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June 2011, Volume 30, Issue 2
- 218-232 Modelling the Economic Impacts of the Sydney Olympics in Retrospect – Game Over for the Bonanza Story?
by James A. Giesecke & John R. Madden - 233-252 Institutions and Growth Volatility
by Nejat Anbarci & Jonathan Hill & Hasan Kirmanoglu - 253-264 Resource Misallocation in Australia’s Mental Health Sector under Medicare: Evidence from Time‐series Data
by Darrel P. Doessel & Ruth F.G. Williams - 265-272 Reassessing the Relationship between Economic Growth and Inequality
by Ha Vu & Pundarik Mukhopadhaya - 273-278 Our Friends across the Ditch: A Brief Sketch of the New Zealand Academic Economics Profession
by Alex Millmow - 279-287 Asymmetric Dynamics in Stock Market Volatility
by Indika Karunanayake & Abbas Valadkhani
March 2011, Volume 30, Issue 1
- 1-5 Monetary–Fiscal Interactions: How to Improve Policy Outcomes?
by Jan Libich & James Savage & Carl Walsh - 6-14 The Big Picture of Monetary–Fiscal Interactions
by Michal Franta & Jan Libich & Petr Stehlík - 15-17 Monetary and Fiscal Policy: How an Agreed Inflation Target Affects Fiscal Policy
by Donald Brash - 18-22 Central Bank Independence Revisited
by Carl E. Walsh - 23-28 The Fiscal Stimulus and Challenges Ahead: Views on the Euro Area
by Jacopo Cimadomo - 29-32 Reforming Fiscal Responsibility Legislation
by Stephen Kirchner - 33-47 Fiscal Limits in Advanced Economies
by Eric M. Leeper & Todd B. Walker - 48-59 Evaluating Major Events and Avoiding the Mercantilist Fallacy
by Peter Abelson - 60-76 An Investigation of Service Mix within the Home and Community Care Programme
by Nerina Vecchio & Stella Stevens - 77-98 Does the Political Institution Matter for Financial Development?
by Hatra Voghouei & M. Azali & Siong Hook Law - 99-108 Blended Learning in Finance: Comparing Student Perceptions of Lectures, Tutorials and Online Learning Environments Across Different Year Levels
by Alan Farley & Ameeta Jain & Dianne Thomson - 109-117 The Role of Human Capital in the Development Process of Industrial Clusters: Evidence from Metalworking Clusters in Sri Lanka
by H.M. Nihal Padmasiri
December 2010, Volume 29, Issue 4
- 369-383 Some Economics of Mining Taxation
by Henry Ergas & Mark Harrison & Jonathan Pincus - 384-396 Special Taxation of the Mining Industry
by John Freebairn & John Quiggin - 397-406 Reform of the Regulation of Liquor
by Peter J. Lloyd - 407-420 Optimal Bonus Points in the Australian Football League
by Liam J. A. Lenten & Niven Winchester - 421-431 Dutch Disease and the Sustainable Management of Royalty Wealth in Western Australia
by Jason C. Hart - 432-445 Is All Cartel Activity Evil?
by Andrew Torre & Daniel Morgan - 446-465 Delayed Carbon Policy Certainty and Electricity Prices in Australia
by Tim Nelson & Simon Kelley & Fiona Orton & Paul Simshauser - 466-482 The Predictive Ability of Business Survey Indices
by Phillip Chindamo - 483-489 The New National Health and Hospitals Network – Building Australia’s Health Workforce: Where is the Evidence?
by Matthew J. Leach & Leonie Segal - 490-496 Causes and Consequences of Fragility in Africa: The Experience of the Greater Lakes Region
by Nyende Magidu
September 2010, Volume 29, Issue 3
- 251-266 Advancing Water Trade: A Preliminary Investigation of Urban‐Irrigation Options Contracts in the Ovens Basin, Victoria, Australia
by Anke Leroux & Lin Crase - 267-278 Is There a Better Alternative for Australia’s Health System?
by Jeff Richardson - 279-291 Economic Analysis of the Government’s Recent Mining Tax Proposals
by Brian Parmenter & Amar Breckenridge & Stephen Gray - 292-300 What Drives Health Spending in the Northern Territory?
by Yuejen Zhao & John Goss & Rosalyn Malyon - 301-309 Fiscal Neglect in a Monetary Union
by Jan Libich & James Savage & Petr Stehlík - 310-316 Government Intervention in OECD Member Countries: Equity at the Expense of Efficiency?
by Marc Lombard - 317-319 Is the Long‐term Bond Rate the Appropriate Uplift Rate for the RSPT?
by Peter J. Urban - 320-332 Revisiting the Relationship Between the Macroeconomy and Indigenous Labour Force Status
by Boyd Hunter - 333-341 Ageing, Labour Force Participation and Education: Comparing the Implications for Economic Growth in China and India
by John Hicks & Parikshit K. Basu & Richard B. Sappey - 342-352 Australian Federal Government Failure: The Rise and Fall of the Home Insulation Program
by Brian Dollery & Martin Hovey - 353-364 The Private Rate of Return to an Economics Degree: An Update
by Anne Elizabeth Daly & Philip E. T. Lewis - 365-367 Industry Structure Issues in the Water and Wastewater Sectors in Australia: A Comment on Abbott and Cohen
by Brian Dollery & Lin Crase
June 2010, Volume 29, Issue 2
- 97-98 From the Editor: A Case for Public Sector Involvement in Public Economic Debates
by Harry Clarke - 99-108 How Should Macroeconomic Policy Respond to Foreign Financial Crises?
by Anthony J. Makin - 109-127 Australian CEO Remuneration
by Richard Heaney & Vineet Tawani & John Goodwin - 128-142 Do Private Patients have Shorter Waiting Times for Elective Surgery? Evidence from New South Wales Public Hospitals
by Meliyanni Johar & Elizabeth Savage - 143-155 Effects on the PNG Economy of a Major LNG Project
by Peter B. Dixon & Gae Kauzi & Maureen T. Rimmer - 156-168 Carbon Leakages, Consumption‐based Carbon Taxes and International Climate Change Agreements
by Harry Clarke - 169-180 The PhD Conference in Economics and Business Two Decades On
by Kenneth W. Clements - 181-196 The Location Decisions of Multinationals and the Cultural Link: Evidence from Spanish Direct Investment Abroad
by Salvador Barrios & Juan Miguel Benito - 197-199 Reforming Taxes on Wine and Other Alcoholic Beverage Consumption
by Kym Anderson - 200-214 Special Taxation of Alcoholic Beverages to Correct Market Failures
by John Freebairn - 215-228 Excise and Import Taxes on Wine Versus Beer and Spirits: An International Comparison
by Kym Anderson - 229-250 What Do the Bingers Drink? Micro‐Unit Evidence on Negative Externalities and Drinker Characteristics of Alcohol Consumption by Beverage Types
by Preety Srivastava & Xueyan Zhao
March 2010, Volume 29, Issue 1
- 1-12 Keynes and ‘Psychology’
by J. E. King - 13-22 Bad Politics Makes Bad Policy: The Case of Queensland’s Asset Sales Programme
by John Quiggin - 23-33 The Proposed Privatisation of Queensland Motorways
by Ross Guest - 34-39 Six More Refuted Doctrines: A Comment on Quiggin
by J. E. King - 40-40 Response to J. E. King’s Response to my Article ‘Six Refuted Doctrines’
by John Quiggin - 41-47 A Cautionary Note on the Use of Socio‐Economic Analyses in Water Planning
by Lin Crase - 48-63 Industry Structure Issues in the Water and Wastewater Sectors in Australia
by Malcolm Abbott & Bruce Cohen - 64-79 Public Spending Allocation, Fiscal Performance and Corruption
by Georgios Moschovis - 80-86 Student Performance in a Large First Year Economics Subject: Which Variables are Significant?
by Girijasankar Mallik & John Lodewijks - 87-95 The Changing Sociology of the Australian Academic Economics Profession
by Alex Millmow
December 2009, Volume 28, Issue 4
- 279-290 State Oversight Models for Australian Local Government
by Brian Dollery & Sue O’Keefe & Lin Crase - 291-303 The Economics of Art Thefts: Too Much Screaming over Munch's The Scream?
by Antonio Nicita & Matteo Rizzolli - 304-309 Reforming Youth Allowance: The “Independent‐at‐Home” Category
by Bruce Chapman & Kiatanantha Lounkaew - 310-322 Managed Floating in Australia
by Shawn Chen‐Yu Leu - 323-336 Intra‐Industry Trade and Adjustment Costs in the Australian Textile, Clothing and Footwear and Motor Vehicle Industries: A Comparative Case Study Approach
by Andrew Marks - 337-345 Institutional Challenges and Response in Regulating Foreign Direct Investment to Australia
by Chris Sadleir & Greg Mahony - 346-354 Testing Comparative Advantage in Australian Broadacre Agriculture Under Climate Change: Theoretical and Empirical Models
by Todd Sanderson & Fredoun Z. Ahmadi‐Esfahani - 355-365 Cicero’s Children: The Worth of the History of Economic Thought for Business Students
by Alex Millmow - 366-375 Natural Resource Diversity and Democracy
by Mike Smart - 376-382 The End of Free Market Fundamentalism Not of the Mixed Economy
by Harry Clarke
September 2009, Volume 28, Issue 3
- 183-183 From the Editor
by Harry Clarke - 184-185 Economic Society of Australia’s Distinguished Fellow for 2009 Acceptance Speech
by Ross Garnaut - 186-195 The Global Financial Crisis and Its Effects
by Malcolm Edey - 196-205 Making Sense of the GFC: Where did it Come from and what do we do Now?
by Ian Harper & Mike Thomas - 206-216 Banking Crises and Economic Activity: Observations from Past Crises in Developed Countries
by Ellis Connolly - 217-225 Where has all the Money Gone?
by Kevin Davis - 226-238 The Global Financial Crisis of 2007–2009 – An Australian Perspective
by Saul Eslake - 239-248 Six Refuted Doctrines
by John Quiggin - 249-254 The Global Financial Crisis and Behavioural Economics
by Ian M. McDonald - 255-263 The Post‐2007 Financial Crisis and Policy Challenges facing Australia
by Richard Pomfret - 264-269 Alternative Policy Responses to the Global Financial Crisis
by Tom Valentine - 270-278 Equity‐Based, Asset‐Based and Asset‐Backed Transactional Structures in Shari’a‐Compliant Financing: Reflections on the Current Financial Crisis
by Razi Pahlavi Abdul Aziz & Anne‐Sophie Gintzburger
June 2009, Volume 28, Issue 2
- 65-74 Financial Plans for Baby Boomers: How Much Risk?
by Geoffrey Kingston - 75-81 The Difference between a Recession and a Depression
by Saul Eslake - 82-92 Grandfathering and Greenhouse: The Role of Compensation and Adjustment Assistance in the Introduction of a Carbon Emissions Trading Scheme for Australia
by Flavio Menezes & John Quiggin & Liam Wagner - 93-101 The Economics of Carbon Abatement: An Integrated Diagrammatic Framework
by Ross Guest - 102-120 Old, Single and Poor: Using Microsimulation and Microdata to Analyse Poverty and the Impact of Policy Change among Older Australians
by Robert Tanton & Yogi Vidyattama & Justine McNamara & Quoc Ngu Vu & Ann Harding - 121-129 What Future for the Future Fund?
by Anthony J. Makin - 130-138 Lifting the Cloud of Confusion over Monetary Policy
by Trevor Coombes & David Reimers - 139-147 Economic Welfare Comparisons: Australia, the United States and the European Union
by Marc Lombard - 148-154 An Empirical Note on Weather Effects in the Australian Stock Market
by Andrew Worthington - 155-168 Community Valuations of Environmental Quality in Coastal Lakes: Lake Illawarra Case Study
by Ann Hodgkinson & Abbas Valadkhani - 169-175 Postage Price Parity
by Maxwell N. Maesepp - 176-180 The Ranking of Economics Journals by the Economic Society of Australia
by Peter Abelson
March 2009, Volume 28, Issue 1
- 1-1 From the Editor
by Harry Clarke - 2-10 Consistent Regulation of Infrastructure Businesses: Some Economic Issues
by Flavio M. Menezes - 11-18 Comments on the Productivity Commission’s Modelling of the Economy‐Wide Effects of Future Automotive Assistance
by Peter B. Dixon - 19-24 A Reply to Professor Dixon’s Comments on the Productivity Commission’s Modelling of Automotive Assistance
by Lisa Gropp & Patrick Jomini & John Salerian - 25-26 Towards Improving the Conduct of Policy Modelling: A Response to Gropp, Jomini and Salerian
by Peter B Dixon - 27-38 Affordable Housing: Concepts and Policies
by Peter Abelson - 39-48 The Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission after Four Years
by Graham Evans - 49-55 Port Botany’s Landside: Market Pricing to Address Congestion
by James Cox & Dennis Mahoney & Mike Smart - 56-62 The Boom We Didn’t Really Have: Australian Economics Degree Enrolments, 1990–2007
by Alex Millmow - 63-64 We Need Wage Moderation, Not Just Demand Stimulation
by Peter B Dixon & Maureen T Rimmer
June 2008, Volume 27, Issue S1
- 1-5 Financial Regulation: Costs, Benefits And The Process Of Regulatory Change
by Kevin Davis - 6-23 Improving The Process Of Change In Australian Financial Sector Regulation
by Pamela Hanrahan - 24-40 Implementing Best Practice Regulation In A Dynamic Marketplace: Consultation And Accountability
by Ric Simes & Ian Harper & Hugh Green - 41-52 Regulation Impact Assessment
by Andrew Serpell - 53-69 Developing A Globally-Competitive Financial Services Sector: Managing The Tension Between Innovation And Regulation Through Self-Regulation
by Gail Pearson & Steve Elliot - 70-82 Measuring Regulation And Regulatory Performance: Benchmarking Through Key Performance Indicators
by Justin O'Brien - 83-96 Quantifying Benefit Estimates For Prudential Rule Making
by Charles Littrell & Phillip Anastopoulos
December 2008, Volume 27, Issue 4
- 303-314 Between Forced Resumption And Voluntary Sale: A Mechanism For The Collective Sale Or Transfer Of Irrigation Water
by Jonathan Pincus & Perry Shapiro - 315-328 Fuel Watch: Evidence-Based-Policy Or Policy-Based-Evidence?
by Don Harding - 329-342 Gauging Economic Performance Under Changing Terms Of Trade: Real Gross Domestic Income Or Real Gross Domestic Product?
by William Coleman - 343-354 Shared Services In Australian Local Government: A Case Study Of The Queensland Local Government Association Model
by Brian Dollery & Greg Hallam & Joe Wallis - 355-363 An Approach To Teaching Monetary Policy Since Deregulation
by Trevor Coombes - 364-380 Is The Decline In The Frequency Of Draws In Test Match Cricket Detrimental To The Long Form Of The Game?
by Liam J. A. Lenten - 381-392 Measuring The Equity Burden In Public Service Provision: The Case Of New Jersey Toll Roads
by Jonathan Peters & Cameron Gordon - 393-402 Financial Reforms In An Emerging Economy: The Case Of Malaysia
by G. Sivalingam
September 2008, Volume 27, Issue 3
- 207-207 A Note From The New Editor
by Harry Clarke - 208-232 Australia'S Long-Run Economic Strategy, Performance, And Policy: A New Dynamic Perspective
by Graeme Donald Snooks - 233-249 Returns To Education In Australia
by Andrew Leigh - 250-264 Australian Early Retirement Tax Biases Prior To July 2007 And The Likely Effects Of Tax Reform On Retirement Plans
by Bruce Felmingham & Natalie Jackson & Maggie Walter & Yong Hong Yan - 265-271 Examining The Behaviour Of Visitor Arrivals To Australia From Twenty Different Countries: An Application Of Panel Unit Root Tests
by Paresh Kumar Narayan & Arti Prasad - 272-285 The Regulation Of Investments
by Tom Valentine - 286-302 The Job Network And Underemployment
by Thorsten Stromback
June 2008, Volume 27, Issue 2
- 107-114 Three Strategies To Deal With Terrorism
by Bruno S. Frey & Simon Luechinger - 115-134 The Impact Of Terrorism On United States Industries
by Marie-Anne Cam - 135-145 Disorder With Law: A Preliminary Study Of Violence In Response To Water Rights Violation In Colonial New South Wales
by Edwyna Harris - 146-159 The Howard-Turnbull National Plan For Water Security Of January 2007: Rescue Or Rejection?
by Alistair Watson - 160-166 Managing The Murray-Darling Basin: Some Implications For Climate Change Policy
by John Quiggin - 167-183 Defining And Managing Environmental Flows: Inputs From Society
by Jeff Bennett - 184-193 Some Emerging Issues In Urban Water Supply And Pricing
by John Freebairn - 194-206 Urban Water Pricing: Practical Perspectives And Customer Preferences
by Lin Crase & Sue O'Keefe & Brian Dollery
March 2008, Volume 27, Issue 1
- 1-18 In The Shadow Of The China-Australia Fta Negotiations: What Australian Business Thinks About Ip
by Anne Leahy & Donald Maclaren & David Morgan & Kimberlee Weatherall & Elizabeth Webster & Jongsay Yong - 19-29 Australia-China Free Trade Agreement: Causal Empirics And Political Economy
by Tran Hoa - 30-40 A Chinese Perspective On The China-Australia Free Trade Agreement And Policy Suggestions
by Dawei Cheng - 41-56 Comparative Advantage And Australia-China Bilateral Trade
by Yu Sheng & Ligang Song - 57-69 A Study On Financial Service Trade Between Australia And China
by Xiao Fengjuan & Lindsay Turner - 70-86 Australia'S Direct Investment In China: Trends And Determinants
by Zihui Ma & Ruilong Yang & Yin Zhang - 87-94 Chinese Investment In Australia
by James Laurenceson - 95-106 The Implications Of China'S Rapid Growth On Demand For Energy And Mining Products Imported From Australia
by Yongsheng Zhang & Chaoyu Zheng
December 2007, Volume 26, Issue 4
- 295-307 Minimum Wages And The ‘Working Poor’
by MARK WOODEN & ROGER WILKINS & SEAMUS McGUINNESS - 308-320 The Impact Of Occupational Health And Safety Policy On Firm Value
by Richard Heaney & Laurence Irlicht - 321-341 Third-Party Access To Infrastructure: The Case Of The Mt Newman Rail Line In The Pilbara
by Paul Koshy & Peter Kenyon - 342-359 Why Do Australian Universities Fare So Poorly In International Rankings? Evidence For Economics Departments And Some Hypotheses
by Richard Pomfret - 360-371 About Turn: Policy Reversals And The Queensland Local Government Reform Commission
by Brian Dollery & Joe Wallis & Lin Crase - 372-391 Outward-Oriented Policy Reforms And Industrialisation In Sri Lanka
by Prema-Chandra Athukorala
September 2007, Volume 26, Issue 3
- 193-195 Asia'S Booming Economies A Decade After The Crisis
by Russell Smyth - 196-210 Why It Is Important To Have A Kind Daughter-In-Law In Japan: Long-Term Care For The Elderly In Japan And Australia
by Shimono Keiko - 211-230 Changing Pattern Of Corporate Governance And Financing In The Korean Chaebols
by Byung S. Min - 231-236 Demographic Shift And Projected Labour Shortage In China
by Ingrid Nielsen & Cai Fang - 237-248 The Determinants Of R&D Expenditure Of Firms: Evidence From A Cross-Section Of Indian Firms
by Vinod Mishra - 249-260 Financial Deepening And Economic Development In Malaysia
by James B. Ang - 261-275 Planning For The End Of The Construction Boom In Tsunami-Stricken Aceh And Transition To A Rapidly Growing Sustainable Economy
by Robert Rice - 276-294 Determinants Of Protection In Thai Manufacturing
by Juthahip Jongwanich & Archanun Kohpaiboon
June 2007, Volume 26, Issue 2
- 101-117 The Two Tribes Of ‘The Econ’: A Study Of Economists And Economic Media Commentary In Australia
by Alex Millmow & Jerry Courvisanos - 118-127 Institutional Change And Economic Growth: The Evolution Of Water Rights In Victoria, Australia 1850–1886
by Edwyna Harris - 128-146 Tax Reform: A Different View
by Geoffrey Kingston - 147-169 Price And Efficiency Effects Of Taxes And Subsidies For Australian Housing
by Peter Abelson & Roselyn Joyeux - 170-179 National Exuberance: A Note On The Melbourne Cup Effect In Australian Stock Returns
by Andrew C. Worthington - 180-192 Does The Stock Market Act As A Signal For Real Activity? Evidence From Australia
by Yajuan Mao & Rongfu Wu
March 2007, Volume 26, Issue 1
- 1-16 The Contribution Of Australian Economists: The Record And The Barriers
by Neville R. Norman - 17-28 Turning Isolation To Advantage In Regional Cost—Benefit Analysis
by Leo Dobes - 29-43 Population And Employment Changes In Regional Australia
by Anne M. Garnett & Philip E. T. Lewis - 44-63 Arguing Over [The] Remote Control: Why Indigenous Policy Needs To Be Based On Evidence And Not Hyperbole
by Boyd H. Hunter - 64-85 Regional Expenditure Patterns, Remoteness And Type Of Enterprise: Which Tourism Businesses Spend The Largest Amounts Within Their Local Communities?
by Natalie Stoeckl - 86-100 The Gross Prices Of Private Fee-For-Service Psychiatric Services Under Medicare In Six Australian Regions 1984–2001
by Ruth F. G. Williams & D. P. Doessel
December 2006, Volume 25, Issue S1
- 1-5 The Future Of Australian Banking: Introduction And Overview
by Kevin Davis & John Fowler - 6-25 Recent Trends In Australian Banking
by Keith Hall & Daniel Veryard - 26-38 Trends In Asx-Listed Bank Governance
by Stephen Chu & Martin Lawrence & Geof Stapledon - 39-51 Foreign Banks: What Do We Know?
by Barry Williams - 52-60 Some Lessons From The History Of Australian Banking
by David Merrett - 61-70 Evaluating Cost Performance Of Banks In The Asia Pacific
by Kym Brown & Michael Skully - 71-79 Is Credit Growth Sustainable?
by Paul Braddick - 80-87 Technology Trends And Their Possible Implications On The Financial Services Industry
by Jürg Känel - 88-102 Bank Industry Risk Analysis: Australia
by Sharad Jain & Craig Bennett - 103-110 Banking Regulation: Has The Pendulum Swung Far Enough?
by T. J. Coyne - 111-120 Greater International Links In Banking—Challenges For Banking Regulation
by Damien White - 121-128 Guarantees, Interchange And Fees—Current Issues With Long-Term Implications
by Nicholas Hossack
December 2006, Volume 25, Issue 4
- 301-313 Fifty Years Of Trade Policy Reform In Australia
by Peter Lloyd - 314-330 United Kingdom-Australian/New Zealand Trade Relations
by Malcolm Abbott - 331-346 A Cross-Country Analysis Of Export Prices In Oecd Countries
by Abbas Valadkhani & Allan P. Layton - 347-357 An Alternative Approach To Identifying Councils ‘At Risk’
by R. G. Walker & Stewart Jones - 358-361 An Alternative Approach To Identifying Councils ‘At Risk’: A Rejoinder To Bob Walker And Stewart Jones
by Brian Dollery - 362-377 THE CONUNDRUMS FACING AUSTRALIA's NATIONAL ELECTRICITY MARKET
by Lynne Chester - 378-395 New Zealand Lessons For Australian Workplace Reform: A Critique Of 151 Academics
by L. J. Perry
September 2006, Volume 25, Issue 3
- 205-220 Towards A Level Playing Field For Australian Universities And Students
by Ross Williams & Peter Dawkins - 221-234 Girls And Economics: An Unlikely Coupling?
by Alex Millmow & Cheryl Bookallil - 235-251 Students‘ Perceptions Of Workshop Based Introductory Macroeconomics Tutorials: A Survey
by Ameeta Jain - 252-271 Transaction Costs, Deposit Requirements And First-Home Ownership
by Gavin A. Wood & Richard Watson & Paul Flatau & Rachel Ong - 272-283 Trading Rule Profits And The Australian Dollar
by Kim Hawtrey & James Nguyen - 284-294 Productivity And Industrial Disputes: A Note On The Cole Royal Commission
by L. J. Perry - 295-297 Comment On“Measuring Victoria'S Genuine Progress: A Genuine Progress Indicator (Gpi) For Victoria”
by Frank Neri & Paul Bradstreet - 298-300 A Response To “Comment On Measuring Victoria'S Genuine Progress: A Genuine Progress Indicator (Gpi) For Victoria”
by Matthew Clarke & Philip Lawn
June 2006, Volume 25, Issue 2
- 101-105 Yang'S Modern Classical Economics Of Specialisation And Its Implications
by Yew-Kwang Ng