AEB 6184 – Simulation and Estimation of the Primal Elluminate - 6
Cobb-Douglas Parameters
Fuel Use (Field Operations)Fertilizer Dry Spread0.15Nitrogen91.80 Disk-Chisel1.70Phosphorous36.58 Field Cultivate0.70Potash23.50 Planting0.40 Spraying0.10 Combine1.45 Total Diesel4.50 Diesel Price2.64 Total Fuel11.88Total Fertilizer Field Data for Corn
Total Costs and RevenuesParameters Total Fuel11.88α Total Fertilizer151.88β Total Labor33.06γ Total Variable Cost196.82Diesel (gal.)4.50 Corn Yield135.0Fertilizer (tons) Corn Price4.50Labor (hours)4.15 Total Revenue Profit per Acre Revenues
Prices Corn Price (FL) Corn Price (GA) Fertilizer Price Fuel Price (Diesel) Labor Price
Cobb-Douglas Function
We need to think about three four prices Corn Price Diesel Price Fertilizer Price Labor Price We could assume normality How to choose Ω? Possible negative prices? Drawing Prices
We could choose a uniform distribution. For our purpose here, let’s assume that the standard deviation is 1/3 of the value of each price. In addition, let’s assume that the input prices have a correlation coefficient of 0.35 and the output price is uncorrelated. The variance matrix then becomes
In the univariate form, given a mean of and a standard deviation of we would create the random sample by drawing a z from a standard normal distribution In the multivariate world, we use the Cholesky decomposition of the variance matrix and use the vector of the means Drawing Random Samples
CornFuelFertilizerLabor Price Draws
Production Levels
FuelFertilizerLaborOutput Input Demands and Output Levels
First stage estimation – Ordinary Least Squares Second stage – System Ordinary Least Squares using the first-order conditions. From the first-order conditions Estimation
Each of the observations in the system can then be expressed as Estimation (Continued)
Imposing the cross equation restrictions Estimation (Continued)
First estimation (without heteroscedasticity) Estimation (Continued)
With heteroscedasticity Estimation (Continued)
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