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Water trading, buybacks and drought in the Murray-Darling basin: lessons from economic modelling

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  • Glyn Wittwer
  • Peter Dixon

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TERM-H2O, a dynamic, multi-regional model has become a useful tool for analysing water policy issues in the Murray-Darling basin. Available data indicate that farm factor mobility has been an important avenue of adjustment to sharply reduced water availability during drought. The regional impacts of water buybacks in the basin are much smaller than otherwise as a consequence of this mobility.

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  • Glyn Wittwer & Peter Dixon, 2011. "Water trading, buybacks and drought in the Murray-Darling basin: lessons from economic modelling," Centre of Policy Studies/IMPACT Centre Working Papers g-222, Victoria University, Centre of Policy Studies/IMPACT Centre.
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    • C54 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Quantitative Policy Modeling
    • Q11 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis; Prices
    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment

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