Unfair Trade as Friendly Fire: The Australia-USA Free Trade Agreement

The Gains of Economic Integration: Substantive Evidence for an Australia-Korea Free Trade Agreement

Abstract On 6 December 2006, Australia and Korea announced a joint study on a possible Australia-Korea free trade agreement (AKFTA) to promote trade and economic relations between the two countries. The paper provides empirical evidence on the possible gains and their transmission mechanism from this agreement. Significantly, it uses a new economic policy modelling approach, the endogenous grav...

THE AUSTRALIA INSTITUTE Comparing Drug Prices in Australia and the USA The implications of the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement

Boston University Professor Richard Laing has described the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) as ‘the best drug pricing system in the world ... [and Australia as] the one country which seems to have got it right, that what you want to do in controlling costs is to pay what the drug is therapeutically worth’(Laing 2001). At a time when many countries are struggling with rising phar...

the gains of economic integration: substantive evidence for an australia-korea free trade agreement

abstract on 6 december 2006, australia and korea announced a joint study on a possible australia-korea free trade agreement (akfta) to promote trade and economic relations between the two countries. the paper provides empirical evidence on the possible gains and their transmission mechanism from this agreement. significantly, it uses a new economic policy modelling approach, the endogenous grav...

The North American Free Trade Agreement.

The Role of Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between Iran and Malaysia their Intra industry Trade (IIT)