type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>The implications of risk, investment irreversibility and learning for infrastructure project assessment are considered, using investment in desalination as a case study. Both qualitative insights from ‘real options’ approaches and arguments based on...</p>

Should the Australian immigration intake be forward-planned and, if so, should the resulting intake be numerically stable through time? There are sound reasons for anticipating the effects of current intakes on future intakes and for basing current intakes on Australia's long-term national...

"Distributional and second-best problems of implementing efficiency based demand management of road use in Australian cities are addressed. Both road use pricing and parking policies are considered. Failure to price roads and parking spots efficiently contributes to excessive travel and to...