Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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Commitment Mechanisms and Blood Donation
Published 2009-10-01The Australian Red Cross Blood Service (ARCBS) recently introduced a policy of compulsory appointments for blood donations. This thesis examines the effect of these appointments on donor satisfaction and donation behaviour. ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Asset Prices, Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Stability
Published 2009-01-01A 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 ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Hold-up Problem in the Presence of Free Trade Agreement Negotiations
Published 2010-01-01This 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 ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Pricing Decisions by Australian General Practitioners
Published 2008-01-01In 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 ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Ethnic Conflict: A Model of Concessions
Published 2008-01-01The 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 ...Open AccessThesis, Honours