type="main" xml:id="ajar12029-abs-0001" <p>We estimate source-differentiated wine demand in China using the absolute price version of the Rotterdam demand system. Within the last decade, China has gone from obscurity to an important participant in global wine trade. The continual growth of Chinese...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ajar12062-abs-0001" <p>The payoffs and distribution of payoffs from research and development (R&D) along the food value chain depend on many interacting economic factors. To quantify these, we have developed a general equilibrium model of the Australian economy with detailed...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ajar12034-abs-0001" <p>Nutrient emissions from pastoral agriculture are a global cause of declining water quality. Their management is complicated through variability arising from climate and soil influences. This paper compares the implications of input-based policies and...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ajar12020-abs-0001" <p>Rock lobster fisheries are Australia's most valuable wild fisheries in terms of both value of production and value of exports. Different states harvest and export different lobster species, with most of the landings being sent to the Hong Kong market. A...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ajar12040-abs-0001" <p>This paper examines broadacre farm performance in south-western Australia. This region has experienced pronounced climate variability and volatile commodity prices since the late 1990s. Relationships between productivity and profitability are explored...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ajar12027-abs-0001" <p>We measure the relationship between clean prices of individual lots of wool sold at auction and a range of characteristics of the raw wool. Based on the data for 111,440 fleece lots sold in the 2008–2009 auction season, five hedonic models are estimated...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ajar12021-abs-0001" <p>We analyse the economic implications of climate-driven pressures on the pasture-based dairy sector in Australia. We use an integrated assessment model that includes a climate scenario generator, a climate-biophysical response framework and an economywide...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ajar12049-abs-0001" <p>We examine environmental auctions on working agricultural lands. We organized a discriminatory auction where farmers were asked to make bids on spreading gypsum on their fields to reduce phosphorus loads to surface waters. The parcel-specific bids were...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ajar12023-abs-0001" <p>The land-use optimisation framework, <fi>NZFARM</fi>, has been promoted as a tool that can be used to assess the economic and environmental impacts of policy on regional land use. This paper outlines how methodological limitations presently restrict its capacity to...</p>