The Government's Tax Package: Further Analysis based on the MONASH Model (1999)
Dixon, Peter B., Rimmer, Maureen T.
No abstract supplied
The Government's Tax Package: Further Analysis based on the MONASH Model (1999)
Dixon, Peter B., Rimmer, Maureen T.
No abstract supplied
The Government's Tax Package: Further Analysis based on the MONASH Model (1999)
Dixon, Peter B., Rimmer, Maureen T.
No abstract supplied
Forecasting and Policy Analysis with a Dynamic CGE Model of Australia (1998)
Dixon, Peter B., Rimmer, Maureen T.
The main ideas in this paper are: (i) that CGE models can be used in forecasting; and (ii) that forecasts matter for policy analysis. We demonstrate these ideas by describing an application of...
Forecasting and Policy Analysis with a Dynamic CGE Model of Australia (1998)
Dixon, Peter B., Rimmer, Maureen T.
The main ideas in this paper are: (i) that CGE models can be used in forecasting; and (ii) that forecasts matter for policy analysis. We demonstrate these ideas by describing an application of...
Forecasting and Policy Analysis with a Dynamic CGE Model of Australia (1998)
Dixon, Peter B., Rimmer, Maureen T.
The main ideas in this paper are: (i) that CGE models can be used in forecasting; and (ii) that forecasts matter for policy analysis. We demonstrate these ideas by describing an application of...
Dixon, Peter B., Malakellis, Michael, Meagher, G. A.
Microsimulation (MS) is distinguished from other approaches to distributional analysis In that it relies primarily on a theoretical framework built up from the characteristics - economic, social and...
Adams, Philip D., Dixon, Peter B.
The largest computable general equilibrium (CGE) models currently in operation produce forecasts divided into about 100 commodities (goods and services). This level of detail may seem overwhelming to...
Dixon, Peter B., Malakellis, Michael, Meagher, G. A.
Microsimulation (MS) is distinguished from other approaches to distributional analysis In that it relies primarily on a theoretical framework built up from the characteristics - economic, social and...
Adams, Philip D., Dixon, Peter B.
The largest computable general equilibrium (CGE) models currently in operation produce forecasts divided into about 100 commodities (goods and services). This level of detail may seem overwhelming to...
Dixon, Peter B., Malakellis, Michael, Meagher, G. A.
Microsimulation (MS) is distinguished from other approaches to distributional analysis In that it relies primarily on a theoretical framework built up from the characteristics - economic, social and...
Adams, Philip D., Dixon, Peter B.
The largest computable general equilibrium (CGE) models currently in operation produce forecasts divided into about 100 commodities (goods and services). This level of detail may seem overwhelming to...
Measures of Intra-industry Trade as Indicators of Factor Market Disruption (1995)
Dixon, Peter B., Menon, Jayant
Intra-industry trade (IIT) related concepts have often been used as indicators of the extent to which trade growth can be accommodated without factor market disruption. The most commonly used...
Regional Trading Arrangements and Intra-industry Trade: The Case of ANZCERTA (1995)
Menon, Jayant, Dixon, Peter B.
Empirical work on intra-industry trade (IIT) is almost 30 years old. From the earliest analyses of IIT, the phenomenon has been associated with Regional Trading Agreements (RTAs). An important...
Measures of Intra-industry Trade as Indicators of Factor Market Disruption (1995)
Dixon, Peter B., Menon, Jayant
Intra-industry trade (IIT) related concepts have often been used as indicators of the extent to which trade growth can be accommodated without factor market disruption. The most commonly used...
Regional Trading Arrangements and Intra-industry Trade: The Case of ANZCERTA (1995)
Menon, Jayant, Dixon, Peter B.
Empirical work on intra-industry trade (IIT) is almost 30 years old. From the earliest analyses of IIT, the phenomenon has been associated with Regional Trading Agreements (RTAs). An important...
Measures of Intra-industry Trade as Indicators of Factor Market Disruption (1995)
Dixon, Peter B., Menon, Jayant
Intra-industry trade (IIT) related concepts have often been used as indicators of the extent to which trade growth can be accommodated without factor market disruption. The most commonly used...
Regional Trading Arrangements and Intra-industry Trade: The Case of ANZCERTA (1995)
Menon, Jayant, Dixon, Peter B.
Empirical work on intra-industry trade (IIT) is almost 30 years old. From the earliest analyses of IIT, the phenomenon has been associated with Regional Trading Agreements (RTAs). An important...
How important is intra-industry trade in Australia's rapid trade growth? (1994)
Menon, Jayant, Dixon, Peter B.
Empirical work on intra-industry trade (IIT) is almost 30 years old. Initial research sought to identify if IIT was a significant share of total trade (TT). The Grubel-Lloyd (GL) index was widely...
How important is intra-industry trade in Australia's rapid trade growth? (1994)
Menon, Jayant, Dixon, Peter B.
Empirical work on intra-industry trade (IIT) is almost 30 years old. Initial research sought to identify if IIT was a significant share of total trade (TT). The Grubel-Lloyd (GL) index was widely...
How important is intra-industry trade in Australia's rapid trade growth? (1994)
Menon, Jayant, Dixon, Peter B.
Empirical work on intra-industry trade (IIT) is almost 30 years old. Initial research sought to identify if IIT was a significant share of total trade (TT). The Grubel-Lloyd (GL) index was widely...
Horridge, J. Mark, Dixon, Peter B., Rimmer, Maureen T.
We describe the theory, computation and results of a multiperiod general equilibrium model designed to assist an urban water authority in its pricing and investment decisions. The model includes...
Horridge, J. Mark, Dixon, Peter B., Rimmer, Maureen T.
We describe the theory, computation and results of a multiperiod general equilibrium model designed to assist an urban water authority in its pricing and investment decisions. The model includes...
Horridge, J. Mark, Dixon, Peter B., Rimmer, Maureen T.
We describe the theory, computation and results of a multiperiod general equilibrium model designed to assist an urban water authority in its pricing and investment decisions. The model includes...
The theory of joint maximization / Peter B. Dixon (1975)
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The theory of joint maximization. (1972)
Photocopy. Cambridge, Harvard University Archives, n.d.
Computable general equilibrium modelling for policy analysis and forecasting
Dixon, Peter B., Parmenter, B.R., H. M. Amman, D. A. Kendrick, J. Rust
EFFICIENCY EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN COMMONWEALTH GRANTS TO THE STATES: A CGE ANALYSIS *
PETER B. DIXON, MARK R. PICTON, MAUREEN T. RIMMER
This paper describes CSF, a general equilibrium model encompassing factors of relevance to economic efficiency in Federal/State funding including: interstate differences in tax bases and unit costs...
Changes in Technology and Preferences: A General Equilibrium Explanation of Rapid Growth in Trade.
Dixon, Peter B, Menon, Jayant, Rimmer, Maureen T
We use a computable general equilibrium model in an explanation of the recent rapid growth in Australia's trade, particularly intra-industry trade. Relative to previous studies of trade growth based...
Rational expectations for large CGE models: A practical algorithm and a policy application
Dixon, Peter B., Pearson, K.R., Picton, Mark R., Rimmer, Maureen T.
The Mathematical Programming Approach to Applied General Equilibrium Modelling: Notes and Problems
The mathematical programming approach to applied general equilibrium analysis, although no longer the dominant tool, is still useful, from at least two points of view: (1) it neatly integrates into...
Water Pricing and investment in Melbourne: General Equilibrium Analysis with Uncertain Stream Flow
J. Mark Horridge, Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer
We describe the theory, computation and results of a multiperiod general equilibrium model designed to assist an urban water authority in its pricing and investment decisions. The model includes...
How Important is Intra-Industry Trade in Australia's Rapid Trade Growth?
Empirical work on intra-industry trade (IIT) is almost 30 years old. Initial research sought to identify if IIT was a significant share of total trade (TT). The Grubel-Lloyd (GL) index was widely...
Applied General Equilibrium Modelling: Achievement, Failure and Potential
Over the last twenty years, applied general equilibrium models (AGEMs) have provided useful insights on the likely effects of disturbances in one part of the economy on activity in other parts; e.g....
Regional Trading Arrangements and Intra-Industry Trade: The Case of ANZCERTA
Empirical work on intra-industry trade (IIT) is almost 30 years old. From the earliest analyses of IIT, the phenomenon has been associated with Regional Trading Agreements (RTAs). An important...
Forecasting and Policy Analysis with a Dynamic CGE Model of Australia
Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer
The main ideas in this paper are: (a) that CGE models can be used in forecasting; and (b) that forecasts matter for policy analysis. We demonstrate these ideas by describing an application of MONASH,...
The Government's Tax Package: Further Analysis based on the MONASH Model
Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer
This report builds on an earlier paper discussed by Peter Dixon with the Senate Select Committee on December 18, 1998 which describes a single simulation, with the MONASH model, of the effects of the...
Rational Expectations for Large Models: A Practical Algorithm and a Policy Application
Peter B. Dixon, K.R. Pearson, Mark R. Picton, Maureen T. Rimmer
This paper describes a practical and conceptually simple iterative method for solving large dynamic CGE models under rational expectations. Details are given for the MONASH model of Australia but the...
Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer
This paper was written in honour of Peter J. Lloyd on the occasion of his retirement and celebrates his preeminence as a theorist and practitioner of the economics of international trade. Besides a...
Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer
The contribution of an industry to the economy is often measured by an input-output calculation showing labour used directly in the industry and indirectly via the production of intermediate inputs...
State-level Dynamic CGE Modeling for Forecasting and Policy Analysis
Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer
In computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling there are two broad approaches to generating regional results: bottoms-up and tops-down. We describe both, providing illustrative examples from our...
The US economy from 1992 to 1998: historical and decomposition simulations with the USAGE model
Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer
USAGE is a 500 industry dynamic computable general equilibrium model of the US economy being developed at Monash University in collaboration with the US International Trade Commission. In common with...
The US economy from 1992 to 1998: results from a detailed CGE model
Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer
This paper describes historical and decomposition simulations undertaken for 1992 to 1998 with a 500-sector CGE model of the US. The historical simulation provides estimates of movements in...
Disaggregation of results from a detailed general equilibrium model of the US to the State level
Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer
This paper describes the regional extension of USAGE-ITC, a 500-order dynamic CGE model of the US that we are developing in collaboration with the International Trade Commission. With the regional...
Macro, industry and state effects in the U.S. of removing major tariffs and quotas
Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer, Marinos E. Tsigas
We use a 500-industry CGE model of the U.S. to simulate the macro, industry and state effects of removing major U.S. tariffs and quotas. We find that this would generate a welfare gain of 0.07 per...
Measures of Intra-Industry Trade as Indicators for Factor Market Disruption
Intra-industry trade (IIT) related concepts have often been used as indicators of the extent to which trade growth can be accommodated without factor market disruption. The most commonly used...
James Giesecke, Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer
Many studies have found that the economic benefits from investment in urban infrastructure are substantial. In Australia, much of the responsibility for the provision of urban infrastructure rests...
The Displacement Effect of Labour-Market Programs: Estimates from the MONASH Model
Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer
A key question concerning labour-market programs is the extent to which they generate jobs for their target group at the expense of others. This effect is measured by displacement percentages. We...
The US economy from 1992 to 1998: historical and decomposition simulations with the USAGE model
Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer
USAGE is a 500 industry dynamic computable general equilibrium model of the US economy being developed at Monash University in collaboration with the US International Trade Commission. In common with...
Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer, Marinos E. Tsigas
We describe a tops-down method for regionalising results from a detailed national CGE model. Using a 500-industry U.S. model, we generate macro and industry effects of removing major U.S. import...
This paper explains why evidence-based trade policy decision making is heavily reliant on results generated by CGE models and why the development and application of these modelling has been...
Philip D. Adams, Peter B.Dixon
The largest computable general equilibrium (CGE) models currently in operation produce forecasts for about 100 commodities (goods and services). This level of detail may seem overwhelming to...
A Decomposition of Changes in Labour Productivity in Australia: 1970-71 to 1989-90.
Dixon, Peter B, McDonald, Daina
The authors show that business-cycle phenomena, climatic conditions, and industrial structure are important determinants of annual variations in Australia's labor productivity growth. Another finding...
A General Equilibrium Analysis of a Major Project: The Multifunction Polis.
Dixon, Peter B, Horridge, Mark, Johnson, David T
A general equilibrium model is used in an assessment of different proposals for the establishment in Australia of a high-technology city (an MFP). Our approach emphasizes the roles of prices and of...
The Displacement Effect of Labour-Market Programs: MONASH Analysis
PETER B. DIXON, MAUREEN T. RIMMER
A key question concerning labour-market programs is the extent to which they generate jobs for their target group at the expense of others. This effect is measured by displacement percentages. We...
Payroll Taxes: Thresholds, Firm Sizes, Dead-weight Losses and Commonwealth Grants Commission Funding
PETER B. DIXON, MARK R. PICTON, MAUREEN T. RIMMER
Payroll-tax thresholds make firms smaller than they would otherwise be and concentrate firms at just below threshold employment. We estimate the resulting dead-weight losses under perfect and...
The US Economy from 1992 to 1998: Results from a Detailed CGE Model
PETER B. DIXON, MAUREEN T. RIMMER
This paper describes historical and decomposition simulations undertaken for 1992-98 with a 500-sector computable general equilibrium model of the US. The historical simulation provides estimates of...
Australian Poverty Quantified by a Family-Based Poverty Index.
Johnson, David T, Dixon, Peter B
The authors postulate a family-based poverty index (JD) possessing focus, symmetry, monotonicity and decomposability properties commonly required of individualistic indexes. JD also satisfies...
Measures of Intra-industry Trade as Indicators of Factor Market Disruption.
Concepts of intraindustry trade (IIT) are often used to indicate the extent to which trade growth is accommodated without factor market disruption. The most common indicators are movements in...
The Effects of Reallocating General Revenue Assistance among the Australian States.
Dixon, Peter B, Madden, John R, Peter, Matthew W
The Australian government distributes about 4 percent of GDP to the state governments in the form of general revenue assistance. The distribution formula, which favors the less populous states, is a...
Analyzing Income Distribution in Australia.
This paper contains an analysis of the sources of income inequality in Australia, based on data from the ABS income survey for 1978-79. The analysis pr oceeds by progressive decomposition of the...
Forecasts for the Australian economy using the MONASH model
Adams, Philip D., Dixon, Peter B., McDonald, Daina, Meagher, G. A., Parmenter, Brian R.
James Giesecke, Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer
We use a dynamic multi-regional CGE model (MMRF) to evaluate the regional macroeconomic consequences of four methods of financing a program of regional government infrastructure provision. The...
Dixon, Peter B, Horridge, Mark, Johnson, David T
ORANI is a detailed general equilibrium model of the Australian economy. In standard applications it generates results for about 100 industries, 6 regions and over 250 occupational groups. The model...
Australia's Foreign Debt: 1975 to 1985
Peter B. Dixon, Daina McDonald
This article analyses Australia's debt accumulation since 1975 and comments on possible future paths of adjustment. In Section 2 we derive a formula describing the dynamics of debt accumulation. In...
Welfare effects of unilateral changes in tariffs: the case of Motor vehicles and parts in Australia
Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer
We derive formulas for the optimal tariff rate in four theoretical models. We start with a model in which industries are competitive and then successively allow for: monopoly pricing by export...
Pricing of Queensland Sugar Cane: Appraisal of the Present Formula and a Suggestion for Reform
Dixon, Peter B., Johnson, David T.
Production and milling of sugar cane in Queensland occur in a highly regulated environment. In particular the price of cane is determined by a formula which has been used virtually unchanged for...
Australia's Real Exchange Rate: 1985 to 1990
Dixon, Peter B., Parmenter, B.R.
A published version of this paper is available in Economic Papers 6 (2), June 1987, 1-6.
Reducing Illegal Migrants in the U.S.: A Dynamic CGE Analysis
Peter B. Dixon, Martin Johnson, Maureen T. Rimmer
We use an economy-wide model to analyze the effects of three broad programs to reduce illegal immigrants in U.S. employment: tighter border security; taxes on employers; and vigorous prosecution of...
Modelling the Australian government's buyback scheme with a dynamic multi-regional CGE model
Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer, Glyn Wittwer
TERM-H2O is a multi-regional model of the Australian economy adapted to include regional water accounts. Factors of production are mobile between sectors in farm industries. TERM-H2O is dynamic and...
The Productivity Commission claims on the basis of computable general equilibrium modelling that a seemingly small reduction in assistance to the Australian Automotive industry (a cut in tariffs from...
The Cost of Australian Carbon Dioxide Abatement
Robert E. Marks, Peter L. Swan, Peter McLennan, Richard Schodde, Peter B. Dixon, David T. Johnson
This paper examines efficient means of abating the greenhouse effect in Australia by reducing the emissions of CO2. It examines the generation of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels in Australia, and...