Mining royalties provide a volatile source of revenue for state governments in Australia. We explore the effects changes royalty received by government on current-year budget decisions about expenditure, tax and surplus. The literature postulates different models how lower-level respond to windfall from higher level government. Empirical evidence these over 1998–2019 provides strong that half b...

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Benchmarking Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems allows researchers and developers to compare the strengths of different approaches, and is an essential step towards establishing the credibility of CBIR systems for commercial applications. Here we introduce the problem of developing a benchmark, discuss some of the issues involved, and provide a review of current and recent benchmarkin...

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This Article examines whether patent holders encourage innovation through democratic royalty sharing. This question is prompted by a developing belief among legal commentators and industry participants that private cooperation can remedy widespread transactional problems that threaten innovation. Until now, however, scholars have not examined the internal governance of patent licensing collecti...