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ICT Use and Productivity: A Synthesis from Studies of Australian Firms

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

The increased use of information and communications technology (ICT) has helped to raise Australia’s productivity growth, according to a new Commission study. It has enabled firms to innovate in what they do and how they do it. ICT Use and Productivity: A Synthesis from Studies of Australian...

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Evaluation of the Mutual Recognition Schemes

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

In January 2003, the Government asked the Commission to undertake a study into the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) and Trans-Tasm an Mutual Recognition Arrangement (TTMRA).

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The Profitability of Winning

Armstrong, JS; Collopy, Fred - EconWPA - 2005

Sports and war metaphors abound in business today. For example, one management book, Thunder in the Sky, by Thomas … business world as tantamount to victory in battle.” The book advises American executives to do the same. However, such … metaphors are misleading. The objective in both sports and war is to beat the competitor. Business, on the other hand, aims to …

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Firm size and export performance: some empirical evidence

Gabbitas, Owen; Gretton, Paul - EconWPA - 2003

This paper uses firm level data collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in its Business Longitudinal Survey to …

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Workers Compensation and Occupational Health and Safety Frameworks

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

The final report of the public inquiry, National Workers' Compensation and Occupational Health and Safety Frameworks. Consistent with its terms of reference, the Commission had recommended a national workers’ compensation scheme to operate alongside those of the States and Territories to...

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Trade, product variety and welfare: A quantitative assessment for the transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe

Funke, Michael; Ruhwedel, Ralf - EconWPA - 2004

We calculate welfare gains of trade liberalization in the Central and East European transition economies, following the approach of Romer (1994), who emphasized that proper modeling of the impact of trade restrictions on the number of available product varieties is crucial to quantifying the...

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Export variety and economic growth in East European transition economies

Funke, Michael; Ruhwedel, Ralf - EconWPA - 2003

Utilising panel data for 14 East European transition economies, we find support for the hypothesis that a greater degree of export variety relative to the U.S. helps to explain relative per capita GDP levels. The empirical work relies upon some direct measures of product variety calculated from...

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Product Variety under Brand Influence: An Empirical Investigation of Personal Computer Demand

HUI, Kai-Lung - EconWPA - 2002

Prior research suggests that brand may influence consumer preference for differentiated products. However, the extant literature does not measure how brand value affects product similarity and consumer choice. This paper examines demand response to the proliferation of personal computers (PCs)....

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