Although water markets have been in operation for nearly 30years, previous empirical studies have ignored farmer’s land use response to water trading in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB), Australia. A Nerlovian partial adjustment model of rice and cotton acreage response in the MDB were specified...

This paper empirically investigates optimal intertemporal investment behaviour of farmers in Australia. The dynamic investment model is estimated using pooled crosssectional and time-series farm survey data spanning the period 1979-1993. The model captures intertemporal investment behaviour of...

This paper develops a dynamic optimal intertemporal investment model under the adjustment cost hypothesis to analyse the structure of production and investment in Australia's pastoral zone. The dynamic model is applied to pooled cross-sectional and time-series data obtained from ABARE farm...

This study examines whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) reduces information asymmetry (IA). Using a firm-level CSR dataset of Australian publicly listed firms from 2004 to 2014, we estimate IA models using a fixed-effects panel estimator. We find that CSR performance is negatively...

In this article, we provide new empirical evidence of the association between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and information asymmetry (IA) within the Australian context. Utilising a novel firm-level dataset of Australian publicly listed firms from EIKON and Australian Securities...