This paper attempts to investigate trade potential for Australia using the augmented gravity models and cross section data of 50 countries. OLS has been used as an estimation technique for 2001 and 2005 data. The estimated coefficients from the gravity models are then used to predict Australia's...

Chapter 1: The Anticipatory Effects of Medicare Part D on Drug Utilization This paper quantifies the anticipatory effects of the passage of Medicare Part D on prescription drug utilization. Part D expanded Medicare to include insurance coverage for prescription drugs for the first time. While...

The use of networked organizational arrangements to conduct exchanges is one of the most distinctive features of high-tech research intensive industries. Advances in biotechnology and genomics research have enabled a generic technology platform that has fuelled a more 'open' approach to...

Chapter 1: The Economic Effects of Medical Innovations: Vioxx and Labor SupplyDespite dramatic improvements in medical technology over time, comparatively little attention has been paid to the effect of these innovations on economic outcomes. This study uses seven overlapping panels of the...

My dissertation is composed of three essays on Development Economics in China. The first chapter, co-authored with Hongbin Li, evaluates the impact of the 8-7 Plan, the second wave of China's poverty alleviation program, on rural income growth at the county level over the period 1994-2000. Since...

How do improvements in information impact market performance? This dissertation examines the effect of an innovative initiative launched by a private company in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Beginning in October 2000, it set up 1700 internet kiosks and 45 warehouses that provide...

In Chapter 1, we study an intervention in which the Peruvian government provided public payphones to 6,509 rural villages that did not have communication services before. We show that the intervention timing was orthogonal to potential outcomes and exploit it using a panel of treated villages....