Bonwoo Koo is a research fellow in the Environment and Production Technology Division of IFPRI. Philip G. Pardey is a professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. At the time of this research, he was a senior research fellow at IFPRI. Brian D. Wright is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berke...

Production and conflict models have been used over the past 30 years to represent the effects of unproductive resource allocation in economics. Their major applications are in modelling the assignment of property rights, rentseeking and defense economics. This paper describes the process of designing an agent used in a production and conflict model. Using the capabilities of an agent-based appr...

Production frontiers, technical efficiency, survey of applications. The modelling and estimation of frontier production functions has been an important area of econometric research during the last two decades. F~rsund, Lovell and Schmidt (1980) and Schmidt (1986) present reviews of the concepts and models involved and cite some of the empirical applications which had appeared to their respectiv...