Northern Australia has changed rapidly over the past 10 to 20 years with its regional economies becoming increasingly internationally connected. There have been many gains to the Australian economy through the development and investment opportunities which have presented themselves in this...

The Australian banana industry is an example where neither the time series data necessary for estimating grower responses nor the detailed cross sectional data on individual inputs are readily available to enable econometric estimation of producer response to price or cost changes. In this paper...