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The New Zealand meat export industry : structure, conduct and performance
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1978)
Economic management requires that within the economy resources are allocated to achieve maximum efficiency in an overall attempt to promote standards of living.
The objective of this study is to examine efficiency of ...
Stock wintering systems in Southland
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1979)
During the past fifteen years major, changes in the management of livestock have occurred in Southland. The area of forage crops for wintering stock has greatly decreased with the development of low cost wintering systems. ...
A methodology for aggregating industries of input-output models, with application to New Zealand interindustry data
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1978)
Aggregation, as it applies to input-output analysis, is the process of grouping industries of an interindustry model into sectors so as to produce an intersectoral model, which is more manageable in that its dimensions are ...
Trading arrangements and their influence on New Zealand's welfare with particular reference to NAFTA
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1977)
This thesis looks at the estimation of trade creation and trade diversion resulting from a trade agreement, as a means of determining the net gains from bilateral trading agreements.
In particular this study looks at ...
A study of Japan’s protection for selected agricultural commodities in the period between 1972 and 1977
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1979)
This thesis looks at the level of protection afforded to Japan's agricultural industry (selected commodities), with respect to the 'self-sufficiency in foodstuffs' objective and the reliance on imported feedgrains.
Sp ...
A transportation model for the world sugar trade : a spatial analysis
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1978)
This thesis is concerned with efficiency in ocean transportation of sugar. Efficiency in sugar distribution is important in order to help promote and maintain the competitiveness of sucrose sugar in, relation to other ...
Levies on over-entitlement milk as a method of implementing two price quota arrangements in the Australian dairy industry
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1979)
Two price quota arrangements have been recommended by economists since 1960 as a second best method of reducing the social cost of protecting Australia's dairy industry. Recent experience, however, with prolonged deliberation ...
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 management and economic study of farming in the South Island high country : with special reference to property development
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1970)
The high country region represents approximately 20% of the total grazing area of New Zealand, and covers the mountainous inland areas of Marlborough, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland provinces. Although wool is the main ...
A comparison and evaluation of risk and uncertainty techniques for capital projects in the public sector
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1975)
The basic problem facing decision makers is the allocation of scarce resources among competing users. Such decisions mads are usually in the face of an essentially unknown future environment. This thesis is concerned with ...