Food supply chains : are efficiency and responsiveness mutually exclusive? (2002)
Koops, Sven, Mollenkopf, Diane, Zwart, A. C.
This article presents the empirical results of a study of strategic change in 291 organisations operating in New Zealand food supply chains. Firms in food-related businesses have been increasingly...
Evaluating the performance of dairy marketing systems : a stimuli response approach (1997)
Modern agricultural marketing systems are often highly complex structures with a range of inter-linking players operating within diverse trading environments. To compare the effectiveness of one...
Agricultural marketing channels : determinants of contract choice (1997)
Although the use of various of forms of marketing contracts is increasing within agricultural marketing channels, there has been only a limited number of research efforts which investigate the...
The role and importance of branding in agricultural marketing (1996)
Pay, C., White, M. R., Zwart, A. C.
Paper presented at the New Zealand Marketing Educators’ Conference, November 1995.
Gan, Christopher, Luzar, E. Jane, Zwart, A. C.
Paper presented at the 38th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, 7-11 February, 1994.
Demand for wool by grade (1988)
The aims of the project were to examine the relationships between auction prices of different types of wool, to identify categories of wool and to investigate substitution effects amongst wools. A...
New Zealand livestock sector model : 1986 version (1988)
Grundy, T. P., Lattimore, Ralph G., Zwart, A. C.
This report describes an updated version of an econometric model of the New Zealand pastoral livestock sector which has evolved over a number of years. Taking earlier work by Laing and Zwart as a...
The New Zealand sheepmeat industry and the role of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board (1988)
Zwart, A. C., Martin, Sandra K.
The past five years have seen substantial change in the New Zealand meat industry. Control of marketing of New Zealand meat by the Meat Producers' Board led to changing roles for many companies and...
Martin, Sandra K., Rae, A. N., Zwart, A. C.
In recent years, new directions have begun to emerge in agricultural export marketing. Emphasis has been placed on managed marketing to target market segments, rather than on bulk commodity trading....
A contractual framework for evaluating agricultural and horticultural marketing channels (1986)
Martin, Sandra K., Zwart, A. C.
In recent years, new directions have begun to emerge in agricultural export marketing. Emphasis has been placed on managed marketing to target market segments, rather than on bulk commodity trading....
Optimal pricing and promotion for agricultural marketing agencies (1986)
Martin, Sandra K., Young, L., Zwart, A. C.
Marketing agencies which operate in international markets are faced with pricing and promotion decisions in individual markets. Economic theory can assist in these tasks by providing a framework for...
The Sandwich algorithm for spatial equilibrium analysis (1985)
Recent advances in mathematical programming techniques have made it possible to provide more realistic solutions to applied economic problems. Although mathematical programming techniques are widely...
Dynamics of herd buildup in commercial deer production (1984)
The study described in this report is valuable in that it explains, in economic terms, the high prices currently being paid for live deer in New Zealand. While there continues to be uncertainty...
Economic relationships within the Japanese feed and livestock sector (1983)
In analysing New Zealand's problems of access to Japanese markets for livestock products, there has been considerable discussion about alternative import policies. Attempts to analyse alternative...
The pastoral livestock sector and the supplementary minimum price policy (1983)
The Supplementary Minimum Price policy has been a major topic of debate in the past few years, but there have been relatively few attempts to quantify the impacts that the scheme has had on the...
Marketing institutions for New Zealand sheepmeats (1983)
This paper has been prepared in recognition of the fact that there is little available information, or research about the most suitable form of marketing institution, which might lead to the...
Investment and supply response in the New Zealand pastoral sector : an econometric model (1983)
This report provides a description of version three of an econometric model of the pastoral livestock sector of the New Zealand economy. Version three should be viewed as a further development of the...
The New Zealand meat trade in the 1980’s : a proposal for change (1982)
Ross, B. J., Sheppard, R. L., Zwart, A. C.
The New Zealand meat industry has been undergoing significant changes during the past decade. These changes have prompted the carrying out of research on the New Zealand meat industry and the likely...
Japanese agricultural policy development : implications for New Zealand (1981)
Agricultural policy in Japan has played an important role in limiting New Zealand's exports of agricultural products to that country. While there have been many specific changes in the policy over...
The New Zealand pastoral livestock sector : a preliminary econometric model (1981)
This paper reports on an investigation of the pastoral livestock sector of New Zealand. The sector's recent history, and also New Zealand's, has been one of slow, and sometimes negative growth. As a...
Economic factors affecting wheat areas within New Zealand (1979)
A stated objective of the current Government's wheat policy is that New Zealand should be self sufficient in the production of wheat. A means by which this could be achieved is through changes in the...
MARKETING AGENCIES AND THE ECONOMICS OF MARKET SEGMENTATION
Increasing importance is being attached to market segmentation strategies as a means of increasing producer returns. In this paper, a generalised model of price discrimination without supply control...
PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS AND ARBITRAGE IN THE AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND WOOL MARKETS
Angel, C., Beare, S., Zwart, A.C.
The physical characteristics of wool are important determinants of its spinning properties, yarn quality and end use. The degree to which wools from different countries of origin may be substituted...
DYNAMICS OF HERD BUILD-UP IN A NEW INDUSTRY: COMMERCIAL RED DEER PRODUCTION IN NEW ZEALAND
A mathematical decision model is used to examine producers' decisions in selecting the optimum slaughter age for domestic deer and the subsequent impact of these decisions on aggregate stock numbers....