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The 2000s was a particularly eventful decade for both the international and Australian economies. There were: two recessions in many countries; the largest international financial crisis since the Great Depression; the ongoing rapid development of Asia; asset booms and busts; and, Australia...
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, there is a renewed interest in the long-running debate about whether or not changes in the stock of money have direct … effects. In particular, do changes in money have additional effects on aggregate demand outside of those induced by changes in … structural model with no direct effects of money to show that the finding of positive and statistically significant coefficients …
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This paper explores the positive relationship betwen home prices and household spending by following a panel of Australian households over the period 2003 to 2010. There are three hypotheses put forth in the literature to explain this relationship: (1) increases in home prices raise spending via...
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Two remarkable features of the Australian economy over recent years have been strong growth in private consumption … expenditure and household wealth. This paper examines the relationship between consumption and wealth in an effort to better … understand aggregate consumption behaviour. We find a reasonably robust steady-state relationship between non …
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This paper addresses the question of how changes in stock market wealth and housing wealth affect consumption … stock market wealth. We estimate the link between consumption and the components of wealth using panel-data estimation … housing wealth and stock market wealth have a significant effect on Australian consumption. We estimate that a permanent …
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of the deficit have been offered, and to varying degrees we believe that all may have played a role: low private saving … prominently: private saving in the US is low because income growth is expected to be strong. We rework the standard neoclassical …
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This paper examines the factors that drive corporate investment in Australia using a panel of listed companies covering … the period from 1990 to 2004. Real sales growth is found to be a significant determinant of corporate investment. The user … paper also explores the effects of cash flow on investment, allowing for the possibility that the availability of internal …
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model it is found that, controlling for domestic expenditure (including investment), exports are a sizeable and significant …
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Low interest rates in the United States have recently been accompanied by large fiscal stimulus. However, discussions of monetary policy have neglected this fiscal activism, leading to over-estimates of the costs of the zero lower bound and, hence, of the appropriate inflation target. To rectify...
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