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The study compares the performance of the Australian telecommunications services industry with those in other countries. Related papers submitted to this study by NECG Ltd. and Telecom New Zealand have been released with the report.
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Competition Principles Agreement. The Commission was asked to report on the preferred option for regulation, if any, of the … architectural profession in Australia. On balance, the Commission assessed that the costs of current regulation outweigh its …
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The Commission was asked to evaluate current assistance arrangements to the TCF industries and provide policy options for post 2005 assistance and to report on a range of related matters that will affect the sector's long-term viability. The inquiry will also look at relevant workplace issues...
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The paper contains an analysis of key issues facing State and Territory governments reviewing the regulation of taxis … report on Urban Transport, particularly its assessment of the rationales for entry restrictions and fare regulation, and its … policy makers in different jurisdictions with a common framework for assessing key issues in taxi regulation. …
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The note documents and discusses the modalities and consequences of the phenomenon of siphoning profits of state enterprises for private uses by state enteprise managers and insiders in Bulgaria during the period of early transition.
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Undesirable outputs are often produced together with desirable outputs. This joint production of good and bad outputs brings about a difficulty for productivity measurement. Here we introduce a directional distance function and use it as a component in a new productivity index. This index, as an...
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Reply to professor Vanek's comment on Bogetic's paper in the same issue of the Economic Analysis and Workers' Management.
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I show that the Pigovian solution to a simple externalities problem and a particular Coasian solution can be viewed as competitive equilibria from different initial endowments. I also describe the ``compensation mechanism,'' a mechanism that implements either the Coasian or Pigovian solution as...
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This paper studies efficient and egalitarian allocations over a single heterogeneous and infinitely divisible good. We prove the existence of such allocations using only measure-theoretic arguments. Under the additional assumption of complete information, we identify a sufficient condition on...
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We analyze three sets of income data: the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), and the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). It is shown that the empirical income distribution is consistent with a two-parameter lognormal function for the low-middle...
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