Center of Policy Studies (COPS) Impact Project Papers

Tax evasion has been studied intensively in the context of developed countries in which the institutional environment assumes a pervasive respect for the rule of law. In [...]

Robert Hall (1986, 1988, and 1990) has emphasised the importance of imperfect competition and economies of scale in explaining procyclical movements in measured total fac [...]

Plans for APEC trade liberalisation include the elimination of all tariffs between member states. In this paper we use two computable general equilibrium models to examin [...]

The objective of this paper is to measure the scale efficiency of the New Zealand dairy industry and to examine the relationship between farm size and efficiency. Data en [...]

This article examines the macroeconomic impact of the elimination of x-inefficiency in the Australian electricity supply industry using a computable general equilibrium ( [...]

This paper examines the current national accounts measure of real output for three major service industries in Australia. It finds that real output measures for governmen [...]

This paper estimates the change in total factor productivity (TFP) in government administration services in Australia for the period 1986/87- 1993/94. A simple model is p [...]

Australia has made outstanding contributions to the use of quantitative economic models in public policy discussions. That leading role is now threatened by the increasin [...]

This paper examines the current national accounts measure of real output for five major service industries in Australia. It finds that real output measures for insurance [...]