A methodology is developed to incorporate operating environment variables in the measurement of total factor productivity. When no account is taken of operating environments, the Queensland electricity supply industry was found to be 13 percent more productive than the New South Wales...

Is removal of tariff protection the key to the growth of manufacturing exports? Existing analyses of microeconomic reform have shown large improvements to mining. We use a less constrained version of the economic model ORANI to show that manufacturing exporters are the major beneficiaries of...

This paper contains estimates made in 1977 of the elasticity of substitution between domestically produced and imported commodities at the four digit level of the Australian ASIC commodity classification then in use. The data upon which the estimates were based included series specially...

The Lau and Yotopoulos restricted profit function methodology for testing for differences in economic efficiency and its components of allocative and technical efficiency is applied to data from grazing properties in the High Rainfall Zone of New South Wales. Tests are made on the basis of...

The demand for production inputs by the average property in the Australian sheep industry and substitution between these inputs was examined in this paper by estimating the set of input share demand equations derived from a transcendental logarithmic cost function. The following five input...