The consumption of cigarette and tobacco products in Australia is modelled using the rational addiction theory of Becker and Murphy, augmented by data on advertising, regulatory intervention, and demographic factors. Over the past 35 years, price (including tobacco taxes), real income, and...

This paper examines data on Australian fiscal policy going back to federation to answer two questions. First, has the conduct of Australian fiscal policy been consistent with the government's intertemporal budget constraint? Second, have there been major structural changes in the conduct of...

D. Corbae and S. Ouliaris (1991) examined Australia's long-run real exchange rate and concluded that, because the data follow a random walk, purchasing power parity does not hold as a long-run equilibrium relation. The authors reexamine their data by calculating nonparametric measures of...

This paper tests a version of R. J. Barro's tax smoothing hypothesis using Australian data for the period 1964-65 to 1994-95. The model assumes intertemporal optimization by a government seeking to minimize the distortionary effects of tax collection. The model predicts that the budget surplus...

This paper looks at the interaction between public and private consumption in Australia. The results show that there is a long-run equilibrium relation between private and public consumption. However, the nature of this relation changed during the 1980s from one of complementarity to one of...

Large increases in the private sector's savings ratio, during a period of rapid growth in the relative size of the public sector, has led to the suggestion that substitution between private and public consumption may be an important feature of the Australian economy (Clements [1979]). In this...