Australian fiscal federalism is characterised by vertical fiscal imbalance, with revenue-raising powers vested mainly in the Commonwealth government and expenditure functions falling largely on state and local governments. Historically a system of intergovernmental grants has been employed to...

This paper describes the innovative use of simulations in the teaching of finance at university level. It describes the use of live data in the simulations and the introduction of industry based systems into the tertiary system.

This paper uses the model developed by Jorion and Schwartz (1986) to test whether the Australian capital market is segmented from or integrated into the world capital market. Using industry portfolio data for the period 1974 to 1992, we examine whether the Australian market was segmented from...