Economic Papers - Economic Society of Australia articles from September 2006

Economic Papers - Economic Society of Australia archives from September 2006

Towards a level playing field for Australian universities and students.
September 1, 2006... Reforms to higher education in Australia over the past twenty-five years have followed the worldwide trend towards greater use of market mechanisms accompanied by greater accountability for public funds. In this paper we evaluate the...

Girls and economics: an unlikely coupling?
September 1, 2006... While total undergraduate enrolments at Australian universities are increasing, enrolments in Economics are falling--a source of alarm for economists. By appealing to females, economics could effectively tap into the largest sector (58%) of the...

Students' perceptions of workshop based introductory macroeconomics tutorials: a survey.(Survey)
September 1, 2006... The declining popularity of Economics courses, evident in the last decade, has fuelled a debate on the nature of Economics units and the way in which they are taught in tertiary institutions. The effectiveness of traditional teaching methods...

Transaction costs, deposit requirements and first-home ownership.
September 1, 2006... The transition into homeownership is becoming increasingly difficult for first-home buyers. In this paper we measure the deposit requirements and the transaction costs associated with purchasing a home for the first time, and whether a...

Trading rule profits and the Australian dollar.
September 1, 2006... The efficiency of price determination in the Australian dollar (AUD) foreign currency market is of significant concern for national economic policy and well-being. This paper tests efficiency by assessing the profitability of technical trading...

Productivity and industrial disputes: a note on the Cole Royal Commission.
September 1, 2006... The Cole Royal Commission into the building and construction sector recommended radical 'reforms' in that sector's labour market. The Commission based its recommended changes on evidence of lacklustre productivity for the period under review....

Comment on "measuring Victoria's genuine progress: a Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) for Victoria".
September 1, 2006... In the December 2005 volume of this journal, Matthew Clarke and Phillip Lawn (CL from hereon) estimate a Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) for Victoria from 1986-2003: a single series that purports to measure sustainable per capita welfare....

A response to "comment on measuring Victoria's genuine progress: a Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) for Victoria".(Critical essay)
September 1, 2006... We would like to thank Paul Bradstreet and Frank Neri (B&N hereafter) for commenting on our December 2005 paper and the Editors for giving us the opportunity to reply. Our first response relates to our treatment of the welfare contribution...