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Modelling Possible Impacts of GM Crops on Australian Trade
Stone, Susan; Matysek, Anna; Dolling, Andrew - EconWPA - 2003
This paper looks at the impact on Australia’s trade in crops (non-wheat grains and oilseeds) where GM technology has been introduced. The model includes assumptions about the productivity gains of GM crops, possible consumer responses and regulatory costs for Australia and its major trading...
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Private hospitals in Australia
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001
industry’s financial performance, efficiency and quality of service (though it does not attempt to benchmark private hospitals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134599
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STOCK MARKET VALUATION IN THE UNITED STATES
BISCIARI, Patrick; DURRE, Alain; NYSSENS, Alain - EconWPA - 2003
are, according to the discount dividend model, annual earnings and, according to Q-theory, net worth. In December 2002 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125064
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Evaluation of the Pharmaceutical Industry Investment Program
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003
an evaluation of the program’s rationale, effectiveness and efficiency. The study commenced in August 2002. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077086
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Is Perfect Price Discrimination Really Efficient? An Analysis of Free Entry Equilibria
Bhaskar, V.; To, Ted - EconWPA - 2000
discrimination ensures efficient output decisions given product characteristics, coordination failures may prevent efficiency in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076900
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Advertising, Pricing & Market Structure in Competitive Matching Markets
Bataille, Edner; Julien, Benoit - EconWPA - 2005
This paper develops a model of pricing and advertising in a matching environment with capacity constrained sellers. Sellers' expenditure on directly informative advertising attracts consumers only probabilistically. Consumers who happen to observe advertisements randomize over the advertised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076903
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DO EXTERNAL FUNDS YIELD LOWER RETURNS ? RECENT EVIDENCE FROM EAST ASIAN ECONOMIES
Pal, Sarmistha; Driffield, Nigel - EconWPA - 2003
Using a large firm level panel data set from four Asian countries, this paper compares the returns to various internal and external funds. A novel feature of our analysis is that we distinguish between financially constrained and unconstrained firms and determine selectivity-corrected estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076952
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Nonparametric Efficiency Testing of Asian Stock Markets Using Weekly Data
LOS, CORNELIS A. - EconWPA - 2004
The efficiency of speculative markets, as represented by Fama's 1970 fair game model, is tested on weekly price index … efficiency of nervous systems. In particular, the stationarity and independence of the price innovations are tested over ten … stock market efficiency is: Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Singapore's stock market pricing …
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Efficiency-Enhancing Signalling in the Samaritan's Dilemma
Lagerlof, Johan - EconWPA - 2002
Suppose an altruistic person, A, is willing to transfer resources to a second person, B, if B comes upon hard times. If B anticipates that A will act in this manner, B will save too little from both agents' point of view. This is the Samaritan's dilemma. The logic of the dilemma has been...
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Efficiency, subsidies and environmental adaptation of animal farming under CAP.
Mesonada, Carlos San Juan; Sperlich, Stefan; Murillo, Carmen - EconWPA - 2005
, subsidies and efficiency the of animal farming. To this end we first have to identify the production frontier and relative … efficiency level for each animal oriented type of farm in the sample. The production frontier and efficiency index for each type … between relative efficiency, farm size and environmentally friendly behavior realizing a non parametric regression of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124877