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  • The Accord and Strikes: An International Perspective 
    Perry Leonard; Wilson Patrick (Centre for Labour Market Research, 2001)
    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 ...
  • American Call Options Under Jump-Diffusion Processes - A Fourier Transform Approach 
    Chiarella Carl; Ziogas Andrew (Routledge, 2009)
    We consider the American option pricing problem in the case where the underlying asset follows a jump-diffusion process. We apply the method of Jamshidian to transform the problem of solving a homogeneous integro-partial ...
  • Annuitization and asset allocation with HARA utility 
    Kingston Geoffrey; Thorp Susan (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
    A new explanation for the well-known reluctance of retirees to buy life annuities is due to Milevsky and Young (2002, 2003): Since the decision to purchase longevity insurance is largely irreversible, in uncertain ...
  • Assessing the Impact of Welfare Reform on Single Mothers 
    Fang Hanming; Keane Michael (Brookings Institution Press, 2004)
  • Bayesian Inference for Hospital Quality in a Selection Model 
    Geweke John; Gowrisankaran G.; Town R.J. (Blackwell Publishing, 2003)
    This paper develops new econometric methods to infer hospital quality in a model with discrete dependent variables and nonrandom selection. Mortality rates in patient discharge records are widely used to infer hospital ...
  • Can corporate social responsibility resolve the sanitation question in developing Asian countries? 
    Abeysuriya Kumudini; Mitchell Cynthia; White Stuart (Elsevier, 2007)
    The existing state of sanitation in developing Asian countries fails to deliver a level of service that is adequate for meeting the human right to a standard of living consistent with dignity and health, or for sustaining ...
  • Choice experiments in health: the good, the bad, the ugly and toward a brighter future 
    Louviere Jordan; Lancsar Emily (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
    Compared to many applied areas of economics, health economics has a strong tradition in eliciting and using stated preferences (SP) in policy analysis. Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are one SP method increasingly used ...
  • Comments on 'Convergence Properties Likelihood of Computed Dynamic Models' 
    Ackerberg Dan; Geweke John; Hahn Jinyong (Wiley Interscience, 2009)
    We show by counterexample that Proposition 2 in Fernández-Villaverde, Rubio- Ramírez, and Santos (Econometrica (2006), 74, 93¿119) is false. We also show that even if their Proposition 2 were corrected, it would be irrelevant ...
  • A comparison of labour market reforms in Ireland, New Zealand and Australia 
    Perry Leonard (Southern Cross University, 2008)
    In reviewing the experience of Ireland, New Zealand and Australia over the last half century, particular attention is directed to Ireland because it has been relatively successful in reducing unemployment and generating a ...
  • Decentralized investment management: An analysis of non-profit pension funds 
    Bateman Hazel; Thorp Susan (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
    We investigate delegated investment management in private pension accounts using data from Australian accumulation (superannuation) funds. In Australian non-profit pension funds, trustees choose investment managers on ...
  • The decline of seasonality in Australian quarterly aggregate strike statistics: 1983-2003 
    Perry Leonard; Wilson Patrick (Centre for Labour Market Research, 2005)
    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 ...
  • Economics and the marriage wars 
    Menzies Gordon; Hay Donald (Association of Christian Economists, 2008)
    We critique the economic analysis of marriage and divorce descending from Becker (1981): we call this the "economic" approach. Marriage is based on the "productive" gains available from specialization in market production ...
  • Educational Concepts For Design Lecturers 
    Thompson Darrall (Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building UTS, 2003)
    WHILE DESIGN LECTURERS may feel confident in an educational context because of their grounding in professional design practice, it is sometimes painfully obvious that not all designers are good teachers. Perhaps more ...
  • The Effect of Group Affiliation on the Risk-Taking Of Japanese Firms 
    Nguyen Pascal; Nivoix Sophie (Taylor and Francis, 2009)
    This article examines the role of keiretsu (i.e. business group) affiliation on the risk-taking of Japanese firms. We find that total risk, measured by firm-level stock price volatility, is not significantly affected by ...
  • Financial Fragility, Industrial Dynamics and Business Fluctuations in an Agent Based Model 
    Delli Gatti Domenico; Di Guilmi Corrado; Gallegati Mauro; Giulioni Gianfranco (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
    n the 1990s a large body of literature--sometimes referred to as the financial accelerator hypothesis, broad credit view, or balance sheet channel--focused on the role of financial factors in business fluctuations and in ...
  • Forecasting Australian Unemployment Rates 
    Peat, M.; Stevenson, M. J (Centre for Labour Market Research, 2001)
    Cyclical asymmetry has been recognized as a non-linear phenomenon in recent studies examining unemployment rate time series. The probabilistic structure of such time series is different during economic upswings as compared ...
  • Forecasting Australian unemployment rates using spectral analysis 
    Wilson Patrick; Perry Leonard (Centre for Labour Market Research, 2004)
    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 ...
  • Globalisation, Immigration and the Second Long Post-War Boom in Australia 
    Collins Jock (University of Sydney, School of Economics and Political Sciences, 2008)
    Australia has a long history of immigration. From the Moccasins who traded with indigenous peoples in the far North West hundreds of years ago to the last person to fly into Sydney by 747 Qantas Jumbo Jet with a permanent ...
  • Heterogeneous beliefs, risk, and learning in a simple asset-pricing model with a market maker 
    Chiarella Carl; He Xuezhong (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
    This paper studies the dynamics of a simple discounted present-value asset-pricing model where agents have different risk attitudes and follow different expectation formation schemes for the price distribution. A ...
  • 'I mean you want to be there for them': Young Australian Professionals Negotiating Careers in a Gendered World 
    Allen, M.; Coulthard, D.; Castleman, T.; Reed, R. (Centre for Labour Market Research, 2003)
    Popular opinion suggests young Australians are no longer interested in families and/or careers, This longitudinal study of Australian university graduates reports early findings about career orientations, associated long ...