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Role of communication technologies in broadacre agriculture in Australia: an empirical analysis using panel data

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Salim, Ruhul
Mamum, S.
Hassan, K.
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2015
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Salim, R. and Mamum, S. and Hassan, K. 2015. Role of communication technologies in broadacre agriculture in Australia: an empirical analysis using panel data. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 60 (2): pp. 243–264.
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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School of Economics and Finance
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This is the peer reviewed version of the article cited above, which has been published in final form at http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.12114. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving at http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-820227.html#terms

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This paper examines the role of communication technologies (CTs) in Australian broadacre agricultural production using data over the period of 1990–2013. Allowing for cross-sectional independence in the data, the pooled mean group and augmented mean group techniques are applied to estimate dynamic relationships among variables. The empirical results demonstrate that CTs affect agricultural output positively in the long run. The estimated elasticity is 0.237. This result suggests that government policies that lift investment in telecommunication facilities are shown to contribute to an increase of output in Australia’s broadacre agriculture in the long run.