Detecting design - fast and frugal or all things considered (2009)
Within the Cognitive Science of Religion, Justin Barrett has proposed that humans possess a hyperactive agency detection device that was selected for in our evolutionary past because ‘over...
Detecting design - fast and frugal or all things considered (2009)
Within the Cognitive Science of Religion, Justin Barrett has proposed that humans possess a hyperactive agency detection device that was selected for in our evolutionary past because ‘over...
Feasibility of urological training in the private sector (2007)
Nicol, D., Preston, J., Malone, G., Munns, J., Wood, G., Mactaggart, P., ...
Urban 45: New Ideas for Australia's Cities (2007)
Atkinson, RG, Dalton, T, Norman, B, Wood, G
The urban 45 presents 3 policy ideas for each of 15 themes relating to Australian cities. The purpose of the Urban 45 summit and this resulting report was to provide brief analysis and practical...
Microsimulation modelling of tenure choice and grants to promote home ownership (2006)
This article develops a microsimulation model of the Australian housing market that has tenure choice as its principal focus. The article sheds light on the role played by relative prices, wealth and...
Growing concern about a lack of rental housing affordable to low-income Australian households has prompted consideration of possible policy interventions. This paper estimates the potential housing...
Vacancy rates and low rent housing: a panel data analysis (2006)
Wood, G, Yates, J, Reynolds, M
There is evidence of a shortage of low-rent housing stock in Australia. But there is a puzzling aspect to this evidence because it would appear that vacancy rates in the low-rent housing stock are...
Transaction costs, agglomeration economies, and industrial location (2005)
Following an outline of the different types of agglomeration economy, consideration is given to transaction costs. Transaction costs may have a definite spatial dimension because institutional,...
Affordable rental housing: Lost, stolen and strayed (2005)
This paper contributes to an exploration of the potential causes (as distinct from existence) of social and spatial polarisation. It focuses on the changing provision of low-rent housing in a spatial...
Staying secure, staying poor: The "Faustian bargain" (2003)
The determining condition for poor people is uncertainty. Some societies perform better than others in mitigating this uncertainty. In such societies we observe welfare regimes which reduce the...
Great crashes in history: have they lessons for today? (1999)
Crashes in asset markets have been common throughout history, while financial crises, defined as crises in the banking system, have in some countries and periods been as common, and in others much...
Aksentijevich, I., Centola, M., Deng, Z. M., Sood, R., Balow, J. E., Wood, G., ...
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a recessively inherited disorder characterized by dramatic episodes of fever and serosal inflammation. This report describes the cloning of the gene likely to...