“…Computer-intensive methods have been introduced in the agricultural economics literature to obtain a fuller picture of the statistical properties of welfare measurements based either on bootstrapping (Efron, 1979;Freedman and Peters, 1984;Dorfman et al, 1990;Kling and Sexton, 1990), Monte Carlo simulations (Krinsky and Robb, 1986, 1990Addmowicz et al, 1989Addmowicz et al, , 1991 or Bayesian inference . '3 Recent applications of these methods in the field of agricultural policy analysis include Tremblay and Tremblay (1995), von Cramon-Taubadel (I 997), Jeong et al (1999), Jeong et al (2003) (bootstrapping), Alston et al ( , 2000 (Monte Carlo simulation), Davis andEspinoza (1998, 2000), Griffiths and Zhao (2000), Zhao et al (2000), Salhofer et al (2001) and Sinabell et al (1999) (Bayesian inference).…”