Two Australian mobility surveys are analysed (February 1989 and February 1992) to identify the explanation of labour mobility in Australian industry. An informal analysis reveals that labour turnover is higher in boom as opposed to recessed conditions. A formal legit study reveals that industry...

A GARCH (1,1)-M model of the 30-day forward rate error reveals the following: a constant, but not time varying risk premium; evidence of market inefficiencies; a well determined GARCH (1,1) effect, but no I-GARCH process. The daily time series extended from 2 January 1985 to 13 May 1994.

The Double Square Root (DSR) GE model of the term structure is fitted to Australian security yield data over the period 2 January 1984 to 15 December 1995 - a data set of 3041 yields on four securities: 30 and 90-day BAB: and 5 and 10-year bonds. Applying both the OLS and GMM estimators we find...

The Australian cash rate is generally unstable, while surveyed expected inflation and the 90 day bank bill rate are stationary subject to breaks. Real bond rates (2, 5, 10 years) are stationary in levels. Policy and market implications are drawn.

First and second order instability tests are applied to China's two major share market price indices (SPIs), Shanghai share market price index (SES) and Shenzhen share market price index (SZS) using daily data from 2 January 1992 to 16 July 2004. First order instability is synonymous with non...