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Cultural models of GE agriculture in the United States (Georgia) and New Zealand (Canterbury)
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit., 2008-07)
The goal of this research was to assess why genetic engineering (GE) agricultural technology was embraced in some industrialized nations (United States) while it evokes extreme concern and aversion in others (New Zealand).
GE ...
Factors affecting the demand for meat in New Zealand
(Lincoln University, 2001)
Since the late 1970s, New Zealand red meat consumption has declined considerably whereas white meat consumption has gradually increased. The purpose of this research is to determine whether there has been a structural ...
The determinants of FDI and FPI in Thailand: a Gravity Model analysis
(Lincoln University, 2008)
Thailand has been one of significant recipients of foreign direct investment (FDI) among developing countries over the last 30 years, and has recorded rapid and sustained growth rates in a number of different industrial ...
CSI Lincoln: an investigation into a declining housing market
(Pacific Rim Real Estate Society., 2009-01)
The residential property market in New Zealand has been experiencing a boom and bubble period from 2001 through to mid 2007. Following a number of increases in the Official Cash Rate by the Reserve Bank and a decline in ...
Scope sensitivity in households' willingness to pay for maintained and improved water supplies in Mexico City: investigating the influence of baseline supply quality and distribution upon stated preferences
(Lincoln University. Commerce Division., 2006-09)
We present the first assessment of willingness to pay (WTP) for water supply change to be conducted in the largest city in the developing world; Mexico City. Two large sample contingent valuation surveys are conducted to ...
Incentive compatibility and procedural invariance testing of the one-and-one half-bound dichotomous choice elicitation method: distinguishing strategic behaviour from the anchoring heuristic
(Lincoln University. Commerce Division., 2006-09)
The contingent valuation method for estimating willingness to pay for public goods typically adopts a single referendum question format which is statistically inefficient. As an alternative,
Cooper, Hanemann and Signorello ...
The aggregation of environmental benefit values: welfare measures, distance decay and total WTP
(Lincoln University. Commerce Division., 2006-09)
We review the literature regarding the aggregation of benefit value estimates for non-market goods. Two case studies are presented through which we develop an approach to aggregation which applies the spatial analytic ...
Yield-relevant tourist decision making: technical background report
(Lincoln University. Faculty of Environment, Society and Design., 2009-08)
This report presents findings from Objective 2 of the FRST funded research programme titled: Enhancing the Spatial Dimensions of Tourism Yield. The overall aim of the
programme is to examine tourism yield from a demand ...
Papers presented at the New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (Inc.) eighth Annual Conference : "New Zealand, the international citizen?" : incorporating the 26th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Branch of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (Inc.) : Blenheim Country Lodge, July 2002.
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, 2002-07)
The main themes for this Conference are: Trade, Green House Gases and Kyoto Protocol, Clean and Green, Industry, Dairy Sector, Developing Quality Rural Information Systems, Water, Environmental Taxes, and Biosecurity and ...
A comparative study of the sources of competitive advantage in the New Zealand and Uruguayan beef industries
(Lincoln University, 2003)
According to Porter (1990), there are certain characteristics of a country that allow its
industries to create and sustain competitive advantage, or prevent them from doing so.
The objective of this study was to identify ...