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Microsimulating Farm Business Performance

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Tools and Techniques for Social Science Simulation

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Over the last ten years the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) has developed methodology for forecasting individual level farm business performance which accounts for the dynamic response of farms to macro level price expectations. This paper describes how these methods can be used in microsimulation.

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  1. Department of Social Statistics, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Philip N. Kokic & Ray L. Chambers

  2. Australian Bureau of Agricultural, Resource Economics, Canberra, Australia

    Steve Beare

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, 31905, Haifa, Israel

    Ramzi Suleiman

  2. Institut für Sozialwissenschaftliche Informatik, University of Koblenz-Landau, Rheinau 1, 56075, Koblenz, Germany

    Klaus G. Troitzsch

  3. Centre for Research on Simulation in the Social Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 5XH, UK

    Nigel Gilbert

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Kokic, P.N., Chambers, R.L., Beare, S. (2000). Microsimulating Farm Business Performance. In: Suleiman, R., Troitzsch, K.G., Gilbert, N. (eds) Tools and Techniques for Social Science Simulation. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51744-0_17

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