Recent low estimates of total factor productivity change for wool producers in the Australian sheep industry indicate that they are struggling to improve their performance. This evidence is at odds with the views of many technical observers of industry performance, prompting us to re-estimate...

Agriculture is in the business of using ecosystem services to produce food. Examining how agro-ecosystems function provides useful insights into the economics of agriculture. Of special interest are the presence and nature of scale effects, complementarity effects and convexity effects in...

This paper develops a theoretical model to examine the relationship between the input elasticity of (technical) substitution and both farm total factor productivity and size. In the presence of ongoing technical change and its factor bias, the ‘income effect’ arising from farms’ cost...

In this paper multifactor productivity of the Australian metals mining industry is analysed for the years 1969-70 to 1993-94. Particular attention is paid to account for changing capacity utilization and for returns to scale in the industry, using a cost-theory based approach. The translog cost...

The total factor productivity indexes of five key Commonwealth fisheries have been developed using the Fisher index and ABARES survey data. Where fish stock biomass information is available, these indexes are also adjusted for changes in fish stocks. In trend terms, productivity increased over...

Sultana is among the most important products in Turkish economy in terms of being a principal export crop and many producers’ occupations. Although sultana’s share in export is high, Turkey aims having a sustainable place in the international competition. In this framework; common attitude...