Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

1957 - 2025

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Volume 61, issue 4, 2017

Optimal surveillance against foot-and-mouth disease: the case of bulk milk testing in Australia pp. 515-538

Tom Kompas, Pham Van Ha, Hoa Nguyen, Iain East, Sharon Roche and Graeme Garner

The influence of farm input subsidies on the adoption of natural resource management technologies pp. 539-556

Stefan Koppmair, Menale Kassie and Matin Qaim

How well do conservation auctions perform in achieving landscape-level outcomes? A comparison of auction formats and bid selection criteria pp. 557-575

Md Sayed Iftekhar and Uwe Latacz-Lohmann

Price premiums for ecolabelled seafood: MSC certification in Germany pp. 576-589

Frank Asche and Julia Bronnmann

Spatial price premium transmission for Meat Standards Australia-graded cattle: the vulnerability of price premiums to outside shocks pp. 590-609

L. Emilio Morales, Nam Hoang and Eric Stuen

Financial activity in agricultural futures markets: evidence from quantile regressions pp. 610-625

Elina Pradkhan

Household nutrition and income impacts of using dairy technologies in mixed crop–livestock production systems pp. 626-644

E. G. Kebebe

Balancing economic revenue and grazing pressure of livestock grazing on the Qinghai–Tibetan–Plateau pp. 645-662

Wei Huang and Bernhard Bruemmer

Why small farms persist? The influence of farmers’ characteristics on farm growth and development. The case of smaller dairy farmers in NZ pp. 663-684

Victoria Westbrooke and Peter Nuthall

Volume 61, issue 3, 2017

Drought special edition: introductory comments pp. 341-343

Lin Crase

How drought affects the financial characteristics of Australian farm businesses pp. 344-366

Ross S. Kingwell and Vilaphonh Xayavong

Revisiting revenue contingent loans for drought relief: government as risk manager pp. 367-384

Linda Courtenay Botterill, Bruce Chapman and Simon Kelly

Adaptation responses to increasing drought frequency pp. 385-403

David Adamson, Adam Loch and Kurt Schwabe

The impact of drought and water scarcity on irrigator farm exit intentions in the Murray–Darling Basin pp. 404-421

Sarah Wheeler and Alec Zuo

Innovation and networks in New Zealand farming pp. 422-442

Philip Brown and Simon Roper

Changes in grain handling catchments in Australia: an historical perspective pp. 443-461

Ross Kingwell

Estimating shadow price for symbiotic nitrogen and technical efficiency for legume-based conservation agriculture in Malawi pp. 462-480

Robertson R. B. Khataza, Atakelty Hailu, Marit Kragt and Graeme J. Doole

Early evacuation is the best bushfire risk mitigation strategy for south-eastern Australia pp. 481-497

Tyron J. Venn and John Quiggin

Are returns to research quality lower in agricultural economics than in economics? pp. 498-514

John Gibson and Ethan Burton-McKenzie

Volume 61, issue 2, 2017

Cooperatives, Economic Democratization and Rural Development, edited by Jos Bijman, Roldan Muradian and Jur Schuurman (Eds). Published by Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, 2016, 320 pp, ISBN: 9781784719371, AU$ 159 (hardcover) pp. E6-E7

Elena Garnevska

Handbook of Water Economics, edited by Ariel Dinar and Kurt Schwabe (Eds). Published by Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, 2017, 544 pp, ISBN: 9781782549659, US$ 310 (hardcover), US$ 70 (paperback) pp. E8-E9

Onno Kuik

Australia's Role in Feeding the World, The Future of Australian Agriculture, edited by Tor Hundloe, Sarah Blagrove and Hannah Ditton (Eds). Published by CSIRO Publishing, Clayton, VIC, Australia, 2016, 288 pp, ISBN: 9781486305896, AU$ 59.95 pp. E10-E11

Robert Henry

The Economics of Biofuel Policies: Impacts on Price Volatility in Grain and Oilseed Markets, edited by Harry de Gorter, Dusan Drabik and David R. Just. Published by Palgrave, New York, NY, USA, 2017, 282 pp, ISBN: 9781137414847, US$ 115 pp. E11-E13

Umama Rahman, Evan Markel and Burton English

Air pollution and food prices: evidence from China pp. 195-210

Feifei Sun, Dieter B. A. Koemle and Xiaohua Yu

Australia's consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions pp. 211-231

Clinton J. Levitt, Morten Saaby and Anders Sørensen

Measuring the functional efficiency of agricultural futures markets pp. 232-246

Meliyara Consuegra and Javier Garcia-Verdugo

Eco-efficiency of high-yielding variety rice cultivation after accounting for on-farm environmental damage as an undesirable output: an empirical analysis from Bangladesh pp. 247-264

Noor-E. Sabiha, Ruhul Salim and Sanzidur Rahman

Incorporating risk in a positive mathematical programming framework: a dual approach pp. 265-284

Linda Arata, Michele Donati, Paolo Sckokai and Filippo Arfini

The public R&D and productivity growth in Australia's broadacre agriculture: is there a link? pp. 285-303

Farid Khan, Ruhul Salim, Harry Bloch and Nazrul Islam

Evolving splines and seasonal unit roots in weekly agricultural prices pp. 304-323

José Juan Cáceres-Hernández and Gloria Martín-Rodríguez

Trade diversion and antidumping effectiveness: insights from a residual demand model pp. 324-340

Henry Kinnucan, Duc Nguyen and Dengjun Zhang

Volume 61, issue 1, 2017

Food Price Dynamics and Price Adjustment in the EU, edited by Steve McCorriston. Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2015, pp. 194, ISBN: 9780198732396, ₤60 pp. E1-E3

Pedro Flores Tenorio

Evaluating renewable energy policies pp. 1-18

Ross Cullen

Hamburgers in Paradise, by Louise O. Fresco. Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA, 2016, pp. 560, ISBN: 9780691163871, US$ 39.50 pp. E3-E5

Laura Carraresi

Renewable versus nonrenewable resources: an analysis of volatility in futures prices pp. 19-35

Arkady Gevorkyan

State-contingent analysis of farmers’ response to weather variability: irrigated dairy farming in the Murray Valley, Australia pp. 36-55

Thilak Mallawaarachchi, Celine Nauges, Orion Sanders and John Quiggin

Resource reallocation and its contribution to productivity growth in Australian broadacre agriculture pp. 56-75

Yu Sheng, Thomas Jackson and Peter Gooday

Convergent validity in contingent valuation: an application to the willingness to pay for national climate change mitigation targets in Germany pp. 76-94

Reinhard Uehleke

Community acceptance of biodiversity offsets: evidence from a choice experiment pp. 95-114

Michael Burton, Abbie Rogers and Claire Richert

Ecosystem impacts of pesticide reductions through Bt cotton adoption pp. 115-134

Prakashan Chellattan Veettil, Vijesh Krishna and Matin Qaim

Price linkages in the international skim milk powder market: empirical evidence from nonparametric and time-varying copulas pp. 135-153

Panos Fousekis, Christos Emmanouilides and Vasilis Grigoriadis

The distributional effect of a large rice price increase on welfare and poverty in Bangladesh pp. 154-171

Syed Hasan

Market integration between surplus and deficit rice markets during global food crisis period pp. 172-188

Sabiha Akhter

Frank G. Jarrett (1923–2016) pp. 189-191

Kym Anderson, Robert Lindner and Alistair Watson

Distinguished Fellow pp. 192-193

Peter Warr

Volume 60, issue 4, 2016

Applied Choice Analysis, 2nd edn, by David A Hensher, John M Rose and William H Greene. Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2015, pp. 1188, ISBN: 9781107092648 (Hardback), 9781107465923 (Paperback), AUD$155 (Paperback) pp. E17-E18

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and Alaya Spencer-Cotton

The Ecological Footprint – new developments in policy and practice, by Andrea Collins and Andrew Flynn. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, 2015, pp. 233, ISBN: 9780857936950, ₤75 pp. E19-E20

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and Bonnie McBain

Antipodean agricultural and resource economics – introduction pp. 493-505

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey, Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson and Philip G. Pardey

Antipodean agricultural and resource economics at 60: Trends in topics, authorship and collaboration pp. 506-515

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey, Maksym Polyakov, Fiona L. Gibson and David Pannell

Antipodean agricultural and resource economics at 60: farm management pp. 516-530

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey, Bill Malcolm and Vic Wright

Comment 1 on ‘Farm management’ by Malcolm and Wright pp. 531-532

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and Malcolm Wegener

Comment 2 on ‘Farm management’ by Malcolm and Wright pp. 533-534

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and Robert King

Antipodean agricultural and resource economics at 60: risk and uncertainty pp. 535-549

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey, John Quiggin and Jock Anderson

Comment 1 on ‘Risk and uncertainty’ by Quiggin and Anderson pp. 550-551

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and Robert Fraser

Comment 2 on ‘Risk and uncertainty’ by Quiggin and Anderson pp. 552-553

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and Brian Hardaker

Antipodean agricultural and resource economics at 60: agricultural innovation pp. 554-568

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey, Julian M. Alston and Philip G. Pardey

Comment 1 on ‘Agricultural Innovation’ by Alston and Pardey pp. 569-570

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and John D. Mullen

Comment 2 on ‘Agricultural Innovation’ by Alston and Pardey pp. 571-572

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and Grant Scobie

Antipodean agricultural and resource economics at 60: agricultural adjustment pp. 573-589

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey, Geoff Edwards and Winton Bates

Comment 1 on ‘Agricultural Adjustment’ by Edwards and Bates pp. 590-591

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and John W. Longworth

Comment 2 on ‘Agricultural Adjustment’ by Edwards and Bates pp. 592-593

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and T. Gordon MacAulay

Agricultural markets and marketing policies pp. 594-609

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey, Garry Griffith and Alistair Watson

Comment 1 on ‘Agricultural Markets and Marketing Policies’ by Griffith and Watson pp. 610-611

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and Brian Wright

Comment 2 on ‘Agricultural Markets and Marketing Policies’ by Griffith and Watson pp. 612-613

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and David Godden

Antipodean agricultural and resource economics at 60: national and global price- and trade-distorting policies pp. 614-628

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and Kym Anderson

Comment 1 on ‘National and global price- and trade-distorting policies’ by Anderson pp. 629-630

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and Donald MacLaren

Comment 2 on ‘National and global price- and trade-distorting policies’ by Anderson pp. 631-632

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and Roger Mauldon

Antipodean agricultural and resource economics at 60: booming sector economics pp. 633-646

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and John Freebairn

Comment 1 on ‘Booming sector economics’ by Freebairn pp. 647-648

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and Robert Gregory

Comment 2 on ‘Booming sector economics’ by Freebairn pp. 649-650

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and Andrew Stoeckel

Antipodean agricultural and resource economics at 60: natural resource management pp. 651-667

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey, David Pannell, Graeme Doole and Jimmy Cheung

Comment 1 on ‘Natural resource management’ by Pannell, Doole and Cheung pp. 668-669

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and Gavan Dwyer

Comment 2 on ‘Natural resource management’ by Pannell, Doole and Cheung pp. 670-671

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and Tom Kompas

Antipodean agricultural and resource economics at 60: environmental economics pp. 672-687

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey, Jeffrey Bennett and Alan Randall

Comment: Future directions for Australasian environmental economics pp. 688-691

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey, R. Quentin Grafton and Suzi Kerr

Antipodean agricultural and resource economics at 60: climate change policy and energy transition pp. 692-705

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and Brian S. Fisher

Comment 1 on ‘Climate change policy and energy transition’ by Fisher pp. 706-707

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and Warwick McKibbin

Comment 2 on ‘Climate change policy and energy transition’ by Fisher pp. 708-709

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson, Philip G. Pardey and Niven Winchester

Reviewer contribution for 2016 pp. 710-710

Julian M. Alston, Kym Anderson and Philip Pardey

Volume 60, issue 3, 2016

Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functions: Economic Issues, by Clement A. Tisdell. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, 2015, pp. 426 pages. ISBN: 9781782544395, AU$175 pp. E11-E12

Majelle Verbraak

Carbon Pricing: Design, Experiences and Issues, edited by Larry Kreiser, Mikael Andersen, Birgitte Olsen, Stefan Speck, Janet Milne and Hope Ashiabor. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, 2015, 256 pages. ISBN: 9781785360220, ₤75 pp. E13-E14

Xuemei Zheng

The Fight against Hunger and Malnutrition: The Role of Food, Agriculture and Targeted Policies, edited by David E. Sahn. Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 2015, 528 pages. ISBN: 9780198733201, ₤65 pp. E15-E16

Muhammad Masood Azeem

Input Substitution, Productivity Performance and Farm Size pp. 327-347

Yu Sheng, Alistair Davidson, Keith Fuglie and Dandan Zhang

Agriculture, trade openness and emissions: an empirical analysis and policy options pp. 348-365

Shuddhasattwa Rafiq, Ruhul Salim and Nicholas Apergis

Capitalisation of residential solar photovoltaic systems in Western Australia pp. 366-385

Chunbo Ma, Maksym Polyakov and Ram Pandit

Assessing the impact of price changes and extreme climatic events on sediment loads in a large river catchment near the Great Barrier Reef pp. 386-405

Taha Chaiechi, Natalie Stoeckl, Diane Jarvis, Stephen Lewis and Jon Brodie

Does land lease tenure insecurity cause decreased productivity and investment in the sugar industry? Evidence from Fiji pp. 406-421

Reshmi Kumari and Yuko Nakano

Tradable water saving certificates to improve urban water use efficiency: an ex-ante evaluation in a French case study pp. 422-441

Jean-Daniel Rinaudo, Javier Calatrava and Marine Vernier De Byans

Elicitation of irrigators' risk preferences from observed behaviour pp. 442-458

Celine Nauges, Sarah Wheeler and Alec Zuo

Marginal abatement costs of greenhouse gas emissions: broadacre farming in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia pp. 459-475

Kai Tang, Atakelty Hailu, Marit Kragt and Chunbo Ma

Drivers of transaction costs affecting participation in the rental market for cropland in Vietnam pp. 476-492

Hoang Trieu Huy, Michael Lyne, Nazmun Ratna and Peter Nuthall

Volume 60, issue 2, 2016

Agricultural Product Prices, edited by William G. Tomek and Harry M. Kaiser. Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2014, pp. 394, ISBN: 978 0 8014 5230 7, AUD$ 59.95 (hardcover) pp. E1-E2

Stuart Mounter

The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society, by Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Published by Earthscan from Routledge, 2013, 208 pages, ISBN: 9781849714273, AU$49.95 (paperback) pp. E3-E4

Adam Loch

Human Values and Biodiversity Conservation, the Survival of Wild Species, by Clement A. Tisdell, Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, UK, 2014, 416 pages, ISBN 978 1 78254438 8, AUD$150 (hardcover) pp. E5-E7

Salahadin Khairo

An Economic Interpretation of Linear Programming, by Quirino Paris. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2016, Third Edition, pp. 454, ISBN: 978 1 1 3757391 9, AUD$180 (hardcover) pp. E8-E10

Graeme J. Doole

Ambiguity, learning opportunities and risk-neutral regulation pp. 159-176

Alan Randall

Food demand elasticities for Australia pp. 177-195

Mehmet Ulubasoglu, Debdulal Mallick, Ikm Mokhtarul Wadud, Phillip Hone and Henry Haszler

Hedonic wine price functions with different prices pp. 196-211

Eddie Oczkowski

Testing market integration for Japanese retail seafood markets pp. 212-226

Kentaka Aruga and Raymond Li

How training and innovation link to farm performance: a structural equation analysis pp. 227-242

Vilaphonh Xayavong, Ross Kingwell and Nazrul Islam

Role of communication technologies in broadacre agriculture in Australia: an empirical analysis using panel data pp. 243-264

Ruhul Salim, Shamsul Arifeen Khan Mamun and Kamrul Hassan

Crop price comovements during extreme market downturns pp. 265-283

David Zimmer

The impact of latent risk preferences on valuing the preservation of threatened lynx populations in Poland pp. 284-306

Anna Bartczak, Petr Mariel, Susan Chilton and Jürgen Meyerhoff

Off-farm work, land tenancy contracts and investment in soil conservation measures in rural Pakistan pp. 307-325

Rakhshanda Kousar and Awudu Abdulai

Volume 60, issue 1, 2016

Factors influencing farmers’ participation in contractual biodiversity conservation: a choice experiment with northern Australian pastoralists pp. 1-21

Romy Greiner

Margarine and the origins and timing of microeconomic reform in Australia pp. 22-38

Malcolm Abbott

Regulation of relationships between heterogeneous farmers and an aquifer accounting for lag effects pp. 39-59

Cyril Bourgeois and Pierre-Alain Jayet

The Green Paradox and the importance of endogenous resource exploration pp. 60-78

Ines Österle

A real options analysis of Australian wheat production under climate change pp. 79-96

Todd Sanderson, Greg Hertzler, Tim Capon and Peter Hayman

Increasing returns, individuality and use of the common pool pp. 97-111

Chang Yee Kwan

Pesticide-handling practices: the case of coffee growers in Papua New Guinea pp. 112-129

Belén Zapata Diomedi and Celine Nauges

Optimisation of water procurement decisions in an irrigation district: the role of option contracts pp. 130-154

Dolores Rey, Javier Calatrava and Alberto Garrido

Jack (John Alfred) Sinden pp. 155-156

Oscar Cacho, Robyn Hean and Dodo Thampapillai