The access price is the charge that a network manager charges to other firms to carry traffic (whether it initiates it or finalizes it) through the network. This charge has gained importance as the regulation of formerly vertically integrated monopolies in some industries has opened them, at...

In this paper we present new estimates of the degree of welfare loss in Australian manufacturing for the period 1982/3 - 1984/5.

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the welfare effects of several indirect tax reforms in Australia. The welfare changes are measured in terms of equivalent variations and equivalent incomes, using estimates of the linear expenditure system for each of a range of income groups. The...

This paper examines methods used to evaluate welfare effects of tax changes, with emphasis on the measurement problems involved. Welfare changes and excess burdens are defined, along with approximations. Aggregate measures, using a social welfare function, are examined. A special case of income...

This paper describes a method of estimating the welfare effects of a set of price changes, using money measures of welfare change such as compensating and equivalent variations, and the associated concept of "equivalent income".