This study provides evidence on optimal commodity tax rates in Australia, and on their sensitivity to demand function and demographic specification. The optimal tax algorithm, proposed and used here, allows the social welfare weights to depend on prices, household composition and aggregate...

This paper examines inequality in Australia using four Household Expenditure Surveys (HES) between 1975/76 and 1993/94, from the Australian Burau of Statistics (ABS). The effects on inequality of the choice of welfare variable, equivalence scale and price index are examined.

In this paper we have proposed a method of estimating a set of regional price index numbers from a given household level data set on item-wise unit values/prices.

This paper tries to describe the current status of the economic analysis of regulatory issues and uses it to describe the insights that can be produced by marriage of formal economic analysis and actual practice.

This paper investigates the stability of Australian ex ante real interest rates for a range of maturities. Both ex ante real and nominal interest rate series are found to be nonstationary even after following for the possibility of structural breaks using techniques developped by Zivot and...