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Road and Rail Freight Infrastructure Pricing
Commission, Productivity - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia
pricing for trucks currently excluded from parts of the network, and institutional reforms, before moving to introduce wider … a range of reforms to overcome the legacy of a century of inconsistent state based regulation. It also concluded that … there was scope to moderate rail access regulation and that corporatisation principles should be more strictly applied. …
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Potential Benefits of the National Reform Agenda
Commission, Productivity - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia - 2007
and fiscal impacts. There are three streams to the National Reform Agenda: human capital, competition and regulatory … growth. For the competition and regulatory reform streams, Governments’ combined net revenues could rise by as much as $5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008463020
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Research and Teaching in Higher Education: Complements or Substitutes?
Epstein, Gil S.; Menis, Joseph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this note we use unique data from Bar-Ilan University, over a period of four years (2005-2008), to estimate simultaneous equations with regard to the relationship between publications and teaching loads. The study shows that students studying for a bachelor's degree are a liability while PhD...
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Why Pay Taxes When No One Else Does?
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2009
In this paper we try to understand the phenomena whereby a large proportion of the population evades tax payments. We present a model which incorporates elements from the theory of information cascades with the standard model of tax evasion and analyze the connection between the decision of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541010
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Why Pay Taxes When No One Else Does?
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In this paper we try to understand the phenomena whereby a large proportion of the population evades tax payments. We present a model which incorporates elements from the theory of information cascades with the standard model of tax evasion and analyze the connection between the decision of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039642
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Impacts and Benefits of COAG Reforms: Reporting Framework
Commission, Productivity - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia
>The Commission has proposed that its first substantial report could cover reforms in the competition and regulation area, and reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914839
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Private hospitals in Australia
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001
Amongst other things, this report: . provides a statistical overview of the structure of the industry and the activities of the 500 acute care, psychiatric and day hospitals that operate within it; . looks at some indicators of the industry’s financial performance, efficiency and quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134599
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International benchmarking of Australian telecommunications services
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002
The study compares the performance of the Australian telecommunications services industry with those in other countries. Related papers submitted to this study by NECG Ltd. and Telecom New Zealand have been released with the report.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134992
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Rules of Origin under the Australia–New Zealand CER Trade Agreement
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
Rules of origin arrangements under the Australia–New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (CER) were referred to the Commission for examination and report by May 2004. The request stemmed from concerns that Australian and New Zealand firms were having difficulty achieving the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408017
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Review of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
The terms of reference for this public inquiry into the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 asked the Commission to look at how effective the Act had been been in achieving its objectives, and to assess the costs and benefits of the Act. In its final assessment, the Commission identified ways in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412524