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Rules of Origin under the Australia–New Zealand CER Trade Agreement

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

Rules of origin arrangements under the Australia–New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (CER) were referred to the Commission for examination and report by May 2004. The request stemmed from concerns that Australian and New Zealand firms were having difficulty achieving the...

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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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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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Regulation, Competition and Liberalization

Armstrong, Mark; Sappington, David - EconWPA - 2005

In many countries throughout the world, regulators are struggling to determine whether and how to introduce competition …

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Vertical Restructuring of the Infrastructure Sectors of Transition Economies

Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001

One important determinant of the speed and success of transition will be the efficiency of transformation and development of the infrastructure sectors. A great deal of attention has been paid to issues such as privatisation, restructuring, user prices, and terms of access in these sectors,...

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Telecommunications Regulation: An Introduction

Economides, Nicholas - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the justifications, history, and practice of regulation in the US telecommunications sector. We … the history of regulation and antitrust intervention in the telecommunications sector. After discussing the impact of … carriers), and we point to the real danger that the intent of Congress in passing the 1996 Act to promote competition in …

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Private hospitals in Australia

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

Amongst other things, this report: . provides a statistical overview of the structure of the industry and the activities of the 500 acute care, psychiatric and day hospitals that operate within it; . looks at some indicators of the industry’s financial performance, efficiency and quality of...

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International benchmarking of Australian telecommunications services

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

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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Review of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

The terms of reference for this public inquiry into the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 asked the Commission to look at how effective the Act had been been in achieving its objectives, and to assess the costs and benefits of the Act. In its final assessment, the Commission identified ways in...

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Restructuring the Polish Railway for Competition

Ordover, Janusz; Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001

Railway, PKP, that would improve the efficiency of the railroad while creating some form of competition in order to prevent … monopoly pricing. Traditional intramodal competition is unlikely to be feasible in the foreseeable future, and for the most … important commodities carried by PKP, intermodal competition is not important. A proposal under discussion is to separate the …

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