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The deregulation of New Zealand agriculture : market intervention (1964-84) and free market readjustment (1984-90)
(Western Agricultural Economics Association, 1991-07)
The impacts of deregulation on New Zealand's agricultural sector are examined. Economic liberalization of all sectors of economic activity is the hallmark of current economic policy designs in New Zealand. This is in sharp ...
An analysis of the interdependence of costs and prices and their effects on the agricultural sector
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1976)
In recent years the agricultural sector in New Zealand has been faced with rising input prices and apart from the commodity price booms in the 1973 and 1974 seasons, prices received have been insufficient to maintain an ...
A study of the effects of United Kingdom government possible alternative policies on New Zealand lamb receipts
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1973)
New Zealand depends heavily on the United Kingdom as an outlet for its lamb. At present (December 1972), the United Kingdom is preparing to join the European Economic Community. Although there is no common European policy ...
The influence of natural resource endowments on the economics of high country pastoral farming
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1984)
The study examines how high country pastoral enterprises might have their economic efficiency affected by differences in their land resources. Its approach is to make use of landform-soil classification of high country ...
An analysis of factor costs in the New Zealand meat processing industry
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1984)
This thesis analyses the factor costs of killing and processing sheep and lambs from works gate to ex-works in a New Zealand processing company.
It examines the effect of throughput numbers on these factor costs using ...
The effect of higher energy costs on New Zealand beef producers' exports to United States
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1980)
In this thesis the energy intensity of marginal New Zealand and United States beef production is estimated and the effect of any difference on New Zealand beef producers' exports to the United States is analysed.
After ...
Analysis of the price and availability of New Zealand wools according to their textile properties
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1985)
Models have been developed and tested to analyse the variation in wool prices and to show availability patterns for New Zealand wools in terms of the textile properties of the wools.
New Zealand Wool Board (NZWB) auction ...
Vector space analysis of the New Zealand Wool Board's auction data
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1989)
A geometric field approach is used to represent technical specification, availability and relative price of the New Zealand Wool Board's sales records. The parameters of price and quantity form scalar fields in the vector ...
New Zealand’s price elasticity of export demand
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1989)
One of the major justifications for continuing high levels of trade policy intervention in New Zealand derives from a view that the aggregate elasticity of export demand facing New Zealand is sufficiently inelastic to ...
A linear programming study of the supply of store beef cattle from hill country farms
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1968)
Within the general area of aggregate New Zealand beef supply, the supply of store cattle and associated beef products from beef breeding farms on a certain class of North Island hill country was chosen as the object of ...