The purpose of this paper is to establish the determinants which motivate American equity investment in Australia. Both the literature on general investment theory and American direct investments in Australia have emphasised the importance of the return on income, investment diversification,...

Australia went from a highly protected trade regime (in the late 1960s-early 1970s) to a somewhat lower one (in the early 1990s). At the time of the Victorian Willis by-election in April, 1992, the Australian news media claimed that the tariff debate was already won by 'free-traders' and, that...

This paper attempts to measure an important component of the research output of econometrics and economics departments, namely, the number of pages published, during the period 1988-93, in journals listed by the Journal of Economic Literature. Based on standardized page counts it is found that...

The purpose of this paper is to establish and correlate the incentives and disincentives that motivated Japanese equity investment to Australia. Japanese investment was primarily to secure procurement of raw materials for the manufacturing industry in Japan. Within this context, the paper...