The purpose of thia paper is to examine the link between real interest rates in a group of OECD countries. The paper will also attempt to investigate the extent to which real interest reates are influenced by the movements of real rates in larger economies.

The purpose of this paper is to access the contribution of each one of the major factors explaining Australian nominal growth: technological change, movements in the terms of trade, increases in the endowments of labour and capital, and changes in domestic output prices.

There is a long literature examining the theoretical relationships between the rate of inflation and the size of the capital stock in an economy. This literature has produced varied predictions about the effects of inflation on the capital stock. In this paper, we present some new empirical...

This paper addresses two questions in regard to Australia's unemployment policies over the last decade: the extent to which labour market reform led to increased labour market flexibility; and the extent to which increased output per worker has meant that strong GDP growth has not been...