The purpose of this paper is to re‐examine the issue of whether inter‐urban housing markets can be modelled using a set of common economic fundamentals (such as economic growth, employment and the like). This is a timely analysis in view of the current widespread interest in housing markets...

The literature is not clear on whether there are co-dependencies domestically across real estate and stock markets, nor whether there are international co-dependencies for these asset classes, despite the importance of this question for portfolio diversification strategies. In this article, we...

This paper investigates the changing pattern of seasonal influences on quarterly Australian data on aggregate working days lost due to industrial disputes per thousand employees for the period 1983:1 to 2004:3. The analysis suggests the presence of (a) a structural break in the stationarity...

Univariate spectral analysis is used to model seasonally unadjusted quarterly unemployment rate data for Australia, 1978(2) to 2002(3). Data are tested for three categories: persons, males and females. Dynamic out-of-sample forecasts are made for 8 quarters using spectral analysis models...

This exploratory paper examines the relationship between Australian and world strike activity between 1960 and 1998. Appropriate indices are constructed for which evidence of a long-run equilibrium relation is found between Australian and world strike activity. The evidence suggests Australian...

Over the last decade or so there has been an increased interest in combining the forecasts from different models. Pooling the forecast outcomes from different models has been shown to improve out‐of‐sample forecast test statistics beyond any of the individual component techniques. The...

Purpose – Given the mixed findings in the literature, this paper aims to re‐examine the relationship that the securitised property market has with both the fixed income and general stock markets in the UK and Australia from July 1998 to June 2006. Design/methodology/approach – The base...