type="main" xml:id="ajar12051-abs-0001" <p>A recent paper by Doole and Marsh (2013), questioned the validity of using the New Zealand Forest and Agriculture Regional Model (NZFARM) for New Zealand agri-environmental policy analysis. We respond to their critique by clearly describing the model...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ajar12015-abs-0001" <p>Spikes in international food prices in 2007–2008 worsened poverty incidence in Indonesia, both rural and urban, but only by small amounts. The paper reaches this conclusion using a multisectoral and multihousehold general equilibrium model of the...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ajar12042-abs-0001" <p>The Australian Government's White Paper ‘Australia in the Asian Century’ is the first large-scale official look in the twenty-first century at economic change in Asia and how it affects Australian opportunities and challenges. This paper comments on...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ajar12024-abs-0001" <p>Nonpoint-source water pollution is frequently considered intractable because it is hard to regulate large numbers of small sources and because the science associated with assessing the impact of each source is complex. New Zealand has demonstrated that it...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ajar620-abs-0001" <p>Many studies quantifying individual risk preferences of test persons show that results of different measuring methods may vary. Additional reservations about the reliability of the results regarding the risk attitude measurement arise from the fact that most...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ajar12033-abs-0001" <p>With asymmetric information, consumers need to rely on the reputation of wine to define quality before the purchasing. Amongst the tools available for underlining reputation, geographic location is considered to offer high potential. Today, some wines...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ajar12064-abs-0001" <p>This paper examines the effect of individual transferable quota regimes on technology choice, such as choice of vessel size, by using the laboratory experiment method. We find that even if vessel sizes change over time, the quota price can converge to the...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ajar12026-abs-0001" <p>Existing approaches to the meta-frontier estimation consist of two stages where the estimates of the local frontier parameters obtained in the first step are used to estimate meta-frontier parameters by means of a linear or quadratic minimisation procedure...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ajar12059-abs-0001" <p>The wine market has evolved dramatically over the last three decades. The premium wine segment has expanded significantly to the detriment of basic wines. Nevertheless, in traditional wine producing and consuming countries, inexpensive wines still account...</p>