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Working Papers

2013

1. Information Transmission in Irrigation Technology Adoption and Diffusion: Social Learning, Extension Services and Spatial Effects
   Working Papers, University of Crete, Department of Economics View citations (68)

2012

2. A Supply-Response Model Under Invariant Risk Preferences
   Working Papers, University of Crete, Department of Economics View citations (1)
3. Estimating Population Dynamics without Population Data
   Working Papers, University of Crete, Department of Economics View citations (1)

2009

4. Yet Another Look at Pest Damage and Pesticide Productivity
   Working Papers, University of Crete, Department of Economics

2008

5. Generalized Invariant Preferences: Two-parameter Representations of Preferences
   Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland
6. Generalized Quadratic Revenue Functions
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (2)

2007

7. Agri-environmental Regulation on the Back of a Data Envelopment Analysis
   81st Annual Conference, April 2-4, 2007, Reading University, UK, Agricultural Economics Society
8. Bargaining power and efficiency in insurance contracts
   Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland
   See also Journal Article Bargaining Power and Efficiency in Insurance Contracts, The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, Palgrave Macmillan (2009) View citations (6) (2009)
9. Event-specific Data Envelopment Models and Efficiency Analysis
   Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland
   See also Journal Article Event‐specific data envelopment models and efficiency analysis, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (2011) View citations (5) (2011)

2006

10. Dual Approaches to the Analysis of Risk Aversion
    Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland
    Also in Working Papers, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2002) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Dual Approaches to the Analysis of Risk Aversion, Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science (2007) View citations (9) (2007)
11. Some Empirical Implications of State-Contingent Production Models
    2006 Conference (50th), February 8-10, 2006, Sydney, Australia, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society

2005

12. Comparative Risk Aversion for State-Dependent Preferences
    Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland
13. Cost Minimization and Asset Pricing
    Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland View citations (3)
14. Economists and uncertainty
    Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland View citations (4)

2004

15. Capital market equilibrium with moral hazard and flexible technology
    Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland
    See also Journal Article Capital market equilibrium with moral hazard and flexible technology, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier (2006) (2006)
16. Linear-Risk-Tolerant, Invariant Risk Preferences
    Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland
    See also Journal Article Linear-risk-tolerant, invariant risk preferences, Economics Letters, Elsevier (2005) View citations (2) (2005)
17. Output Price Subsidies in a Stochastic World
    Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland
    See also Journal Article Output Price Subsidies in a Stochastic World, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (2005) View citations (5) (2005)
18. Supermodularity and Risk Aversion
    Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland
    See also Journal Article Supermodularity and risk aversion, Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier (2006) View citations (2) (2006)
19. Supermodularity and the comparative statics of risk
    Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland
    See also Journal Article Supermodularity and the Comparative Statics of Risk, Theory and Decision, Springer (2007) View citations (2) (2007)

2003

20. Bargaining power and efficiency in principal-agent relationships
    Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland
21. Comparative statics for state-contingent technologies
    Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland
    See also Journal Article Comparative statics for state-contingent technologies, Journal of Economics, Springer (2008) View citations (1) (2008)
22. Drought policy: A state-contingent view
    Murray-Darling Program Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland
23. Dual structures for the sole-proprietorship firm
    Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland View citations (1)
24. Separability of stochastic production decisions from producer risk preferences in the presence of financial markets
    Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland View citations (2)
    Also in Working Papers, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2002) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Separability of stochastic production decisions from producer risk preferences in the presence of financial markets, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier (2009) View citations (6) (2009)

2002

25. RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND ASSET PRICING
    Working Papers, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
    Also in Working Papers, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2002) View citations (1)

2000

26. INCENTIVES AND STANDARDS IN AGENCY CONTRACTS
    Working Papers, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
    See also Journal Article Incentives and Standards in Agency Contracts, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory (2005) View citations (2) (2005)

1995

27. A State-Contingent Production Approach to Moral-Hazard Problems with an Application to Point-Source Pollution Control
    Working Papers, Australian National University - Department of Economics
28. Exploitation and Efficiency in Agrarian Contracts
    Working Papers, Australian National University - Department of Economics
29. Separation and Hedging Results with State-Contingent Production
    Working Papers, Australian National University - Department of Economics View citations (3)

1987

30. Deficits and Agriculture: An Alternative Parable
    Working Papers, International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium View citations (3)

Undated

31. Efficiency analysis in the presence of uncertainty
    Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland View citations (12)
    See also Journal Article Efficiency analysis in the presence of uncertainty, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer (2010) View citations (46) (2010)
32. Information and the Risk-Averse Firm
    Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland View citations (4)
33. Narrowing the No-Arbitrage Bounds
    Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Narrowing the no-arbitrage bounds, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier (2008) View citations (3) (2008)
34. The state-contingent approach to production under uncertainty
    Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland View citations (14)
    See also Journal Article The state-contingent approach to production under uncertainty, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (2006) View citations (23) (2006)

Journal Articles

2012

1. A Luenberger soil-quality indicator
   Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2012, 38, (2), 145-154 View citations (15)

2011

2. Efficiency analysis, shortage functions, arbitrage, and martingales
   European Journal of Operational Research, 2011, 213, (1), 349-358
3. Event‐specific data envelopment models and efficiency analysis
   Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2011, 55, (1), 90-106 View citations (5)
   See also Working Paper Event-specific Data Envelopment Models and Efficiency Analysis, Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers (2007) (2007)

2010

4. Another Look at Pesticide Productivity and Pest Damage
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2010, 92, (5), 1401-1419 View citations (23)
5. Efficiency analysis in the presence of uncertainty
   Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2010, 33, (1), 1-17 View citations (46)
   See also Working Paper Efficiency analysis in the presence of uncertainty, Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers View citations (12)
6. Production Economics and Farm Management: a Century of Contributions
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2010, 92, (2), 356-375 View citations (52)
7. Regulatory Policy Design in an Uncertain World
   Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2010, 12, (6), 1081-1107 View citations (2)

2009

8. Bargaining Power and Efficiency in Insurance Contracts
   The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 2009, 34, (1), 47-73 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper Bargaining power and efficiency in insurance contracts, Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers (2007) (2007)
9. Buy low, sell high: Price gaps and neoclassical theory
   Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2009, 45, (11), 720-729
10. Separability of stochastic production decisions from producer risk preferences in the presence of financial markets
    Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2009, 45, (11), 730-737 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper Separability of stochastic production decisions from producer risk preferences in the presence of financial markets, Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers (2003) View citations (2) (2003)
11. Smoothing preference kinks with information
    Mathematical Social Sciences, 2009, 58, (2), 173-189 View citations (1)

2008

12. A “calculus” for data envelopment analysis
    Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2008, 30, (3), 169-175 View citations (16)
13. Comparative statics for state-contingent technologies
    Journal of Economics, 2008, 93, (2), 203-214 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper Comparative statics for state-contingent technologies, Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers (2003) (2003)
14. Eliciting beliefs
    Theory and Decision, 2008, 65, (4), 271-284 View citations (2)
15. Implementable Ramsey-Boiteux Pricing in Agricultural and Environmental Policy
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2008, 90, (2), 499-508 View citations (3)
16. Narrowing the no-arbitrage bounds
    Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2008, 44, (1), 1-14 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper Narrowing the No-Arbitrage Bounds, Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers View citations (2)
17. Stochastic productivity measurement
    Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2008, 30, (2), 107-120 View citations (6)

2007

18. AJAE Appendix: Pareto Optimal Trade in an Uncertain World: GMOs and the Precautionary Principle
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics APPENDICES, 2007, 89, (2), 5 View citations (4)
19. AJAE Appendix: Valuing Agricultural Insurance
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics APPENDICES, 2007, 89, (3), 2 View citations (9)
20. Dual Approaches to the Analysis of Risk Aversion
    Economica, 2007, 74, (294), 189-213 View citations (9)
    See also Working Paper Dual Approaches to the Analysis of Risk Aversion, Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers (2006) (2006)
21. Information value and efficiency measurement for risk-averse firms
    Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2007, 27, (3), 197-208 View citations (2)
22. Pareto Optimal Trade in an Uncertain World: GMOs and the Precautionary Principle
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 89, (2), 520-532 View citations (5)
23. Supermodularity and the Comparative Statics of Risk
    Theory and Decision, 2007, 62, (2), 97-117 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper Supermodularity and the comparative statics of risk, Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers (2004) (2004)
24. Valuing Agricultural Insurance
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 89, (3), 596-606 View citations (11)

2006

25. Capital market equilibrium with moral hazard and flexible technology
    Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2006, 42, (3), 358-363
    See also Working Paper Capital market equilibrium with moral hazard and flexible technology, Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers (2004) (2004)
26. Parallel Neutrality
    Journal of Economics, 2006, 88, (3), 285-305 View citations (9)
27. Supermodularity and risk aversion
    Mathematical Social Sciences, 2006, 52, (1), 1-14 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper Supermodularity and Risk Aversion, Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers (2004) (2004)
28. The state-contingent approach to production under uncertainty
    Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2006, 50, (2), 17 View citations (23)
    Also in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2006, 50, (2), 153-169 (2006) View citations (21)
    See also Working Paper The state-contingent approach to production under uncertainty, Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers View citations (14)

2005

29. Eliciting the core of a supermodular capacity
    Economic Theory, 2005, 26, (1), 203-209 View citations (3)
30. Incentives and Standards in Agency Contracts
    Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2005, 7, (2), 201-228 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper INCENTIVES AND STANDARDS IN AGENCY CONTRACTS, Working Papers (2000) (2000)
31. Linear-risk-tolerant, invariant risk preferences
    Economics Letters, 2005, 86, (3), 303-309 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper Linear-Risk-Tolerant, Invariant Risk Preferences, Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers (2004) (2004)
32. On Input and Output Translation Homotheticity
    Journal of Economics, 2005, 85, (2), 197-203 View citations (1)
33. Output Price Subsidies in a Stochastic World
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2005, 87, (2), 501-508 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Output Price Subsidies in a Stochastic World, Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers (2004) (2004)

2004

34. Additive decomposition of profit efficiency
    Economics Letters, 2004, 84, (3), 329-334 View citations (4)
35. Drought policy: a graphical analysis
    Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2004, 48, (2), 27 View citations (13)
    Also in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2004, 48, (2), 225-251 (2004) View citations (13)
36. Invariant risk attitudes
    Journal of Economic Theory, 2004, 117, (1), 96-118 View citations (21)
37. Jointly radial and translation homothetic preferences: generalized constant risk aversion
    Economic Theory, 2004, 23, (3), 689-699 View citations (6)
38. Technological and financial approaches to risk management in agriculture: an integrate approach
    Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2004, 48, (2), 25 View citations (17)
    Also in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2004, 48, (2), 199-223 (2004) View citations (17)

2003

39. Indirect certainty equivalents for the firm facing price and production uncertainty
    Economics Letters, 2003, 78, (3), 309-316 View citations (2)
40. Local Utility Functions and Local Probability Transformations
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2003, 27, (2), 111-20 View citations (1)
41. Optimal Area-Yield Crop Insurance Reconsidered
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2003, 85, (3), 590-604 View citations (21)
42. Preface
    Agricultural Systems, 2003, 78, (2), 119-121
43. Price Stabilization and the Risk-Averse Firm
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2003, 85, (2), 336-347 View citations (6)

2002

44. Exact nonradial input, output, and productivity measurement
    Economic Theory, 2002, 20, (4), 751-765 View citations (131)
45. Optimal Producer Behavior in the Presence of Area-Yield Crop Insurance
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2002, 84, (2), 320-334 View citations (29)
46. The State-Contingent Properties of Stochastic Production Functions
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2002, 84, (2), 513-526 View citations (24)

2001

47. Consumer's Surplus As an Exact and Superlative Cardinal Welfare Indicator
    International Economic Review, 2001, 42, (1), 105-19 View citations (11)
48. Decomposing Input Adjustments under Price and Production Uncertainty
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2001, 83, (1), 20-34 View citations (18)
49. Salanie, Bernard. The Economics of Contracts: A Primer. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1997, 223 pp., $32
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2001, 83, (4), 1095-1098
50. The Firm under Uncertainty with General Risk-Averse Preferences: A State-Contingent Approach
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2001, 22, (1), 5-20 View citations (8)
51. The World Development Report: concepts, content and a Chapter 12
    Journal of International Development, 2001, 13, (3), 299-306 View citations (9)

2000

52. Stop-and-Go Agricultural Policies
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2000, 82, (1), 1-13 View citations (15)

1999

53. Producer Organizations, Bargaining, and Asymmetric Information
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1999, 81, (3), 602-609 View citations (5)

1998

54. A state-contingent production approach to principal-agent problems with an application to point-source pollution control
    Journal of Public Economics, 1998, 70, (3), 441-472 View citations (13)
55. Cost Functions and Duality for Stochastic Technologies
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1998, 80, (2), 288-295 View citations (35)
56. Risk Premiums and Benefit Measures for Generalized-Expected-Utility Theories
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1998, 17, (2), 121-37 View citations (20)
57. The Structure of Multiplant Technologies
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1998, 80, (4), 839-851 View citations (2)
58. Translation homotheticity
    Economic Theory, 1998, 11, (3), 629-641 View citations (22)
59. Using dominance in forming bounds on DEA models: The case of experimental agricultural data
    Journal of Econometrics, 1998, 85, (1), 189-203 View citations (10)

1996

60. A Nonparametric Approach to the von Liebig-Paris Technology
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1996, 78, (2), 373-386 View citations (26)
61. Aggregable price-taking firms
    European Economic Review, 1996, 40, (2), 417-428 View citations (2)
62. Aggregate Productivity Measures
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1996, 78, (5), 1360-1365 View citations (52)
63. Benefit and Distance Functions
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1996, 70, (2), 407-419 View citations (735)
64. Non-point-source pollution regulation as a multi-task principal-agent problem
    Journal of Public Economics, 1996, 59, (1), 95-116 View citations (26)

1995

65. The incidence of agricultural policies
    Journal of Public Economics, 1995, 57, (2), 317-335 View citations (14)

1994

66. Hicks' Neutrality and Trade Biased Growth: A Taxonomy
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1994, 64, (2), 554-567 View citations (22)

1993

67. Fixed price controls and ad valorem distortions in an open economy
    Economics Letters, 1993, 41, (3), 287-292
68. Input-output separability in production models and its structural consequences
    Journal of Economics, 1993, 57, (2), 197-202 View citations (2)
69. Public investment and real-price supports
    Journal of Public Economics, 1993, 52, (1), 73-82 View citations (3)

1992

70. Revisiting minimum-quality standards
    Economics Letters, 1992, 40, (2), 197-201 View citations (3)

1989

71. Concentrated objective functions for nonlinear taxation models
    Journal of Public Economics, 1989, 39, (3), 365-375 View citations (5)
72. Workfare or welfare?
    Journal of Public Economics, 1989, 40, (1), 79-97 View citations (12)

1988

73. ACCUMULATION AND RENTAL BEHAVIOR IN THE MARKET FOR FARMLAND
    Western Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1988, 13, (2), 13 View citations (4)

1986

74. DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL POLICY INTERFACES
    Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1986, 18, (01), 6 View citations (1)

1984

75. A GENERAL, DYNAMIC, SUPPLY-RESPONSE MODEL
    Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1984, 13, (2), 13 View citations (17)

1983

76. DISCUSSION: IMPACT OF FEDERAL FISCAL-MONETARY POLICY ON FARM STRUCTURE
    Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1983, 15, (01), 3 View citations (3)
77. International Trade, Gross Substitutability and the Domestic Farm-Retail Price Margin
    European Review of Agricultural Economics, 1983, 10, (1), 33-53 View citations (2)
78. Scale and Productivity Measurement under Risk
    American Economic Review, 1983, 73, (4), 802-05 View citations (15)

1982

79. An investigation of the effect of monetary factors on agriculture
    Journal of Monetary Economics, 1982, 9, (2), 235-247 View citations (60)
80. ESTIMATING THE IMPACT OF BEEF IMPORT RESTRICTIONS IN THE US IMPORT MARKET: REPLY
    Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1982, 26, (3), 238-240
    Also in Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1982, 26, (3), 3 (1982)
81. RELEVANCE OF DUALITY THEORY TO THE PRACTICING AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIST: DISCUSSION
    Western Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1982, 07, (2), 6 View citations (4)

1981

82. ESTIMATING THE IMPACT OF BEEF IMPORT RESTRICTIONS IN THE US IMPORT MARKET
    Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1981, 25, (2), 11 View citations (3)
    Also in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1981, 25, (2), 123-133 (1981) View citations (3)

Books

2000

1. Uncertainty, Production, Choice, and Agency
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (184)
   Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (2000) View citations (184)

1988

2. Applied Production Analysis
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (755)

Chapters

2002

1. Information, incentives, and the design of agricultural policies
   Chapter 34 in Handbook of Agricultural Economics, 2002, vol. 2, Part 2, pp 1751-1825 View citations (6)