The degree of responsiveness of Australian women's labour supply to child care cost has been a matter of some debate. There is a view that the level of responsiveness is very low or negligible, running counter to international and anecdotal evidence. In this paper we review the Australian and...

We estimate a demand equation for petrol in Australia. We explore two methodological improvements to the standard dynamic demand model-an improved lagged adjustment process and the inclusion of unobservable habits. Both of these improvements imply that standard estimation techniques produce...