Causal observation shows that many developing countries adopt certain strategic trade measures such as export subsidies and domestic currency devaluation to promote their exports. Are there any economic rationality behind these measures? The answer is yes. Using a general equilibrium model, we...

Tension exists between national accounting practice (in which capital gains are not counted as part of national income), and the theory of national income definition and interpretation (in which capital gains are often argued to be a component of national income). Much of this theoretical work...

This paper provides a comprehensive model of household waste management policy with three interacting parties: a firm, a household and an environmental regulator. The regulator chooses the environmental tax, the household waste collection charge, monitoring of illegal waste disposal by the...

An issue that arises in applications involving the ARCH-in-Mean (ARCH-M) model is whether or not the error variance is constant over time. A proper statistical formulation of this as a test of hypothesis presents two difficulties. First, the model does not satisfy the standard regularity...

There is a body of literature that studies how immigrants' earnings change over time relative those of native-born workers -or the extent of catch-up. The quasi-panel approach to the question has been adopted in only a couple of Australian papers.

In this paper we empirically analyse two counter-factual situations facing an anti-trust authority following the merger of two of the largest international cigarette companies. First we estimate a nested logit model of demand for cigarettes. The implied elasticity of demand for smoking and...