Program and papers
Proceedings of the 35th Australian Conference of Economists
25-27 September 2006
Curtin University of Technology
Perth, Western Australia
ISBN: 1 74067 501 0
Proceedings Editor: Assoc Prof Garry MacDonald
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Keynote Speakers
| Prof. Stan Metcalfe University of Manchester | Alfred Marshall's Mecca: The Evolutionary Theory of Growth and Development |
| Prof. Chuck Blackorby, University of Warwick | Monopoly: Do Ad Valorem Taxes Pareto Dominate Unit Taxes? |
| Prof. Bruce Chapman The Australian National University | Government as Risk Manager: Income Contingent Loans for Social and Economic Reform |
| Prof. George Mailath Yale University | Reputations |
| Prof. Arjo Klamer Erasmus University | Speaking of Economics: How to be in the Conversation |
| Prof. Mark Killingsworth Rutgers University | Effects of the Family Cap and Other Welfare Reforms on Fertility Decisions of Women on Welfare |
| Prof. Margaret Slade, University of Warwick | Exclusive Contracts and Vertical Restraints: Empirical Evidence and Public Policy |
| Prof. John Quiggin University of Queensland | The Uncertain Future of Water Policy |
| Prof. Mark Salmon, University of Warwick | Sentiment and Beta Herding in Financial Markets |
Monday 25 September 2006
Session 1 - Social Policy I
| Mehmet Ulubasoglu Buly Cardak | International comparisons of rural-urban educational attainment: Data and determinants |
| Justine McNamara Rebecca Cassells | Child care for infants: trends in usage and costs, 1999 to 2002 |
| Elisabetta Magnani Anu Rammohan | The effect of elderly caregiving on female labour supply in Indonesia |
Session 2 - Competition Issues
Session 3 - Econometrics
| Xiao Qin G.K. Randolph Tan | Markov-switching unit root test: A study of the property price bubbles in Hong Kong and Seou |
| Jenny Lye Joe Hirschberg | Marginal effects for binary response models with nonlinear regressors |
| Joe Hirschberg Jenny Lye | Interactions in regressions |
Session 4 - History of Thought
Session 5 - International Trade I
| Jay Squalli Kenneth Wilson | A new approach to measuring trade openness |
| Witada Anukoonwattaka | Outsourcing decisions of the firm: Empirical evidence from component procurement of Toyota in Thailand |
| David Greenaway Rod Falvey Joana Silva | Trade, human capital and labour market adjustment |
Session 6 - Finance I
| Helen Higgs Andrew C. Worthington | Stochastic price modelling of high volatility, mean-reverting, spike-prone commodities: The Australian wholesale electricity market |
| Hiroaki Suenaga Aaron Smith Jeffrey Williams | Volatility dynamics of NYMEX natural gas futures prices |
Session 7 - Immigration I
| Barry R. Chiswick Paul W. Miller | An explanation for the lower payoff to schooling for the foreign born in Australia |
| Deborah A. Cobb-Clark | Selection policy and the labour market outcomes of new immigrants |
Session 8 - Intergovernmental Financial Relations
Session 9 - Finance II
| Robert Kohn Rachida Ouysse | Bayesian variable selection of risk factors in the APT model |
| Elaine Loh | Do volume indicators improve technical trading profits? Global empirical evidence |
| Zhuo Qiao Thomas C. Chiang Wing-Keung Wong | Long-run equilibrium, short-term adjustment, and spillover effects across Chinese segmented stock markets and the Hong Kong stock market |
Session 10 - Theory I
| Jeffrey Sheen | Country asymmetries and the balance of lethal war and peace |
| Elias L. Khalil | Moral outrage |
| Harry Clarke Svetlana Danilkina | Talking rationally about rational addiction |
| Svetlana Danilkina | A dual self model of addiction |
Session 11 - Pricing and Innovation
| Harry Bloch Michael Olive | The speed and stability of price adjustment in Australian manufacturing |
| P. Haywood D. Howard | The cyclical behaviour of prices in a small open economy: the experience of Australia from 1981 to 2005 |
| Hielke Buddelmeyer Paul H. Jensen Elizabeth Webster | Innovation and the determinants of firm survival |
| Simon Zheng Sidney Shanks | Returns to industry R & D in Australia |
Session 12 - Health Economics
| Maathai K. Mathiyazhagan | Cost efficiency of public and private hospitals: Evidence from Karnataka State in India |
| Bernard van den Berg Wolter H.J. Hassink | Moral hazard and cash benefits in long-term home care |
| Elizabeth Savage Rosalie Viney Denzil Fiebig | Does the reason for buying health insurance influence behaviour? |
| Denise Doiron Glenn Jones Elizabeth Savage | Healthy, wealthy and insured? The role of self-assessed health in the demand for private health insurance |
Session 13 - Labour Economics I
| Kostas Mavromaras Axel Heitmueller | On the post-unification development of public and private pay in Germany |
| Alison Preston | Reproducing segregated labour markets |
| Lixin Cai | Effects of health on wages of Australian men |
| Temesgen Kifle | The impact of labour market mismatch on earnings: The case of Eritrea |
Session 14 - Social Policy II
| Therese Jefferson | Women's savings and retirement incomes policy: Adding qualitative methods to an economic research program? |
| Rhonda Sharp | Engendering the government budget: Performance budgeting and the challenge of the care economy |
| Paul Gerrans Marilyn Clark-Murphy Craig Speelman | Asset allocation and age effects in superannuation investment choice |
| Bruce Bradbury | The impact of young motherhood on education, employment and marriage |
Session 15 - Macro I
| Robert Ewing John Hawkins | Business cycles in Australia |
| Patrick M. Crowley Douglas Maraun David Mayes | Analysing productivity cycles in the Euro area, US and UK using wavelet analysis |
| Raja Junankar | The performance of the Australian macroeconomy: Ten years of John Howard |
Session 16 - Topics in Public Policy
| James Giesecke Peter B. Dixon Maureen T. Rimmer | Regional macroeconomic outcomes under alternative arrangements for the financing of public infrastructure |
| Greg Watkinson | Water pricing: Concepts and principles |
| Duc Vo | Fiscal decentralisation index: The international comparison |
Tuesday 26 September 2006
Session 17 - Ageing and Investment
| Hoan Pham Xuan | Population, ageing, investment and consumption |
| Bruce Felmingham Arusha Cooray | The cyclical and trend behaviour of Australian investment and savings |
| Hayat Khan | The optimal response of national saving, investment and current account balance to prospective ageing in Australia and its impact on future living standards |
| Mariano Kulish, Kathryn Smith Christopher Kent | Ageing, retirement and savings: A general equilibrium analysis |
Session 18 - Labour Economics II
Session 19 - Finance III
| Carl Schwartz Tim Hampton Christine Lewis David Norman | A survey of housing equity withdrawal and injections in Australia |
| Anil Mishra | Australian investors' home bias in portfolio equity investment |
| Lance A. Fisher Glenn Otto Graham M. Voss | Housing booms, non-financial wealth and consumption: Lessons from the Australian experience |
Session 20 - Macro II
| Mohammad Mafizur Rahman | Macro-economic and trade link models of South Asian countries: An investigation for regional trade expansion |
| Chia-Ying Chang Yiting Li | Vertical differentiation in monetary search-theoretical model: revisited |
| Zhaoyong Zhang Kiyotaka Sato | Whither a currency union in Greater China? |
Session 21 - Productivity I
Session 22 - Public Economics
| Jia-Zhueng Fan | Does public income induce more consumption? |
| Radhika Lahiri Elisabetta Magnani | On inequality and the allocation of public spending |
| Sajid Anwar | Factor mobility, wage inequality and public infrastructure: A theoretical analysis |
| Kota Sugahara Minoru Kunizaki | Fiscal decentralization from the perspective of strategic interaction: The case of Japanese prefectures |
Session 23 - Exchange Rates
Session 24 - Finance IV
| Abdul Hakim Michael McAleer | Modelling the interactions across international stock, bond and foreign exchange markets |
| Heidi Ryoo | Arbitrage opportunity in the foreign exchange market |
| Ariful Hoque Felix Chan Meher Manzur | Efficiency of the foreign currency options market |
| E.J. Wilson H.A. Marashdeh | Are cointegrated stock prices consistent with the efficient market hypothesis? |
Session 25 - Applied Econometrics
| Albert Wijeweera Brian Dollery | Corruption and foreign direct investments: A panel analysis |
| Owen Chih-Hung Ho | The performance of foreign funded enterprises and State-owned enterprises in China |
| Robert Fildes Gary Madden Joachim Tan | Aggregate selection, data characteristics and choice of optimal model |
| Jan van Ours Jenny Williams | Cannabis prices and dynamics of cannabis use |
Session 26 - Theory II
| Debajyoti Chakrabarty | Endogenous time preference and inequality |
| Nicolas de Roos Yianis Sarafidis | Decision making under risk in Deal or No Deal |
| Suren Basov Svetlana Danilkina | Quality and product variety in a monopolistic screening model with nearly rational consumers |
| Graeme J. Doole | Numerical optimisation of multiple-phase systems incorporating transition costs |
Session 27 - Macro III
| Jan Libich | Inflexibility of inflation targeting revisited: Modelling the 'Anchoring' effect |
| Gilles Dufrénot Roselyne Joyeux Anne Péguin-Feissole | Which predictor is the best to predict inflation in Europe: the real money-gap or a nominal money based indicator? |
| Peter Robertson Richard G. Harris | Dynamic adjustments to global shocks: Australia and the USA |
| Kenneth W. Clements Renee Fry | Commodity currencies and currency commodities |
Session 28 - Labour Economics III
Session 29 - Productivity II
| Sarah Hugo Jay Squalli Kenneth Wilson | An examination of Australian growth competitiveness |
| Jyoti Rahman Gene Tunny | Estimating trends in Australia's productivity |
| Bryn Battersby | Does distance matter? The effect of geographic isolation on productivity levels |
| Simon Ville Abbas Valadkhani | Analysing the comparative performance of Australian universities under the unified national system, 1992-2003 |
Session 30 - Social Policy III
| Pataporn Sukontamarn | Micro-credit, fertility decisions, and women's empowerment in Bangladesh |
| Pushkar Maitra Anu Rammohan Diane Dancer | The link between infant mortality and child nutrition in India: Is there any evidence of gender bias? |
| Alexis Esposto G.A. Meagher | The future demand for employability skills: A new dimension to labour market forecasting in Australia |
Wednesday 27 September 2006
Session 31 - Social Policy IV
| Chikako Yamauchi | Governance and delivery of anti-poverty program |
| Paul Blacklow Imran Church | Fertility choices of Australian couples |
| M. Pahlavani R. Verma E. Wilson | The role of capital formation and saving in promoting economic growth in Iran |
| Hielke Buddelmeyer, John Freebairn Guyonne Kalb | Evaluation of policy options to encourage welfare to work |
Session 32 - Contracts and Governance
| Ben White Jananee Raguragavan Robert C. Chambers | Contracts for land retirement under asymmetric information |
| Brishti Guha | Honesty and intermediation: Corporate cheating, auditor involvement and the implications for development |
Session 33 - Labour Economics IV
| Anh T. Le | Tertiary entrance scores: Extra points for immigrant children? |
| Prem Jung Thapa Tue Gørgens | A duration analysis of the time taken to find the first job for newly arrived migrants in Australia |
| Katy Cornwell Brett Inder | Are migrants unusually successful in the labour market? |
| Buly A. Cardak Chris Ryan | Why are high ability individuals from poor backgrounds under-represented at university? |
Session 34 - Macro IV
| Nicolaas Groenewold Guoping Lee Anping Chen | Inter-regional output spillovers in China: Disentangling national from regional shocks |
| Hernán Vallejo | A theory of natural market structures: Regulation, R & D, FDI, international trade and a few curiosities |
| Rod Falvey Zhihong Yu David Greenaway | To be or not to be? Survival of foreign firms and local productivity uncertainty |
| Thomas Gries Wolfgang Eggert Gerhard Sievert Axel Wieneke | Persistent bank concentration and limited growth of SMEs in Russia |
Session 35 - Immigration II
| John Salerian | Economic impacts of skilled migration |
| G. Cuxson James Giesecke | Economic effects of an increase in the skilled migration program |
| Harry Clarke | The case for targeting skilled migrants |
Session 36 - Environment
| Natalie Stoeckl Owen Stanley Vicki Brown Sue Jackson Anna Straton | Social and economic values associated with Australia's tropical rivers |
| Khorshed Alam Dora Marinova | Sustainability and river restoration |
| Adrian Kemp | Policy implications of increased inter-state water trading in the presence of environmental externalities |
Session 37 - Growth
| Jakob B. Madsen | Growth and capital deepening since 1870: Is it all progress? |
| Yapa M.W.Y. Bandara | Structural transformation and TFP growth in manufacturing: The case of Sri Lanka |
| Graeme Wells Thanasis Stengos | Estimates of technology and convergence: Simulation results |
Session 38 - Fisheries I
| Peter Rogers Neil Thomson | From economics to management: The lessons of transition in managed fisheries in Western Australia |
| Paul McLeod, John Nicholls Robert Lindner | Socially optimal allocation of fish resources among competing uses. A dynamic allocation model applied to Western Australia's Abalone fishery |
| Tom Kompas, Tuong Nhu Che R. Quentin Grafton | Fisheries instrument choice under uncertainty |
| Elizabeth Petersen | Estimating wholesale demand for live reef food fish in Hong Kong |
Session 39 - Fisheries II
| Sathiendrakumar | An evaluation of fisheries policies available to Australia for the management of Southern Blue Fin Tuna fishery |
| Dinty Mather | Efficiency and fisheries management systems |
Session 40 - Natural Resources
| Donna Brennan Sorada Tapsuwan Gordon Ingram | The welfare costs of urban outdoor water restrictions |
| Teresa Stewart | Logging on: Victoria's first online auction of native timber |
| Mary Graham | Incorporating environmental impacts into productivity analysis: The case for nitrogen leaching in the Australian dairy industry |
| Tiho Ancev Regina Betz | Load-based licensing: Getting the rates right |
Session 41 - Taxation Issues
| Elizabeth Manning | Effective marginal benefit - the peculiar case of the Australian armed forces and the Medicare levy |
| Jeff Pope | The political economy of personal income tax reform in Australia |
| Geoffrey Kingston | Tax reform: A different view |
| Bruce Felmingham, Yong Hong Yan, Natalie Jackson Maggie Walter | Early retirement biases in the funding of Australian retirement |
Session 42 - Labour Economics V
| Denise Doiron Tue Gørgens | State dependence in youth labor market experiences and the evaluation of policy interventions |
| Alfred Michael Dockery Luke Elliott | Are the 'hidden unemployed' unemployed? |
| Ted Miller | Accounting framework for societal cost-outcome analyses of morbidity reduction |
Session 43 - International Trade II
Session 44 - Banking
| John Simpson | Expert political risk opinions and banking system returns: A revised international banking market model |
| Meliyanni Johar Anu Rammohan | Demand for microcredit by Indonesian women |
| Bruce Q. Budd Catherine R. Budd | Does record profitability necessarily reflect high efficiency performances: An empirical investigation of UAE local banks? |
| Gert van der Westhuizen | Estimating technical and scale efficiency of banks using balance sheet data: A South African case |
Session 45 - Social Policy V
| Stephen Whelan | Housing assistance and labour market outcomes in Australia |
| A.M. Dockery Paul Flatau Rachel Ong Gavin Wood | Welfare reform, housing assistance and effective marginal tax rates |
| Peng Yu | Low earnings: A sticky stepping-stone for Australian unemployment benefit recipients |
| Gavin A. Wood Rachel Ong A.M. Dockery | What has determined longer run trends in public housing tenants' employment participation 1982-2002? |
Proceedings of the 35th Australian Conference of Economists
25-27 September 2006
Curtin University of Technology
Perth, Western Australia
ISBN: 1 74067 501 0
Proceedings Editor: Assoc Prof Garry MacDonald
Keynote Speakers
| Prof. Stan Metcalfe University of Manchester | Alfred Marshall's Mecca: The Evolutionary Theory of Growth and Development |
| Prof. Chuck Blackorby, University of Warwick | Monopoly: Do Ad Valorem Taxes Pareto Dominate Unit Taxes? |
| Prof. Bruce Chapman The Australian National University | Government as Risk Manager: Income Contingent Loans for Social and Economic Reform |
| Prof. George Mailath Yale University | Reputations |
| Prof. Arjo Klamer Erasmus University | Speaking of Economics: How to be in the Conversation |
| Prof. Mark Killingsworth Rutgers University | Effects of the Family Cap and Other Welfare Reforms on Fertility Decisions of Women on Welfare |
| Prof. Margaret Slade, University of Warwick | Exclusive Contracts and Vertical Restraints: Empirical Evidence and Public Policy |
| Prof. John Quiggin University of Queensland | The Uncertain Future of Water Policy |
| Prof. Mark Salmon, University of Warwick | Sentiment and Beta Herding in Financial Markets |
Monday 25 September 2006
Session 1 - Social Policy I
| Mehmet Ulubasoglu Buly Cardak | International comparisons of rural-urban educational attainment: Data and determinants |
| Justine McNamara Rebecca Cassells | Child care for infants: trends in usage and costs, 1999 to 2002 |
| Elisabetta Magnani Anu Rammohan | The effect of elderly caregiving on female labour supply in Indonesia |
Session 2 - Competition Issues
Session 3 - Econometrics
| Xiao Qin G.K. Randolph Tan | Markov-switching unit root test: A study of the property price bubbles in Hong Kong and Seou |
| Jenny Lye Joe Hirschberg | Marginal effects for binary response models with nonlinear regressors |
| Joe Hirschberg Jenny Lye | Interactions in regressions |
Session 4 - History of Thought
Session 5 - International Trade I
| Jay Squalli Kenneth Wilson | A new approach to measuring trade openness |
| Witada Anukoonwattaka | Outsourcing decisions of the firm: Empirical evidence from component procurement of Toyota in Thailand |
David Greenaway | Trade, human capital and labour market adjustment |
Session 6 - Finance I
| Helen Higgs Andrew C. Worthington | Stochastic price modelling of high volatility, mean-reverting, spike-prone commodities: The Australian wholesale electricity market |
| Hiroaki Suenaga Aaron Smith Jeffrey Williams | Volatility dynamics of NYMEX natural gas futures prices |
Session 7 - Immigration I
| Barry R. Chiswick Paul W. Miller | An explanation for the lower payoff to schooling for the foreign born in Australia |
| Deborah A. Cobb-Clark | Selection policy and the labour market outcomes of new immigrants |
Session 8 - Intergovernmental Financial Relations
Session 9 - Finance II
| Robert Kohn Rachida Ouysse | Bayesian variable selection of risk factors in the APT model |
| Elaine Loh | Do volume indicators improve technical trading profits? Global empirical evidence |
| Zhuo Qiao, Thomas C. Chiang Wing-Keung Wong | Long-run equilibrium, short-term adjustment, and spillover effects across Chinese segmented stock markets and the Hong Kong stock market |
Session 10 - Theory I
| Jeffrey Sheen | Country asymmetries and the balance of lethal war and peace |
| Elias L. Khalil | Moral outrage |
| Harry Clarke Svetlana Danilkina | Talking rationally about rational addiction |
| Svetlana Danilkina | A dual self model of addiction |
Session 11 - Pricing and Innovation
| Harry Bloch Michael Olive | The speed and stability of price adjustment in Australian manufacturing |
| P. Haywood D. Howard | The cyclical behaviour of prices in a small open economy: the experience of Australia from 1981 to 2005 |
| Hielke Buddelmeyer Paul H. Jensen Elizabeth Webster | Innovation and the determinants of firm survival |
| Simon Zheng Sidney Shanks | Returns to industry R & D in Australia |
Session 12 - Health Economics
| Maathai K. Mathiyazhagan | Cost efficiency of public and private hospitals: Evidence from Karnataka State in India |
| Bernard van den Berg Wolter H.J. Hassink | Moral hazard and cash benefits in long-term home care |
| Elizabeth Savage Rosalie Viney Denzil Fiebig | Does the reason for buying health insurance influence behaviour? |
| Denise Doiron Glenn Jones Elizabeth Savage | Healthy, wealthy and insured? The role of self-assessed health in the demand for private health insurance |
Session 13 - Labour Economics I
| Kostas Mavromaras Axel Heitmueller | On the post-unification development of public and private pay in Germany |
| Alison Preston | Reproducing segregated labour markets |
| Lixin Cai | Effects of health on wages of Australian men |
| Temesgen Kifle | The impact of labour market mismatch on earnings: The case of Eritrea |
Session 14 - Social Policy II
| Therese Jefferson | Women's savings and retirement incomes policy: Adding qualitative methods to an economic research program? |
| Rhonda Sharp | Engendering the government budget: Performance budgeting and the challenge of the care economy |
| Paul Gerrans Marilyn Clark-Murphy Craig Speelman | Asset allocation and age effects in superannuation investment choice |
| Bruce Bradbury | The impact of young motherhood on education, employment and marriage |
Session 15 - Macro I
| Robert Ewing John Hawkins | Business cycles in Australia |
| Patrick M. Crowley Douglas Maraun David Mayes | Analysing productivity cycles in the Euro area, US and UK using wavelet analysis |
| Raja Junankar | The performance of the Australian macroeconomy: Ten years of John Howard |
Session 16 - Topics in Public Policy
| James Giesecke Peter B. Dixon Maureen T. Rimmer | Regional macroeconomic outcomes under alternative arrangements for the financing of public infrastructure |
| Greg Watkinson | Water pricing: Concepts and principles |
| Duc Vo | Fiscal decentralisation index: The international comparison |
Tuesday 26 September 2006
Session 17 - Ageing and Investment
| Hoan Pham Xuan | Population, ageing, investment and consumption |
| Bruce Felmingham Arusha Cooray | The cyclical and trend behaviour of Australian investment and savings |
| Hayat Khan | The optimal response of national saving, investment and current account balance to prospective ageing in Australia and its impact on future living standards |
| Mariano Kulish, Kathryn Smith Christopher Kent | Ageing, retirement and savings: A general equilibrium analysis |
Session 18 - Labour Economics II
Session 19 - Finance III
| Carl Schwartz Tim Hampton Christine Lewis David Norman | A survey of housing equity withdrawal and injections in Australia |
| Anil Mishra | Australian investors' home bias in portfolio equity investment |
| Lance A. Fisher Glenn Otto Graham M. Voss | Housing booms, non-financial wealth and consumption: Lessons from the Australian experience |
Session 20 - Macro II
| Mohammad Mafizur Rahman | Macro-economic and trade link models of South Asian countries: An investigation for regional trade expansion |
| Chia-Ying Chang Yiting Li | Vertical differentiation in monetary search-theoretical model: revisited |
| Zhaoyong Zhang Kiyotaka Sato | Whither a currency union in Greater China? |
Session 21 - Productivity I
Session 22 - Public Economics
| Jia-Zhueng Fan | Does public income induce more consumption? |
| Radhika Lahiri Elisabetta Magnani | On inequality and the allocation of public spending |
| Sajid Anwar | Factor mobility, wage inequality and public infrastructure: A theoretical analysis |
| Kota Sugahara Minoru Kunizaki | Fiscal decentralization from the perspective of strategic interaction: The case of Japanese prefectures |
Session 23 - Exchange Rates
Session 24 - Finance IV
| Abdul Hakim Michael McAleer | Modelling the interactions across international stock, bond and foreign exchange markets |
| Heidi Ryoo | Arbitrage opportunity in the foreign exchange market |
| Ariful Hoque Felix Chan Meher Manzur | Efficiency of the foreign currency options market |
| E.J. Wilson H.A. Marashdeh | Are cointegrated stock prices consistent with the efficient market hypothesis? |
Session 25 - Applied Econometrics
| Albert Wijeweera Brian Dollery | Corruption and foreign direct investments: A panel analysis |
Owen Chih-Hung Ho |
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| Robert Fildes Gary Madden Joachim Tan | Aggregate selection, data characteristics and choice of optimal model |
| Jan van Ours Jenny Williams | Cannabis prices and dynamics of cannabis use |
Session 26 - Theory II
| Debajyoti Chakrabarty | Endogenous time preference and inequality |
| Nicolas de Roos Yianis Sarafidis | Decision making under risk in Deal or No Deal |
| Suren Basov Svetlana Danilkina | Quality and product variety in a monopolistic screening model with nearly rational consumers |
| Graeme J. Doole | Numerical optimisation of multiple-phase systems incorporating transition costs |
Session 27 - Macro III
| Jan Libich | Inflexibility of inflation targeting revisited: Modelling the 'Anchoring' effect |
| Gilles Dufrénot Roselyne Joyeux Anne Péguin-Feissole | Which predictor is the best to predict inflation in Europe: the real money-gap or a nominal money based indicator? |
| Peter Robertson Richard G. Harris | Dynamic adjustments to global shocks: Australia and the USA |
| Kenneth W. Clements Renee Fry | Commodity currencies and currency commodities |
Session 28 - Labour Economics III
Session 29 - Productivity II
| Sarah Hugo Jay Squalli Kenneth Wilson | An examination of Australian growth competitiveness |
| Jyoti Rahman Gene Tunny | Estimating trends in Australia's productivity |
| Bryn Battersby | Does distance matter? The effect of geographic isolation on productivity levels |
| Simon Ville Abbas Valadkhani | Analysing the comparative performance of Australian universities under the unified national system, 1992-2003 |
Session 30 - Social Policy III
| Pataporn Sukontamarn | Micro-credit, fertility decisions, and women's empowerment in Bangladesh |
| Pushkar Maitra Anu Rammohan Diane Dancer | The link between infant mortality and child nutrition in India: Is there any evidence of gender bias? |
| Alexis Esposto G.A. Meagher | The future demand for employability skills: A new dimension to labour market forecasting in Australia |
Wednesday 27 September 2006
Session 31 - Social Policy IV
| Chikako Yamauchi | Governance and delivery of anti-poverty program |
| Paul Blacklow Imran Church | Fertility choices of Australian couples |
| M. Pahlavani R. Verma E. Wilson | The role of capital formation and saving in promoting economic growth in Iran |
| Hielke Buddelmeyer, John Freebairn Guyonne Kalb | Evaluation of policy options to encourage welfare to work |
Session 32 - Contracts and Governance
| Ben White Jananee Raguragavan Robert C. Chambers | Contracts for land retirement under asymmetric information |
| Brishti Guha | Honesty and intermediation: Corporate cheating, auditor involvement and the implications for development |
Session 33 - Labour Economics IV
| Anh T. Le | Tertiary entrance scores: Extra points for immigrant children? |
| Prem Jung Thapa Tue Gørgens | A duration analysis of the time taken to find the first job for newly arrived migrants in Australia |
| Katy Cornwell Brett Inder | Are migrants unusually successful in the labour market? |
| Buly A. Cardak Chris Ryan | Why are high ability individuals from poor backgrounds under-represented at university? |
Session 34 - Macro IV
| Nicolaas Groenewold Guoping Lee Anping Chen | Inter-regional output spillovers in China: Disentangling national from regional shocks |
| Hernán Vallejo | A theory of natural market structures: Regulation, R & D, FDI, international trade and a few curiosities |
| Rod Falvey Zhihong Yu David Greenaway | To be or not to be? Survival of foreign firms and local productivity uncertainty |
| Thomas Gries Wolfgang Eggert Gerhard Sievert Axel Wieneke | Persistent bank concentration and limited growth of SMEs in Russia |
Session 35 - Immigration II
| John Salerian | Economic impacts of skilled migration |
| G. Cuxson James Giesecke | Economic effects of an increase in the skilled migration program |
| Harry Clarke | The case for targeting skilled migrants |
Session 36 - Environment
| Natalie Stoeckl Owen Stanley Vicki Brown Sue Jackson Anna Straton | Social and economic values associated with Australia's tropical rivers |
| Khorshed Alam Dora Marinova | Sustainability and river restoration |
| Adrian Kemp | Policy implications of increased inter-state water trading in the presence of environmental externalities |
Session 37 - Growth
| Jakob B. Madsen | Growth and capital deepening since 1870: Is it all progress? |
| Yapa M.W.Y. Bandara | Structural transformation and TFP growth in manufacturing: The case of Sri Lanka |
| Graeme Wells Thanasis Stengos | Estimates of technology and convergence: Simulation results |
Session 38 - Fisheries I
| Peter Rogers Neil Thomson | From economics to management: The lessons of transition in managed fisheries in Western Australia |
| Paul McLeod, John Nicholls Robert Lindner | Socially optimal allocation of fish resources among competing uses. A dynamic allocation model applied to Western Australia's Abalone fishery |
| Tom Kompas, Tuong Nhu Che R. Quentin Grafton | Fisheries instrument choice under uncertainty |
| Elizabeth Petersen | Estimating wholesale demand for live reef food fish in Hong Kong |
Session 39 - Fisheries II
| Sathiendrakumar | An evaluation of fisheries policies available to Australia for the management of Southern Blue Fin Tuna fishery |
| Dinty Mather | Efficiency and fisheries management systems |
Session 40 - Natural Resources
| Donna Brennan Sorada Tapsuwan Gordon Ingram | The welfare costs of urban outdoor water restrictions |
| Teresa Stewart | Logging on: Victoria's first online auction of native timber |
| Mary Graham | Incorporating environmental impacts into productivity analysis: The case for nitrogen leaching in the Australian dairy industry |
| Tiho Ancev Regina Betz | Load-based licensing: Getting the rates right |
Session 41 - Taxation Issues
| Elizabeth Manning | Effective marginal benefit - the peculiar case of the Australian armed forces and the Medicare levy |
| Jeff Pope | The political economy of personal income tax reform in Australia |
| Geoffrey Kingston | Tax reform: A different view |
| Bruce Felmingham, Yong Hong Yan, Natalie Jackson Maggie Walter | Early retirement biases in the funding of Australian retirement |
Session 42 - Labour Economics V
| Denise Doiron Tue Gørgens | State dependence in youth labor market experiences and the evaluation of policy interventions |
| Alfred Michael Dockery Luke Elliott | Are the 'hidden unemployed' unemployed? |
| Ted Miller | Accounting framework for societal cost-outcome analyses of morbidity reduction |
Session 43 - International Trade II
Session 44 - Banking
| John Simpson | Expert political risk opinions and banking system returns: A revised international banking market model |
| Meliyanni Johar Anu Rammohan | Demand for microcredit by Indonesian women |
| Bruce Q. Budd Catherine R. Budd | Does record profitability necessarily reflect high efficiency performances: An empirical investigation of UAE local banks? |
| Gert van der Westhuizen | Estimating technical and scale efficiency of banks using balance sheet data: A South African case |
Session 45 - Social Policy V
| Stephen Whelan | Housing assistance and labour market outcomes in Australia |
| A.M. Dockery Paul Flatau Rachel Ong Gavin Wood | Welfare reform, housing assistance and effective marginal tax rates |
| Peng Yu | Low earnings: A sticky stepping-stone for Australian unemployment benefit recipients |
| Gavin A. Wood Rachel Ong A.M. Dockery | What has determined longer run trends in public housing tenants' employment participation 1982-2002? |
