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(Links to papers are included in the below program where available)

SESSION A        
  Room Lake Superior Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Hakone Lake Nyanza Lake Geneva Lake Titicaca
  No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
  Theme Climate change - ETS Water trading Environment and agriculture Livestock Public policy Trade policy Regulation and policy
  Chair Deborah Peterson Scott Keyworth CSIRO WFHC Al Watson Henry Haszler Bill Malcolm Greg Cutbush Bob Lindner
1 10.30 Restiani Young Fraser Umberger Caputo Wainio Ronan
    Sanction Design in Emissions Trading Programs Water Trading in the MDBC: How well is the market functioning Land Heterogeneity, Agricultural Income Forgone and Environmental Benefit: An Assessment of Incentive Compatibility Problems in Environmental Stewardship Schemes Korean Consumers' Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Australian versus U.S. Beef: A Choice Experiment The influence of public policy on the minerals sector: A case study of South Australian exploration initiatives Tariff Escalation in the Doha Talks – Bringing the Issue to Resolution The New Australian Government's Primary Industries Policies: Some Implications and Opportunities
2 11.00 Betz Singh Duncan Trapnell Townsend Vanzetti Gray
    Auctioning greenhouse gas emissions permits: How should the auction be designed?   Water Trading within NSW Irrigation Industry: An Empirical Evaluation of Scale, Reasons and Attitudes Using Environmental Offsets in Wetlands Management The net benefits from growing lucerne in the Broken Plains area of north-eastern Victoria. Policy options for an internationally-competitive forestry plantation sector in Australia   Do Sensitive Products Undermine Ambition? Uncertainty aversion in Australian regulation of agricultural biotechnology  
3 11.30 Sanderson Crase Gillespie Mounter Templeton MacLaren Farida
    Optimal coverage of installations in a Carbon Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) A comment on the benefits of inter-jurisdictional water trade: The case of the ACT Agricultural production and the environment: conflict or synergy? Selecting for fibre diameter and fleece weight: A market-level assessment of the QPLU$ Merino breeding project Economic Impact Assessment of a Change in Pesticide Regulatory Policy in the Philippines Measuring assistance to Australia's agricultural industry using a Trade Restrictiveness Index The Impact of Corruption on Economic Growth in Lebanon
4 12.00 Reedman Withdrawn Graham Villano Antony Lee Withdrawn
    Emissions Trading and the Convergence of the Australian Electricity and Transport Markets Withdrawn Biophysical Modelling and Performance Measurement Measuring Regional Productivity Differences in the Australian Wool Industry: A Metafrontier Approach Sugarcane smut: the political economy of biosecurity Consequences of Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and It's Impacts on Korea's Agriculture Withdrawn

SESSION B        
  Room Lake Superior Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Hakone Lake Nyanza Lake Geneva Lake Titicaca
  No. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
  Theme Climate change - distributional issues Water - urban Environmental management Cropping Markets and prices Indonesia Education and planning
  Chair John Quiggin David Pearce CIE Suzie Kerr GRDC Rob Fraser Euan Fleming Roger Mauldon
1 1.30 Jotzo Xayavong Nedanovski Farquharson Morales Chalil Wegener
    Climate change after Bali Estimating Urban Residential Water-Demand With Increasing Block Prices: The Case of Perth, Western Australia  The use of economic instruments in transitional circumstances as a tool for sustainable environmental policy: a case study of Macedonian path to meet globalization challenges Upland Crop Technologies in Cambodia: Economic Evaluations and Some Likely Prospects Promoting new products and brands as innovation in the Australian beef marketing system Market power and subsidies in the Indonesian palm oil industry An analysis of the structure and stability of AARES membership, 2004-2007
2 2.00 Gillespie Brennan Windle Kingwell Hufton Supriana Myers
    Economics of Global Warming Desalination, climate change and Hanrahan's lament Tendering for water quality improvements in agriculture: Lessons from the dairy and horticulture industries in the Burnett Mary region, Queensland  Climate Change Impacts on Investment in Crop Sowing Machinery The influence of weight and fat on lamb prices revisited Impact of Structural Shock on the Indonesian Macroeconomic Fluctuations: A Business Cycle Analysis from the Demand Side Professionalisation of Australian Agricultural Economics: 1920-1970
3 2.30 Freebairn O'Keefe Cullen Wimalasuriya Esmaeili Resosudarmo Sidiropoulos
    Some Distributional Issues in the Design of Climate Change Policy Equity considerations in urban water pricing Relative cost effectiveness of yellow-eyed penguin conservation measures Rainfall Variability and its Impact on Broadacre Agriculture and Dairying in Victoria Price Transmission in Iranian Meat Market Training & Visit System vs. Farmer Field School: The Indonesian Experiences  The economic impacts of regional universities: the case of Central Queensland University
4 3.00 Yusuf Hughes Withdrawn Wegener Schamel Oktaviani Withdrawn
    On the Distributional Effect of Carbon Tax in Developing Countries: The Case of Indonesia  Urban water management: optimal price and investment policy under uncertainty Withdrawn An analysis of village garden management in the Papua-New Guinea Highlands The Impact of Outside Information in Online Auctions Technical change and income distribution in Indonesia: A general equilibrium analysis Withdrawn

SESSION C      
  Room Lake Superior Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Hakone Lake Nyanza Lake Geneva Lake Titicaca
  No. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
  Theme Climate change impacts Water - allocation Choice Modelling Agricultural productivity Risk management Fisheries management R&D 1
  Chair Al Johnston PC Geoff Edwards Bob Farquharson DPI NSW John Mullen Greg Hertzler Glenn Hurry, AFMA Romy Greiner
1 8.30 Kaczan Wagner Rolfe Nguyen Hardaker Lindner Orr
    How much will you pay to slow climate change? An exploration of demographic determinants of willingness to pay  Opportunity costs from restoring environmental flows to the Snowy River Using Choice Modelling and Choice Behaviour methods to assess community development options Multi-Output Broadacre Agricultural Production: Estimating A Cost Function Using Quasi-Micro Farm Level Data From Australia  Risk in Public Policy Making: A Neglected Issue in Australia Challenges for Integrated Fishery Management Returns to Investment in IPM Research by NSW DPI
2 9.00 Kerr Qureshi Hertzler Farrell Jayasuriya Gale Carrigan
    Agriculture and Greenhouse Gases: Designing and Simulating Mitigation Policies in New Zealand Determining value of irrigation water in the Murray Basin   Dynamic Choice Modelling An economic evaluation of conservation farming practices for the Central West of NSW.  A bioeconomic model for determining the optimal response to a new weed incursion in a cropping system Understanding the performance of Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs): Application to rock lobster and abalone fisheries in New South Wales  Evaluating RD&E: Practical insights from the Queensland DPI&F experience
3 9.30 Cacho Bari Newcombe Hailu Greiner Yamazaki Alston
    Carbon markets, transaction costs and bioenergy Monitoring Economic and Social Changes within NSW Water Sharing Plan Areas: A Participatory Approach  Market Research versus Economics: Alternative Approaches to Choice Modelling in the Victorian Water Sector'  A Luenberger Soil Quality Indicator The role of grazier motivations and risk attitudes in the adoption of best management practices  Marine Reserve Switching under Uncertainty Research Benefits in a Third-Best Setting: Is U.S. Biofuels Research Worth the Candle?
4 12.00 Wise Withdrawn Bennett Jones Samarasinghe Grafton Huelgas
    Dynamic bioeconomic meta-modelling for the optimal management of Indonesian tree-crop systems as carbon sinks     Withdrawn Analysing options for the Murray River Red Gum Forests The on-farm impact of alternative grazing management options to improve sustainability in western Chinese grasslands Flood Prone Risk and Amenity Values: A Spatial Hedonic Analysis The Economics of Overexploitation Revisited 3 Reductions, 3 Gains (3R3G) Technology: Searching for evidence of economic impact 

SESSION D      
  Room Lake Superior Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Hakone Lake Nyanza Lake Geneva Lake Titicaca
  No. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
  Theme Salinity Water quality Market based instruments Vacant Markets Fisheries, species specific R&D 2
  Chair David Pannell Stuart Pearson LWA Jeff Bennett Vacant Philip Pardy Mary Lack John Freebairn
1 1.30 Nordblom Lock Heath Withdrawn Meade East Madzivhandila
    Developing environmental service policy for salinity and water: experiments with regulations and markets linking watersheds with downstream users Setting Targets in a Nutrient Trading System for Lake Rotorua Designer Carrots: Market-based instruments for NRM change Withdrawn The effect of industry structure and institutional arrangements on growth and innovation in New Zealand agricultural sector Invasive fish - potential impacts of the Asian Climbing Perch on Queensland Continuous Improvement and Innovation (CI&I) as an approach to effective research and development: A Trident evaluation of the Beef Profit Partnerships (BPP) project
2 2.00 Finlayson Schrobback Morrison Withdrawn Armbruster Wood Kutschukian
    A bio-economic analysis of salinity management options at Simmons Creek The return from salinity mitigation for the Murray Darling Basin Encouraging Participation in Market Based Instruments and Incentive Programs   Withdrawn Supply Chains and Rural Development in the Asia Pacific Region Timely estimation of economic performance indicators: A case study of the northern prawn fishery The Economic Evaluation of Environmental Scientific Research 
3 2.30 Black Greenhalgh Rolfe Withdrawn Williams Marsh Binenbaum
    Priority setting and dryland salinity: the conversion of principles into policy and practice for Western Australia's Salinity Investment Framework.  Water quality trading programs: Differences between the Northern and Southern Hemisphere Conservation auctions: dealing with scope and scale issues in metric design Withdrawn Australian wheat grower decision-making in marketing and pricing/hedging Shared Fisheries: Results from an investigation into the value of the recreational and commercial catch in a New Zealand Quota Management Area.  Has the Return on Australian Public Investment in Agricultural Research Changed?
4 3.00 Liem Withdrawn Schilizzi Withdrawn Piggott Wadud Burton
    Measuring Environmental Performance of Irrigated Cotton Enterprises Withdrawn Are quantity-based auctions more resistant to learning than price-based auctions? Withdrawn Measuring Pre-Commited Quantities through Consumer Price Formation Efficiency Performance of Shrimp Farms in Bangladesh: A Comparison of Parametric and Nonparametric Approach Latent exogenous variables in non-linear models: prospects for biased and inconsistent estimates in adoption and valuation studies 

SESSION E      
  Room Lake Superior Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Hakone Lake Nyanza Lake Geneva Lake Titicaca
  No. 29 30 31 32 33 34 35
  Theme Conservation and environment Water efficiency Conservation, auctions Farm efficiency Invasive species Ag Development Research Evaluation
  Chair Sue O'Keefe Ejaz Qureshi Ross Kingwell Jeff Davis Brian Hardaker Simon Hearn ACIAR Glenn Ronan
1 8.30 Burke Williamson Reeson Fleming Gong Pham Rolfe
    The theory and empirics of the environmental Kuznets curve Structuring Exotic Options Contracts to Facilitate the Efficient Allocation of Australia's Water Resources Designing auctions for conservation corridors - an experimental approach Evidence of Scope Economies in Australian Agriculture Valuing the benefits from preserving threatened native fauna and flora from invasive pest animals The welfare of small livestock producers in Vietnam: Integration of trade and household models Valuing sea change: using count data models to value beach access by local residents
2 9.00 Kuminoff Marsh Whitten Domingo Bell Oktaviani Madzivhandila
    Recovering Preferences from a Dual-Market Locational Equilibrium What’s stopping regional catchment management organisations from investing effectively in natural resource management?  Not too little, not too much, but just enough: managing participation in conservation auctions  Seasonal Climate Variability and Indigenous Knowledge and Practices of Corn Farmers in Isabela, Philippines Choice modelling to assess marginal value loss to a coastal marine environment from an alien invasive crab with prospects for benefit transfer The Impact of Avian Influenza (AI) on Poultry and other Related Sectors on the Indonesian Economy: a Recursive Dynamic CGE Approach Designing an effective evaluation model for the South African Department of Agriculture
3 9.30 Ozgoc-Caglar Schmidt Nemes Nonthakhot Hester Warr Singh
    A Multiple Criteria Decision System to Improve Performance of Federal Conservation Programs The economic cost of wetland destruction Double-sided combinatorial auctions for native vegetation offsets  Migration and Farm Efficiency: Evidence from Northern Thailand  Valuing the biodiversity gains from protecting native plant communities from bitou bush (Chrysanthemoides monilifera subsp rotundata) in New South Wales: an application of the defensive expenditure method Does productivity growth in agriculture necessarily reduce poverty?  An economic evaluation of the Happy Seeder for rice-wheat cropping systems in Punjab, India
4 12.00 Pezzey Madden Gorddard Hailu Marsh Hone Withdrawn
    Comparing genuine savings and ecological footprint measures of country-level sustainability  Learning from recent history – investing in water infrastructure When should biodiversity tenders contract on outcomes? ZANA: An agent-based model for policy simulation at the catchment level Invasive Species Management: FMD in the Australian Beef Sector Agricultural Supply Response in Fiji Withdrawn

SESSION F       
  Room Lake Superior Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Hakone Lake Nyanza Lake Geneva Lake Titicaca
  No. 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
  Theme NRM Water and climate change Conservation, contracts Consumer behaviour Development Vacant Vacant
  Chair Ismo Rama DPI Vic Donna Brennan Jim McColl Donald MacLaren 0 0 0
1 1.30 Pannell Adamson White Marks Azad Withdrawn Withdrawn
    Public Benefits, Private Benefits and Land-Use Change: An Updated Framework for Policy Mechanism Choice Long run impacts of climate change for irrigators in the Murray Darling Basin under increased uncertainty: A variable by variable approach  Designing Outcome-based Conservation Contracts.   Beyond Credence: Emerging Global Trends in Consumer Food Preferences  Hybrid Rice: Economic Assessment of a Promising Technology for Sustainable Food Grain Production in Bangladesh Withdrawn Withdrawn
2 2.00 Schilizzi Connor Crowe Chowdhury Akter Withdrawn Withdrawn
    Equity and efficiency in resource allocation  Integrated systems evaluation of climate change and future adaptation strategies for the Lower River Murray, Australia Monitoring of compliance in Australian conservation contracts  Are Consumers in Developing Countries Willing-to-Pay More for Nutrition-Dense Bio-Fortified Foods? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda Protective Actions against Low Probability & High Loss Events: Empirical Evidence from a Least Developed Country Withdrawn Withdrawn

Program Highlights
The 2008 Conference will highlight a range of agricultural and resource economics issues, including; climate change impacts; international trade and agricultural policy; water and the environment; research and development; and emission trading. In addition to the invited paper sessions on those topics, you are invited to the contributed paper sessions on them and the wide range of other issues encompassed by agricultural and resource economics. It is expected that around 150 contributed papers will be presented at the Conference.

Conference Papers
Contributed papers will be available during the Conference and on the AgEcon Search website (http://agecon.lib.umn.edu) after the Conference.

Disclaimer
The speakers, topics and times are correct at the time of printing. In the event of unforseen circumstances, the Organising Committee reserves the right to delete or alter items in the Conference Program.

WORKSHOPS

WORKSHOP 1
CLIMATE CHANGE: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES FOR THE ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
9.00am - 4.00pm
 
This workshop will showcase recent analysis on the potential impacts of climate change on key sectors and communities in Australia's economy and the costs and benefits of reducing these impacts through mitigation, adaptation and productivity improvements.
 
Key themes for discussion at the workshop include:
s        The economics of climate change -  managing the risks 
s        Role and scope of renewable and cleaner energy
s        Health impacts of climate change - implications for productivity, employment and government spending
s        Climate challenges for tourism and aviation
s        Rural industries - maintaining productivity in a changing climate
s        Agriculture - adapting to changes in climate
s        The contribution of science in economic analysis of climate change
s        Determining the optimal climate change policy response - a framework for analysis: the role of Integrated Assessment Modelling
s        Panel discussion - moving forward, insights for policy makers and practitioners
 
The workshop aims to engage economists, scientists, academics, policy makers and other interested parties in order to foster multi-faceted and multidisciplinary interactions. This workshop has great potential to progress thinking on the forward framework for climate change analysis and policy.
 
Key contributors include: Professor Ross Garnaut (ANU and Garnaut Review), Chris Mitchell (CSIRO), Professor Tony McMichael (ANU), Professor Peter Forsyth (Monash University), Mick Keogh (Australian Farm Institute), John Mullen (NSW Department of Primary Industries) and Dr. Don Gunasekera (ABARE).
 
For more information contact: Melanie Ford at Melanie.Ford@abare.gov.au or on               (02) 6272 2285       
 
Price: $75.00 per person
 
WORKSHOP 2
EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS

The presenters have a broad range of experience in the application of experimental methods both for academic research and to inform the design of environmental policy:

Dr Karel Nolles, Director of the Aton Experimental Economics Laboratory
Prior to setting up his own experimental economics facility, Karel has been a senior research fellow in the UNSW Centre for Energy & Environmental Markets, a visiting research fellow in the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (George Mason University) and environmental markets manager for the Australian Financial Markets Association.

Dr Andrew Reeson, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
Environmental economist who has been designing and running experiments addressing ecological and economic questions for over ten years. His current research includes applying experiments to a range of environmental policy issues, from designing market-based instruments to promoting socially motivated environmental volunteerism.
 
Registration:
Students/early career researchers           $50
Others                                                   $250

The workshop will run from 9am to 5pm, with lunch provided. The venue is Cliftons training rooms, Level 2, 10 Moore St, Civic (five minutes walk from Rydges Lakeside and the ANU) (map)
 
If you want to know more please contact andrew.reeson@csiro.au

If you are already registered for the conference and wish to attend the workshop, please contact the conference organiser shanna@aomevents.com

This workshop is supported by the ARC Economic Design Network, Aton Experimental Economics Laboratory and CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems.

WORKSHOP 3:
REAL OPTIONS:  WHAT AND WHY BUT MOSTLY HOW?
9.00am - 5.00pm

The objectives of this workshop are to introduce real options as a method for managing natural systems under risk, explain how real options relate to other methods for making decisions under risk and give participants practice in formulating and solving real options problems.  The workshop will have mini-lectures interspersed with pencil and paper exercises and computer exercises. 

Topics to be discussed are:

Real options in the real world
Adapting to risks
Bush Heritage
Grazing management
Horticulture and irrigation
Tactical fertiliser applications
Sharing risks
Water rights
Yield index insurance
Decision diagrams for real options
Pencil and paper exercises
Excel exercises
Mathematical methods for real options
The calculus of real options
Excel exercises
Yield index insurance revisited

The workshop programme is designed to be as interactive as possible so numbers may be limited. Participants are asked to bring a laptop with Microsoft Excel installed. Presenters include Greg Hertzler (UWA) and Peter Hayman (SARDI).

For more information contact: Greg Hertzler at Greg.Hertzler@uwa.edu.au or on               (08) 6488 2534       

Price: $175.00 per person

SOCIAL PROGRAM

Welcome Cocktail Party
Tuesday, 5 February 2008
6.00pm - 7.30pm
Rydges Lakeside
Cost is included in full registration fee. Please indicate your attendance on the registration form.
Cost (Day registrations): $45.00per person (includes beverages and canapés)

Conference Dinner
Wednesday, 6 February 2008
6.30pm - 10.30pm
Rydges Lakeside
Cost: $90.00 per person

Social Event
Thursday, 7 February 2008
6.30pm - 8.00pm
National Film and Sound Archive
McCoy Circuit, ACTON
Cost: $35.00 per person (includes beverages and canapés)
The images and sounds of film, television and radio are a reflection of our creativity. The National Film and Sound Archive is Australia’s audiovisual archive, collecting, preserving and sharing this rich heritage. With access to the Archive Exhibition, enjoy drinks and  canapés in the courtyard of the Archive building.