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Impact of competition policy reforms on rural and regional Australia

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

On 28 August 1998 the Treasurer referred the impact of competition policy reforms on rural an regional Australia for inquiry and report within 12 months of receiving the reference. The Commission is to assess the impact (both transitional and ongoing) of the competition policy and related...

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Environmental and Natural Resource Degradation in Intensive Agriculture in Bangladesh

Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004

also experienced a slowdown in the rate of growth of production and yield, and with research at the International Rice …Bangladeshi agriculture has undergone a substantial intensification. Continued and accelerated agricultural growth will … require intensification to continue. There has been rising concern, however, that intensive agriculture may not be sustainable …

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Responsiveness of Demand for Irrigation Water: A Focus on the Southern Murray-Darling Basin

Appels, D.; Douglas, R.; Dwyer, G. - EconWPA - 2005

use of irrigation water. A foundation for this research is a detailed understanding of irrigated agriculture in the … of the elasticity of demand for irrigation water. It focuses on three main irrigated industries — rice, dairy and …

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Crop Yield and Price Distributional Effects on Revenue Hedging

Tirupattur, Viswanath; Hauser, Robert J.; Chaherli, Nabil M. - EconWPA - 1996

The use of crop yield futures contracts is examined. The expectation being modeled here reflects that of an Illinois … corn and soybeans producer at planting, of revenue realized at harvest. The effects of using price and crop yield contracts … alternatives: 1) a revenue hedge using just price futures, 2) a revenue hedge using crop yield futures, 3) an unhedged scenario …

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Exogenous impact and conditional quantile functions

Chesher, Andrew - EconWPA - 2001

An exogenous impact function is defined as the derivative of a structural function with respect to an endogenous variable, other variables, including unobservable variables held fixed. Unobservable variables are fixed at specific quantiles of their marginal distributions. Exogenous impact...

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Quantiles for Counts

Machado, J.A.F.; Silva, J. M. C. Santos - EconWPA - 2003

This paper studies the estimation of conditional quantiles of counts. Given the discreteness of the data, some smoothness has to be artificially imposed on the problem. The methods currently available to estimate quantiles of count data either assume that the counts result from the...

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The Transition to Agriculture: Climate Reversals, Population Density, and Technical Change

Dow, Gregory K.; Olewiler, Nancy; Reed, Clyde G. - EconWPA - 2005

some parts of the world began a transition to agriculture. Recent data strongly implicate climate change as the driving … made agriculture attractive. Once agriculture was initiated, rapid technological progress through artificial selection on …

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Allocating Risks in a Domestic Greenhouse Gas Trading System

Kerr, Suzi - EconWPA - 2003

As tradeable permit programmes mature, two inter-related issues are becoming more critical in creating viable responses to a long-term, highly uncertain environmental problem such as climate change. First, we need to update policies in response to new information; and second, we need to design...

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Carbon Dynamics and Land-use Choices: Building a Regional-scale Multidisciplinary Model

Kerr, Suzi; Liu, Shuguang; Pfaff, Alexander; Hughes, Flint - EconWPA - 2003

Policy enabling tropical forests to approach their potential contribution to global-climate-change mitigation requires forecasts of land use and carbon storage on a large scale over long periods. In this paper, we present an integrated modeling methodology that addresses these needs. We model...

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Climate change: the global public good

Grasso, Marco - EconWPA - 2004

Climate change is the exemplary global public good, because each country’s emissions of greenhouse gases contribute cumulatively to the increase of the overall concentration, and each country’s abatements entail higher cost than benefit, unless effective concerted collective actions take...

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