Associate Professor Ross Drynan

Research interests

I’m interested in the mathematical economics analysis of the agricultural and natural resource sectors.

Initially I was interested in optimization methods and agricultural decision analysis under risk and uncertainty; however they have been broadened to include issues of optimal and sub-optimal utilization of natural resources. A lot of my research projects are abroad, in Indonesia, China and Laos.

Background

Ross Drynan received a B.Agr.Sc with Honours in 1972 and completed his PhD in Economics from the University of New England in 1977, Worked aboard as a research associate at North Carolina state University. Moved back to Australia in 1980, and worked as a lecturer at the University of Queensland. Joined the University of Sydney as head of Department of Agricultural Economics in 1990.

Recent publications

• Drynan, R.G. (1979), 'A note on the use of sample estimates in optimization models', American Journal of Agricultural Economics 61, 321-6.
• Drynan, R.G. (1985), 'Wheat: Australia's hidden mineral export - a comment', Journal of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science, 52, 149-53.
• Drynan, R.G. and Sandiford, F. (1985), 'Incorporating economic objectives in goal programmes for fisheries management', Marine Resources Economics 2, 179-95.
• Drynan, R.G. (1986), 'A note on optimal rules for stochastic efficiency analysis', Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics 30, 53-62.
• Drynan, R.G. (1987). 'A generalised concept of dominance in linear programming models', Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics 55, 147-54.
• Drynan, R.G., Perich, M.V., Batterham, R.L., and Whelan, S.P. (1994), 'The effects of policy changes on the production and sales of milk in New South Wales', Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics 62, 231-45.
• Godden, D., Batterham, R.L. and Drynan, R.G. (1998), ‘Scientific correspondence: climate change and Australian wheat yield’, Nature 391, 447-8.
• Griffiths, W.E., Drynan, R.G. and Prakash, S. (1979), 'Bayesian estimation of a random coefficient model', Journal of Econometrics 10, 201-20.

Contact

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Website: www.agric.usyd.edu.au/staff/drynan/index.shtml