This article investigates the impact of regional integration on intra-industry trade in manufactures between Thailand and other APEC countries. The study uses pooled cross-sectional and time-series data spanning the period 1980-1999 at a 3-digit Standard International Trade Classification (SITC)...

The Indian Sub-Continent (ISC) is the largest pulse producing and consuming region in the world. Australian scientists, producers, processors and exporters require detailed information about these markets. One study of these markets aims to describe the Indian chickpea market and to quantify the...

An Almost Ideal Demand System model is used to examine consumer behaviour in India using household survey data for the period 1973-74 through to 1993-94. The empirical results indicate that, for commodity groups, demand is inelastic, except for other foods and non-foods. The expenditure...

This paper develops a dynamic optimal intertemporal investment model under the adjustment cost hypothesis to analyse the structure of production and investment in Australia's pastoral zone. The dynamic model is applied to pooled cross-sectional and time-series data obtained from ABARE farm...

This article focuses on understanding the impact of microfinance on poverty reduction and wellbeing measures of health, education and living standards in Northeastern Mindanao, the Philippines. We employ a mixed method approach involving a survey of 211 microfinance client and non-client...

This study examines whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) reduces information asymmetry (IA). Using a firm-level CSR dataset of Australian publicly listed firms from 2004 to 2014, we estimate IA models using a fixed-effects panel estimator. We find that CSR performance is negatively...

In this article, we provide new empirical evidence of the association between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and information asymmetry (IA) within the Australian context. Utilising a novel firm-level dataset of Australian publicly listed firms from EIKON and Australian Securities...