This report by Dr Philipa Dee was released on 22 December 2005. The report was commissioned as a background paper for the Productivity Commission's conference, Quantitative Tools for Microeconomic Policy Analysis held in Canberra in November 2004.

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Contents

Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Contents

1   How to construct the counterfactual
1.1   Data-based techniques
1.2   Econometric analysis
1.3   Structural modelling — partial equilibrium
1.4   Structural modelling — general equilibrium

2 Policy impacts

3 Directions for further modelling research

References