In this chapter, we compare the experience of Australia and New Zealand over the period of microeconomic reform that began in the early 1980s. Of particular concern is the question of how New Zealand, with what were seen at the time as the ‘best’ set of economic policies in the OECD,...

Harry Johnson described Industrial Organization as a 'peripheral' subject 'on which the British have always been extremely weak'. On the face of it, there seems to be some justice in this. For one thing, Industrial Organization has not achieved the sort of lively interaction between theory and...

General equilibrium models of Canada/US free trade have produced a wide range of predictions of the impact on the Canadian economy. This paper analyses the models from an 'industrial organisation' perspective, focusing on differences in assumptions about market elasticities and pricing...