Since the last two decades, many countries around the world have gone through a significant transformation in monetary policy. Their central banks now set low and stable inflation as their ultimate target in the long run. The main components of the successful implementation of this inflation...

The Australian Trade Deficit (TD) has been increasing in the past 50 years, and this deficit has become more significant in the last few decades. This rising TD level in Australia has brought the national debt level to a new height, making this country one of the world?s highest debt-ridden...

With the rapid development of the global economy, intellectual capital has become a critical driver of a business's sustainability. The essential difference between companies operating in the 'old' and the 'new' economy is that, where value in the past was created within industrial sectors such...

Funds availability has always been a major constraint to micro and small business development projects in many Asian and Latin American countries, and more so for all African countries. An assortment of various credit models has been devised and used over time by policy makers in these countries...

The integration of economics and moral philosophy, which provides a new approach to evaluation and analysis of economic activities, is increasing within the literature. It is argued in this thesis that valuation and analysis in health economics and health programs (normative health economics)...

Australia may present a special case in the analysis of strikes because, for most of the Twentieth Century, the Australian Industrial Relations Commission has acted as an industrial "umpire" charged with keeping the industrial peace. We begin with a review of major contributions to the theory of...

The broad objective of the thesis is to estimate the demand for port services at Calcutta which can be visualised as a queuing system. The fall in the operational efficiency, aggravated by the riverine nature of the port of Calcutta is widely held responsible for the decline in the port's...

This thesis considers the predictability of asset prices for financial reserving via a cascade style stochastic investment model for the asset classes of cash, equities and fixed interest. Structural breaks occur in 1947 and 1973 but stability since then means that stochastic investment...

The role of industrial policy is one of the contentious issues in applied economics. It is acknowledged in the literature that there exist a wide range of factors giving rise to deviations from the competitive market paradigm - sunk costs, economies of scale and scope, oligopoly, externalities...

This paper adapts the safe minimum standard (SMS) approach so as to explore its use as a potential policy decision support tool that can be applied to issues related to the conservation and sustainable use of farm animal genetic resource (AnGR) diversity. Empirical SMS cost estimates are...