Synthesising existing research, Colin Ramsay and Robert Bladier conducted an analysis of three Australian industries (mining, wine production and listed property trusts), in order to isolate the conditions for creating internationally competitive export industries.

This report examines productivity growth between 1984-85 and 2001-02 in market-oriented service industries. It presents strong indications that the main driver of productivity growth in these sectors has been the rapid progress in information and communications technologies. Released August 2005

The new small and medium sized businesses that are a by-product of this corporate restructuring use spatial networks instead of hierarchy (e.g. vertical and horizontal integration) to address agency problems and reduce transaction costs.

The latest developments in advanced economies, like Australia, have seen the emergence of a phenomenon variously referred to as the "new economy", "knowledge economy" or "information economy". The ABS data indicate that in Australia's case this is most evident in those industries that utilise high technology products rather than produce them. This conclusion seems to...

Mardi Dungey and John Pitchford argue economists often tend to comment that inflation will tend to increase (or decrease) if growth is higher or lower than the "potential" growth rate of the economy. After setting out a theoretical justification for such a statement, the authors estimate equations relating the change in inflation to growth rates...