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This two-part paper is intended to explore the task of differentiating a professional gambler from a leisure gambler, specifically, among online poker players. The first part of the study consists of a statistical analysis to identify the requisite number of hands of online poker required to...
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Local councils in New South Wales (NSW) have the authority to invest ratepayers' money that is not currently required for any other purpose by the council. At the end of 2006-07 financial year local councils in New South Wales had invested $590 million dollars in structured financial products...
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Australia for the period 1950-2005. Cointegration and a vector error-correction model are used along with Granger causality … the cointegration analysis of production in Australia and should be included in the long-run production relationship along … capital and ICT are important drivers of output growth in Australia, so their omission from standard productivity measures …
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Australia`s electric power industry (EPI) is undergoing major restructuring. This restructuring includes … of the overall economic reform package that is being implemented in Australia. Enhancing efficiency in the economy …, Australia`s previous prime minister, Paul Keating, observed that {open_quotes}the engine which drives efficiency is free and …
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examine monopoly (South Africa) and duopoly (South Africa, Australia) with a competitive fringe (US, Canada, Poland, China and …
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Australia, a vigorous private sector economy could emerge if the lunar organization provided quasi-export earning through its …
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trialled over the past five years in the United Kingdom and Australia. The primary purpose is to examine Credit Guarantee …
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Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore the voluntary use of internal audit by Australian publicly listed companies and to identify factors that lead listed companies to have an internal audit function.Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on the Institute of Internal Auditors'...
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traditional margin income and fee-based income for banks operating in Australia. Design/methodology/approach – Considering several … understanding the changing nature of banking in Australia. Given the recent sub-prime crisis in the USA and the role played by fee …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether Australian agricultural firms display big bath behaviour during droughts by recognising extraordinary and abnormal losses. It is hypothesised that Australian agricultural firms are more likely to report big bath losses in drought years...
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