For sake of actualizing anti-trade barrier and changing the situation of price war after China's taking part in WTO, Jiangsu laver association was founded. By using the Bayesian Cournot model, this paper analyzes the basis of trade association's foundation is the ability of improving product...

The Productivity Commission convened a roundtable on the topic Productive Reform in a Federal System at Old Parliament House, Canberra on 27 and 28 October 2005. The invitees included senior government officials, consultants, academics, and representatives from industry and community groups.The...

The conference proceedings, 'Quantitative Tools for Microeconomic Policy Analysis', were published on 6 October 2005. The conference, organised by the Productivity Commission, was held in Canberra on 17-18 November 2004.Policy modelling has played an important role in the work of the...

When income is redistributed at national level, the minimum requirement is that the transfers should be progressive, that is flow from richer to poorer individuals. The same rule should hold at the global level: it is not sufficient that transfers be from a richer to a poorer country. But...

Cost-based transfer pricing is used by many firms. However, there exist many cost-based methods that may be centralized or decentralized. If centralized, the firm's central office has discretion how accurately to measure the divisions' costs. In order to measure cost reliably, the firm must...

This paper examines how different remuneration alternatives for the tax auditors in a corrupt tax administration can provide them incentives to work harder towards discovering evasion. The model is built on the interaction between a potential tax evader and a tax auditor that can either be...

This paper examines the P-star model of the link between M2 and prices recently developed by Haliman, Porter and Small (1989, 1990) (HPS). It also develops an Ml-based variant of the P-star model. The analysis points out and corrects, for the most part, several major shortcomings in the P-star...

A genealogical investigation of Frank Knight's little textbook, lt;Igt;The Economic Organizationlt;/Igt; (lt;Igt;EOlt;/Igt;), which has a history separate from, and perhaps even in tension with, its author. Where did this text come from? What is its history? What essays and manuscripts are its...

This paper evaluates optimal monetary policy rules within the context of a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model estimated for the Euro Area. Under assumption of an ad hoc loss function for the central bank, we compute the unconditional losses both under discretion and commitment. We...

Some commentators have argued that the current legal approach to selective enforcement is inadequate, particularly because of its reliance on the concept of quot;intent to discriminate,quot; and must be refashioned. We show, instead, that the current legal approach is well suited to accommodate...