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Research Publications, 2000-08

Journal Articles

Alauddin, M. & Valadkhani, A. Causes and Implications of the Decline of the Economics Majors: A Focus on Australia. Journal of Economic and Social Policy 2003, 7 (2), 68-90.

Gillman, M. & Yerokhin, O. Ramsey-Friedman Optimality with Banking Time. Topics in Macroeconomics, 2005, 5, (1), Article 16.

Levy, A., Neri, F. V. & Grass, D. Macroeconomic Aspects of Substance Abuse: Diffusion, Productivity and Optimal Control. Macroeconomic Dynamics 2006, 10, 145-164.

Masso, M., Siminski, P., Middleton, R., Bezzina, A.J., Smith P.B. & Eagar K. ‘Why patients attend emergency departments for conditions potentially appropriate for primary care: Reasons given by patients and clinicians differ’ Emergency Medicine Australasia 2007, 19 (4), 333-340.

Moschini, G. & Yerokhin, O. Patents, Research Exemption, and the Incentive for Sequential Innovation. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2008, 17 (2), 379-412.

Neri, F. and Ville, S. Social Capital Renewal and the Academic Performance of International Students in Australia. Journal of Socio-Economics 2008, 37 (4), 1515-1538.

Neri, F. V. & Rodgers, J. R. Ranking Australian Economics Departments by Research Productivity. Economic Record 2006, 82, S74-S84.

Neri, F. V. & Bradstreet, P. Comment on "Measuring Victoria's Genuine Progress: A GPI for Victoria". Economic Papers 2006, 25, (3), 295-297.

O’Brien, M. J., The Youth Labour Market in Australia and WorkChoices Legislation. International Employment Relations Review 2007, (forthcoming)

O’Brien, M. J., Older Male Workers and Job Mobility in Australia. International Journal of Employment Studies 2007, 15, (2), 1-26.

O'Brien, M. J., Denniss, R. & Burgess, J. The Australian Labour Market in 2005. Journal of Industrial Relations 2006, 48 (3), 305-318.

O'Brien, M. J. Industry Representation, Structural Change and the Older Male Worker in Australia (1985 to 2005). Australian Bulletin of Labour 2005, 31 (3), 270-294.

O'Brien, M. J., Burgess, J. & Lee, J. The Australian Labour Market in 2003. Journal of Industrial Relations 2004, 141-159.

O'Brien, M. J. & Burgess, J. Workforce Developments Affecting the Adequacy of Superannuation. Journal of Australian Political Economy 2004, 53, 179-190.

O’Brien, M., Valadkhani, A. and Townsend, K. The Australian Labour Market in 2007, Journal of Industrial Relations 2008, 50 (3), 383–398.

O'Brien, M. J., Valadkhani, A., Waring, P. & Denniss, R. The Australian Labour Market in 2006. Journal of Industrial Relations, 2007, 49 (3), 311-326.

Pol, E. & Carroll, P. Reviving and Assessing the Kuznets Law of Innovation. Economics of Innovation and New Technology 2004, 13(2), 127-140.

Pol, E., Robertson, P. & Carroll, P. Receptive Capacity of Established Industries as a Limiting Factor in the Economy's Rate of Innovation. Industry and Innovation: Dynamics, Strategies, Policies, 2003, 10 (4), 457-474.

Pol, E., Carroll, P. & Robertson, P. A New Typology for Economic Sectors with a View to Policy Implications. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2002 11 (1), 61-76.

Pol, E., Robertson, P. & Carroll, P. Classification of Industries by Level of Technology: an Appraisal and some Implications. Prometheus, 2002 18 (4), 1-20.

Rodgers, J. L. & Rodgers, J. R. An Investigation into the Academic Effectiveness of Class Attendance in an Intermediate Microeconomic Theory Class. Education Research & Perspectives 2003, 30 (1), 27-41.

Rodgers, J. R. Hourly Wages of Full-Time and Part-Time Employees in Australia. Australian Journal of Labour Economics 2004, 7, 231-254.

Rodgers, J. R. Are Part-Time Works Poor?. Australian Journal of Labour Economics 2003, 6 (1), 177-193.

Rodgers, J. R. Encouraging Tutorial Attendance at University did not Improve Performance. Australian Economic Papers 2002, 41 (3), 255-266.

Rodgers, J. R. A Panel-Data Study of the Effect of Student Attendance on University Performance. Australian Journal of Education 2001, 45 (3), 284-295.

Rodgers, J. R. & Neri, F.V. Research Productivity of Australian Academic Economists: Human-Capital and Fixed Effects. Australian Economic Papers 2007, 46 (1), 67-87.

Rodgers, J. R. & Rodgers, J. L. The Effect of Geographic Mobility on Male Labor-Force Participants in the United States. Journal of Labor Research United States 2000, 21 (1), 117-132.

Rodgers, J. R. & Rodgers, J. L. Poverty Intensity in Australia. The Australian Economic Review 2000, 33 (3), 235-44.

Rodgers, J. R. & Valadkhani, A. A Multi-Dimensional Ranking of Australian Economics Departments. Economic Record 2006, 82 (256), 30-43.

Saunders, P. & Siminski, P. Home Ownership and Inequality: Imputed Rent and Income Distribution in Australia. Economic Papers 2005, 24 (4), 346-367.

Siminski, P. ‘Order Effects in Batteries of Questions’ Quality and Quantity 2008, 42 (4): 477-490.

Siminski, P. Patterns of Disability and Norms of Participation through the Life Course: Empirical Support for a Social Model of Disability. Disability and Society 2003, 18 (6), 707-718.

Siminski, P., Bezzina, A., Lago, L., Eagar, K. ‘’Primary Care’ Presentations at Emergency Departments - Rates and Reasons by Age and Sex’ Australian Health Review (2008-forthcoming)

Siminski, P., Bezzina, A., Lago, L., Eagar, K. ‘ Trends in Primary Care Presentations at Emergency Departments in New South Wales (1999-2006)’ Australian Journal of Primary Health (2008-forthcoming)

Siminski, P., Chalmers, J. & McHugh, M. Foster Carers in New South Wales: profile and projections based on ABS Census data. Children Australia 2005, 30 (3), 17-24.

Siminski, P., Cragg, S., Middleton, R., Masso, M., Lago, L., Green, J. & Eagar, K. Primary care patients’ views on why they present to Emergency Departments – inappropriate attendances or inappropriate policy? Australian Journal of Primary Health 2005, 11 (2), 87-95.

Siminski, P. & Saunders, P. Accounting for Housing Costs in Regional Income Comparisons. Australasian Journal of Regional Studies 2004, 10 (2), 139-156.

Siminski, P., Saunders, P. & Bradbury, B. Reviewing the Inter-temporal Consistency of ABS Household Income Data through Comparisons with External Aggregates. Australian Economic Review 2003, 36 (3), pp. 333-349.

Valadkhani, A. & Ville, S. Ranking and Clustering of the Faculties of Commerce Research Performance in Australia, Applied Economics 2008, forthcoming (accepted February 2008).

Valadkhani, A. & Ville, S. (2008), “Discipline-Specific Forecasting of Research Output in Australian Universities”, Applied Economics Letters, forthcoming (accepted October 2007). [RQF tier 3]

Valadkhani, A. & Ville, S. A Disciplinary Analysis of the Contribution of Academic Staff to PhD Completions in Australian Universities. International Journal of Business & Management Education 2007, 15 (1), 1-22.

Valadkhani, A. & Worthington, A. C. Ranking and Clustering Australian University Research Performance, 1998-2002. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 2006, 28 (2), 189-210.

Valadkhani, A. & Worthington, A. C. Assessing the Research Performance of Australian Universities. Global Business & Economics Anthology 2006, 2, 557-566.

Valadkhani, A. Cross-country analysis of high employment-generating industries. Applied Economics Letters 2005, 12 (14), 865-869.

Valadkhani, A., Worthington, A. C. & Layton, A. A Note on the Rising Cost of Education in Australia. Economic Papers 2005, 24 (2), 97-106.

Valadkhani, A. Sources of Iranian Labour Productivity. Review of Middle East Economics and Finance 2005, 3 (3), 203-218.

Valadkhani, A. The Causes of Unemployment in Iran. International Journal of Applied Business and Economic Research 2003, 1 (1), 21-33.

Valadkhani, A. Using Input-Output Analysis to Identify Australia's High Employment Generating Industries. Australian Bulletin of Labour 2003, 29 (3),
199-217.

Valadkhani, A. An Empirical Analysis of Australian Labour Productivity. Australian Economic Papers 2003, 42 (3), 273-291.

Ville, S. Rent-Seeking or Market Strengthening? Industry Associations in New Zealand Wool Broking. Business History Review 2007, 81 (summer): 297-321.

Ville, S. The Equity Premium in Australia and the United States, 1889-1978. Briefing Notes in Economics 2006, 70, September/October, 1-8

Ville, S. Social Capital Formation in Australian Rural Communities: The Role of the Stock and Station Agent. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2005, 36 (2), 185-208.

Ville, S. & Merrett, D. A time series for business profitability in twentieth-century Australia. Australian Economic Review 2006, 39, 3, 330-339.

Ville, S., Valadkhani, A. & O'Brien, M. J. The Distribution of Research Performance Across Australian Universities, 1992-2003, and Its Implications for Building Diversity. Australian Economic Papers 2006, 45 (4), 343-361.

Yerokhin, O. & Moschini, G. Intellectual Property Rights and Crop-Improving R&D under Adaptive Destruction. Environmental and Resource Economics, 2008, 40, (1), 53-72.

Books

Boyce, G., Macintyre, S. & Ville, S., Eds, How Organisations Connect Investing in Communication, 1 ed., Melbourne University Press: Melbourne, 2006.

Pol, E. & Carroll, P. An Introduction to the Creative Economy (Second

Edition), McGraw Hill, Australia, 2007.

Pol, E. & Carroll, P. An Introduction to Economics with Emphasis on

Innovation (Second Edition), Thomson Learning, Australia. 2006.

Book Chapters

Boyce, G., Macintyre, S. & Ville, S. Conclusion: Building Collaborative Capabilities. In How Organisations Connect Investing in Communication; Boyce, G., Macintyre,

S. & Ville, S., Eds.; 1 ed.; Melbourne University Press: Victoria, 2006; pp 198-208.

Boyce, G., Macintyre, S. & Ville, S. Investing in the Inter-Organisational Domain. In How Organisations Connect Investing in Communication; Boyce, G., Macintyre, S. & Ville, S., Eds.; 1 ed.; Melbourne University Press: Victoria, 2006; pp 1-7.

Moschini, G. & Yerokhin, O. Economic Incentive to Innovate in Plants: Patents and Plant Breeders’ Rights. In Agricultural Biotechnology and Intellectual Property: Seeds of Change; Kesan, J., Ed.; CABI Publishing, 2007.

Pol, E. & Nyland, C. Human Resource Development Issues and Priorities in Vietnam: Implications for International Business. In Prospects in Trade, Investment and Business in Vietnam and East Asia, 1 ed.; Macmillan Press Ltd, London, UK, 2000.

Pol, E., Carroll, P. & Robertson, P. Receptive Capacity of Established Industries as a Limiting Factor in the Economy’s Rate of Innovation. Reprinted in Low-tech Innovation in the Knowledge Economy, Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen, David Jacobson, and Staffan Laestadius (eds.), Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2005, pp. 123-143.

Rodgers, J. R. & Rodgers, J. L. The Effects of Income Disparities on Inter-Regional Migration in a Technologically Developed Country: Evidence from Australia. In Economic Growth, Inequality and Migration; 1 ed.; Edward Elgar Publishing Limited: Cheltenham, United Kingdom, 2002; pp 190-214.

Ville, S. ‘The institutional legacy and the development of an Australian national innovation system’ in R. Garside ed. Institutions and Market Economies: the Political Economy of Growth and Development, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 112-36.

Ville, S. & Merrett, D. Investing in Inter-Organisational Communication: The Melbourne Wool Brokers Association. In How Organisations Connect Investing in Communication; Boyce, G., Macintyre, S. & Ville, S., Eds.; 1 ed.; Melbourne University Press: Melbourne, 2006; pp 171-197.

Ville, S. Stock and Station Agents and Wool Brokers. In City of Enterprise Perspectives on Auckland Business History; Hunter, I. & Morrow, D., Eds.;
1 ed.; Auckland University Press: Auckland, New Zealand, 2006; pp 132-151.

Conference Publications

Lewis, D. E., Shorten, B., O'Brien, M. J. & Rogan, S. G. Do Students Benefit From Supplemental Instruction? Evidence from a First Year Statistics Subject for Commerce Students. In Economic Education Conference; University of South Australia: Adelaide, 2004; pp 1-19 (cd).

Neri, F. V. & Rodgers, J. R. Ranking Australian Economics Departments by Research Productivity. In ACE05: Australian Conference of Economists; Dixon, R. Eds.; University of Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 2005; pp 1-30.

O'Brien, M. J. Older Male Workers and Job Mobility in Australia. In Shifting the boundaries of employment and work; De Cieri, H. & Costa, C. Eds.; Events Management Office: Monash University, Victoria, 2005; pp 2-20.

O'Brien, M. J. Structural Change and the Older Male Worker in Australia. In Proceedings of the 16th AIRAANZ Conference; McAndrew, I. & Geare, A. Eds.; AIRAANZ: New Zealand, 2002; pp 352-361.

Pol, E. Student Engagement in Economics: An integrated Solution. In Proceedings of the Oxford Business & Economics Conference, Oxford, UK, 24-26 June 2007.

Pol, E. Tacit Assumptions in the Analysis of a Creative Economy. In Proceedings of the 5th Global Conference on Business and Economics, Cambridge, UK, 6-8 July 2006.

Pol, E. & Carroll, P. The Double Paradox of Elementary Economics Education. In S. Cheung (eds), Innovation for Student Engagement in Economics: Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian Teaching Economics Conference, School of Economics and Political Science, University of Sydney, 2005; pp. 84-97.

Pol, E. & Carroll, P. Innovation Heterogeneity and Schumpeterian Growth Models. In Proceedings of the 33rd Australian Conference of Economists; Conference Maker website, University of Sydney Australia, 2004; pp 1-45.

Rodgers, J. R. & Rodgers, J. L. Chronic and Transitory Poverty in Australia 2001-2004. In ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference; ACSPRI: Sydney, December 10-13, 2006.

Siminski, P. The Effect of Increases to Concession Card Income Thresholds on Health Care Consumption. Presented at ERA 2006 - National Emerging Researchers in Ageing Conference, Sydney, November 21, 2006.

Siminski, P., Bezzina, A. & Eagar, K. (2006) ‘Primary Care Presentations at Emergency Departments: Demographic Profile and Reasons for Presentation’ presented at Health Outcomes 2006, Canberra, August 9-10.

Siminski, P. The effect of earnings on housework: Pros and cons of HILDA's time use data items. In ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference; Sydney, December 10-13, 2006. Available: http://melbourneinstitute.com/hilda/Biblio/cp/ACSPRI%20paper%20-%20Siminski.pdf

Valadkhani, A. and Ville, S. “An Assessment of the Research Performance of Commerce Faculties in Australia”, 36th Annual Conference of Economists, 24-26 September 2007, Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart.

Valadkhani, A. and Ville, S. Analysing the Comparative Performance of Australian Universities under the Unified National System, 1992-2003. In Proceedings of the 35th Australian Conference of Economists, 2005; Economic Society of Australian Eds.; Economics Society of Australia: Curtin University of Technology 2006.

Ville, S. and D. Merrett, ‘Tariffs, subsidies and profits: a re-assessment of structural change in Australia 1901-1939’ (Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference, University of Sydney). 2007

Ville, S. & Merrett, D. Size, profitability and survivorship: the performance of large scale enterprise in Australia. Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference, University of Sydney 2007.

Ville, S. Business profitability and structural change in interwar Australia.
Economic Society of Australia Annual Conference, University of Melbourne. 2005. ISBN is 07340 26080. Available: http://gemini.econ.umd.edu/conference/ACE2005/program/ACE2005.html

 
   

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