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Tourism Development as a Dimension of Globalisation: Experiences and Policies of China and Australia

Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2004

Both China and Australia have participated in the process of growing economic globalisation in recent decades. This … paper compares trends in the openness of China’s and Australia’s economy in terms of international trade and foreign direct …’s tourism industry and its evolving policy framework is provided. Australia also has obtained significant growth in its tourism …

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Is the Treasury subsidising Australian Undergraduates? or, Investing in Higher Education

Pincus, Jonathan - School of Economics, University of Adelaide - 1998

This paper presents estimates of the financial returns to the graduate, to the Treasury and to the Australian economy from undergraduate education. In addition, the paper indulges in some speculations about the efficiency of the policy changes.

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Is Vertical Fiscal Imbalance so Inefficient? or, The Flypaper Effect is not an Anomaly

Brennan, Geoffrey; Pincus, Jonathan - School of Economics, University of Adelaide - 1998

This paper re-examines criticisms made of vertical fiscal imbalance in Australian and other federations. We argue that one of the central criticisms made of vertical fiscal imbalance is unproven. Vertical fiscal imbalance occurs when the central government collects more taxes than it spends on...

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Lucky Country or Fool's Paradise?

Hefford, Ronald K. - School of Economics, University of Adelaide - 1991

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An Optimization Model for the Banana Northern Prawn Fishery

Valle de Souza, Simone; Gondro, Cedric; Cacho, Oscar J. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2010

in Australia. The life cycle of this species involves migration between the sea, where the catch takes place, and the …

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Bias, stability, and predictive ability in the measurement of systematic risk

Gray, Stephen; Hall, Jason; Kleas, Drew; McCrystal, Alan - In: Accounting Research Journal 22 (2009) November, pp. 220-236

Purpose – Estimates of systematic risk or beta are an important determinant of the cost of capital. The standard technique used to compile beta estimates is an ordinary least squares regression of stock returns on market returns using four to five years of monthly data. This convention assumes...

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Board composition and firm performance variance: Australian evidence

Wang, Yi; Oliver, Judith - In: Accounting Research Journal 22 (2009) September, pp. 196-212

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between board composition and firm performance variance in the context of recent corporate governance reforms, based on the agency and organisational literatures. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses 384 of the...

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What makes a board independent? Australian evidence

He, Liyu; Wright, Sue; Evans, Elaine; Crowe, Susan - In: Accounting Research Journal 22 (2009) September, pp. 144-166

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine what aspects of board independence, in terms of board structure and characteristics of non-executive directors (NEDs), are associated with effective monitoring of management, as evidenced through lower levels of earnings management....

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The effects of forecast specificity on the asymmetric short-window share market response to management earnings forecast

Chan, Howard; Faff, Robert; Ho, Yee Kee; Ramsay, Alan - In: Accounting Research Journal 22 (2009) November, pp. 237-261

Purpose – This study aims to test the effects of forecast specificity on the asymmetric short-window share market response to management earnings forecasts (MEF). Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines a large sample of hand-checked Australian data over the period 1994 to 2001....

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The University Gender Gap in Australia: A Long-run Perspective

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

According to the 1911 Census, the proportion female of those receiving university education was around 22%, growing to 29% in 1921. By 1952 it had dropped to under 20%, due to easy access into universities for returning war-veterans. From the early 1950s, the university-educated gender gap began...

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