Photos from the 44th AARES Conference in Sydney are available here.

 

Plenary and Invited Papers

 

Below is a list of invited papers, with links to those available online (in PDF format unless otherwise noted).

 

Keynote Address

 

Professor Oliver Williamson, University of California, Berkeley, USA

The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead

 

Abstract: R.C.O. Matthews, in his presidential address to the Royal Economics Society in 1986 pronounced that "the economics of institutions has become one of the liveliest areas in our discipline." The NIE has grown in stature and influence over the thirteen years since the pronouncement. This paper sketches some of the developments. It begins with four levels of social analysis: the background conditions of embeddedness; the institutional environment or rules of the game; the institutions of governance of play of the game; and resource allocation or orthodoxy. Some of the key ideas out of which the NIE works are then described. These include; a more veridical description of human actors; and emphasis, always and everywhere, on feasible over hypothetical modes of organisation; a reconceptualisation of the firm as a governance structure; and an insistence on refutable implications. The paper concludes with an examination of ‘full formalism’ and Russian economic reform.

 

Presidential Address

 

Dr Garry Griffith, NSW Agriculture

Competition in the Food Marketing Chain

 

Allan Lloyd Address

 

Professor Richard Shumway, Washington State University, USA

Does Consistent Aggregation Really Matter?

 

Invited Speaker Session on "Agri-environmental Policies Around the World: Past Trends and Prospects"

 

Dr Uwe Latacz-Lohmann, Wye College, UK	European agri-environmental policy facing the 21st century
Dr Laura McCann, University of Western Australia	Evolution of agri-environmental policy in the United States
Dr Mike Young, CSIRO	First or second best solutions? Looking back on Australasian agri-environmental policy from 2020

 

Invited Speaker Session on "Biotechnology and agriculture: Economic and scientific directions"

 

Dr Chris Mallett, CSIRO	The science and commerce of bio technology
Professor Bob Lindner, University of Western Australia	The future for Frankenstein foods

 

Invited Speaker Session on "The new WTO round: What’s in it for Australia?"

 

Professor Dan Sumner, University of California, Davis, USA	Trade barriers, subsidies and international negotiations: Why the WTO should focus on the border
Dr Brian Fisher, ABARE	Increasing benefits to Australia from WTO agricultural trade liberalisation

 

Invited Speaker Session on "Management of resources on farms"

 

Associate Professor Bill Malcolm, University of Melbourne	The farm management method: a few disciplines, a few dimensions, a few figurings, a few futures
Professor Alfons Weersink, University of Guelph, Canada	Farm level modelling for bigger issues

 

Contributed Papers

 

Below is a list of contributed papers (in alphabetical order by authors surname). Copies of the full papers may be obtained by email to the AARES Office Manager.

 

Rick Ada	Direct Supply Relationships with Japanese Consumer Co-operatives - A Market Opportunity
Frank W. Agbola	Estimating The Demand For Food And Non-Food Items Using An Almost Ideal Demand System Modelling Approach
Frank W. Agbola, Martin J.M. Bent, Tim G. Kelley, and P. Parthasarathy Rao	Promotion In The Indian Chickpea Market
C. Alexander, R. Goodhue, and G. Rausser	Do incentives matter? Product quality and contract incentives in processing tomatoes
Emmanuelle Auriol and Steven G.M. Schilizzi	Quality Signaling through Certication
Emmanuelle Auriol, Jean-Baptiste Lesourd, and Steven G.M. Schilizzi	Quality Signaling through Certification with an application to seed certification
Rodney Beard	Spatial Replicator Dynamics as a Model of Agricultural Technology Adoption
Rodney Beard	A Numerical Stochastic Control model of Range Management
Rodney Beard	Optimal Fertilizer Carryover and von Liebigs Law of the Minimum
U.N. Bhati	ANU Forestry Market Report Project
Keith Bramma	Pricing farm loans for credit risk
John P. Brennan, Rajinder Pal Singh and Adam Bialowas	Economic Potential for Nutritional Improvement in Feed Grains
Lisa Brennan	Redefining economic efficiency using a case study of sugarcane harvest-transport systems: A job for pluralist thinking
Lisa Brennan et al.	DAM EA$Y: A Framework for Assessing the Costs and Benefits of On-Farm Storage Based Sugarcane Production Systems
M. Burton, S. Marsh, and J. Paterson	Community attitudes towards water management in the Moore Catchment, WA
A. Carter, J. Crean, and R.T. Young	Assessing The On-Farm Impacts Of Groundwater Reallocation Policies In The Namoi Valley
Sue M. Cassells, Anton D. Meister, and Allan N. Rae	The Cost and Trade Impacts of Environmental Regulations: Effluent Control and the New Zealand Dairy Sector
Maria Luz N. Centeno	Deforestation in the Philippines: A CGE Modelling Approach
R. Challen and V. Cook	Industry Versus Government Control of Quality Standards in the South Australian Dried Fruit Industry
Hui-Shung (Christie) Chang	Stability of price premiums for wool
Duangkamon Chotikapanich and Willieam E. Griffiths	Flexible Distributed Lags
David Cook	An Economic Evaluation of the Benefits from Import Clearance Activities in Western Australia
Basanta R. Dhungana, Peter L. Nuthall, and Gilbert V. Nartea	Explaining Economic Inefficiency Of Nepalese Rice Farms: An Empirical Investigation
Callum Eastwood, Michael Krausse, Robert R. Alexander	Muddied Waters: Estimating the national economic cost of soil erosion and sedimentation in New Zealand
Geoff Edwards	A Tale Of Two States: Deregulation Of The Dairy Industry In Nsw And Victoria
R.J. Farquharson and J.F. Scott	Analysis of Farming Systems Issues in the Northern Cropping Region of NSW
R.J. Farquharson, O.J. Cacho, and J.E. Turpin	Agricultural response analysis in a longer term framework
Rod Forbes and Robin Johnson	Recent Trends in New Zealand Agricultural Productivity and its Measurement
Rob Fraser	An Economic Risk Assessment of the Impact on Producers of Removing Quarantine Restrictions
Jyothi Gali, Carole Tate, and Mark O’Sullivan	Structural Analysis Of Agriculture: A Methodological Perspective
V. Jyothi Gali and Colin Brown	Analysis Of Integration Between Queensland Feed And Malting Barley Markets
Gaminda Ganewatta and G.W. Edwards	The Sri Lanka Tea Industry: Economic Issues and Government Policies
Konstantinos Giannakas	The (Normative) Efficiency Ranking of Output and Export Subsidies under Costly and Imperfect Enforcement
David Godden	Elegy, ode or panegyric: Australian agricultural economics in the last quarter of the twentieth century
D. Godden and J. Brennan	Policy Influences on Genetic Diversity and Yield Variability in Australian Wheat Production
R. Goodhue and L. Simon	Input control and information asymmetry
Romy Greiner	The Northern Myth revisited: A resource economics research response to renewed interest in the agricultural development of the Kimberley region
Garry Griffith	Competition in the food marketing chain
Oliver Gyles, Cynthia Mahoney, Stuart Brown, and Ian Gibb	Perspectives for Decision Support Systems: Irrigated Dairy Production in the Murray region
Péter Halmai and László Velikovszky	Possibilities And Limits To The Liberalisation Of International Agricultural Trade In The Wto Millenium Round (Special Attention To The Transitory Economies)
Amanda Hamilton, Malcolm Wegener, Peter Dart, and Bill Silvey	Life cycle assessment of milk production systems in south Queensland
Robyn Hean, Oscar Cacho, Anthony Signor, and John Mullen	The Potential Role of Farm Forestry in the Wheat-Sheep Zone of NSW
Greg Hertzler	The Precautionary Principle in Practice: How to Write a Call Option on the Environment
Debbie Hill, Chris O’Donnell, Roley Piggott, and Garry Griffith	The Dual Approach to Research Evaluation: A Simplified Empirical Illustration
Jing-Shing Ho and Chu-Jen Chen	The Images of Integrated Fresh Pork Retailing Centers and Its Influence to Consumers' Behavior in Taiwan
Ziaul Hoque, Bob Farquharson, Martin Dillon, and Greg Kauter	An economic assessment of Insecticide Resistance Management strategies in the Australian Cotton Industry
Jane Lu Hsu	Gradual Switching Structural Changes of Meat Consumption in Taiwan
Jane Lu Hsu and Jyh-Luen Su	Dynamic Analyses of Major Fruit Markets in Taiwan
Maradoli Hutasuhut, Chris O’Donnell, Christy Chang, Garry Griffith, and Howard Doran	The Demand for Meats in Indonesia: A Censored Regression Approach
Twan Huybers and Jeff Bennett	Cooperation And Competition In Tropical North Queensland’s Nature-Based Tourism Industry
Jennifer James	Quality Responses to Agricultural Policies
Jennifer James	Taxes and quality: Theoretical results from a market level analysis
Sallie James	An economic analysis of food safety issues following the SPS Agreement: Lessons from the Hormones dispute
Ian Jarratt and Mary Ann Franco-Dixon	Queensland’s Producer Representative Bodies: Challenges and Changes
Robin Johnson	Rates of Return on New Zealand R&D
Randall Jones and Oscar Cacho	A Dynamic Optimisation Model of Weed Control
Ross Kingwell	Incentive Design for Introducing Genetically Modified Crops
Wirat Krasachat	Production Structure and Technical Change in Thai Agriculture, 1972-1994
Uwe Latacz-Lohmann	European agri-environmental policy facing the 21st century
Tzong-Ru Lee	The Application of Decision Support System to Forecast the Yield of Agricultural Products in Taiwan
Robert Lindner	The future for Frankenstein foods
Sarah Lindsay and Richard Damania	Valuing New Zealand Recreational Fishing: An Assessment of the Validity of Contingent Valuation Methodology
Gordon MacAulay	Competition Policy in Agriculture: A Review of Methods
Gordon MacAulay and Greg Hertzler	Livestock Dynamics: An Old Problem and Some New Tools
Gordon MacAulay and Greg Hertzler	Modelling Farm Households in a Spatial Context: Vietnamese Agriculture
Bill Malcolm	The farm management method: a few disciplines, a few dimensions, a few figurings, a few futures
Sally P. Marsh, Michael P. Burton, and David J. Pannell	Explaining farmers’ monitoring of sustainability indicators: a bore-ing example for salinity in Western Australia
Graham R. Marshall	Voluntary Cooperation in the Commons? Evidence from a Survey of Farmers in the Murray Region’s Land and Water Management Planning Districts
Ryan McAllister, R. Beard, and J. Asufa-Adjaye	An optimal control model of deforestation in the PDR of Laos
Laura McCann	Evolution of agri-environmental policy in the United States
Jill J. McCluskey	A Game Theoretic Approach to Organic Foods: An Analysis of Asymmetric Information and Policy
M. Monjardino, D.J. Pannell, and S. Powles	The Value of Green Manuring in the Integrated Management of Herbicide-Resistant Annual Ryegrass (Lolium rigidum)
J.D. Mullen, K.R. Helyar, and P. Pagan	Economic and Biological Perspectives on Off-site Effects Associated with Soil Acidification
Laurel Myers	The Role Of Economists In Formulating Australian Agricultural Policy In The 1950s
T. Nordblom and R.W. Medd	Whole Truth in Herbicide Labelling
Doreen Odom, G.R. Griffith, and J.A. Sinden	Economic Issues Relating To Weed Management In Natural Ecosystems: The Case Of Scotch Broom On Barrington Tops, NSW
Chris O'Donnell	Estimating The Characteristics Of Homogeneous Functions Using Flexible Functional Forms
Eric Omuru and Ross Kingwell	Research Priority-Setting In Papua New Guinea: Policies, Methods And Practicalities
David J. Pannell, Donald J. McFarlane, and Ruhi Ferdowsian	Rethinking the Externality Issue for Dryland Salinity in Western Australia
D.A. Patton, P.L. Milthorpe, M. Wynne, and B.M. Honeysett	Evaluation of forage shrub plantations as a drought preparedness strategy for landholders in the Central-west of NSW
Liz Petersen and Rob Fraser	Grower perceptions of the impact of protein premiums and discounts for wheat
Jackie Robinson	Does MODSS offer an alternative to traditional approaches to natural resource management decision making?
John Rolfe and Jeff Bennett	Testing for Framing Effects in Environmental Choice Modelling
John Rolfe and Peter Donaghy	Welfare Benefits: the changing face of the Queensland beef industry
Glenn Ronan and Gordon Cleary	Best Practice Benchmarking in Australian Agriculture: Issues and Challenges
Steven G.M. Schilizzi	The economics of ethical behaviour and environmental management
A.K. Shamsuddoha and Geoff Edwards	Dairy Industry in Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects
Richard Shumway	Does consistent aggregation really matter?
D. Silva	An Empirical Assessment of the ‘International Competitiveness’ of the Australian Processed Food Industry
M. Smale, E. Meng, J.P. Brennan, and R. Hu	Using Ecological Indices and Economics to Explain Diversity in a Wheat Crop: Examples from Australia and China
Gary Stoneham, Loris Strappazzon, James Soligo, Bill Fisher, Mark Eigenraam, and Rukman Wimalasuriya	Evaluation Of Research Activities
Wei-Ming Tian, Zhang-Yue Zhou, and Yi-Ying Cao	Changing Patterns of Wheat Production and Consumption in China: Trade Implications
M.S. van Bueren, D.J. Pannell, and G. Hodgson	Mapping the regional benefits and costs of strategies for controlling dryland salinity
László Velikovszky and Péter Halmai	Agricultural Market Impacts Of The Adaptation Of EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (Special Attention To The Case Of Hungary)
Scott Waldron and Colin Brown	Reconciling industry policy and comparative advantage: the regional distribution of China’s cattle and beef industry
S. Webster and J. Mullen	Animal Disease Economics: The Case of Ovine Johne’s Disease in New South Wales
M.K. Wegener, J.N. Tullberg, and L.E. Pearson	Introduction of conservation tillage methods into dryland graingrowing districts in Shanxi Province, PRC
Stuart Whitten and Jeff Bennett	Towards a bio-economic model of wetland protection on private lands
Rukman Wimalasuriya and Mark Eigenraam	Transferring Paddock Histories to Optimise Crop Rotations Using LP: a New, Unrestricted Approach
Glyn Wittwer	The Sensitivity Of Wine Industry Outcomes To Model Assumptions In GST Scenarios
Yasutaka Yamamoto	The Cost Efficiency of Dairy Farms in Japan
Mike Young	First or second best solutions? Looking back on Australasian agri-environmental policy from 2020
Lin Zhang and Ellen Goddard	Advertising and Australian Pig Producers Welfare
Xueyan Zhao, Garry Griffith, and John Mullen	Returns to New Technologies in the Australian Beef Industry: On-farm Research versus Off-farm Research
Zhang-Yue Zhou, and Vasant P. Gandhi	Public Food Distribution System and Food Security of the Poor: The Indian and Chinese Experience Compared

 

Pre-conference Workshop

 

Dynamic Programming: All You Need to Know

 

 

The types of problem that can be solved by dynamic programming (DP) will be discussed, and solution methods outlined. A Windows-based general-purpose software package (GPDPvb) will be introduced. Participants will learn how to use the package to solve a range of example problems drawn for John’s book Dynamic Programming: Applications to Agriculture and Natural Resources. A bound photocopy of the book will be made available to participants registering by 7 January. All participants will be able to make copies of the software. The workshop will conclude with a forum giving the opportunity to discuss experiences in using DP, and prospects for future applications.