This paper looks at whether the aggregate ERM money supply has been a useful predictor of short-term changes in inflation and growth, and long-term trends in price levels among the core ERM countries. The evidence suggests that over the period since 1987, when there have been no realignments,...

Net international capital movements entail equivalent net resource transfers. Arbitrage in perfectly integrated finan-cial markets instantaneously eliminates yield differentials through valuation adjustments. But the stock adjustments that constitute the essence of net capital movements may also...

Large and variable errors & omissions indicate inaccuracies in reported data. It follows that reported data constitute inaccurate and potentially unreliable information for policy formation. To the extent that successive data revisions involve substantial alterations in the reported statistics,...

This paper investigates the impact of the relative growth of skilled migration on the structure of Australian wages. Unlike conventional approaches, the present study uses macro data to examine the response of wages to immigration flows. We use instrumental variable techniques to control for the...

Net international capital movements entail equivalent net resource transfers. Arbitrage in perfectly integrated finan-cial markets instantaneously eliminates yield differentials through valuation adjustments. But the stock adjustments that constitute the essence of net capital movements may also...