Marketing and distribution expenses are responsible for about a third of the cost of active management in the mutual … fund industry. We develop and estimate a structural model of mutual fund marketing with learning about unobserved skill and … costly investor search. Our estimates suggest that marketing is nearly as important as performance and fees for determining …

used to identify strengths and limitations of water markets in: (1) Australia's Murray-Darling Basin; (2) Chile (in …

, using data from both the U.S. and Australia. When incidence growth is controlled for, there is a highly significant …% in the U.S. between 1976 and 2002, and by about 15% in Australia between 1984 and 2001 …

Australia's MDB and the western US and their prospects for addressing water scarcity. The two regions share a number of …, market structure and government regulation. We show that rights are more clearly defined and trading more common in Australia …

several former colonies of Great Britain: the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. We trace out …

, largely due to the fact that students significantly outnumber teachers. Data from North Carolina, Wisconsin, Australia …

This paper examines the pattern of self-employment in Australia and the United States. We particularly focus on the … US but were not a significant influence in Australia. However, the factors influencing the probability of leaving self …

remotely one or more days per week rose more than three-fold in the U.S and by a factor of five or more in Australia, Canada …