During the 1990s, reforms and other developments improved productivity and reduced prices in Australian infrastructure services. These changes raised the average incomes of Australian households. Household incomes increased in every jurisdiction and in every decile of the income distribution....

This paper uses a general equilibrium model to assess the effects of liberalising trade in telecommunications and financial services for 19 regions of the world. Results suggest that economies gain from removing barriers to the establishment of new operations (domestic or foreign), and by...

Early 2009 saw the emergence of an H1N1 influenza epidemic in North America that eventually spread to become the first pandemic of the twenty-first century. Previous work has suggested that pandemics and near-pandemics can have large macroeconomic effects on highly affected regions; here, we...