Key points are not available for this paper at this time.
Abstract Resource adjustment problems in U.S. agriculture are motivated against the background of the farm problem. The adjustment cost hypothesis is invoked to specify and estimate consistently a system of dynamic investment demand and output supply equations by utilizing recent advances in dynamic duality theory. The investment demand equations assume the form of a multivariate flexible accelerator. Results indicate that labor, capital services, and land exhibited quasi‐fixity while intermediate materials were a variable factor. This can be construed as a form of asset fixity within aggregate U.S. agriculture. The univariate flexible accelerator hypothesis is rejected.
Vasavada et al. (Sat,) studied this question.