Re-examining economic options for import risk assessments

David Adamson () and David Cook

No WP3M07, Murray-Darling Program Working Papers from Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland

Abstract: The economic impacts of altering quarantine policies are divided into two main areas: trade evaluations, utilising a partial equilibrium approach to determine the benefits of market liberalisation; or pest management economics, used to determine the on-ground impacts of introduced species. This paper rationalises why these approaches need to be brought together within the policy framework of import risk assessments to provide a greater understanding of the benefits and risks from market liberalisation.

Keywords: Biosecurity; pest management; import risk analysis; uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-02
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