Commodity booms and their impacts on the Western Australian economy: The iron ore case

Resources Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 83-101

  Ye, Qiang ^a  

^a Western Australian Department of Industry and Resources   (Australia)

Author keywords

CGE modeling; Commodity booms; Gregory thesis Dutch disease; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; INVESTMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COMMODITY BOOMS; DUTCH DISEASE; GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM APPROACH; GREGORY THESIS;

IRON ORES;

COMMODITY; DUTCH DISEASE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; IRON ORE; MINERALS INDUSTRY; MODELING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 44649148928     PISSN: 03014207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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