The paper examines international linkages between daily time series of US and Australian 3 month Treasury Bills and 10 year Government Bonds from 1987-95, paying particular attention to the effects of macroeconomic announcements in both countries. The 2 country's interest rate data are modelled...

Intervention by the Reserve Bank of Australia on foreign exchange markets from 1993 to 1997 is conjectured to have been determined by exchange rate trend correction, exchange rate volatility smoothing and profitability considerations. Using Probit and friction models, we show that these factors...

This paper investigates the response efficiency of the 10-year Australian Commonwealth bond futures market to the new contents of the Australian scheduled information release from January 1993 to July 1997. Using Money Market Services market expectations data to generate the news component of...

This paper examines the key characteristics of foreign exchange intervention by the Reserve Bank of Australia in the period 1983-1997. The effectiveness of intervention has come into question in view of the rapidly growing volume of trade in the markets. In the literature, tests of actual...

A wide range of macroeconomic and microeconomic theories are surveyed with particular regard to their prediction on the cyclicality of real wages. After appropriate removal of the non-stationary components of the time series involved, econometric tests are undertaken which show that Australian...

The decline in Australian aggregate labour productivity growth in the 1980's was closely associated with a fall in capital intensity. While many believe that real wage restraint was the explanation for these aggregate outcomes, this paper examines the data disaggregated to an industry level to...