Posts tagged…Market
Public Policy and the Payments System
Thu, Mar 26 2009An important speech last night by the Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens arguing the need for more intervention in the private payments system—specifically the EFTPOS and ATM systems—to guide and accelerate the development of better technologies and standards by the competing Australian banks.
Stevens devotes much of his speech to a fascinating analysis of classic market failure due to…
Read more…Tariff analysis database
Fri, Feb 09 2007The UN ITC’s Market Access Map is a remarkable database of tariffs and preferences for about 170 countries. Inquit has helped ITC create an on-line training suite that will give you some feeling for MacMap’s power
Market Access Map is a subscription database that provides up-to-date information on WTO member economies’ ‘scheduled’ and applied tariff rates in about 170 economies, including…