This article examines effects on major Australian macroeconomic and structural variables of simultaneous shocks to world oil and black coal prices. The illustrative numerical results have been produced with the short-run fuel substitution tax model, ORANI-LFT. The current version of that model...

ORANI is a general purpose short-run general equilibrium model of the Australian economy. ORANI-LFT extends this basic model to enable examination of tax issues and interfuel substitution in the industrial sector. The extended model is used to illustrate the effects of a substantial switch from...