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How to kill a country? The US-Australia Free Trade Agreement, pharmaceuticals and intellectual property

Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2005

The debate over theFree Trade Agreement with the United States has produced a book, How to Kill a Country, primarily concerned with intellectual property and related issues (Weiss, Thurbon and Matthews 2004). In arguing that Australia will be worse off, Weiss, Thurbon and Matthews examine four...

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The Y2K Scare: Causes, Costs and Cures

Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2004

The worldwide scare over the 'Y2K bug result in the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars on Y2K compliance and conversion policies. Most of this can be seen, in retrospect, to have been unproductive or, at least, misdirected. In this paper, the technological and institutional factors...

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Special Taxation of the Mining Industry

Freebairn, John; Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2010

The mining industry in Australia, and in most other countries, pay special taxes for the use of community owned … resources in additional to taxes levied on businesses in general. General taxes include the corporate income tax, payroll and … transaction taxes, and labour pay personal income taxes. In the states and territories the additional tax in most cases takes the …

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Intellectual Property and Indigenous Culture

Quiggin, Robynne; Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2007

The extent to which cultural activities can generate social and economic benefits for Indigenous communities, and the way in which those benefits are shared within communities depends largely on the way in which the system of intellectual property rights handles Indigenous cultural products. The...

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Looking back on microeconomic reform: a skeptical viewpoint

Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2004

Microeconomic reform dominated Australian economic policy from the early 1980s until the end of the 20th century. Despite strong claims of success, focusing on the economic expansion since 1992, and rapid productivity growth between 1993-94 and 1998-99, evidence of improvements in the...

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Comparative risk aversion for state-dependent preferences

Quiggin, John; Chambers, Robert G - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2005

The idea that preferences may be state-dependent fits naturally with an analysis of uncertainty based on explicit representation of random variables as state-contingent consumption or production bundles. In this paper we show how these concepts of risk-aversion may be extended to the case of...

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The risk premium for equity: implications for resource allocation, welfare and policy

Grant, Simon; Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2004

This paper describes experiences in the development and testing of three distinct financial models to support farm forestry decisions involving non-traditional tree species in northern Australia and in the Philippines. A variety of options were examined with respect to model design, yield...

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Localisation, globalisation and finance

Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2005

Recent developments in the global system of cities present a curious paradox. With the cost of communications declining almost to zero and substantial, though less dramatic reductions in transport costs, there is now little technical requirement for most kinds of production to be undertaken in...

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Economic liberalism: fall, revival and resistance

Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2005

The chapter is organised as follows. Section 1 is a historical survey of the fluctuating fortunes of economic liberalism from its eclipse after 1914, to its resurgence in the 1990s, and ending with evidence that economic liberalism has lost ground since the late 1990s, particularly in the...

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Economic Evaluation of the Proposed Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the United States

Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2004

their own social and economic institutions. 5. Parliament must assert its capacity and responsibility to determine …

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