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I
studied economics at Auckland
My
field is applied econometrics. The agricultural focus came as result of working
at Wye. The agricultural sector dominates the publications, but there is
a fair bit of non-Ag stuff as well. Historically, my work has been
more classical and time-series focused. However, more recently I have been
working on Bayesian approaches, particularly of a choice modelling
nature.
Journal Articles by Type
For
access to a subset of the publications below visit Kelvin Balcombe at IDEAS.
Economics/Econometrics
1. Balcombe K. and I Fraser. Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation with ‘Dont Know’ Responses and Misreporting. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 24, (2009) 1137-1152.
2. Balcombe K. Fraser I. and Chalak A. Model Selection in the Bayesian Mixed Logit, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 57, 2 (2009) 226-237.
3. Sharma A, Balcombe K. and Fraser I. Non-renewable resource prices: Structural breaks and long term trends. Economic Bullletin. May. (3) (2009).
4. Rigby D. Balcombe K. Burton, M. Mixed Logit Model Performance and Distributional Assumptions: Preferences and GM foods, Environmental and Resource Economics, 3, (2009), 279-295.
5. Latruffe, L. Davidova. S., Balcombe. K. Productivity Change in Polish Agriculture: An application of a bootstrap procedure to Mamlquist indices. Journal of Post-Communist Economies (2008) 20 (4) 449-460.
6. Latruffe L. Davidova S. and Balcombe K. The use of bootstrapped Malmquist indices to reassess productivity change findings: an application to a sample of Polish farms. Applied Economics (2008) Volume 40, Issue 16, 2055 – 2061.
7. Fraser I., Balcombe K., Latruffe, L. Rahman M and Smith L. An Application of the DEA Double Bootstrap to Examine Sources of Efficiency in Bangladesh Rice Farming. Applied Economics (2008) 15, 1919-1925.
8. Fraser, R., Balcombe K., Chalak, A. and Bailey A. Modifying Willingness to Pay Estimates where Respondents Mis-report their Preferences. Applied Economics Letters (2008) 15(5), 327-330.
9. Latruffe, L. Davidova. S., Balcombe K. Application of a double bootstrap to investigation of determinants of technical efficiency of farms in Central Europe. Journal of Productivity Analysis. (2008) vol. 29(2), 183-191, April.
10. Latruffe L., Davidova S. and Balcombe K. The use of bootstrapped Malmquist indices to reassess productivity change findings: an application to a sample of Polish farms. Applied Economics (2008) 40 (16) 2055 – 2061. .
11. Balcombe K., Bailey, A., Chalak, A. and Fraser, I. Bayesian Estimation of Willingness to Pay where Respondents Mis-Report their Preferences, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. (2007) 69, 3, p.413-437.
12. Balcombe K. Bayesian Estimation of Cointegrating Thresholds in the Term Structure of Interest Rates. Empirical Economics, (2006), 31, 2, 277-289.
13. Fraser, I., Balcombe K, P Kim. Estimating Technical Efficiency: Does the Choice of Estimation Methodology Matter? Applied Economics (2006) 38, 19, 2221-2236.
14. Bezemer, D, Balcombe K., Davis J, and Fraser, I Livelihoods and Farm Efficiency in Rural Georgia, Applied Economics (2005) 37: 1737-1745.
15. Balcombe K. Model Selection Using Genetic Algorithms and Information Criteria. Computational Economics, (2005) 25: 207-228.
16. Balcombe K. Bailey A. and I. Fraser. Measuring the impact of R&D on Productivity from a Econometric Time Series Perspective. Journal of Productivity Analysis, (2005) 24, 1 49-72.
17. Latruffe L, Balcombe K, Davidova S, and K Zawalinska. Determinants of Technical Efficiency of crop and livestock farms in Poland. Applied Economics, (2004) 36 (12), 1255-1263.
18. Balcombe K. Retesting Symmetry and Homogeneity in a Cointegrated Demand System with Bootstrapping: the Case of Meat Demand in Greece. Empirical Economics, (2004) 29, 2, 451-462.
19. Balcombe K. and C McDermott. Testing for Asymmetric Price Stickiness using Business Opinion Data: a Bootstrap Approach. Applied Economics Letters (2003) 10, 15, 955-958.
20. Bailey A, Balcombe K and J Morrison. A Comparison of Proxy Variable and Stochastic Latent Variable Approaches to the Measurement of the Biased Technological Change in South African Agriculture. Economics of Innovation and New Technology (2003) 12, 4, 315-324.
21. Balcombe K and R Tiffin. Bootstrap testing of the expectations hypothesis with the term structure of interest rates. Applied Economics Letters (2002) 9,563-566.
22. Balcombe K and R Tiffin. Fully Modified Estimation with Cross Equation Restrictions. Economics Letters (2002) 74, 2, 257-263.
23. E Oliver, A Prakash, and K Balcombe. Does Building Roads Really Create Traffic: Some New Evidence. Applied Economics 33, (2001) 1579-1585.
24. Balcombe K. Seasonal unit root tests in the presence of structural change. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (1999) 61, 4, 569-582.
25. Balcombe K. Further evidence concerning the relationship between high and variable inflation: a more general approach. Applied Economics Letters (1999) 6,59-61.
26. Balcombe K. The Carlson-Parkin method applied to NZ price expectations using QSBO data. Economics Letters 51, (1996) 51-57.
Agricultural
Economics
27. Balcombe K. and G Rapsomanikis, An Analysis of the Impact of R&D on Productivity using Bayesian Model Averaging with a Reversible Jump Algorithm (forthcoming) American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
28. Pesticides, Preference Heterogeneity and Environmental Taxes Ali Chalak, Kelvin Balcombe, Alastair Bailey and Iain Fraser. Journal of Agricultural Economics, (2008) Vol. 59, No. 3, 537–554
29. Balcombe K. and Rapsomanikis G. Bayesian Estimation and Selection of Non‐Linear Vector Error Correction Models: The Case of the Sugar‐Ethanol‐Oil Nexus in Brazil. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, (2008) 90 (2) 658-668.
30. Balcombe K., Bailey A., and Brooks J. Threshold Effects in Price Transmission: The Case of Brazilian Wheat, Maize and Soya Prices. American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2007) 89 (2) 308-323.
31. Balcombe K., Doucouliagos H. and Fraser I. Input usage, output mix and industry deregulation: an analysis of the Australian dairy manufacturing industry. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2007) 51, 137-156.
32. Gocht A. and Balcombe K. Ranking Efficiency Units in DEA Bootstrapping, Agricultural Economics (2006) 35, 2, 223-229.
33. Rahman, M. M ., Kelvin Balcombe and Laurence Smith, (2006) Application of the Frontier Approaches to Model the Efficiency of Rice Producers in Bangladesh”. Journal of Agriculture and Food Economics, Vol. 1, No. 2.
34. Rahman, M., Balcombe K. and Smith L. A Non-parametric Approach to Model the Technical, Allocative, Cost and Scale Efficiency of Rice Producers in Bangladesh. The Journal of Agricultural and Food Economics (2006) 1,1, 27-48.
35. Tiffin R and Balcombe K. Testing Symmetry and Homogeneity in the AIDS, using Fully Modified Estimation and the Bootstrap, Journal of Agricultural Economics (2005) 56, 2, 253-272.
36. Latruffe L, K Balcombe, S Davidova, K Zawalinska. Technical and Scale efficiency of Crop and Livestock Farms in Poland. Does Specialisation Matter. Agricultural Economics (2005) 32, 3, 281-296.
37. Bailey A, Xavier Irz and K Balcombe. An Application of the Stochastic Latent Variable Approach to the Correction of Sector level TFP Calculations in the Face of Biased Technological Change. Agricultural Economics (2004) 31, 3 285-295.
38. Bailey A, Balcombe K, Jenkins L and C. Thirtle, M.E. Estimation of Input and Output Biases of Technical Change in UK Agriculture, 1953 to 2000, Journal of Agricultural Economics (2004) 2, 55, 385-400.
39. Balcombe K, G. Rapsomanikis, G. and S. Klonaris,. An Entropy approach to the estimation of the Almost Ideal Demand System. Journal of Agricultural Economics (2003) 3, (54) 447-446.
40. J Morrison, Balcombe K, Bailey A, Klonaris S and G Rapsomanikis. Examining changes in tastes in food consumption in Greece, using an unobserved component approach. Agricultural Economics (2003) 28/2 139-150.
41. Balcombe K, A Bailey and J Morrison. Stochastic Biases in Disembodied Technical Change within the US: a bootstrapping approach. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (2002) 1, March 50, 67-83.
42. Balcombe K and A Prakash. Estimating the Long-Run Supply and Demand for Agricultural Labour in the UK. European Review of Agricultural Economics (2000) 27, 2, 153-166.
43. Bailey A, Balcombe K., Morrison J, Rapsomanikis G and C Thirtle. Stochastic Biases in Disembodied Technical Change within South African Agriculture. Agrekon 39, 4, (2000) 22-44.
44. Balcombe K, Davidova S and J Morrison. Consumer Behaviour in a Country in Transition with a Strongly Contracting Economy: The Case of Food Consumption in Bulgaria. Journal of Agricultural Economics (1999) 50, 36-47.
45. Balcombe K and J. Davis. The application of cointegration theory in the estimation of the Almost Ideal demand system for food consumption in Bulgaria. Agricultural Economics (1996) 15, 47-60.
Development
46. Fraser I, Balcombe K. and Di Falco S. A Choice Experiment Examining the Relationship Between Food Labels and Price Food Policy, Food Policy Forthcoming (2010)
47. Fraser, I, Balcombe, K., Rahman, M. and Smith, L. Examining the technical efficiency of rice producers in Bangladesh, Journal of International Development (2007) 19, Issue 1.1-16.
48. Morrison J and K Balcombe. Bootstrapping Policy Analysis Matrices: Beyond Simple Sensitivity Analysis. Journal of International Development 14, (2002) 459-471.
49. Balcombe K and L Smith. Refining the Use of Monte Carlo Techniques for Risk Analysis in Project Planning. Journal of Development Studies (1999) 36, 2, 112-134.
Science
50. M. J. Jeger, E.-J. Allen, A. Lean, and K. G. Balcombe. Changes in flowering phenology of apple in the UK National Fruit Collections, 1960 – 2005, The Eucarpia Journal. Forthcoming.
Transport
51. K.Balcombe, I Fraser and L. Harris. Consumer Willingness to Pay for In-Flight Service and Comfort Levels: A Choice Experiment, Journal of Air Transport Management, (2009) 15, 5, 221-226.
Book Chapters and Other Publications (Excluding Working Papers or
Reports)
52. Buckwell, A.E., Davis, J.R., Balcombe, K and S. Davidova. Food Consumption During Economic Transformation. In: Privatization of Agriculture in New Market Economies: Lessons from Bulgaria, Klewer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands 1994.
53. Balcombe K. and L Smith "Refining the Use of Monte Carlo Techniques for Risk Analysis in Project Planning": In: Cost Benefit Analysis: The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics. Eds: A C Harberger and G P. Jenkins. Reprinted From: Journal of Development Studies. (2002).
54. Gurkan, A. Balcombe K., and A. Prakash , Food import bills: experiences, factors underpinning changes and policy implications for food security of least developed and net food-importing developing countries. FAO Commodity Market Review 2003-2004 19-38.
55. Jonathan Brooks, Olga Melyukhina, Alastair Bailey and Kelvin Balcombe. (2007) Estimating the Pass-Through of Agricultural Policy Reforms: an Application to Brazilian Commodity Markets. Proceedings from FAO Workshop April 4 and 5, 2006: Governance, Coordination, and Distribution along Commodity Value Chains.
56. Balcombe K. (2009) The Nature and Determinants of Volatility in Agricultural Prices: An Empirical Study from 1962-2008. Proceedings from FAO Workshop. November, 2009.