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A comparison of gross output and value-added methods of productivity estimation

A comparison of institutional arrangements for road provision

Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI)

A duty of care for the protection of biodiversity on land

A guide to regulation (1998)

A guide to the IAC's use of the ORANI model

A model of investment in the Sydney four and five star hotel market

A plan for development of nationally comparable school student learning outcomes through establishment of equivalences between existing state and territory tests

A rationale for developing a linked employer-employee dataset for policy research

A 'sustainable' population? - Key policy issues

APEC early voluntary sectoral liberalisation

Achieving better regulation of services

Agricultural Competitiveness Taskforce

Amendments to the new Australian product liability law

An analysis of the factors affecting steel scrap collection

An economic analysis of copyright reform

An economic framework for assessing the financial performance of Government Trading Enterprises

An introduction to entropy estimation of parameters in economic models

An iterative method for solving CGE models

Armington elasticities and terms of trade effects in global CGE models

Armington general equilibrium model: Properties, implications and alternatives

Armington model

Arrangements for setting drinking water standards

Assessing Australia's productivity performance

Assessing productivity in the delivery of health services in Australia: Some experimental estimates

Assessing productivity in the delivery of public hospital services in Australia: Some experimental estimates

Assessing the importance of national economic reform - Australian Productivity Commission experience

Assessing the potential for market power in the National Electricity Market

Asset measurement in the costing of government services

Assistance conferred by preferential trading agreements - Case study of the Australia-New Zealand CER Trade Agreement

Assistance to agricultural and manufacturing industries

Australia: Getting the most from ICTs

Australia's approach to forthcoming trade negotiations

Australia's industry sector productivity performance

Australia's oil and gas reserves

Australia's productivity growth slump: Signs of crisis, adjustment or both?

Australia's productivity performance

Australia's productivity surge and its determinants

Australia's restrictions on trade in financial services

Australia's service sector: A study in diversity

Australia's visa system for visitors

Australian Atlantic Salmon: Effects of import competition

Australian Business Securitisation Fund

Australian gas industry and markets study

Australian manufacturing industry

Australian manufacturing industry and international trade data 1968-69 to 1992-93

Australian Postal Corporation Act 1989

Australian telecommunications services

Australian waterfront

Authorisation of the National Electricity Code

Behavioural economics and public policy

Benchmarking in federal systems

Best practice regulation report 2006-07

Better Indigenous policies: The role of evaluation

Beyond the firm - An assessment of business linkages and networks in Australia

BLADE for productivity research

Broadband cable access regime

Building excellence in health care in a changing environment

Business failure and change: An Australian perspective

Business programs

Can Australia match US productivity performance?

CAPITA-B: A Behavioural Microsimulation Model

Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Some preliminary observations

Certain aspects of the treaty-making process in Australia

Childhood obesity: An economic perspective

Climbing the jobs ladder slower: Young people in a weak labour market

COAG's Regulatory and Competition Reform Agenda: A high level assessment of the gains

Commonwealth bilateral air service agreements

Community service obligations: Policies and practices of Australian governments

Community service obligations: Some definitional, costing and funding issues

Competition and retail banking

Competition policy review

Competition review: merger reform

Competitive safeguards in telecommunications

Compliance costs of taxation in Australia

Compliance with the road transport law

Computable General Equilibrium models for evaluating domestic greenhouse policies in Australia

Constraints on private conservation: Some challenges in managing Australia's tropical rainforests

Corporations Law Simplification Taskforce

Cost sharing for biodiversity conservation: A conceptual framework

Country of origin labelling of food

Creating markets for biodiversity: A case study of Earth Sanctuaries Ltd

Creating markets for ecosystem services

Cross-media ownership rules

Data envelopment analysis

Deep and persistent disadvantage in Australia

Design principles for small business programs and regulations

Developing a partial equilibrium model of an urban water system

Developments in regulation and its review 1991-92

Developments in regulation and its review 1992-93

Developments in regulation and its review 1993-94

Directions for state tax reform

Distribution of the economic gains of the 1990s

Distributional effects of changes in Australian infrastructure industries during the 1990s

Does Pacific Power have market power

Econometric modelling of infrastructure and Australia's productivity

Econometric modelling of R&D and Australia's productivity

Economic evaluation of CSIRO industrial research

Effective marginal tax rates on savings

Effects of health and education on labour force participation

Effects of mutual recognition of imputation credits

Efficiency measures for child protection and support pathways

On efficiency and effectiveness: Some definitions

Electricity prices and cost factors

Enforcing Australia's food laws

Environmental impact assessment

Environmental policy analysis: A guide to non-market valuation

Equity, efficiency and welfare

Exports of government services

Extending CoOL: A benefit cost analysis

Extending country of origin labelling to selected packaged fruit or vegetable whole food produce

Extending patent life: Is it in Australia's economic interests?

FERTMOD

Firm size and export performance: Some empirical evidence

Fixed-term employees in Australia: Incidence and characteristics

Forms of work in Australia

Framework for greenhouse emission trading in Australia

Future Made in Australia legislation

GBE price reform - Effects on household expenditure

GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project) summary in excel programs

General equilibrium models and policy advice in Australia

Genetically modified products: A consumer choice framework

Global gains from liberalising trade in telecommunications and financial services

Greenhouse gas emissions and the productivity growth of electricity generators

Grey-letter law

Guidelines on accounting policy for valuation of assets of Government Trading Enterprises: Using current valuation methods

Head in the cloud: Firm performance and cloud service

Health Policy Roundtable

Higher education financing and policy

House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage

Impact of climate risk on insurance premiums and availability

Impact of competition enhancing air services agreements: A network modelling approach

Impact of mutual recognition on regulations in Australia

Implementing reforms in government services 1998

Implementing the National Competition Policy: Access and price regulation

Incorporating household survey data into a CGE model

Indigenous Voice co-design process

Industry Commission Annual Report 1989-90

Industry Commission Annual Report 1990-91

Industry Commission Annual Report 1991-92

Industry Commission Annual Report 1992-93

Industry Commission Annual Report 1993-94

Industry Commission Annual Report 1994-95

Industry Commission Annual Report 1995-96

Industry Commission Annual Report 1996-97

Industry competitiveness, trade and the environment

Industry Economics Conference 1997

Industry Economics Conference 1998

Industry Economics Conference 1999

Influences on Indigenous labour market outcomes

Informal equity investment

Information technology and Australia's productivity surge

Infrastructure Australia's National Infrastructure Audit

On input-output tables: Uses and abuses

Institutional arrangements for the regulation of natural and mandated monopolies

Insurance and Superannuation Commission (ISC) discussion papers on derivatives

Integrated Tariff Analysis System (ITAS)

An Integrated Tariff Analysis System: Software and database

Integrating rural and urban water markets in south east Australia: Preliminary analysis

Interim report of the Reference Group on Welfare Reform

International comparisons of plant productivity - Domestic water heaters

International negotiations on investment liberalisation

International performance indicators - Road freight

International performance indicators - Telecommunications 1995

International telecommunications reform in Australia

Internet commerce

Internet and electronic cash

Introducing bilateral exchange rates in global CGE models

Investments in intangible assets and Australia's productivity growth

Investments in intangible assets and Australia's productivity growth: Sectoral estimates

Irrigated farms

Irrigation externalities: Pricing and charges

Issues in infrastructure pricing

Jobs for the future in regional areas

Labour force participation of women over 45

Labour's share of growth in income and prosperity

Land degradation and the Australian agricultural industry

Links between literacy and numeracy skills and labour market outcomes

Linking inputs and outputs: Activity measurement by police services

Literacy and numeracy skills and labour market outcomes in Australia

Living, labour and environmental standards and the WTO

Long-term aged care: Expenditure trends and projections

Managed competition in health care

Measures of restrictions on trade in services database

Measuring the contributions of productivity and terms of trade to Australia's economic welfare

Measuring the technical efficiency of public and private hospitals in Australia

Measuring the total factor productivity of Government Trading Enterprises

Mechanisms for improving the quality of regulations: Australia in an international context

Men not at work: An analysis of men outside the labour force

Merger regulation

Mergers and acquisitions

Micro reform - Impacts on firms: Aluminium case study

Microeconomic reform scoreboard 1996-97

Microeconomic reform and productivity growth

Microeconomic reform and structural change in employment

Microeconomic reform and the environment

Microeconomic reforms in Australia: A compendium from the 1970s to 1997

Microeconomic reforms and the revival in Australia's growth in productivity and living standards

Migration, trade and investment

Modelling possible impacts of GM crops on Australian trade

Modelling water trade in the southern Murray-Darling Basin

Modelling the effects of the EU Common Agricultural Policy

Modified Demographic and Economic Model (MoDEM 1.0)

MoDEM 2.0

More time for business

Multifactor productivity growth cycles at the industry level

Multilateral liberalisation of services trade

NCC Review of the WA rail access regime

National access regime

National Agreement performance reporting

National Broadband Network

National Competition Policy review of pharmacy regulation

National Competition Policy review of the Wheat Marketing Act 1989

National Competition Policy: Draft legislative package

National Electric Vehicle Strategy

National Greenhouse Strategy

National Health Performance Framework Report 2000

National Health Performance Framework Report 2001

National Indigenous Reform Agreement: Performance assessment 2013-14

National Partnership Performance Reporting

National satisfaction survey of clients of disability services

Negotiating trade and investment agreements

NSW dairy industry

On productivity: Concepts and measurement

On productivity: The influence of natural resource inputs

Outcome measurement in child protection

Part IIIB – Why there is no economic case for additional access regulations

Part time employment: The Australian experience

Pay TV: Why regulate

Payroll tax in the costing of government services

Performance measures for councils: Improving local government performance indicators

Pharmacy Business Ownership

Pigs and pigmeat

Policy implications of the Ageing of Australia's Population Conference

Population distribution and telecommunication costs

Potential effects of selected taxation provisions on the environment

Pre-merger notification and the Trade Practices Act 1974

Precaution and the precautionary principle: Two Australian case studies

Precaution: Principles and practice in Australian environmental and natural resource management

Prevalence of transition pathways in Australia

Price effects of regulation: International air passenger transport, telecommunications and electricity supply

Prime Ministerial task group on emissions trading

Principles and guidelines for national standard setting and regulatory action by ministerial councils and standard-setting bodies

Principles for a National Water Agreement

Privacy protection in the private sector

Private investment in urban roads

Pro-competitive regulation

Productive reform in a federal system

Productivity gains from policy reforms, ICTs and structural transformation

Productivity growth and Australian manufacturing industry

Productivity growth in Australia: Are we enjoying a miracle?

Productivity perspectives 2004

Productivity perspectives 2006

Productivity perspectives 2007

Productivity perspectives 2012

Productivity and the structure of employment

Productivity in Australia's wholesale and retail trade

Productivity in electricity, gas and water: Measurement and interpretation

Productivity in financial and insurance services

Productivity in manufacturing: Measurement and interpretation

Productivity in the mining industry: Measurement and interpretation

Progress in rail reform

Promoting better environmental outcomes

Promoting economic dynamism, competition and business formation

Prudential regulation of investment in Australia's export industries

Public infrastructure financing: An international perspective

Quality initial teacher education review

Quality of care in Australian public and private hospitals

Quantitative modelling at the Productivity Commission

Quantitative tools for microeconomic policy analysis

Queensland dairy industry

Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service

Recent trends in Australian fertility

Reducing the regulatory burden: Does firm size matter?

Reform and the distribution of income - An economy-wide approach

Reforms in government services 1997

Regulating AI in high-risk settings

Regulating services trade: Matching policies to objectives

Regulation and its review 1994-95

Regulation and its review 1995-96

Regulation and its review 1996-97

Regulation and its review 1997-98

Regulation and its review 1998-99

Regulation and its review 1999-2000

Regulation and its review 2000-01

Regulation and its review 2001-02

Regulation and its review 2002-03

Regulation and its review 2003-04

Regulation and its review 2004-05

Regulation and its review 2005-06

Regulation and the direct marketing industry

Regulator Audit Framework

Resource movements and labour productivity, an Australian illustration: 1994-95 to 1997-98

Response to the NCC's draft recommendation on declaration of Sydney Airport

Responsiveness of demand for irrigation water: A focus on the southern Murray-Darling Basin

Restrictions on trade in distribution services

Restrictions on trade in education services: Some basic indexes

Restrictions on trade in professional services

Review of approaches to satisfaction surveys of clients of disability services

Review of Australia's Hazardous Waste Act

Review of patient satisfaction and experience surveys conducted for public hospitals in Australia

Review of price controls on Telstra

Review of pricing arrangements in residential aged care

Review of the Export Market Development Grants Scheme

Review of the licensing regime for securities advisers

Review of the NSW Rural Assistance Act

Review of the Report on Government Services and Performance Reporting Dashboard

Review of the Trade Practices Act 1974

Review of the Wheat Marketing Act 1989 - Supplementary submission

Revitalising National Competition Policy: Administering competitive neutrality complaints

Role of economic instruments in managing the environment

Rules of origin: Can the noodle bowl of trade agreements be untangled?

Rural Adjustment Scheme

Rural Research and Development Council

Remote, rural and urban telecommunications services

Self-employed contractors in Australia: Incidence and characteristics

Service trade and foreign direct investment

Single-desk marketing: Assessing the economic arguments

Skill and Australia's productivity surge

Small business employment

Some lessons from the use of environmental quasi-regulation

Sources of Australia's productivity revival

Statistical analysis of the use and impact of government business programs

Stocktake of progress in microeconomic reform

Stranded irrigation assets

Strategic trade theory: The East Asian experience

Strengthening evidence-based policy in the Australian federation

Structural adjustment - Exploring the policy issues

Specialized container transport's declaration application

Shipbuilding industry

Sugar industry

Supplier-induced demand for medical services

Supporting Australia's exports and attracting investment

On sustainability: an economic approach

Sustainable Population Strategy Taskforce

Taskforce on Reducing Regulatory Burdens on Business

Tasmanian dairy industry review

Tax law improvement project

Techniques for measuring efficiency in health services

Telecommunications economics and policy issues

Telecommunications prices and price changes

The analysis and regulation of safety risk

The changing of Australian manufacturing

The diversity of casual contract employment

The economic impact of international airline alliances

The effects of education and health on wages and productivity

The effects of ICTs and complementary innovations on Australian productivity growth

The electricity industry in South Australia

The FTAP2 model: Theory and data

The growth and revenue implications of Hilmer and related reforms

The growth of labour hire employment in Australia

The growth of non-traditional employment: Are jobs becoming more precarious?

The health effects and regulation of passive smoking

The impact of APEC's free trade commitment

The implications of ageing for education policy

The increasing demand for skilled workers in Australia: The role of technical change

The measurement of effective rates of assistance in Australia

The Migration Agents Registration Scheme: Effects and improvements

The net social revenue approach to solving Computable General Equilibrium models

The new economy? A new look at Australia's productivity performance

The regulatory impact of the Australian Accounting Standards Board

The responsiveness of Australian farm performance to changes in irrigation water use and trade

The restrictiveness of rules of origin in preferential trade agreements

The role of auctions in allocating public resources

The role of risk and cost-benefit analysis in determining quarantine measures

The role of technology in determining skilled employment: An economy-wide approach

The role of training and innovation in workplace performance

The SALTER model of the world economy

The SALTER model of the world economy: Model structure, database and parameters

The Stern review: An assessment of its methodology

The structure of the FTAP model

The trade and investment effects of preferential trading arrangements - Old and new evidence

The use of cost litigation rules to improve the efficiency of the legal system

Third-party effects of water trading and potential policy responses

Towards a National Framework for the Development of Environmental Management Systems in Agriculture

Trade liberalisation and earnings distribution in Australia

Trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights

Trends in Australian infrastructure prices 1990-91 to 2000-01

Trends in the distribution of income in Australia

Truth and Justice Commission legislation

Understanding and utilisation of benefits under Free Trade Agreements

Unemployment and re-employment of displaced workers

Unifying Partial and General Equilibrium modelling for applied policy analysis

Updating the GTAP 1996-97 Australian database

Uptake and impacts of the ICTs in the Australian economy: Evidence from aggregate, sectoral and firm levels

Using consumer views in performance indicators for children's services

Using real expenditure to assess policy impacts

Valuing the future: The social discount rate in cost-benefit analysis

Veterans' support legislation

VUMR modelling reference case 2009-10 to 2059-60

Victorian dairy industry review

Waste lubricating oil and used tyres

Water reform, property rights and hydrological realities

What can we learn about industries’ vulnerability to overseas price shocks from Merchandise trade data in BLADE?

What future for price surveillance?

What role for policies to supplement an Emissions Trading Scheme?

Why are investment hurdle rates so high? Risk or market power?

Winegrape and wine industry in Australia

Work and care

Work arrangements in container stevedoring

Work arrangements in the Australian meat processing industry

Work arrangements on large capital city building projects

Work choices of married women: Drivers of change

Workforce participation rates - How does Australia compare?

Worsening rental crisis in Australia

Youth wages and employment

Industry Commission Annual Report 1996-97

Annual Report Series

This annual report was released on 30 October 1997. An accompanying report was also released: Microeconomic Reform Scoreboard 1996-97.

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Contents

Preliminaries Cover, Copyright, Contents, Abbreviations

Chapter 1The productivity imperative

Chapter 2 Industry policy in perspective

Chapter 3Role and operations of the Commission

Appendix A Staffing and management

Appendix B Program performance

Appendix C Government commissioned projects

Appendix D Research and other activities

Appendix E Publications

Appendix F Financial statements

References

Index

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