Risk, Transactions, and Economic Development in the Semiarid Tropics
On the role of information in decision making
Economic Behavior Under Uncertainty
Jean-Paul Chavas, Matthew T. Holt, Economic Behavior Under Uncertainty: A Joint Analysis of Risk Preferences and Technology, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 78, No. 2 (May, 1996), pp. 329-335
An Analysis of the Source and Nature of Technical Change
This paper proposes a methodology to investigate the process of technical change with a focus on the dynamic effects of R&D investments on productivity, and on the induced innovation hypothesis for both inputs and outputs. The approach builds on a nonparametric representation of the underlying technology. An application to U.S. agriculture is presented. By distinguishing between private and public R&D investments, the analysis provides useful ins…
Responding to the coffee crisis
Measurement and Sources of Economies of Scope
Scope economies (reflecting the benefit of a multioutput firm) have been defined by Baumol, Panzar, and Willig in the context of cost functions. This paper uses Luenberger's shortage function to develop a general measure of scope economies directly from the underlying technology. The analysis applies under complete as well as partial specialization. Our primal measure of economies of scope is decomposed into four additive parts: one measuring com…
On the Origins and Evolving Role of Money
This paper explores the origins and evolving role of money. It stresses the role of money in solving coordination problems. This role is present with or without exchange. A historical overview of money stresses the evolutionary aspects of monetary institutions. The analysis develops a general evaluation of economic efficiency under transaction costs and imperfect information, and in the presence of public goods and externalities. It identifies a …
Food vs. fiber
On food security and the economic valuation of food
The Economics of Poverty Traps
Economics (12 works) · Econometrics (6 works) · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (4 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Microeconomics (4 works) · Agricultural Economics and Policy (3 works) · Business (3 works)