We consider the limitations of optimisation analyses that ignore farm-level financial risks arising from combinations of high fixed costs, including debt burdens and highly variable local weather and prices. A sequential multivariate analysis method is used to compute cumulative distribution...

A 12-year experiment designed to show the benefits of applying lime to acid soils when growing annual pasture, perennial pasture, and annual crops in rotations with annual or perennial pastures, provides the context for comparing methods of economic analysis. In this study enterprise gross...

This study analyses the financial risk faced by representative mixed-enterprise farm businesses in four regions of south-eastern Australia. It uses discrete stochastic programming to optimise the ten-year cash flow margins produced by these farms, operating three alternative farming systems....

Relatively little attention has been paid to the problem of premature adult mortality in developing countries, despite high levels of mortality in many countries - and despite the potentially severe social and economic consequences of adult deaths. Circulatory diseases and external causes appear...

After the removal of no surcharging rules, average credit card interchange fees in Australia were cut almost in half in 2003 as part of a suite of credit card industry reforms, aimed at reducing the relative attractiveness of credit card use. This paper tests whether the reforms are associated...

This report looks at some of the methodological considerations in valuing the benefits of broadband. It has a particular focus on these considerations in the context of the planned National Broadband Network (NBN) project in Australia and in the context of any social cost benefit analysis of the...