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Regional income and employment impacts of farming and forestry in the Mackenzie / Waitaki Basin
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit., 1997-03)
This research report documents the likely economic impacts (on regional income and employment) of a change in Mackenzie Basin land use from farming to forestry.
Changing export markets for New Zealand sheepmeat, 1983 - 1991
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit., 1992-08)
Markets for New Zealand's sheepmeat products, particularly for lamb, are dynamic and changing. In this study, markets for lamb which have been growing in the recent past and which might reasonably be expected to continue ...
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 ...
New Zealand agricultural policy change: some effects
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit., 1993-07)
The New Zealand agricultural sector has over most of its history been seen as the backbone of the New Zealand economy and has also been the subject of a varying range of influences caused by the implementation of various ...
History of the New Zealand Milk Board : a study of the corporatist alliance between the state and the domestic milk sector
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit., 1992-08)
Although the history of the Milk Board is documented in this report from its conception as the Central Milk Council in 1944 until its dissolution in 1988, there has been no attempt at a definitive historical narrative. The ...
Operation analysis of cane harvest and transport in Barbados
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1980)
The survival of the Barbados economy is largely dependent on the foreign exchange received from the export of sugar; therefore, it is important that the sugar industry operate in an efficient and productive manner. Economic ...
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 ...
An analysis of the world sheepmeat market : implications for policy
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1982)
Notable structural changes have taken place in the world sheepmeat market over the 1960-80 period. Imports into the major consuming countries of the EEC are declining as a result of changing tastes, higher import barriers ...