Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by publication year
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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 -
Equilibrium Price Dispersion: A Model of Intermediated Search with Repeated Interaction
Published 2008-01-01This 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 ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
What Determines Australia's Foreign Equity Investment?
Published 2008-03-12In light of the recent changes to superannuation policy in Australia, the corresponding heightened exposure to equity markets has highlighted the importance of portfolio diversification as a means to reduce income risk. ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Street Vendors tackle the Newsvendor Problem: An Experimental Inquiry into the Big Issue
Published 2008-03-17The Big Issue is a not-for-profit organisation that gives homeless people the opportunity to reclaim ownership over their lives by selling a street magazine. The vendors must purchase the magazine from the Big Issue office ...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 -
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 -
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 -
The Macroeconomic Effects of Quantitative Easing
Published 2011-12-07The recent crisis has raised two key macroeconomic issues. First, has the quantitative easing policy pursued by the Federal Reserve had an effect on output, employment and prices? Second, whether ‘quantitative easing,’ is ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Impure Altruism and the Volunteering Puzzle
Published 2011-12-07There have been few attempts to model the behavioural microfoundations of charitable giving, particularly with regard to the choice between giving money and volunteering. An hour of a volunteer’s time is usually of a lower ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Right Carrot for an Unruly Jungle
Published 2011-12-07This thesis examines the U.S. Department of Justice leniency program setup involving both corporate and individual leniency. Specifically, the interaction between corporate and individual leniency programs in concurrent ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Trend Inflation and Inflation Persistence in Australia: A New Keynesian Perspective
Published 2011-12-07The true nature of inflation dynamics is an ongoing matter of debate and investigation in modern macroeconomics. That such attention is devoted to the dynamics of inflation is due to its importance, not only for understanding ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Mass Media and Aspiration Manipulation: An Experiment Altering Preferences Over Goals
Published 2011-12-07Mass media consumption has increasingly been found to adversely impact upon psychological states but research has largely neglected the potential influence of media on aspirations. An experiment demonstrates aspirational ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
A Search Theory of Dowry
Published 2011-12-07Dowries have traditionally been viewed in economics as arising from a supply imbalance of the marriage market which disadvantages women. In this thesis, a different cause is proposed. Dowries are modelled as arising from ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
More lottery tickets than milk and no money in the bank
Published 2011-12-07A significant proportion of US households have insufficient savings to cope with even moderate consumption shocks that can result in substantial externalities. At the same time, the most financially fragile households have ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Keynes’s economics and the question of public debt
Published 2012-01-04The Global Financial Crisis generated renewed interest in the relevance of John Maynard Keynes’s economic policy proposals, particularly those related to budget deficits, public debt and government expenditure. ‘Keynesian’ ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Monetary Policy and Inequality in Australia
Published 2022Australia has experienced growing income and consumption inequality over the past three decades. As interest rates rise, it is important to understand the impact of monetary policy on household income and consumption. This ...Open AccessThesis -
How does household consumption respond to housing price changes in China?
Published 2022-12-09How house price changes impact household consumption is a long-lasting debate in macroeconomics. Previous literature mainly analyses this relationship with macro-level data, while this thesis aims to identify the relationship ...Open AccessThesis -
Can we make investors smarter using a nudge? Maybe, but we can’t prove it using the most common experimental disposition effect environment.
Published 2023-01-18Investors have been shown to behave in a way that reduces their earnings by being over hesitant to sell stocks that have decreased in price and over eager to sell stocks that have increased in price, exhibiting what is ...Open AccessThesis -
Being ‘Too’ Smart Doesn’t Always Pay Off; Truth-Telling in a Strategy-Proof Mechanism
Published 2023-01-25In strategy-proof mechanisms truth-telling is a dominant strategy yielding optimal results for all participants, yet according to experimental evidence truthful revelation rates are worryingly low. This thesis is based on ...Open AccessThesis