Agricultural Land Elasticities in the United States and Brazil

Thumbnail Image
Date
2010-02-01
Authors
Barr, Kanlaya
Babcock, Bruce
Carriquiry, Miguel
Nasser, Andre
Harfuch, Leila
Major Professor
Advisor
Committee Member
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Authors
Person
Babcock, Bruce
Emeritus Professor
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Journal Issue
Is Version Of
Versions
Series
Department
Center for Agricultural and Rural Development
Abstract

The elasticity of aggregate supply is one key to understanding the degree to which policyinduced increases in demand for biofuel feedstocks or agricultural CO2 offsets will result in higher prices or expanded supply. In this paper we report land supply elasticities for the United States and Brazil estimated directly from the observed changes in cropland and estimated changes in expected returns. The resulting aggregate implied land-use elasticities with respect to price are quite inelastic in the United States and more elastic in Brazil (0.007-0.029 and 0.382- 0.895, respectively). However, with pasture land included in Brazil, implied elasticities become much less inelastic (0.007-0.245).

Comments
Description
Keywords
Citation
DOI
Source
Copyright
Collections