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Government Trading Enterprises Performance Indicators 1992-93 to 1996-97
Growing the Digital Economy in Australia and New Zealand: Maximising Opportunities for Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Harnessing Private Sector Conservation of Biodiversity
Housing Assistance and Employment in Australia
Housing Decisions of Older Australians
ICT Use and Productivity: A Synthesis from Studies of Australian Firms
Indigenous Primary School Achievement
Innovations in Care for Chronic Health Conditions
Integrated Urban Water Management — Why a good idea seems hard to implement
International Benchmarking of Container Stevedoring
International Education Services
Microeconomic Reforms and Australian Productivity: Exploring the Links
Offshore Investment by Australian Firms: Survey Evidence
Pastoral Leases and Non-Pastoral Land Use
Plan to Identify Planning and Zoning Reforms
Population and Migration: Understanding the Numbers
Potential Benefits of the National Reform Agenda
Private Hospitals in Australia
Public Transport Pricing
Regulation of the Taxi Industry
Regulatory Technology
Response to the NCC's Draft Recommendation on Declaration of Sydney Airport
Rising inequality? A stocktake of the evidence
Rising Protectionism: Challenges, threats and opportunities for Australia
Small Business Access to Finance: The evolving lending market
Social Capital: Reviewing the Concept and its Policy Implications
Structural Adjustment - Key Policy Issues
Superannuation in the Costing of Government Services
Superannuation Policy for Post-Retirement
Tax and Transfer Incidence in Australia
The Demand Driven University System: A mixed report card
The Role of Non-Traditional Work in the Australian Labour Market
Towards Urban Water Reform: A Discussion Paper
Trends in Aged Care Services: some implications
Trends in Australian Agriculture
Trends in Australian Manufacturing
Victoria's Commercial Land Use Zoning
Vulnerable Private Renters: Evidence and Options
Water Rights Arrangements in Australia and Overseas
Wealth Transfers and their Economic Effects
Why Did Young People’s Incomes Decline?
Working from Home
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Australia's Productivity Performance
PC Productivity Insights
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Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage
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A Comparison of Gross Output and Value-added Methods of Productivity Estimation
A Comparison of Institutional Arrangements for Road Provision
A Duty of Care for the Protection of Biodiversity on Land
A Guide to Regulation (1998)
A Guide to the IAC's Use of the ORANI Model
A Model of Investment in the Sydney Four and Five Star Hotel Market
A Plan for Development of Nationally Comparable School Student Learning Outcomes through Establishment of Equivalences between Existing State and Territory Tests
A Rationale for Developing a Linked Employer-Employee Dataset for Policy Research
A 'Sustainable' Population? - Key Policy Issues
APEC Early Voluntary Sectoral Liberalisation
Achieving Better Regulation of Services
Agricultural Competitiveness Taskforce
Amendments to the New Australian Product Liability Law
An Analysis of the Factors affecting Steel Scrap Collection
An Economic Analysis of Copyright Reform
An Economic Framework for Assessing the Financial Performance of Government Trading Enterprises
An Introduction to Entropy Estimation of Parameters in Economic Models
Armington Elasticities and Terms of Trade Effects in Global CGE Models
Armington General Equilibrium Model: Properties, Implications and Alternatives
Armington Model
Arrangements for Setting Drinking Water Standards
Assessing Australia's Productivity Performance
Assessing Productivity in the Delivery of Health Services in Australia: Some experimental estimates
Assessing Productivity in the Delivery of Public Hospital Services in Australia: Some experimental estimates
Assessing the Importance of National Economic Reform - Australian Productivity Commission experience
Assessing the Potential for Market Power in the National Electricity Market
Asset Measurement in the Costing of Government Services
Assistance Conferred by Preferential Trading Agreements - Case study of the Australia-New Zealand CER Trade Agreement
Assistance to Agricultural and Manufacturing Industries
Australia: Getting the Most from ICTs
Australia's Approach to Forthcoming Trade Negotiations
Australia's Industry Sector Productivity Performance
Australia's Oil and Gas Reserves
Australia's Productivity Growth Slump: Signs of Crisis, Adjustment or Both?
Australia's Productivity Performance
Australia's Productivity Surge and its Determinants
Australia's Restrictions on Trade in Financial Services
Australia's Service Sector: A Study in Diversity
Australia's Visa System for Visitors
Australian Atlantic Salmon: Effects of Import Competition
Australian Business Securitisation Fund
Australian Gas Industry and Markets Study
Australian Manufacturing Industry
Australian Manufacturing Industry and International Trade Data 1968-69 to 1992-93
Australian Postal Corporation Act 1989
Australian Telecommunications Services
Australian Waterfront
Authorisation of the National Electricity Code
Behavioural Economics and Public Policy
Benchmarking in Federal Systems
Best Practice Regulation Report 2006-07
Better Indigenous Policies: The Role of Evaluation
Beyond the Firm - An assessment of business linkages and networks in Australia
BLADE for Productivity Research
Broadband Cable Access Regime
Building Excellence in Health Care in a Changing Environment
Business Failure and Change: An Australian Perspective
Business Programs
Can Australia Match US Productivity Performance?
CAPITA-B: A Behavioural Microsimulation Model
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Some Preliminary Observations
Certain Aspects of the Treaty-Making Process in Australia
Childhood Obesity: An Economic Perspective
Climbing the jobs ladder slower: Young people in a weak labour market
COAG's Regulatory and Competition Reform Agenda: A high level assessment of the gains
Community Service Obligations: Policies and Practices of Australian Governments
Community Service Obligations: Some Definitional, Costing and Funding Issues
Competition Policy Review
Competition and Retail Banking
Competitive Safeguards in Telecommunications
Compliance Costs of Taxation in Australia
Compliance with the Road Transport Law
Computable General Equilibrium Models for Evaluating Domestic Greenhouse Policies in Australia
Constraints on Private Conservation: Some Challenges in Managing Australia's Tropical Rainforests
Corporations Law Simplification Taskforce
Cost Sharing for Biodiversity Conservation: A Conceptual Framework
Country of Origin Labelling of Food
Creating Markets for Biodiversity: A Case Study of Earth Sanctuaries Ltd
Creating Markets for Ecosystem Services
Cross-Media Ownership Rules
Data Envelopment Analysis
Deep and Persistent Disadvantage in Australia
Design Principles for Small Business Programs and Regulations
Developing a Partial Equilibrium Model of an Urban Water System
Developments in Regulation and its Review 1991-92
Developments in Regulation and its Review 1992-93
Developments in Regulation and its Review 1993-94
Directions For State Tax Reform
Distribution of the Economic Gains of the 1990s
Distributional Effects of Changes in Australian Infrastructure Industries during the 1990s
Does Pacific Power Have Market Power
Econometric Modelling of Infrastructure and Australia's Productivity
Econometric Modelling of R&D and Australia's Productivity
Economic Evaluation of CSIRO Industrial Research
Effective Marginal Tax Rates on Savings
Effects of Health and Education on Labour Force Participation
Effects of Mutual Recognition of Imputation Credits
Efficiency Measures for Child Protection and Support Pathways
On Efficiency and Effectiveness: some definitions
Electricity Prices and Cost Factors
Enforcing Australia's Food Laws
Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental Policy Analysis: A Guide to Non-Market Valuation
Equity, Efficiency and Welfare
Exports of Government Services
Extending CoOL: A benefit cost analysis
Extending Country of Origin Labelling to Selected Packaged Fruit or Vegetable Whole Food Produce
Extending Patent Life: Is it in Australia's Economic Interests?
FERTMOD
Firm Size and Export Performance: Some Empirical Evidence
Fixed-term Employees in Australia: Incidence and Characteristics
Forms of Work in Australia
Framework for Greenhouse Emission Trading in Australia
GBE Price Reform - Effects on Household Expenditure
GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project) Summary in Excel Programs
General Equilibrium Models and Policy Advice in Australia
Genetically Modified Products: A Consumer Choice Framework
Global Gains from Liberalising Trade in Telecommunications and Financial Services
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Productivity Growth of Electricity Generators
Grey-Letter Law
Guidelines on Accounting Policy for Valuation of Assets of Government Trading Enterprises: Using Current Valuation Methods
Health Policy Roundtable
Higher Education Financing and Policy
House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage
Impact of Competition Enhancing Air Services Agreements: A Network Modelling Approach
Impact of Mutual Recognition on Regulations in Australia
Implementing Reforms in Government Services 1998
Implementing the National Competition Policy: Access and Price Regulation
Incorporating Household Survey Data into a CGE Model
Indigenous Voice Co-design Process
Industry Commission Annual Report 1989-90
Industry Commission Annual Report 1990-91
Industry Commission Annual Report 1991-92
Industry Commission Annual Report 1992-93
Industry Commission Annual Report 1993-94
Industry Commission Annual Report 1994-95
Industry Commission Annual Report 1995-96
Industry Commission Annual Report 1996-97
Industry Competitiveness, Trade and the Environment
Industry Economics Conference 1997
Industry Economics Conference 1998
Industry Economics Conference 1999
Influences on Indigenous Labour Market Outcomes
Informal Equity Investment
Information Technology and Australia's Productivity Surge
Infrastructure Australia's National Infrastructure Audit
On Input-output Tables: uses and abuses
Institutional Arrangements for the Regulation of Natural and Mandated Monopolies
Institutional Arrangements for the Regulation of Natural and Mandated Monopolies
Insurance and Superannuation Commission (ISC) Discussion Papers on Derivatives
Integrated Tariff Analysis System (ITAS)
An Integrated Tariff Analysis System: Software and Database
Integrating Rural and Urban Water Markets in South East Australia: Preliminary analysis
Interim Report of the Reference Group on Welfare Reform
International Comparisons of Plant Productivity - Domestic Water Heaters
International Negotiations on Investment Liberalisation
International Performance Indicators - Road Freight
International Performance Indicators Telecommunications 1995
International Telecommunications Reform in Australia
Internet Commerce
Internet and Electronic Cash
Introducing Bilateral Exchange Rates in Global CGE Models
Investments in Intangible Assets and Australia's Productivity Growth
Investments in Intangible Assets and Australia's Productivity Growth: Sectoral Estimates
Irrigated Farms
Irrigation externalities: pricing and charges
Issues in Infrastructure Pricing
Jobs for the Future in Regional Areas
Labour Force Participation of Women Over 45
Labour's Share of Growth in Income and Prosperity
Land Degradation and the Australian Agricultural Industry
Links Between Literacy and Numeracy Skills and Labour Market Outcomes
Linking Inputs and Outputs: Activity Measurement by Police Services
Literacy and Numeracy Skills and Labour Market Outcomes in Australia
Living, Labour and Environmental Standards and the WTO
Long-Term Aged Care: Expenditure Trends and Projections
Managed Competition in Health Care
Measures of Restrictions on Trade in Services Database
Measuring the Contributions of Productivity and Terms of Trade to Australia's Economic Welfare
Measuring the Technical Efficiency of Public and Private Hospitals in Australia
Measuring the Total Factor Productivity of Government Trading Enterprises
Mechanisms for Improving the Quality of Regulations: Australia in an International Context
Men Not at Work: An Analysis of Men Outside the Labour Force
Merger Regulation
Mergers and Acquisitions
Micro Reform - Impacts on Firms: Aluminium Case Study
Microeconomic Reform Scoreboard 1996-97
Microeconomic Reform and Productivity Growth
Microeconomic Reform and Structural Change in Employment
Microeconomic Reform and the Environment
Microeconomic Reforms in Australia: A Compendium from the 1970s to 1997
Microeconomic reforms and the revival in Australia's growth in productivity and living standards
Migration, Trade and Investment
Modelling Possible Impacts of GM Crops on Australian Trade
Modelling Water Trade in the Southern Murray-Darling Basin
Modelling the Effects of the EU Common Agricultural Policy
Modified Demographic and Economic Model (MoDEM 1.0)
MoDEM 2.0
More Time for Business
Multifactor Productivity Growth Cycles at the Industry Level
Multilateral Liberalisation of Services Trade
NCC Review of the WA Rail Access Regime
National Access Regime
National Agreement Performance Reporting
National Broadband Network
National Competition Policy Review of Pharmacy
National Competition Policy Review of the Wheat Marketing Act 1989
National Competition Policy: Draft Legislative Package
National Greenhouse Strategy
National Health Performance Framework Report 2000
National Health Performance Framework Report 2001
National Indigenous Reform Agreement: Performance Assessment 2013-14
National Partnership Performance Reporting
National Satisfaction Survey of Clients of Disability Services
NSW Dairy Industry
On Productivity: concepts and measurement
On Productivity: the influence of natural resource inputs
Outcome Measurement in Child Protection
Part IIIB – Why There is No Economic Case for Additional Access Regulations
Part Time Employment: the Australian Experience
Pay TV: Why Regulate
Payroll Tax in the Costing of Government Services
Performance Measures for Councils: Improving Local Government Performance Indicators
Pigs and Pigmeat
Policy Implications of the Ageing of Australia's Population Conference
Population Distribution and Telecommunication Costs
Potential Effects of Selected Taxation Provisions on the Environment
Pre-merger Notification and the Trade Practices Act 1974
Precaution and the Precautionary Principle: two Australian case studies
Precaution: Principles and practice in Australian environmental and natural resource management
Prevalence of Transition Pathways in Australia
Price Effects of Regulation: International Air Passenger Transport, Telecommunications and Electricity Supply
Prime Ministerial Task Group on Emissions Trading
Principles and Guidelines for National Standard Setting and Regulatory Action by Ministerial Councils and Standard-Setting Bodies
Privacy Protection in the Private Sector
Private Investment in Urban Roads
Pro-competitive Regulation
Productive Reform in a Federal System
Productivity Gains from Policy Reforms, ICTs and Structural Transformation
Productivity Growth and Australian Manufacturing Industry
Productivity Growth in Australia: Are We Enjoying a Miracle?
Productivity Perspectives 2004
Productivity Perspectives 2006
Productivity Perspectives 2007
Productivity Perspectives 2012
Productivity and the Structure of Employment
Productivity in Australia's Wholesale and Retail Trade
Productivity in Electricity, Gas and Water: Measurement and Interpretation
Productivity in Financial and Insurance Services
Productivity in Manufacturing: Measurement and Interpretation
Productivity in the Mining Industry: Measurement and Interpretation
Progress in Rail Reform
Promoting Better Environmental Outcomes
Prudential Regulation of Investment in Australia's Export Industries
Public Infrastructure Financing: An International Perspective
Quality Initial Teacher Education Review
Quality of Care in Australian Public and Private Hospitals
Quantitative Modelling at the Productivity Commission
Quantitative Tools for Microeconomic Policy Analysis
Queensland Dairy Industry
Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service
Recent Trends in Australian Fertility
Reducing the Regulatory Burden: Does Firm Size Matter?
Reform and the Distribution of Income - An Economy-wide Approach
Reforms in Government Services 1997
Regulating Services Trade: Matching Policies to Objectives
Regulation and its Review 1994-95
Regulation and its Review 1995-96
Regulation and its Review 1996-97
Regulation and its Review 1997-98
Regulation and its Review 1998-99
Regulation and its Review 1999-2000
Regulation and its Review 2000-01
Regulation and its Review 2001-02
Regulation and its Review 2002-03
Regulation and its Review 2003-04
Regulation and its Review 2004-05
Regulation and its Review 2005-06
Regulation and the Direct Marketing Industry
Regulator Audit Framework
Resource Movements and Labour Productivity, an Australian Illustration: 1994-95 to 1997-98
Responsiveness of Demand for Irrigation Water: A Focus on the Southern Murray-Darling Basin
Restrictions on Trade in Distribution Services
Restrictions on Trade in Education Services: Some Basic Indexes
Restrictions on Trade in Professional Services
Review of Approaches to Satisfaction Surveys of Clients of Disability Services
Review of Australia's Hazardous Waste Act
Review of Patient Satisfaction and Experience Surveys Conducted for Public Hospitals in Australia
Review of Price Controls on Telstra
Review of Pricing Arrangements in Residential Aged Care
Review of the Export Market Development Grants Scheme
Review of the Licensing Regime for Securities Advisers
Review of the NSW Rural Assistance Act
Review of the Trade Practices Act 1974
Review of the Wheat Marketing Act 1989 - Supplementary submission
Role of Economic Instruments in Managing the Environment
Rules of Origin: can the noodle bowl of trade agreements be untangled?
Rural Adjustment Scheme
Rural Research and Development Council
Remote, Rural and Urban Telecommunications Services
Self-Employed Contractors in Australia: Incidence and Characteristics
Service Trade and Foreign Direct Investment
Single-Desk Marketing: Assessing the Economic Arguments
Skill and Australia's Productivity Surge
Small Business Employment
Some Lessons from the Use of Environmental Quasi-Regulation
Sources of Australia's Productivity Revival
Statistical Analysis of the Use and Impact of Government Business Programs
Stocktake of Progress in Microeconomic Reform
Stranded Irrigation Assets
Strategic Trade Theory: The East Asian Experience
Strengthening Evidence-based Policy in the Australian Federation
Structural Adjustment - Exploring the Policy Issues
Specialized Container Transport's Declaration Application
Shipbuilding Industry
Sugar Industry
Supplier-Induced Demand for Medical Services
Supporting Australia's Exports and Attracting Investment
On Sustainability: an economic approach
Sustainable Population Strategy Taskforce
Taskforce on Reducing Regulatory Burdens on Business
Tasmanian Dairy Industry Review
Tax Law Improvement Project
Techniques for Measuring Efficiency in Health Services
Telecommunications Economics and Policy Issues
Telecommunications Prices and Price Changes
The Analysis and Regulation of Safety Risk
The Changing of Australian Manufacturing
The Diversity of Casual Contract Employment
The Economic Impact of International Airline Alliances
The Effects of Education and Health on Wages and Productivity
The Effects of ICTs and Complementary Innovations on Australian Productivity Growth
The Electricity Industry in South Australia
The FTAP2 Model: Theory and Data
The Growth and Revenue Implications of Hilmer and Related Reforms
The Growth of Labour Hire Employment in Australia
The Growth of Non-Traditional Employment: Are Jobs Becoming More Precarious?
The Health Effects and Regulation of Passive Smoking
The Impact of APEC's Free Trade Commitment
The Implications of Ageing for Education Policy
The Increasing Demand for Skilled Workers in Australia: The Role of Technical Change
The Measurement of Effective Rates of Assistance in Australia
The Migration Agents Registration Scheme: Effects And Improvements
The Net Social Revenue Approach to Solving Computable General Equilibrium Models
The New Economy? A New Look at Australia's Productivity Performance
The Regulatory Impact of the Australian Accounting Standards Board
The Responsiveness of Australian Farm Performance to Changes in Irrigation Water Use and Trade
The Restrictiveness of Rules of Origin in Preferential Trade Agreements
The Role of Auctions in Allocating Public Resources
The Role of Risk and Cost-Benefit Analysis in Determining Quarantine Measures
The Role of Technology in Determining Skilled Employment: An Economywide Approach
The Role of Training and Innovation in Workplace Performance
The SALTER Model of the World Economy
The SALTER Model of the World Economy: Model Structure, Database and Parameters
The Stern Review: an assessment of its methodology
The Structure of the FTAP Model
The Trade and Investment Effects of Preferential Trading Arrangements - Old and New Evidence
The Use of Cost Litigation Rules to improve the Efficiency of the Legal System
Third-party Effects of Water Trading and Potential Policy Responses
Towards a National Framework for the Development of Environmental Management Systems in Agriculture
Trade Liberalisation and Earnings Distribution in Australia
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
Trends in Australian Infrastructure Prices 1990-91 to 2000-01
Trends in the Distribution of Income in Australia
Unemployment and Re-employment of Displaced Workers
Unifying Partial and General Equilibrium Modelling for Applied Policy Analysis
Updating the GTAP 1996-97 Australian Database
Uptake and Impacts of the ICTs in The Australian Economy: Evidence from Aggregate, Sectoral and Firm Levels
Using Consumer Views in Performance Indicators for Children's Services
Using Real Expenditure to Assess Policy Impacts
Valuing the Future: the social discount rate in cost-benefit analysis
VUMR Modelling Reference Case, 2009-10 to 2059-60
Victorian Dairy Industry Review
Waste Lubricating Oil and Used Tyres
Water Reform, Property Rights and Hydrological Realities
What Future for Price Surveillance?
What Role for Policies to Supplement an Emissions Trading Scheme?
Winegrape and Wine Industry in Australia
Work Arrangements in Container Stevedoring
Work Arrangements in the Australian Meat Processing Industry
Work Arrangements on Large Capital City Building Projects
Work Choices of Married Women: drivers of change
Workforce Participation Rates - How Does Australia Compare?
Youth Wages and Employment
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A Brief Overview of the Mental Health Inquiry Report
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Future of the Global Trading System
Rise of Digital Technology
Healthcare – why quality matters
Productivity Reform in Australia and New Zealand: Barriers and opportunities
The COVID-19 Recovery: A view from the supply side
Private Health Insurance
2019 Grace Groom Memorial Oration
Economic Knowledge and the State
Human Services: The next wave of productivity reform
Healthcare: A wide-angled view
Productivity, Growth and Progress
Future of Markets and TAFE
Healthcare: Why we need to do things differently
Reaping Broader Economic Benefits from an Effective Healthcare System: a visual lens
How Can Economics Contribute to Better Policy-Making in Future?
A Whole of Government Indigenous Evaluation Strategy
Economic Regulation of Airports - the Commission's Draft Report
Regulating in the Digital Economy
Fitness and the Future of Work: time to swap out the marathon for F45
Trends in Economic Inequality over 27 Years of Economic Growth
Growth's Running Mate
Seven Stories from 'Rising inequality? A stocktake of the evidence'
Have 'Big Tech' Platforms Got Too Much Power?
The Future of Work: Is It Something Completely Different?
Data, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Australia's New Consumer Right
Will Reformed Human Services Markets be a Good Thing for Older Australians?
Superannuation: Performing for all members?
Infrastructure
Pursuit of Transparency and Accountability
Challenges, Threats and Opportunities for Australian International Trade
Competition in the Financial System
Productivity and Policy Challenges in an Environment of Pervasive Uncertainty
Data - The Thing that Ties it All Together
What is Fair?
Five year Productivity Review
Public Policy and What's Missing in Action?
Productivity, Innovation and Review of the Workplace Relations Regulatory Framework
Reconsidering the Sacred Cow of Housing: Policies for an Ageing Australia
Older Australians and the Bucket List
Making a Difference
Public Housing and Employment
Reviving Harper
CEDA: Workplace Relations
The Case for Infrastructure Pricing Reform - What water can teach roads
Free Trade Agreements
Remarks at the 2015 Australian Domestic Gas Outlook Conference
An Economist and a Lawyer Went to Lunch ... some reflections on the Productivity Commission's Access to Civil Justice Inquiry
Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development and Social Progress
Indian Economy: Retrospect and Prospect
The Future of the Multilateral Trading System
Political Economy of Reform in Mexico
The Challenge for Trade Policy in a Dynamic World and Regional Setting: An Indonesian Perspective
China's Policy Responses to the Global Financial Crisis
Latin America in the Global Economy: Challenges and Opportunities
Economic and Regulatory Reforms in Europe: Past Experiences and Future Challenges
The World Economy in the New Millennium: A New Golden Age?
Spreading Prosperity and Resisting Economic Divergence: The Significance of Richard Snape's Academic Legacy
40 Million Aussies? The Immigration Debate Revisited
Will Asian Mercantilism Meet its Waterloo?
The Industry Commission's Report on Private Health Insurance in Australia
Chairman's Speech to the Australian Coalition of Service Industries
Why have a Productivity Commission?
Human capital, the universities and microeconomic reform
Towards Best Practice Regulation: The National 'Standard'
Policy Implications of the Ageing of Australia's Population
Microeconomic reform: beauty or the beast?
Meeting the challenge of change in regional Australia
Competition: the best price regulator
Productive R&D Assistance
Challenges for Australia in Regulatory Reform
Competition and the Public Interest
The Role of ICT in Australia's Economic Performance
Article on Microreform's Productivity Payoff
Reviewing the Service Performance of Australian Governments
The Drivers of Australia's Productivity Surge
Competition Regulation of Infrastructure: Getting the Balance Right
The Productivity Commission's Automotive Inquiry
Australia's interests in the WTO
The 'baby and the bath water': avoiding efficiency mishaps in regulating monopoly infrastructure
Regulating Australia's Infrastructure: Looking Forward
Getting the most out of the WTO and the Doha Round
The Contribution to Public Policy of Prof. Richard Hal Snape, 1936-2002
Inter-state bidding wars: calling a truce
The Productivity Commission's gambling inquiry: 3 years on
Reducing the Business Costs of Regulation
'Minimum effective regulation' and the mining industry
Gaining from trade liberalisation: some reflections on Australia's experience
Australia's economic 'miracle'
The good, the bad and the ugly: economic perspectives on regulation in Australia
Indigenous disadvantage: assessing policy impacts
A Welcome to the Commission's 30th Anniversary Celebration
An Ageing Australia: Small beer or big bucks?
NCP and beyond: an agenda for national reform
Structural reform Australian-style: lessons for others?
Regulation-making in Australia: Is it broke? How do we fix it?
Indigenous disadvantage: are we making progress?
Policy Implications of an ageing Australia: an illustrated guide
Comparing school systems across Australia
Road and rail pricing: some early observations ... and more questions
Reducing the Regulatory Burden: the way forward
Explaining the housing market puzzle
Tackling the underlying causes of over-regulation: an update
Regulation for Australia's Federation in the 21st Century
Great Expectations: Management (and other) Lessons from the Regulation Taskforce
Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage in Australia
Domestic transparency in Australia's economic and trade reforms: the role of 'the Commission'
Gambling in Australia: are we balancing the equation?
Public inquiries in policy formulation: Australia's Productivity Commission
Riding the third wave: Some challenges in national reform
Health Costs and Policy in an Ageing Australia
Industry Policy for a Productive Australia
Evidence-based policy-making: What is it? How do we get it?
The Productivity Commission's Executive Pay Inquiry: An update on the issues
Are we overcoming Indigenous disadvantage?
Executive pay: economic issues from the Commission's report
Back to the Future: Restoring Australia's Productivity Growth
Markets: how free?
Statistics, Productivity and Reform
An Economy-wide View: Speeches on Structural Reform
Advancing Australia's 'Human Capital Agenda'
Successful reform: past lessons, future challenges
Comparing Carbon Policies Internationally: the 'challenges'
Evidence and Social Policy: the case of gambling
Australia's Mining Boom: what's the problem?
Economics, Economists and Public Policy in Australia
Independent Policy Advice and the Productivity Commission
Industry Assistance in a 'Patchwork Economy'
Whither trans-Tasman economic relations? Some emerging themes
Competition Policy's regulatory innovations: quo vadis?
Productivity Policies: the 'to do' list
Advancing the Reform Agenda: Selected Speeches
From Measuring Production to Measuring Wellbeing
The Asian Financial Crisis
The Productivity Reform Outlook
Productivity and the National Income Outlook
Observations on Productivity, National Income and the Demographic Outlook
Productivity in Government
Competition Policy and Deregulation: challenges and choices
Address to the Australian Automobile Association
Infrastructure for an Ageing Australia
Address to the 2014 Annual Stockbrokers Conference
Infrastructure Reform
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Not everyone has a home that is safe and affordable
Good time for a public transport pricing rethink
Furthering Australian consumers’ right to repair
Working from home: What’s next?
Australia has fewer criminal offenders but more people in prisons
SME lending transformation
Our trade fortunes rely less on China than you think
Why is a good idea so hard to do? - Integrating urban water
Targeted texts and peer support: how smarter health care can cut costs and help Australians with chronic conditions
Should everyone go to university?
Better functioning towns and cities
Skin in the game – education and workforce
Healthier Australians
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Growing the Digital Economy in Australia and New Zealand: Maximising Opportunities for Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Harnessing Private Sector Conservation of Biodiversity
Housing Assistance and Employment in Australia
Housing Decisions of Older Australians
ICT Use and Productivity: A Synthesis from Studies of Australian Firms
Indigenous Primary School Achievement
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Integrated Urban Water Management — Why a good idea seems hard to implement
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Potential Benefits of the National Reform Agenda
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Superannuation Policy for Post-Retirement
Tax and Transfer Incidence in Australia
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Victoria's Commercial Land Use Zoning
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Building Excellence in Health Care in a Changing Environment
Business Failure and Change: An Australian Perspective
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Can Australia Match US Productivity Performance?
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Childhood Obesity: An Economic Perspective
Climbing the jobs ladder slower: Young people in a weak labour market
COAG's Regulatory and Competition Reform Agenda: A high level assessment of the gains
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Deep and Persistent Disadvantage in Australia
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Developments in Regulation and its Review 1991-92
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Developments in Regulation and its Review 1993-94
Directions For State Tax Reform
Distribution of the Economic Gains of the 1990s
Distributional Effects of Changes in Australian Infrastructure Industries during the 1990s
Does Pacific Power Have Market Power
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Effective Marginal Tax Rates on Savings
Effects of Health and Education on Labour Force Participation
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On Efficiency and Effectiveness: some definitions
Electricity Prices and Cost Factors
Enforcing Australia's Food Laws
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Environmental Policy Analysis: A Guide to Non-Market Valuation
Equity, Efficiency and Welfare
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Extending CoOL: A benefit cost analysis
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Extending Patent Life: Is it in Australia's Economic Interests?
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Fixed-term Employees in Australia: Incidence and Characteristics
Forms of Work in Australia
Framework for Greenhouse Emission Trading in Australia
GBE Price Reform - Effects on Household Expenditure
GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project) Summary in Excel Programs
General Equilibrium Models and Policy Advice in Australia
Genetically Modified Products: A Consumer Choice Framework
Global Gains from Liberalising Trade in Telecommunications and Financial Services
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Productivity Growth of Electricity Generators
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Guidelines on Accounting Policy for Valuation of Assets of Government Trading Enterprises: Using Current Valuation Methods
Health Policy Roundtable
Higher Education Financing and Policy
House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage
Impact of Competition Enhancing Air Services Agreements: A Network Modelling Approach
Impact of Mutual Recognition on Regulations in Australia
Implementing Reforms in Government Services 1998
Implementing the National Competition Policy: Access and Price Regulation
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Industry Competitiveness, Trade and the Environment
Industry Economics Conference 1997
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Information Technology and Australia's Productivity Surge
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On Input-output Tables: uses and abuses
Institutional Arrangements for the Regulation of Natural and Mandated Monopolies
Institutional Arrangements for the Regulation of Natural and Mandated Monopolies
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International Performance Indicators Telecommunications 1995
International Telecommunications Reform in Australia
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Introducing Bilateral Exchange Rates in Global CGE Models
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Irrigation externalities: pricing and charges
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Jobs for the Future in Regional Areas
Labour Force Participation of Women Over 45
Labour's Share of Growth in Income and Prosperity
Land Degradation and the Australian Agricultural Industry
Links Between Literacy and Numeracy Skills and Labour Market Outcomes
Linking Inputs and Outputs: Activity Measurement by Police Services
Literacy and Numeracy Skills and Labour Market Outcomes in Australia
Living, Labour and Environmental Standards and the WTO
Long-Term Aged Care: Expenditure Trends and Projections
Managed Competition in Health Care
Measures of Restrictions on Trade in Services Database
Measuring the Contributions of Productivity and Terms of Trade to Australia's Economic Welfare
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Men Not at Work: An Analysis of Men Outside the Labour Force
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Microeconomic Reform Scoreboard 1996-97
Microeconomic Reform and Productivity Growth
Microeconomic Reform and Structural Change in Employment
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Microeconomic Reforms in Australia: A Compendium from the 1970s to 1997
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Part IIIB – Why There is No Economic Case for Additional Access Regulations
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Pay TV: Why Regulate
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Pigs and Pigmeat
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Population Distribution and Telecommunication Costs
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Pre-merger Notification and the Trade Practices Act 1974
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Resource Movements and Labour Productivity, an Australian Illustration: 1994-95 to 1997-98
Responsiveness of Demand for Irrigation Water: A Focus on the Southern Murray-Darling Basin
Restrictions on Trade in Distribution Services
Restrictions on Trade in Education Services: Some Basic Indexes
Restrictions on Trade in Professional Services
Review of Approaches to Satisfaction Surveys of Clients of Disability Services
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Review of Price Controls on Telstra
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Review of the Trade Practices Act 1974
Review of the Wheat Marketing Act 1989 - Supplementary submission
Role of Economic Instruments in Managing the Environment
Rules of Origin: can the noodle bowl of trade agreements be untangled?
Rural Adjustment Scheme
Rural Research and Development Council
Remote, Rural and Urban Telecommunications Services
Self-Employed Contractors in Australia: Incidence and Characteristics
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Single-Desk Marketing: Assessing the Economic Arguments
Skill and Australia's Productivity Surge
Small Business Employment
Some Lessons from the Use of Environmental Quasi-Regulation
Sources of Australia's Productivity Revival
Statistical Analysis of the Use and Impact of Government Business Programs
Stocktake of Progress in Microeconomic Reform
Stranded Irrigation Assets
Strategic Trade Theory: The East Asian Experience
Strengthening Evidence-based Policy in the Australian Federation
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Unifying Partial and General Equilibrium Modelling for Applied Policy Analysis
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Uptake and Impacts of the ICTs in The Australian Economy: Evidence from Aggregate, Sectoral and Firm Levels
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Valuing the Future: the social discount rate in cost-benefit analysis
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What Role for Policies to Supplement an Emissions Trading Scheme?
Winegrape and Wine Industry in Australia
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