The objective of this paper is to explore the evolution of mining employment patterns throughout Australia’s mining cycle. The study employs a real business cycle model to examine mining employment activities both before and after the mining boom. It also attempts to shed light on the research...

The impact of economic liberalization reforms on the productive performances of manufacturing firms remains a contentious issue in the literature. This paper attempts to contribute to the debate by empirically estimating productivity growth of Bangladesh food manufacturing using firm level data...

The aim of this paper is to empirically estimate the firm level productive capacity realization (PCR) by using the stochastic coefficient frontier production function. Empirical estimations have been done using firm level data from Bangladesh food manufacturing covering the inter-temporal...

This article empirically estimates the firm-specific productive capacity realization (PCR) indices using the stochastic frontier production function and analyses a number of variables explaining realization rates across firms and over time. Following Battese and Coelli (1995) the stochastic...

Because many entrepreneurs who launch small-scale enterprises also manage them, it is useful to estimate entrepreneurial competence while differentiating entrepreneurial abilities from managerial skills. An analytical model of entrepreneurship for small-scale industries is presented. Integral to...

This article provides the first empirical evidence on the effects of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and threat of imitation on Australia's export flows. Using data from all of Australia's trading partners over the period 1995–2010, an augmented gravity model is estimated in the context of...

This article develops a computable general equilibrium model of Vietnam to assess the long-run likely effects of the country's equitisation programs on its national economic outcomes and industries. Equitisation is found to be pro-growth as reflected in its contribution to increasing real GDP...