The Economics Working Paper Series is a publishing program of the Economics Discipline in the School of Economics and Information Systems to present work-in-progress by staff, visitors and students to a wider academic audience. The Series is currently edited by Dr Elias Sanidas. Papers submitted to the Series have undergone a process of peer review. Papers published prior to 1998 are available only in printed form. Papers from 1998 onwards are available online in PDF format from the School site here as well as from Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) and EconPapers.

Working Paper Series Contact: Dr Elias Sanidas, 4421 5351. email:

Papers from 2010

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Identifying and measuring technical inefficiency factors: evidence from unbalanced panel data for Thai listed manufacturing enterprises, Yot Amornkitvikai and Charles Harvie

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Banks’ efficiency and productivity analysis using the Hicks-Moorsteen approach: a case study of Iran, Amir Arjomandi and Abbas Valadkhani

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An Analysis of Productivity Changes in the Iranian Banking Industry: a Bootstrapped Malmquist Approach, Amir Arjomandi, Abbas Valadkhani, and Charles Harvie

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An analysis of the world’s environment and population dynamics with varying carrying capacity, concerns and skepticism, Peter Berck, Amnon Levy, and Khorshed Chowdhury

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An empirical analysis of international stock market volatility transmission, Indika Karunanayake, Abbas Valadkhani, and Martin O’Brien

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Firm performance in Vietnam: evidence from manufacturing small and medium enterprises, Viet Le and Charles Harvie

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Optimal control of broadcasting spectrum, Amnon Levy and Benoît Freyens

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Exploring older male worker labour force participation across OECD countries in the context of ageing populations: a reserve army of labour?, Martin O'Brien

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The financial crisis 2007-08 and causality: a hicksian perspective, Eduardo Pol

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Long-run mortality effects of Vietnam-era army service: evidence from Australia’s conscription lotteries, Peter Siminski and Simon Ville

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Is the age gradient in self-reported material hardship explained by resources, needs, behaviours or reporting bias?, Peter Siminski and Oleg Yerokhin

Papers from 2009

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Ricardian equivalence and the efficacy of fiscal policy in Australia, Shane Brittle

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The financial sector and economic growth, A. Cooray

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Resource price turbulence and macroeconomic adjustment for a resource exporter: a conceptual framework for policy analysis, Charles Harvie and Grant M. Cox

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Community valuations of environmental quality in coastal lakes: Lake Illawarra case study, Ann Hodgkinson and Abbas Valadkhani

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Trade and investment liberalisation and industrial per capita emissions in China: 1990 to 2007, Kankesu Jayanthakumaran and Ying Liu

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How can Iran’s black market exchange rate be managed?, Amin Reza Kamalian, Abbas Valadkhani, and Majid Nameni

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Modelling Australian stock market volatility: a multivariate GARCH approach, Indika Karunanayake, Abbas Valadkhani, and Martin O'Brien

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Theoretical implications of endogenously changing carrying capacity and concern for the world’s population and environment, Amnon Levy and Peter Berck

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International emission inequality: abatement on a per capita basis with rewards, Amnon Levy, Khorshed Chowdhury, and Jonathan Livermore

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Emission abatement with per capita and trade considerations, Amnon Levy and Jonathon Livermore

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An analysis of the world’s environment and population with varying carrying capacity and concerns, Amono Levy, Peter Berck, and Khorshed Chowdhury

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A sensitivity test of the bilateral trade balance to exchange rates: a review of the Australian bilateral trade balance with Japan between 1988 and 2007, Yumiko Meloche

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Regulating financial innovations without apology, E. Pol

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How useful is growth literature for policies in the developing countries?, B. Bhaskara Rao and Arusha Cooray

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Do retail petrol prices rise more rapidly than they fall in Australia’s capital cities?, Abbas Valadkhani

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Analysing the asymmetric effects of inflation on real investment: the case of Iran, Abbas Valadkhani, Amin Reza Kamalian, and Mosayeb Pahlavani

Papers from 2008

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Exploring student engagement for Generation Y: a pilot in Environmental Economics, Ann Hodgkinson and Alisa Percy

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Environmental Concern and Rational Production, Consumption and Rehabilitation, A. Levy

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Ramsey with Environmental Awareness, A. Levy

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Technical efficiency in Botswana’s financial institutions: a DEA approach, B. Moffat and A. Valadkhani

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Identifying productivity change in Botswana’s financial institutions: an application of Malmquist productivity indices, B. Moffat, A. Valadkhani, and C. Harvie

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The Australian Labour Market in 2007, M. O'Brien, A. Valadkhani, and K. Townsend

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An Empirical Analysis of Sustainability of Trade Deficit:Evidence from Sri Lanka, N. Perera and R. Verma

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Travail to No Avail? Working Poverty in Australia, D. Robson and J. R. Rodgers

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Changes in Poverty Rates During the Howard Era, J. R. Rodgers, P. Siminski, and J. Bishop

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Do Government Benefits for High Income Retirees Encourage Saving?, P. Siminski

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The Price Elasticity of Demand for Pharmaceuticals amongst High Income Older People in Australia: A Natural Experiment, P. Siminski

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The Recipient Value and Distributional Impact of the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card in 2007, P. Siminski

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What Would the Average Public Sector Employee be Paid in the Private Sector?, P. Siminski

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Identifying the Most Research Intensive Faculties of Business in Australia: A Multidimensional Approach, A. Valadkhani and S. Ville

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Social Innovation: Buzz Word Or Enduring Term?, S. Ville and E. Pol

Papers from 2007

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An Empirical Analysis of the Thai and Major International Stock Markets, S. Chancharat and A. Valadkhani

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Testing for the Random Walk Hypothesis and Structural Breaks in International Stock Prices, S. Chancharat and A. Valadkhani

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Are The Real Exchange Rate Indices of Australia Non-Stationary in the Presence of Structural Break?, K. Chowdhury

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Balassa-Samuelson Effect Approaching Fifty Years: Is it Retiring Early in Australia?, K. Chowdhury

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Pair-Wise Output Convergence in East Asia and the Pacific: An Application of Stochastic Unit Root Test, K. Chowdhury and G. Mallik

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Testing the Keynesian Proposition of Twin Deficits in the Presence of Trade Liberalisation: Evidence from Sri Lanka, K. Chowdhury and A. S. Saleh

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Composition of Trade between Australia and Latin America: Gravity Model, M. Cortes

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Examining Patterns of Bilateral Trade between Australia and Colombia by Using Cointegration Analysis and Error-Correction Models, M. Cortes

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Lebanon’s Fiscal Crisis and Economic Reconstruction after War: the case of a bridge too far?, C. Harvie and A. S. Saleh

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An initial push for successful transition from import substitution to export-orientation in Taiwan and China: The FDI-led hypothesis, K. Jayanthakumaran and S. W. Lee

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A Mean-Variance Portfolio Analysis of the Demand and Supply of a Potentially Infectious Service, A. Levy

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A theoretical analysis of rational diet of healthy and junk foods, A. Levy

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Wealth, Social Capital and Happiness: The Case of Status Sensitive People, A. Levy

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Optimal Control of Locusts in Subsistence Farming Areas, A. Levy and M. R. Caputo

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New Developments in the Australian Labour Market in 2006, M. O'Brien, A. Valadkhani, P. Waring, and R. Denniss

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An Appreciative Model of Schumpeterian Evolution, E. Pol

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Statistically Significant Changes in the Poverty-Rate, 1997-98 to 2002-03, J. R. Rodgers

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The Determinants of Price in Online Auctions: More Evidence from Quantile Regression, C. H. Sun and M. F. Hsu

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Macroeconometric Modelling in an Oil Exporting Country: The Case of Iran, A. Valadkhani

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A Disciplinary Analysis of the PhD Completions in Australian Universities, A. Valadkhani and S. Ville

Papers from 2006

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Sources of Economic Growth in South Korea: An Application of the ARDL Analysis in the Presence of Structural Breaks – 1980-2005, C. Harvie and M. Pahlavani

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Testing for Structural Breaks in the Korean Economy 1980-2005: An Application of the Innovational Outlier and the Additive Outlier Models, C. Harvie and M. Pahlavani

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Identifying Structural Breaks in the Lebanese Economy 1970-2003: An Application of the Zivot and Andrews Test, C. Harvie, M. Pahlavani, and A. S. Saleh

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Australia and New Zealand CER Agreement and Breakpoints in Bilateral Trade: An Application of the Wald-type Test, K. Jayanthakumaran and M. Pahlavani

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Structural Breaks in Trade and Income Per Capita in ASEAN-5 Countries: An Application of Innovational Outlier Models, K. Jayanthakumaran and M. Pahlavani

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A Theory of Relative Deprivation and Myopic Addiction, A. Levy

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Junk Food, Health and Productivity: Taste, Price, Risk and Rationality, A. Levy

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Optimal Control of Locusts in Subsistence Farming Areas, A. Levy

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Partnership with Partial Commitment, A. Levy

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Sincere Social Capital with Material Status Sensitivity: Index and an Inverted U-Shaped Utility-Wealth Theory, A. Levy

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Depression and Substance Abuse: A Rationalization of a Vicious Cycle, A. Levy and J. R. Faria

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Revisiting Budget and Trade Deficits in Lebanon: A Critique, H. Marashdeh and A. S. Saleh

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The Social Capital Experience of International Students in Australia: The Wollongong Experience, F. Neri and S. Ville

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The Youth Labour Market in Australia – Implications From Work Choices Legislation, M. O'Brien

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Innovation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: A Study of Businesses in New South Wales, Australia, J. Olsen, B. C. Lee, and A. Hodgkinson

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Chronic and Transitory Poverty in Australia 2001-2004, J. R. Rodgers and J. L. Rodgers

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SME Development in Malaysia: Domestic and Global Challenges, A. S. Saleh and N. O. Ndubisi

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Islamic Banking Performance in the Middle East: A Case Study of Jordan, A. S. Saleh and R. Zeitun

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The Huddle/Tangle Hypothesis of Regional Integration: The Case of the European Union and Its Enlargement, E. Sanidas

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The Impact of Large Firms in Promoting Economic Growth, Exports and Regional Integration: A Chandlerian Perspective with Emphasis on East Asia, E. Sanidas

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The Long Term Fate of Korea and Other “Small” Economies in East Asia: Economic Development, Integration Issues, and Political Power, E. Sanidas

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The Consequences of Trade Liberalisation on the Australian Passenger Motor Vehicle Industry, E. Sanidas and K. Jayanthakumaran

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Labour Productivity in Iran, A. Valadkhani

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Unemployment Conundrum in Iran, A. Valadkhani

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What Determines the Demand for Money in the Asian-Pacific Countries? An Empirical Panel Investigation, A. Valadkhani

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The Interplay Between the Thai And Several Other International Stock Markets, A. Valadkhani, S. Chancharat, and C. Harvie

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Modelling the Research Output of Australian Universities by Discipline, A. Valadkhani and S. Ville

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The Equity Premium Puzzle: Australia and the United States in Comparative Perspective, S. Ville

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A New Macroeconomic Time Series: Business Profitability in Twentieth-Century Australia, S. Ville and D. Merrett

Papers from 2005

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Korea’s Fading Economic Miracle 1990-97, C. Harvie and H. H. Lee

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Assessing the Impact of the Workplace Relations Act From 1996 to 2004: Increasing Flexibility or Decreasing Collectivism?, A. Hodgkinson and R. Markey

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The Impact of Unilateral and Regional Trade Liberalisation on the Intra-ASEAN 5 Founding Nations’ Exports and Export-GDP Nexus, K. Jayanthakumaran and E. Sanidas

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Deterrence Capacity, Relative Performance, Adjustment Costs, Hazard, Killing Aversion and the Optimal Enlistment Age, A. Levy

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Health-Risking Informal Service: Price, Prevalence and Law Enforcement, A. Levy

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Do Students Benefit From Supplemental Education? Evidence From a First-Year Statistics Subject in Economics and Business, D. Lewis, M. O'Brien, S. Rogan, and B. Shorten

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Stock Market Integration in the MENA Region: An Application of the ARDL Bounds Testing Approach, H. Marashdeh

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Structural Changes in the Middle East Stock Markets: The Case of Israel and Arab Countries, H. Marashdeh and E. J. Wilson

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Older Male Workers and Job Mobility in Australia, M. O'Brien