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Contingent valuation methods (CVM) are integral in valuating non-market environmental issues. Numerous mechanisms have been proposed and analysed, as well as numerous studies on willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness to accept (WTA) discrepancies. Despite the concentrated and persistent focus...
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This paper presents results of a survey of Western Australian wheat growers designed to elicit perceptions of the impact of protein premiums and discounts for wheat on income, utility and off-farm risk management. The results indicate that a grower’s perception of the scheme’s impact on...
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leads to higher quality of imports, ceteris paribus. This hypothesis was tested on the case of Japanese beef imports from … the United States and Australia. US beef, according to the results of a Gallup’s survey, is considered by consumers in … Japan the high-quality product while Australian beef is considered the low-quality product. Empirical results support the …
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-product farms are also used in the production of final products that are substitutes in demand, such as beef and lamb. Economic … analyses of the beef market, for example, should also include consideration of the market for the related product, lamb. In … industries, beef and lamb, are examined in a Gardner type of model and the effects of excluding consideration of the cross …
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northern beef cattle breeding programs by facilitating crossbreeding via natural service. Focus groups were used in this study …
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Concerns about climate change and the general status of the environment have increased expectation that food products have sustainability credentials, and that these can be verified. There are significant and increasing pressures in key export markets for information on Greenhouse gas (GHG)...
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The economic value of biological collections in three major botanic gardens in Australia was estimated using the Travel-Cost (TC) and Contingent Valuation (CV) methods. The study used truncated count data models to control for the non-negative integer and truncation properties of the number of...
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There is a growing body of evidence in the non-market valuation literature suggesting that responses to a sequence of discrete choice questions tend to violate the assumptions typically made by analysts regarding independence of responses and stability of preferences. Decision processes (or...
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This paper revisits two conventional beliefs of environmental nonmarket valuation and examines their weaknesses and a new opportunity. The two beliefs are that willingness to pay (WTP) is an appropriate measure of non-market behaviour and that exogenous variables are relevant predictors of WTP...
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According to neoclassical economic theory, the only stated preference elicitation format that can feasibly be employed in field studies to which truthful response can be the dominant strategy for all respondents is a single binary choice between the status quo and one alternative. In studies...
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