Two sets of high quality income data are analysed in detail, one set from the UK, one from the USA. It is firstly demonstrated that both a log-normal distribution and a Boltzmann distribution can give very accurate fits to both these data sets. The absence of a power tail in the US data set is...

The Commission was asked to evaluate current assistance arrangements to the TCF industries and provide policy options for post 2005 assistance and to report on a range of related matters that will affect the sector's long-term viability. The inquiry will also look at relevant workplace issues...

The paper contains an analysis of key issues facing State and Territory governments reviewing the regulation of taxis and hire-cars, under the National Competition Policy. It builds on the work contained in the 1994 Industry Commission report on Urban Transport, particularly its assessment of...

Large organizations are typically modeled as hierarchies. Hierarchies are discrete structures (trees), but researchers frequently use continuous approximations. The purpose of this paper is to study the validity of these approximations. I show that modeling hierarchies with a continuum of tiers...

This research study attempts to quantify and examine how changes in Population dynamics affect household portfolio choices (expenditure on food, monetary transactions, goods and services and non-cash expenditure) in Nigeria given the fact that Nigeria is going through a demographic transition....

The study examines the relationship between work arrangements and workplace performance on large capital building sites.

A well-documented anomaly in racetrack betting is that the expected return per dollar bet on a horse increases with the probability of the horse winning. This socalled "favorite- longshot bias" is at odds with the presumptions of market efficiency. We offer a new solution to this much-debated...

The paper is divided into 4 main sections and a conclusion: section (1) considers the definitions of Micro and Small Enterprises across the EU, USA and Russia; section (2) considers the role of MSEs in mature market economies and compares with the Russian Federation; section (3) focuses on the...

There are at least two competing visions for the future National Information Infrastructure. One model is based on the application-blind architecture of the Internet; the other is based on the application- aware architecture of cable TV systems and online services. Awareness is the extent to...

This note addresses the reasons why additive and multiplicative demand uncertainty produce differently signed biases in output price as compared to the certainty case in two-period monopoly models. Although the result is known in the literature different papers tend to assume one or other model...