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Fish demand patterns in nine Asian countries were investigated using a multistage budgeting framework allowing a … species, sources and cultural responses of consumers, factors that are important in fish demand under the Asian setting …. Specifically, fish demand by income groups were compared to determine how the low- and high-income households respond to price and …
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Wholesale petrol prices were deregulated in August 1998. This paper will quantify the effect associated with the deregulation of wholesale petrol prices on relative retail prices for unleaded petrol in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. This is done through Box–Jenkins autoregressive integrated...
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Australian urban water utilities face a significant challenge in designing appropriate demand management and supply … optimal demand management and supply augmentation policies for urban water. In particular, scarcity pricing is considered as a … potential alternative to the predominant demand management policy of water restrictions. A stochastic dynamic programming model …
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Individual transferable quotas (ITQs) are to be introduced into Australia’s Northern Prawn fishery in the near future. Total allowable catches (TACs) are to be set with the objective of maximising economic efficiency in the fishery. Under ITQs, vessel owners have the ability to adjust their...
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Wheat for food use is conceptualised as an input into flour production and demand is derived from an industry profit … elasticities are estimated for hard red winter, hard red spring, soft red wheat, soft white winter and durum wheat. In general … durum wheat. Substitution elasticities indicate that hard red winter and hard red spring wheat are economic substitutes for …
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The demand for meat has been estimated by many studies utilizing various data and estimation methods. In this study, we … perform a meta-analysis of the income elasticity of meat that involves regressing 3357 estimated income elasticities …, we find significant differences in income elasticities tied to the type of meat being studied, as well as a few …
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markets characterised by imperfect competition, an estimate of the partial elasticity of demand may be of limited practical … structure to affect price transmission and trade elasticities, and challenge the presumption that only government intervention …
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the station level gasoline demand in the cycling market of Perth, Australia. The elasticity estimates confirm that drivers …
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partly as a proxy for functional quality. The purpose of this article is to analyse the demand for wheat delineated by … demand. The results also have implications for analysts modelling wheat trade in that there are many factors impacting market … segments that would not be captured in conventional demand specifications. …
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affect demand for biofuels and have reignited the discussion about effects on food prices. Suppliers in the sugar …
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