INCLUDING IMPACT PROJECT) LIST OF RESEARCH STAFF
J. O.N. PERKINS
I. R. Harper
A comparison of the results of financial deregulation in Australia and New Zealand - I.R. Harper
Regulating Commercial Banks I.R. Harper
Financial Economics - I.R. Harper and J. Eichberger
Definition and measurement of the burden of foreign debt - R.S. Jones Aspects of the 'Pitchford' debate on foreign debt - R.S. Jones
Relation between credit ratings and financial variables - N.R. Norman
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND COM ERCE
Tax evasion theory - N.R. Norman
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
The theory of trade price and quantity indices - P.J. Lloyd EC 92 - P.J. Lloyd
Policy towards foreign investment in Australia, 1976-90 - A.W. Gunther Trade policy with imperfect product substitution - N.R. Norman
LABOUR ECONOMICS Income distribution - J. Creedy
Labour mobility - J. Creedy
Quantitative division of labour in classical models with non-substitution R.J. Dixon
Theories of human capital accumulation - J. Borland
Models of task assignment and firm structure - J. Borland
Determinants of individual wages and the wage structure in Australia - J. Borland
Tax reform and labour supply - A. Kawaguchi
TRADE UNION BEHAVIOUR, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Taxation and trade unions - J. Creedy
Taxation and trade union wage demands - I.M. McDonald
An individual choice model of trade union membership in Australia - S.J. Deery
A predictive model of employee turnover - S.J. Deery Determinants of employee absenteeism - S.J. Deery
Decentralisation of bargaining in the United Kingdom and Australia - S.J. Deery
The law and practice of industrial relations in Asia - S.J. Deery Migrants and trade unions - G.D. Griffin
Trade union finances - G.D. Griffin
Trade union mergers/structure - G.D. Griffin
Public interest and industrial relations - G.D. Griffin Workplace industrial relations - J.W. Benson
Factors affecting productivity at the enterprise - J.W. Benson Strikes and industrial disputes - J.W. Benson
Workplace union organisation - J.W. Benson
Determinants of labor union contract duration in the United States - J. Borland
Wage bargaining in Japan and Australia - A. Kawaguchi ECONOMICS OF INDUSTRY
Collusion in Australian manufacturing - R.J. Dixon The Australian food processing industry - R.L. Smith Barriers to entry in trade practices cases - R.L. Smith
The Australian agricultural sector: Its position and prospects - R.L. Smith
Australian manufacturing industries: Causes of interindustry
variation in foreign ownership, and the role of foreign investment in output and productivity growth - A.W. Gunther
Price-cost margins in the business cycle - A.W. Gunther PUBLIC ECONOMICS
Financing higher education - J. Creedy
Public choice and income tax progression - J. Creedy Financing state pensions - J. Creedy
Social choice rules - J. Eichberger
Federal-State finance and allocative inefficiencies - R.A. Williams Multiple output production functions for higher education - P.J. Lloyd and R.A. Williams
URBAN AND REGIONAL ECONOMICS
Chaos and its absence in models of diffusion in economics - R.J. Dixon Equity and the transport disadvantaged - C.S. Beed
Urban transport policy in Australia - C.S. Beed MICROECONOMIC THEORY
Search theoretic explanations of brand proliferation - H. Sibly and D. Prentice
Nash equilibrium and learning - J. Eichberger
OTHER TOPICS
The role of value judgements in testing scientific and economic theory - C.S. Beed
Underdetermination in economics - K. Sawyer and C.S. Beed
A critique of the mathematisation of economics - C.S. Beed and O. Kane A model of citations in economics - K. Sawyer and C.S. Beed
Costs of litigation in civil courts - R.A. Williams A model of corruption - L.H. Liew
Rent-seeking and the two track price system in China - L.H. Liew The impact of regional property rights on the effectiveness of macro and structural policies in China - L.H. Liew
The Australian experience of skilled migration: The employer
nomination scheme as applicable to the manufacturing and the finance, property and business services sectors - A. Kan
The skill transfer scheme: A pilot survey - A. Kan
Handbook of mathematical functions in economics - P.J. Lloyd Compensation to dependants of accident victims - J. Creedy Market power in Australian trade practices law - N.R. Norman Snake functions in economics - N.R. Norman
An annual household model of the Australian economy - K.R. Sawyer
PUBLISHED WORK Books
CREEDY, J. (ed.) - Foundations of Economic Thought, Basil Blackwell, Oxford: xiii + 406 pp. (1990)
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND COMMERCE
DEERY, S.J. and PLOWMAN, D. - Australian Industrial Relations, 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill, Sydney: xx + 502 pp. (1990)
GRIFFIN, G.D. (ed.) - Current Research in Industrial Relations, AIRAANZ, Sydney: vi + 581 pp. (1990)
MCDONALD, I.M. - Inflation and Unemployment: Macroeconomics with a Range of Equilibria, Basil Blackwell, Oxford: 145 pp. (1990).
PERKINS, J.O.N. - A General Approach to Macroeconomic Policy, MacMillan, London: x + 139 pp. (1990).
Chapters of Books
CREEDY, J. - Commentary on English speaking pioneers in value and distribution theory, in Neoclassical Economic Theory 1870-1930; eds K. Hennings and W. Samuels, Kluwer Academic Publishing, New York:
52-8 (1990).
CREEDY, J. - Marshall and international trade, in Centenary Essays on Alfred Marshall;. ed. J.K. Whitaker, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge: 79-107 (1990).
DIXON, R.J. - The wage-share and the rate of exchange of labour time, in Joan Robinson and Modern Economic Theory; ed. G.R. Feiwel,
Macmillan, London: 677-83 (1989).
HARPER, I.R. - Comment on "Money and Finance" by R. Milbourne, in The Australian Macro-Economy in the 1980s: Proceedings of a Conference;
ed. S. Grenville, Research Department, Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney: 277-81 (1990).
HARPER, I.R. - Panel discussion, in Do We Need a Reserve Bank?; ed.
L.H. White (et. al.), Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney: 50-51 (1990).
LLOYD, P.J. - Protectionism, in Economic and Social Reform in Britain and New Zealand; Proceedings of a Conference on Economic and Social Reform, UK/NZ 1990 Committee: 41-65 (1990).
LLOYD, P.J. - Recent Australian experience with consensual incomes policies, in Incomes Policies; ed. V. Urquidi, Macmillan, London:
169-203 (1989).
MCDONALD, I.M. - Managerial economics - macroeconomics, in Management for Engineers; ed. D.A. Samson, Longman Cheshire, South Melbourne:
69-90 (1989).
WILLIAMS, R.A. - Comments on the value of work in marriage, in
Households Work; ed. D.S. Ironmonger, Allen and Unwin, Sydney: 188-89 (1989).
Articles
BORLAND, J. - "Trade unions in Australia", in Australian Economic Review 4: 66-73 (1989).
BORLAND, J. - "Unemployment in Australia", in Australian Economic Review 1: 41-51 (1990).
CREEDY, J. - Flattening the tax rate structure, changing the tax mix and unions' wage demands, in Journal of Economic Studies 17(1): 5-15 (1990).
CREEDY, J. - "Marshall and Edgeworth", in Scottish Journal of Political Economy 37(1): 18-39 (1990).
CREEDY, J. - "Measuring wealth•in a simple two-period model", in Journal of Econometrics 43: 167-77 (1989).
CREEDY, J. and DISNEY, R. - "Pension schemes and incentives: Case studies from Australia and the UK", in Australian Economic Review 1:
23-32 (1990).
CREEDY, J. and DISNEY, R. - "The Australian Pension Scheme: Some basic analytics", in Economic Record 65: 357-68 (1989).
CREEDY, J. and MCDONALD, I. - "A tax package to reduce the marginal rate of income tax and the wages of trade unions", in Economic Record 66(194): 195-202 (September 1990).
DEERY, S.J. "Productivity, organisational change and the management of industrial relations", in Asia Pacific Human Resource Management 28: 5-16 (1990).
EICHBERCER, J. and HARPER, I.R. - "On deposit interest rate regulation and deregulation", in Journal of Industrial Economics 38(1), 19-30 (September 1989).
GRIFFIN, G.D. and SCARCEBROOK, V. - "The dependency theory of trade unionism and the role of the industrial registrar", in Australian Bulletin of Labour 16(1): 21-31 (1990).
HARPER, I.R. and DAVIS, K.T. - "Introduction", Australian Economic Review 2: 4-5 (1990).
HARPER, I.R. and PEARCE, J.J. - "Implementing monetary policy in an era of budget surpluses", in Australian Economic Review 2: 53-65 (1990).
LIM, G.C. - "Foreign exchange markets and the Australian dollar", in Australian Economic Review 3: 44-50 (1990).
LIM, G.C. - 'Implications for monetary policy of innovations and institutional changes in the market for foreign exchange: Comment", in Australian Economic Review 2: 106-7 (1990).
LLOYD, P.J. - "A family of agronomic production functions with
economies of scope", in Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics 33(2): 108-22 (1989).
LYE, J.N., CRIBBETT, P.F. and ULLAH, A. - "Evaluation of the two stage least squares distribution function by Imhof's procedure", in Journal of Quantitative Economics 5: 91-96 (1989).
MARTIN, V.L. and HORNE, J. - "Weighted monetary aggregates: An empirical study using Australian monetary data", 1969-1987, in Australian Economic Papers 28: 181-200 (December 1989).
MORIARTY, P. and BEED, C.S. - "Reducing vehicular travel need through increasing travel efficiency", in Urban Policy and Research 7: 157-63 (1989).
MORIARTY, P. and BEED, C.S. - "The new information technology and vehicular transport", in Australian Road Research 20: 18-22 (1990).
PERKINS, J.O.N. - "Austerity and Australia", in Économie Appliquée
%LII: 239-67 (1989).
PERKINS, J.O.N. - "Some empirical evidence about the macroeconomic policy mix", in Weltwirtschaftiches Archly 126: 239-56 (1990).
Reports
BENSON, J.W. - "Researching trade union activity at the workplace:
Some lessons from the U.K." Working Paper No. 49, Labour Studies Programme, University of Melbourne: 15 pp. (1989). .
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND COMMERCE
BENSON, J.W., GRIFFIN, G.D. and SMITH, G. - "The concept of the public interest and the Industrial Relations Act 1988 (cth)". Working Paper No. 55, Centre for Industrial Relations and Labour Studies, University
of Melbourne: 21 pp. (1990).
BORLAND, J. and SUEN, A. - "Unemployment and inter-state mobility in Australia". Research Paper No. 256, Department of Economics,
University of Melbourne: 12 pp. (1990).
BORLAND, J. - "Optimal promotion rules and investment in firm-specific human capital". Research Paper No. 264, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 36 pp. (1990).
CREEDY, J. - "Consumers' surplus in international trade: Marshall's example". Research Paper No. 253 , Department of Economics,
University of Melbourne: 14 pp. (1990).
CREEDY, J. - "Earnings profiles and compensation". Research Paper No.
271, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 19 pp. (1990).
CREEDY, J. - "General equilibrium in a simple two good, two factor, two person model. Research Paper No. 248, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 14 pp. (1989).
CREEDY, J. - "Lifetime earnings of men in Australia". Research Paper No. 267, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 19 pp.
(1990).
CREEDY, J. - "Lump sum compensation and income taxation: A sensitivity analysis". Research Paper No. 266, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 18 pp. (1990).
CREEDY, J. - "Mangoldt and inter-related goods". Research Paper No.
274, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 12 pp. (1990).
CREEDY, J. and MARTIN, V.L. - "Price distributions: Some simple generating processes". Research Paper No. 275, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 30 pp. (1990).
CREEDY, J. - "Psychics: Computer assisted instruction software for exchange and equilibrium". Research Paper No. 261, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 20 pp. (1990).
CREEDY, J. and FRANCOIS, P. - "Higher education and inequality".
Research Paper No. 269, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 24 pp. (1990).
CREEDY, J. and FRANCOIS, P. - "Higher education and progressive taxation: Equity, efficiency and majority voting". Research Paper No. 260, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 21 pp•
(1990).
CREEDY, J. and FRANCOIS, P. - "On voting over income tax schedules".
Research Paper No. 262, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 19 pp. (1990).
CREEDY, J. and MARTIN, V. - "Multiple equilibria and hysteresis in simple exchange models". Research Paper No. 259, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 28 pp. (1990).
GAHAN, P. - "The frontiers of pluralism: An analytic adventure. A study of pluralism in industrial relations theory". Industrial Relations Research Centre Monograph, University of N.S.W.: 80 pp.
(1990).
LIM, G.C. - "Testing for the fundamental determinants of the long run real exchange rate". Working Paper No. 90-28, Brown University:
20 pp. (1990).
LIM, G.C. and DIXON, R. - "The long and short run demand for currency by the non-bank private sector". Research Paper No. 254, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 14 pp. (1990).
LIM, G.C. and MARTIN, V.L. - "A money market interest rate index for Australia based on cyclical characteristics". Research Paper No. 249, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 20 pp. (1989).
LLOYD, P.J. - "EC 92 and the outsider's view: The pacific area".
Research Paper No. 272, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 22 pp. (1990).
LLOYD, P.J. and SCHWEINBERGER, A. - "Indices of welfare for the economy and households in distorted open economies". Research Paper No. 273, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 27 pp.
(1990).
LYE, J. - "The numerical evaluation of the distribution function of a bilinear form to a quadratic form with econometric examples".
Research Paper No. 252, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 15 pp. (1990).
MAILATH, G. - "Endogenous sequencing of firm decisions". Research Paper No. 263, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne:
19 pp. (1990).
MARTIN, V. - "Derivation of a leading index for the United States using Kalman filters". Research Paper No. 257, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 17 pp. (1990).
MARTIN, V. - "Threshold time series models as multimodal distribution jump processes: The MATS Model". Research Paper No. 258, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 22 pp. (1990).
MORLEY, C.L. - "Microeconomic foundations of international tourism demand". Research Paper No. 270, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 18 pp. (1990).
RYAN, D. - "Adding-up and quasi adding-up conditions in systems of production relationships". Research Paper No. 265, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 45 pp. (1990).
SIBLY, H. and OLEKAINS, N. - "Credit rationing, implicit contracts, risk aversion and the variability of interest rates". Research Paper No. 268, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 28 pp.
(1990).
SIBLY, H. - "Asymmetric information flows in customer markets".
Research Paper No. 250, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 37 pp. (1989).
SMITH, R.L. - "The Australian book publishing industry". Report for the Prices Surveillance Authority, Melbourne: (1989).
WHITE, G. - "Normal prices and the theory of output: Some significant implications of recent debate". Research Paper No. 251, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 33 pp. (1990).
WILLIAMS, R. - "Quantifying the effects of cost equalisation in a federal system". Research Paper No. 255, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: 17 pp. (1990).
Journal Editing GREEDY, J. - Editor, Australian Economic Review CREEDY, J. - Book Review Editor, Economic Record
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND COMMERCE
THESIS PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREE
Doctor of Philosophy
TEICHER, J. -
Industrial democracy in the Australian public sectorTHESES IN PROGRESS
Doctor of Philosophy
BANTOW, P.J. -
The role of the information sector in regional economic development: Theory and policy implications for rural AustraliaEDWARDS, R.W. -
Award restructuring: A critical evaluationGAHAN, P.G. -
Australian unionism and Australian trade union theoryGARDNER, H.A. -
The politicisation of Australian allied health professionalsHO, T.V. -
A macroeconomic dynamic modelKACALA. V. -
Corporate hedging strategies with taxation and transaction costsSHANNON, J.H. -
An analysis of the impact of exchange rates on the Australian manufacturing sector in a dynamic model of international manufacturing trade under imperfect competitionSIBLY, H -
On the microfoundations of Keynesian economicsTREMBLAY, P. -
Information economics approach to corporate structure in tourismTHOMSON, D.M. -
Post-deregulation prudential supervision and its impact on monetary policyWHITE, G.K. -
The cycle and the operation of adjustment forces in a long period theory of outputMaster of Commerce
FRANCOIS, P. -
The finance of higher education: A public choice approachKEMSTER, T.E. -
The economic effects of changes in the distribution of wealthNIALL, R.M. -
Trade union strategies in a deregulated market: A case study of the Australian Bank Employees UnionRIMMER, M.T. -
Empirical estimation of primary factor substitution elasticities for broad industry groups in the Australian economyRIMMER, R.J. -
Kaldors Neo-Pasinetti theoremTRETHEWEY, M.E. -
Essays on the determination of investment from a Kaleckian/Post-Keynesian perspective with reference to therelationship between private investment and the distribution of income