In this article we model production technology in a state-contingent framework. Our model analyzes production under uncertainty without regard to the nature of producer risk preferences. In our model producers? risk preferences are captured by the risk-neutral probabilities they assign to the...

The idea of using ?fat taxes? to curb obesity rates has been raised by many. In particular, the idea of taxing sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has received considerable attention in the United States and has recently been discussed by President Obama. Rather less attention has been given to the...

A number of major policy documents and academic research have informed a renewed push in recent years to develop northern Australia, which comprises all of the Northern Territory and those parts of Western Australia and Queensland above the Tropic of Capricorn (the ‘north’). Recent debate...

This chapter considers water reform in the context of resources industries particularly coal seam gas (CSG) and mining in Queensland, Australia and Wyoming, USA. We start with federal level guidance relating to governance of water in the CSG and mining resources industries then focus on reform...

Disturbance to groundwater systems by the Coal Seam Gas industry pose a potential threat to irrigators particularly in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia. Analysing legislation from several different perspectives, including that of CSG mining and water rights, finds that the regulatory...