A Determination Of The Trade Impacts Of The Australia-United States 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...

Will the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement undermine the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme?

The Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) contains major concessions to the US pharmaceutical industry that may undermine the egalitarian principles and operation of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and substantially increase the costs of medicinal drugs to Australian consumers. AUSFTA's approach to the PBS excessively emphasises the need to reward manufacturers of "inno...

Robbery under arms: Copyright law and the Australia - United States Free Trade Agreement

Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement and the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

determination of maximal singularity free zones in the workspace of parallel manipulator

due to the limiting workspace of parallel manipulator and regarding to finding the trajectory planning of singularity free at workspace is difficult, so finding a best solution that can develop a technique to determine the singularity-free zones in the workspace of parallel manipulators is highly important. in this thesis a simple and new technique are presented to determine the maximal singula...