The objectives of this paper are (i) analyse the different definitions of ecotourism and identify their salient elements, (ii) describe the link between ecotourism and natural resources and (iii) identify the research gaps in ecotourism planning and evaluate various quantitative tools available...

While the enterprise reform in China has provided incentives to its state-owned enterprises (SOEs), their poor performance relative to other forms of enterprises remains puzzling. This paper provides an answer to this puzzle by studying optimal managerial decisions under the enterprise reform.

There has been considerable interest in access rates in Australia since the development of National Competition Policy. This paper provides a framework for analysing the different situations in which access is an appropriate policy tool. It argues that access does not necessarily raise welfare...

The double dividend effect comes in many forms but, in a general sense, it is the notion that both the state of the environment and the employment level of the country can be improved with a specifically designed fiscal package that incorporates a carbon tax of some form but has a neutral effect...

In this paper I demonstrate that feminist poststructuralism offers economics a series of insights which are not available from other feminist positions. Such research is situated in what is still the disrespectable margin of the economics discipline, within the newly emerging field of 'feminist...

We study the portfolio allocation decisions of Australian households using the relatively new Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey. We focus on household allocations to risky financial assets. Our empirical analysis considers a range of hypothesised determinants of...

Volatility in exchange rates is decomposed into components associated with domestic and international concerns for six Pacific Rim currencies. A latent factor model is used to model bilateral exchange rate changes as the weighted sum of three factors; two factors are uniquely associated with...