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Cook DC, Fraser RW, 2015, Eradication versus control of Mediterranean fruit fly in Western Australia, AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY, Vol: 17, Pages: 173-180, ISSN: 1461-9555

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FRASER RW, 2014, SUPPLY RESPONSES, RISK-AVERSION AND COVARIANCES IN AGRICULTURE, AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, Vol: 30, Pages: 153-156, ISSN: 0817-8763

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Siettou C, Fraser IM, Fraser RW, 2014, Investigating Some of the Factors That Influence "Consumer" Choice When Adopting a Shelter Dog in the United Kingdom, JOURNAL OF APPLIED ANIMAL WELFARE SCIENCE, Vol: 17, Pages: 136-147, ISSN: 1088-8705

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Cook DC, Fraser RW, Paini DR, Warden AC, Lonsdale WM, De Barro PJet al., 2011, Biosecurity and Yield Improvement Technologies Are Strategic Complements in the Fight against Food Insecurity, PLOS ONE, Vol: 6, ISSN: 1932-6203

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Cook DC, Carrasco LR, Paini DR, Fraser RWet al., 2011, Estimating the social welfare effects of New Zealand apple imports, AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS, Vol: 55, Pages: 599-620, ISSN: 1364-985X

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Cook DC, Fraser RW, Waage JK, Thomas MBet al., 2011, Prioritising biosecurity investment between agricultural and environmental systems, Conference on Decision Making and Science - The Balancing of Risk Based Decisions that Influence Sustainability of Agricultural Production, Publisher: SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG, Pages: 3-13, ISSN: 1661-5751

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Fraser RW, Williams NT, Powell LF, Cook AJCet al., 2010, Reducing <i>Campylobacter</i> and <i>Salmonella</i> Infection: Two Studies of the Economic Cost and Attitude to Adoption of On-farm Biosecurity Measures, ZOONOSES AND PUBLIC HEALTH, Vol: 57, Pages: E109-E115, ISSN: 1863-1959

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Cook DC, Liu S, Fraser RW, Siddique A-B, Paini DRet al., 2010, Estimating the Social Welfare Effects of New Zealand Apple Imports

This paper provides a demonstration of how a comprehensive economic framework, which takes into account both the gains from trade and the costs of invasive species outbreaks, can inform decision-makers when making quarantine decisions. Using the theoretical framework developed in Cook and Fraser (2008) an empirical estimation is made of the economic welfare consequences for Australia of allowing quarantine-restricted trade in New Zealand apples to take place. The results suggest the returns to Australian society from importing New Zealand apples are likely to be negative. The price differential between the landed product with SPS measures in place and the autarkic price is insufficient to outweigh the increase in expected damage resulting from increased fire blight risk. As a consequence, this empirical analysis suggests the net benefits created by opening up this trade are marginal.

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Quillerou E, Fraser RW, Fraser I, 2010, Adverse Selection in the Environmental Stewardship Scheme: Evidence in the Higher Level Stewardship Scheme?

The Environmental Stewardship Scheme provides payments to farmers for the provision of environmental services based on foregone agricultural income. This creates a potential incentive compatibility problem which, combined with an information asymmetry on farm land heterogeneity, could lead to adverse selection of farmers into the Scheme and therefore reduced cost-effectiveness of the Scheme. This reduced cost-effectiveness would be represented by a systematic overpayment of farmers for the land enrolled into the Scheme, compared to the opportunity cost of production. This paper examines the potential adverse selection problem affecting the higher tier of the Environmental Stewardship, the Higher Level Stewardship, using a principal agent framework combined with farm-level data on participation in the HLS. Empirically, it is found that, at the farm level, HLS participation is negatively related to cereal yields, suggesting the existence of adverse selection in the HLS and farmer overcompensation from entering the scheme.

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Quillerou E, Fraser RW, 2009, Adverse Selection in the Environmental Stewardship Scheme: Does the Higher Level Entry Scheme Design Reduce Adverse Selection?

The Environmental Stewardship Scheme provides payments to farmers for the provision of environmental services based on agricultural foregone income. This creates a potential incentive compatibility problem which, combined with an information asymmetry on farm land heterogeneity, could lead to adverse selection of farmers into the scheme. However, the Higher Level Scheme (HLS) design includes some features that potentially reduce adverse selection. This paper studies the adverse selection problem of the HLS using a principal agent framework at the regional level. It is found that, at the regional level, the enrolment of more land from lower payment regions for a given budget constraint has led to a greater overall contracted area (and thus potential environmental benefit) which has had the effect of reducing the adverse selection problem. In addition, for landscape regions with the same payment rate (i.e. of the same agricultural value), differential weighting of the public demand for environmental goods and services provided by agriculture (measured by weighting an environmental benefit function by the distance to main cities) appears to be reflected into the regulator’s allocation of contracts, thereby also reducing the adverse selection problem.

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Cook DC, Fraser RW, 2008, Trade and invasive species risk mitigation: Reconciling WTO compliance with maximising the gains from trade, FOOD POLICY, Vol: 33, Pages: 176-184, ISSN: 0306-9192

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Fraser RW, 2008, Land Heterogeneity, Agricultural Income Forgone and Environmental Benefit: An Assessment of Incentive Compatibility Problems in Environmental Stewardship Schemes

This paper examines the issue of incentive-compatibility within environmental stewardship schemes where incentive payments to farmers to provide environmental goods and services are based on foregone agricultural income. The particular focus of the paper is on the role of land heterogeneity, whether in terms of agricultural value or environmental value, in leading to divergences between the actual and the socially optimal level of provision of environmental goods and services. It is shown that such goods and services are systematically over or under-provided depending on the characteristics of land heterogeneity both within and between landscape regions. It is therefore concluded that incentive payments should be based on social willingness-to pay for the provision of environmental goods and services.

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Fraser RW, 2008, Land Heterogeneity, Agricultural Income Forgone and Environmental Benefit: An Assessment of Incentive Compatibility Problems in Environmental Stewardship Schemes

This paper examines the issue of incentive-compatibility within environmental stewardship schemes where incentive payments to farmers to provide environmental goods and services are based on foregone agricultural income. The particular focus of the paper is on the role of land heterogeneity, whether in terms of agricultural value or environmental value, in leading to divergences between the actual and the socially optimal level of provision of environmental goods and services. It is shown that such goods and services are systematically over or under-provided depending on the characteristics of land heterogeneity both within and between landscape regions. It is therefore concluded that incentive payments should be based on social willingness-to pay for the provision of environmental goods and services.

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Fraser R W, Cook D C, Mumford J D, Wilby A, Waage J Ket al., 2006, Managing outbreaks of invasive species: eradication versus suppression, International Journal of Pest Management, Vol: 52, Pages: 261-268, ISSN: 0967-0874

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Fraser RW, Lekakis JN, 2003, Risk Management and the Environment: Agriculture in Perspective

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Cook DC, Fraser RW, 2002, Exploring the regional implications of interstate quarantine policies in Western Australia, FOOD POLICY, Vol: 27, Pages: 143-157, ISSN: 0306-9192

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Petersen EH, Fraser RW, 2001, An assessment of the value of seasonal forecasting technology for Western Australian farmers, AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS, Vol: 70, Pages: 259-274, ISSN: 0308-521X

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Roberts D, Froud J, Fraser RW, 1996, Participation in set aside: What determines the opting in price?, JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, Vol: 47, Pages: 89-98, ISSN: 0021-857X

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Roberts D, Froud J, Fraser RW, 1996, PARTICIPATION IN SET ASIDE: WHAT DETERMINES THE OPTING IN PRICE?, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol: 47, Pages: 89-98

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FRASER RW, 1992, THE WELFARE EFFECTS OF DEREGULATING PRODUCER PRICES, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, Vol: 74, Pages: 21-26, ISSN: 0002-9092

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FRASER RW, 1991, PRICE-SUPPORT EFFECTS ON EC PRODUCERS, JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, Vol: 42, Pages: 1-10, ISSN: 0021-857X

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FRASER RW, 1990, PRODUCER RISK, PRODUCT COMPLEMENTARITY AND PRODUCT DIVERSIFICATION, JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, Vol: 41, Pages: 103-107, ISSN: 0021-857X

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FRASER RW, 1988, A METHOD FOR EVALUATING SUPPLY RESPONSE TO PRICE UNDERWRITING, AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, Vol: 32, Pages: 22-36, ISSN: 0817-8763

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FRASER RW, SALERIAN SN, 1987, AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS AND THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY, AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, Vol: 31, Pages: 74-82, ISSN: 0817-8763

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FRASER RW, 1986, UNCERTAINTY AND PRODUCTION QUOTAS, ECONOMIC RECORD, Vol: 62, Pages: 338-342, ISSN: 0013-0249

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FRASER RW, 1986, ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXPLORATION AND EXTRACTION, AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC PAPERS, Vol: 25, Pages: 135-143, ISSN: 0004-900X

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Fraser RW, 1986, Three views of the contribution of the extractive industries to the Western Australian economy, Vol: 12, Pages: 47-61

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FRASER RW, 1986, 3 VIEWS OF THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES TO THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY, RESOURCES POLICY, Vol: 12, Pages: 47-61, ISSN: 0301-4207

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FRASER RW, 1986, UNRELIABLE MARKETS AND PERISHABLE PRODUCTS, JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, Vol: 37, Pages: 89-95, ISSN: 0021-857X

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Fraser RW, 1986, SUPPLY RESPONSES, RISK AVERSION AND COVARIANCES IN AGRICULTURE, Vol: 30

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