School of Economics: Recent submissions

    • Asset Prices, Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Stability 

      Stone, Sophie
      Published 2009-01-01
      A focal point of macroeconomic policy analysis over the past decade has been whether central banks should respond to changes in asset prices. This thesis addresses the question from the distinct perspective of equilibrium ...
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    • The Hold-up Problem in the Presence of Free Trade Agreement Negotiations 

      Wei, Wenjie
      Published 2010-01-01
      This paper examines how the underinvestment that results from the hold-up problem is affected when there is some probability of reaching a free trade agreement (FTA). This paper examines the canonical domestic hold-up ...
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    • Pricing Decisions by Australian General Practitioners 

      Gilboud, Elina
      Published 2008-01-01
      In the Australian market for primary healthcare, some General Practitioners (GPs) bulk bill patients while others charge them a direct fee. The prevalence of these two fee structures means that patients are paying different ...
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    • Ethnic Conflict: A Model of Concessions 

      Samuel, Thampapillai
      Published 2008-01-01
      The Coase Theorem suggests that the ability of completely informed agents to make transfers should generally avert conflict. This thesis considers a complete information model of ethnic conflict where the dominated group ...
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    • Equilibrium Price Dispersion: A Model of Intermediated Search with Repeated Interaction 

      Cusbert, Thomas
      Published 2008-01-01
      This thesis develops a model in which homogeneous producers and merchants interact repeatedly in a search market. Merchants are able to reduce the cost of search by o ering trading certainty to pro- ducers with whom they ...
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