Research

• Hughes, N., Gaydon, D., Gupta, M., Schepen, A., Tan, P., Brent, G., Turner, A., Bellew, S., Soh, W. Y., Sharman, C., Taylor, P., Carter, J., Bruget, D., Hochman, Z., Searle, R., Song, Y., Horan, H., Mitchell, P., Beletse, Y., Holzworth, D., Guillory, L., Brodie, C., McComb, J., and Singh, R. (2024): ‘Monitoring agricultural and economic drought: the Australian Agricultural Drought Indicators (AADI)’, EGUsphere [preprint],

• Hughes, N., Gupta, M., Whittle, L. and Westwood, T. (2023) ‘An economic model of spatial and temporal water trade in the southern Murray-Darling Basin’, Water Resources Research

• Hughes, N., Soh, W., Lawson, K., Lu, M. (2022) ‘Improving the performance of micro-simulation models with machine learning: The case of Australian farms, Economic Modeling, Vol. 115

• Hughes, N., Lu, M., Soh, W., Lawson, K. (2022) ‘Modelling the effects of climate change on the profitability of Australian farms, Climatic Change, Vol. 172

• Hughes, N., Soh, W., Boult, C., Lawson, K. (2022) ‘Defining drought from the perspective of Australian farmers, Climate Risk Management, Vol. 35

• Chancellor, W., Hughes, N., Zhao, S., Soh, W., Valle, H., Boult., C. (2021) ‘Controlling for the effects of climate on total factor productivity: A case study of Australian farms’, Food policy, 53

• Hughes, N. and Gooday, P. (2021) ‘Climate change impacts and adaptation on Australian farms’, ABARES report

• Hughes, N., Donoghoe, M., Whittle, L. (2020) ‘Farm Level Effects of On-Farm Irrigation Infrastructure Programs in the Southern Murray–Darling Basin’, Australian Economic Review

• Hughes, N., Gupta, M., Soh, W., Boult, C., Lawson, K., Lu, Michael., Westwood, T. (2020) ‘The Agricultural Data Integration Project’, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Research report

• Whittle, L., Galeano, D., Hughes, N., Gupta, M., Legg, P., Westwood, T., Jackson, T., Hatfield-Dodds, S. (2020) ‘Economic effects of water recovery in the Murray-Darling Basin, ABARES report

• Hughes, N., Galeano, D. and Hattfield-Dodds (2019) ‘The effects of drought and climate variability on Australian farms’, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Research report

• M. Gupta, N. Hughes (2018) ‘Future scenarios for the southern Murray-Darling Basin’, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Research report

• M. Gupta, N. Hughes, K. Wakerman-Powell (2018) ‘A model of water trade and irrigation activity in the southern Murray-Darling Basin’, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Conference paper

• Dinh, H., Donoghoe, M., Hughes, N., Goesch, T. (2018) ‘A micro-simulation model of irrigation farms in the southern Murray-Darling Basin’, ABARES working paper

• N. Hughes, K. Lawson, H. Valle (2017) ‘Farm performance and climate: climate adjusted productivity for broadacre cropping farms’, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Research Report

• N. Hughes, M. Gupta, K. Rathakumar (2016) ‘Lessons from the water market: the southern Murray-Darling Basin water allocation market 2000-01 to 2015-16’, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Research Report

• N. Hughes (2015) ‘Water property rights in rivers with large environmental water holders’, ANU Phd Seminar, Canberra.

• N. Hughes (2014) ‘Applying reinforcement learning to economic problems’, ANU Crawford Phd Conference, Canberra.

• N. Hughes (2014) ‘Water storage rights: decentralising reservoir operation’, International Atlantic Economic Society Conference, Madrid.

• N. Hughes, C. Gibbs, A. Dahl, D. Tregeagle and O. Sanders (2013) ‘Storage rights and water allocation arrangements in the Murray-Darling Basin’

• N. Hughes, K. Lawson, A. Davidson, T. Jackson and Y. Sheng (2011) ‘Productivity pathways: Climate adjusted production frontiers for the Australian broadacre cropping industry’, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics Research Report

• N. Hughes (2011) ‘Estimating irrigation farm production functions using ABARES irrigation survey data’, AARES Conference (55th), February 8-11, 2011, Melbourne, Australia

• N. Hughes (2010) ‘Defining property rights to water in complex regulated river systems: generalising the capacity sharing concept’, AARES Conference (54th), February 10-12, 2010, Adelaide, Australia

• N. Hughes, A. Hafi, and T. Goesch (2009) ‘Urban water management: optimal price and investment policy under climate variability’, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 53 (2), 175-192

• N. Hughes and T. Goesch, (2009) ‘Management of irrigation water storages: carryover rights and capacity sharing’, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics Research Report

• N. Hughes and T Goesch, (2009) ‘Capacity sharing in the St George and Macintyre Brook irrigation schemes in southern Queensland’, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics Research Report

Phd thesis

• N. Hughes (2015) ‘Water property rights in rivers with large dams’, Australian National University