A methodology is developed to incorporate operating environment variables in the measurement of total factor productivity. When no account is taken of operating environments, the Queensland electricity supply industry was found to be 13 percent more productive than the New South Wales...

Is removal of tariff protection the key to the growth of manufacturing exports? Existing analyses of microeconomic reform have shown large improvements to mining. We use a less constrained version of the economic model ORANI to show that manufacturing exporters are the major beneficiaries of...