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RESPONDENTS TO CONTINGENT VALUATION SURVEYS: CONSUMERS OR CITIZENS? - REPLY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Blamey,   Russell K.; Common,   Mick S.; Quiggin,   John C.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods.
Ano: 1996
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22391

RISK PERCEPTION AND THE ANALYSIS OF RISK ATTITUDES
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.
Risk has long been recognised as an important feature of the environment facing farmers. In recent years the von Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility theory has been used to analyse decision making under risk. However, many people behave in a manner inconsistent with the expected utility theory. One widely suggested explanation is based on subjective probability distortion. A number of attempts to incorporate this phenomenon into utility theories have been made. In this paper, the problems of analysing subjective probability distortion are discussed. Evidence from a survey of farmers' risk attitudes undertaken in conjunction with the 1977 BAE Australian Agricultural and Grazing Industries Survey is analysed in the light of this discussion.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Risk and Uncertainty.
Ano: 1981
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22866

LABOUR SUPPLY AND OFF-FARM WORK BY FARMERS: THEORY AND ESTIMATION
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Robinson,   Chris; McMahon,   Pat J.; Quiggin,   John C.
Off-farm employment has become increasingly important as an aspect of resource adjustment and a source of income in Australian agriculture. However, it is surprising that there is a paucity of work on this topic reported in the agricultural economics literature. Therefore, we have drawn upon recent developments in labour economics in order to investigate off-farm employment in Australia. A conceptual model of the allocation of a farmer's labour between farm and off-farm work is developed and applied to cross-sectional data from the Australian Agricultural and Grazing Industries Survey. A Tobit maximum likelihood procedure is utilised to test the influences of the life cycle, level of human capital, wealth, non-wage income and farm income on the off-farm...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 1982
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23051

PEAK-LOAD PRICING AND ON-FARM STORAGE IN THE AUSTRALIAN GRAIN HANDLING SYSTEM
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries; Production Economics.
Ano: 1990
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22356

Public or Private Monopoly?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.
Almost all aspects of the current policy debate over grain handling, transport and marketing turn on the problem of monopoly. The essential problem is that, in the presence of extensive scale economies, the perfectly competitive market of the textbooks cannot be sustained. Policy makers are left with three broad alternatives, each of which seems more notable for its disadvantages than its advantages. The basic choices are public monopoly, regulation and unregulated private monopoly.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy.
Ano: 1988
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12274

STABILISATION AND RISK REDUCTION IN AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURE
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.; Anderson,   Jock R.
Agricultural producers typically are faced with risk about the yields they will experience and the prices they will receive. Stabilisation schemes can spread risk and thereby reduce the risk faced by individual producers. The risk-reducing capacity of a scheme and the cost of risk reduction depend upon the design of the scheme. In particular, it is important to distinguish between risk and instability. A classification of scheme designs is presented to bring out the effects of various design types. Schemes for the wheat industry are given most attention.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Risk and Uncertainty.
Ano: 1979
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22969

WOOL PRICE STABILISATION AND PROFIT RISK FOR WOOL USERS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.
It has often been suggested that more stable wool prices would lead to an outward shift in the long-run demand for wool. To assess this claim it is necessary to examine different sources of risk and instability in wool prices and their impact on the risk borne by wool users. A model is presented in which the input and output decisions of a wool processor are related to interactions between the wool and yarn markets. It is concluded that, if fluctuations in final demand or exchange rates are the major sources of instability, the long-run effect of stabilising prices is to increase the risk faced by wool users and reduce that faced by wool growers.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis; Risk and Uncertainty.
Ano: 1983
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22823

Reply
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/118601

Modelling socially optimal land allocations for sugar cane growing in North Queensland: a linked mathematical programming and choice modelling study
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Mallawaarachchi,   Thilak; Quiggin,   John C.
A modelling framework is developed to determine the joint economic and environmental net benefits of alternative land allocation strategies. Estimates of community preferences for preservation of natural land, derived from a choice modelling study, are used as input to a model of agricultural production in an optimisation framework. The trade‐offs between agricultural production and environmental protection are analysed using the sugar industry of the Herbert River district of north Queensland as an example. Spatially‐differentiated resource attributes and the opportunity costs of natural land determine the optimal trade‐offs between production and conservation for a range of sugar prices.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117473

The state-contingent approach to production under uncertainty
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.; Chambers,   Robert G.
The central claim of this paper is that the state-contingent approach provides the best way to think about all problems in the economics of uncertainty, including problems of consumer choice, the theory of the firm, and principal–agent relationships. This claim is illustrated by recent developments in, and applications of, the state-contingent approach.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Risk; State-contingent production; Uncertainty; Risk and Uncertainty.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116925

Book reviews
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Piggott,   Roley R.; Quiggin,   John C.; Samuel,   Nicholas; Trewin,   Ray.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession.
Ano: 1998
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117288

Technological and financial approaches to risk management in agriculture: an integrate approach
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Chambers,   Robert G.; Quiggin,   John C.
In the present paper, risk‐management problems where farmers manage risk both through production decisions and through the use of market‐based and informal risk‐management mechanisms are considered. It is shown that many of these problems share a common structure, and that a unified and informative treatment of a broad spectrum of risk‐management tools is possible within a cost‐minimisation framework, under minimal conditions on their objective functions. Fundamental results are derived that apply regardless of the producer's preference towards risks, using only the no‐arbitrage condition that agricultural producers never forego any opportunity to lower costs without lowering returns.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Risk and Uncertainty.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117960

DUAL APPROACHES TO THE ANALYSIS OF RISK AVERSION
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Chambers,   Robert G.; Quiggin,   John C.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Risk and Uncertainty.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28606

A NOTE ON THE VIABILITY OF RAINFALL INSURANCE
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Risk and Uncertainty.
Ano: 1986
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22877

Environmental economics and the Murray-Darling river system
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.
Much concern about the negative environmental consequences of agricultural development in Australia, including salinisation, waterlogging and algal blooms, has focused on the problems of the Murray–Darling Basin. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the environmental problems of the Murray–Darling Basin from an economic perspective, and a selective survey of the relevant economic literature, including theoretical analysis, modelling and contributions to the development of water policy. In attempting to understand the complex problems of the Murray–Darling Basin, an eclectic approach drawing on externality, sustainability and property rights perspectives seems most appropriate.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117382

Climate variability, climate change and agriculture
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy; Food Security and Poverty; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97266

A Note on the Use of a Logarithmic Time Trend
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Watts,   Geof; Quiggin,   John C.
It is shown that parameter estimates in a regression with a logarithmic time trend are not invariant to the choice of the starting point of that time trend. Possible solutions to this problem are discussed and applied to data from a recent article in this Review where a logarithmic time trend was included. It is suggested that the appropriate course is either to estimate the starting date directly or to adopt a functional form invariant to the choice of starting date.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods.
Ano: 1984
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12259

CROP INSURANCE AND CROP PRODUCTION: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF MORAL HAZARD AND ADVERSE SELECTION
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.; Karagiannis,   Giannis; Stanton,   J.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Risk and Uncertainty.
Ano: 1993
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22614

Turning Water into Carbon: Carbon sequestration vs. water flow in the Murray-Darling Basin
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Schrobback,   Peggy; Adamson,   David; Quiggin,   John C.
Large scale forest plantations in the Murray-Darling Basin may be embraced as a carbon sequestration mechanism under a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. However, increased tree plantation will be associated with reduced inflows to river systems because of increased transpiration, interception and evaporation. Therefore, an unregulated change in land management is most likely to have a dramatic impact on the water availability. This will exacerbate the impacts of climate change projected in the Garnaut Review. This paper examines the implications of unrestricted changes in land use. These results should suggest the true costs to society from carbon sequestration by determining the tradeoffs between timber production and agricultural products.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Murray-Darling Basin; Carbon sequestration; Forest plantation; Irrigated agriculture; Water flow; Trade-off; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/47616

Salinity Mitigation in the Murray River System
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.
The problem of salinity and proposals to control or ameliorate it have received increasing attention in Australia in recent years. It is generally agreed that inappropriate land and water management practices, such as the excessive use of irrigation water in hydrologically unsuitable areas, are the main cause of the increasing levels of salinity which have been observed over the period of European settlement. If mitigation works are undertaken without regard to the incentive structures which generate these practices, they may encourage an extension of inappropriate land uses and ultimately be ineffectual or even counterproductive.  Analysis of these problems requires consideration of some issues which have so far received limited attention in discussions...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 1991
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12458

UNDERWRITING AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY PRICES
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.
Underwriting schemes are increasingly being used as a basis for price policy in Australian agricultural industries. These policies simultaneously increase average returns and reduce the risk faced by producers. In this paper, conditions are discussed under which such a combination of policy targets may be desirable. The optimality properties of underwriting schemes in achieving these targets are examined and compared to those of alternative schemes. Aspects of underwriting scheme design are discussed.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis.
Ano: 1983
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22744

Drought policy: a graphical analysis
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.; Chambers,   Robert G.
The standard approach to modelling production under uncertainty has relied on the concept of the stochastic production function. In the present paper, it is argued that a state‐contingent production model is more flexible and realistic. The model is applied to the problem of drought policy.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Risk and Uncertainty.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117961

THE USE OF CROSS-SECTIONAL ESTIMATES OF PROFIT FUNCTIONS FOR TESTS OF RELATIVE EFFICIENCY: A CRITICAL REVIEW
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.; Bui-Lan,   Anh.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods.
Ano: 1984
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22591

Agriculture and global climate stabilization
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53204

RESPONDENTS TO CONTINGENT VALUATION SURVEYS: CONSUMERS OR CITIZENS?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Blamey,   Russell K.; Common,   Mick S.; Quiggin,   John C.
The fundamental assumption of the contingent valuation method (CYM) is that responses to CY questionnaires may be interpreted as expressions of consumer preferences. The consumer preference interpretation has been challenged in recent papers arguing that willingness to pay for wildlife preservation is generated, at least in part, by ethical concerns, rather than by a view that wildlife preservation will yield any benefit to individual respondents. Some further evidence bearing upon these questions is derived from a study of forest management in Australia undertaken by the Resource Assessment Commission (RAC). The evidence supports the interpretation that respondents are acting primarily as citizens.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods.
Ano: 1995
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22679

Water rights for variable supplies
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Freebairn,   John W.; Quiggin,   John C.
The relative merits of different systems of property rights to allocate water among different extractive uses are evaluated for the case where variability of supply is important. Three systems of property rights are considered. In the first, variable supply is dealt with through the use of water entitlements defined as shares of the total quantity available. In the second, there are two types of water entitlements, one for water with a high security of supply and the other a lower security right for the residual supply. The third is a system of entitlements specified as state-contingent claims. With zero transaction costs, all systems are efficient. In the realistic situation where transaction costs matter, the system based on state-contingent claims is...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Property rights; State-contingent claims; Water; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116968

Water use and salinity in the Murray–Darling Basin: A state-contingent model
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Adamson,   David; Mallawaarachchi,   Thilak; Quiggin,   John C.
The supply of water for irrigation is subject to climatic and policy uncertainty. The object of the present paper is to show how the linear and non-linear programming models commonly used in modelling problems such as those arising in the Murray–Darling Basin may be adapted to incorporate a state-contingent representation of uncertainty. Estimates showing the potential value of improved water use are also derived.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Irrigation; Salinity; Uncertainty; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/118332

Costs of adjustment to climate change
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.; Horowitz,   John K.
The present paper argues that the costs of climate change are primarily adjustment costs. The central result is that climate change will reduce welfare whenever it occurs more rapidly than the rate at which capital stocks (interpreted broadly to include natural resource stocks) would naturally adjust through market processes. The costs of climate change can be large even when lands are close to their climatic optimum, or evenly distributed both above and below that optimum.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/118147

CONTRADICTORY PREDICTIONS ON SUPPLY RESPONSE UNDER STABILIZATION: A RECONCILIATION
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.
Two separate bodies of literature on stabilization give radically different results, yet these contradictions have not attracted any attention. The first arises from the neoclassical theory of stabilization and predicts that beneficial stabilization will always attract positive supply response. The second arises from the work of Newbery and Stiglitz and predicts 'perverse' supply response for highly risk averse producers. In this paper, the differences which yield these results are described and some suggestions are made for a generalized model.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Risk and Uncertainty.
Ano: 1991
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22619

Fiddling while carbon burns: why climate policy needs pervasive emission pricing as well as technology promotion
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Pezzey,   John C.V.; Jotzo,   Frank; Quiggin,   John C.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Asia–Pacific Partnership; Climate policy; Pricing; Technology; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117740

The complexities in environmental decision-making for the Murray-Darling Basin
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Schrobback,   Peggy; Mallawaarachchi,   Thilak; Quiggin,   John C.
People are part of a complex natural system and have the ability to actively interfere with their environment. Collective decisions made by governments represent social rules that limit the extent of people's interference with the environment that support them. Environmental decisions made by governments usually carry an ethical bias and are limited by the perception of the risks and uncertainties that may affect society's well-being in the medium to long run. The recently published Guide to the proposed Basin Plan represents a draft for a legislative instrument that aims to reclaim some of the water back onto the environment to safeguard declining natural ecosystems in the Murray-Darling Basin. By limiting diversions into agricultural uses, irrigators in...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Environmental decision-making; Uncertainty; Risk; Trade-off; Collective choices; Resilience; Murray-Darling Basin; Environmental Economics and Policy; Political Economy; Public Economics; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100708

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURAL TRACTOR INVESTMENT MODELS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Vanzetti,   David; Quiggin,   John C.
An implicit rental price approach is used to analyse the determinants of farm tractor investment at the aggregate level. Three models, based on different assumed factor substitutabilities, are compared. Variations in the rental price of tractors appear to have less effect on demand than variations in factors affecting the profitability of the cropping enterprise as a whole. The implications for forecasting and for policy instruments, such as the investment allowance, are discussed.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods.
Ano: 1985
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22521

Grandfathering and greenhouse: the role of compensation and adjustment assistance in the introduction of a carbon emissions trading scheme for Australia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Menezes,   Flavio; Quiggin,   John C.; Wagner,   Liam.
The terms ‘grandfather clause’ and ‘grandfathering’ describe elements of a policy program in which existing participants in an activity are protected from the impact of regulations, restrictions or charges applied to new entrants. In this paper, the role of grandfathering in the design of a carbon emissions trading scheme in Australia is assessed. It is argued that adjustment assistance policies such as those adopted in conjunction with previous microeconomic reform programs are preferable to policies based on the free issue of emissions permits.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Grandfathering; Emissions trading; Compensation; Adjustment assistance.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48042

SEPARABILITY OF STOCHASTIC PRODUCTION DECISIONS FROM PRODUCER RISK PREFERENCES IN THE PRESENCE OF FINANCIAL MARKETS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Chambers,   Robert G.; Quiggin,   John C.
This paper presents a unified treatment of the production and financial decisions available to a firm facing frictionless financial markets and a stochastic production technology under minimal assumptions on the firm's stochastic technology and objective function. The specific focus is on separation results for stochastic technologies, that is, on conditions under which the optimal production decision may be determined without regard to the risk preferences of the firm's owners. Necessary and sufficient conditions for separation, which generalize existing results, are presented.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Financial Economics; Production Economics; Risk and Uncertainty.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28561

Climate change and climate uncertainty in the Murray-Darling Basin
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Adamson,   David; Mallawaarachchi,   Thilak; Quiggin,   John C.
Human activity has modified the environment at all scales from the smallest ecosystems to the global climate systems. In the analysis of the Murray-Darling Basin, it is necessary to take account of effects of human activity ranging from local changes in water tables and soil structure through basin-level effects of the expansion of irrigation to changes in precipitation pattern arising from the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In this paper, we analyse the impact of, and adjustments to, climate change in the Murray-Darling Basin, using a simulation model that incorporates a state-contingent representation of uncertainty.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10361

Discounting and Sustainability
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.
The discounting of future benefits has long been one of the most controversial, and in many ways, unsatisfactory, aspects of benefit -cost analysis. This concern has been heightened by the rise of the environmental movement and, particularly by the debate over sustainable development. The sustainability approach is presented as an alternative to the standard benefit-cost analysis approach to the question of inter-generational equity.  Sustainability is in fashion, and, as with all fashionable terms, it has been used in many ways and in support of many different policy agendas. A summary and critique of the literature is given by Ule (1991). I shall interpret sustainability very broadly to encompass two main concerns:  (i) The interests of future...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 1992
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10340

RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND ASSET PRICING
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Chambers,   Robert G.; Quiggin,   John C.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28594

Repurchase of renewal rights: a policy option for the National Water Initiative
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.
Management of the Murray–Darling river system involves a large number of users with imprecisely defined rights, and an aggregate rate of resource use that is environmentally unsustainable. One possible policy response is to make formal or informal contracts with users, under which users receive current benefits in return for a commitment to forgo usage rights in future. In this paper, this issue is explored with specific reference to the possibility of repurchasing the renewal rights for irrigation licenses.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: National Water Initiative; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116969

RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND ASSET PRICING
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Chambers,   Robert G.; Quiggin,   John C.
This paper presents a unified treatment of the production and financial decisions available to a firm facing frictionless financial markets and a stochastic production technology under minimal assumptions on the firm's stochastic technology and objective function. The key concept is that of a 'derivative-cost function', which gives the minimal cost (maximal buying price) of constructing an asset by combining financial and real production activities.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28571

Uncertainty and technical efficiency in Finnish Agriculture
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Nauges,   Celine; O'Donnell,   Christopher J.; Quiggin,   John C.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48062

Fiddling while carbon burns: why climate policy needs emission pervasive pricing as well as technology promotion
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Pezzey,   John C.V.; Jotzo,   Frank; Quiggin,   John C.
Effective climate policy requires global emissions of greenhouse gases to be cut substantially, which in energy sectors can be achieved by lower emissions supply technologies, greater energy use efficiency, and substitution in demand. For policy to be efficient requires fairly uniform, pervasive emission pricing from taxes, permit trading, or hybrid combinations of the two, as well as significant government support for low-emission technologies. We compare the kind of technology-focused climate policies currently adopted by Australia and the USA, the ‘'Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate'’ (AP6), against this ideal policy yardstick. We find they omit the need for emission pricing to achieve abatement effectively and efficiently; they...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Greenhouse gas emissions; Abatement; Emission taxes; Emissions trading; Technology policy; Innovation; Asia-Pacific Partnership; AP6; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10395

COMMON PROPERTY, PRIVATE PROPERTY AND REGULATION THE CASE OF DRYLAND SALINITY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Quiggin,   John C.
The term 'common property' has frequently been misapplied to situations where no property rights exist. Common property rights have provided a workable alternative to private property in many historical situations. Common property concepts and institutions can also play a major role in analysing and responding to current environmental problems. In this paper, the problem of dryland salinity is examined and solutions based on common property, private property and regulation are compared.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 1986
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22895

Size Economies in Australian Agriculture
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Vlastuin,   Chris; Lawrence,   Denis; Quiggin,   John C.
Theoretical, conceptual and estimational issues relevant to economies of size studies are discussed in this paper. Some of the issues discussed are the effects of technological change on the position and shape of the average cost curve over time, the relationship between farm size and relative economic efficiency and frontier versus average estimation techniques. There is also a brief review of various measurement and specification problems.  In addition, empirical estimates of the extent of size economies were derived from a flexible translog production function using ASIS data for the New South Wales Wheat/Sheep Zone for the years 1966-67, 1975-76 and 1976-77. Estimation of the production function revealed that, when the relatively fixed inputs of...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness.
Ano: 1982
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12293