Economic Papers - Economic Society of Australia articles from December 2005

Economic Papers - Economic Society of Australia archives from December 2005

Chinese attitudes to trade agreements in the context of the proposed Australia-China free trade agreement.
December 1, 2005... The governments of Australia and China are presently proceeding through a process with the objective of agreeing to a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA). There is little information available on the attitude of the Chinese to the proposal....

Who's afraid of the Marshall-Lerner condition?(the sum of the elasticities of import and export demand exceeds unity)
December 1, 2005... The Marshall-Lerner condition--that the sum of the elasticities of import and export demand exceeds unity--has been put forward as a condition that is required for a depreciation to make the trade balance more positive. Based on recently...

Reform of the personal income tax system in Australia.
December 1, 2005... This paper examines the case for reform of Australia's Personal Income Tax (PIT), argues that it is outdated, and demonstrates a growing consensus for reform. The importance of tax avoidance, particularly the use of trusts, in the Australian...

Local government performance monitoring in New South Wales: are 'at risk' councils really at risk?
December 1, 2005... Performance monitoring is a significant method of establishing accountability in Australian local government. In New South Wales (NSW) councils are assessed by the State Government to either be 'at risk' or 'not at risk', with this outcome...

Home ownership and inequality: imputed rent and income distribution in Australia.
December 1, 2005... This paper examines the impact of home ownership on income distribution and the incidence of low-income, using data from the Household Expenditure Surveys conducted in 1993-1994 and 1998-1999. The market-value approach is used to derive an...

Measuring Victoria's Genuine Progress: a Genuine Progress Indictor (GPI) for Victoria.
December 1, 2005... Efforts to integrate measures of well-being and sustainability have long existed within the literature. A recent approach is the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI). The GPI is a monetary-based index that has been designed to ascertain the impact...