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...

This Occasional Paper provides an overview of the main challenges facing Hong Kong SAR as it continues to become more closely integrated with the mainland of China. Section I provides an overview of recent macroeconomic developments and the main policy issues in Hong Kong SAR. Section II...

International capital flows from rich to poor countries can be regarded as either too low (the Lucas paradox in a one-sector model) or too high (when compared with the logic of factor price equalization in a two-sector model). To resolve the paradoxes, we introduce a non-neoclassical model which...