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. Papers submitted to the Series have undergone a process of peer review. Papers published prior to 1998 are available in printed form and are currently being digitized. Papers from 1998 onwards are also available online in PDF format from the School site here as well as from Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) and EconPapers.
The ISSN for the Working Paper Series is 1321-9774 and the co-editors are Associate Professor Peter Siminski and Dr Kankesu Jayanthkurmaran.
Papers from 2016
On the Pernicious Effects of Oil Price Uncertainty on U.S. Real Economic Activities, Amelie Charles, Chew Lian Chua, and Sandy Suardi
Do Petrol Prices Increase Faster than They Fall in Market Disequilibria?, Chew Lian Chua, Chamaka De Silva, and Sandy Suardi
Heterogeneous Effects of High School Peers on Educational Outcomes, Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo R. Paloyo, and Ian Walker
Argentina’s Current Phase of Economic Development: A Comparison with Australia, Eduardo Pol
Papers from 2015
Long-Term Health Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service: A Quasi-Experiment using Australian Conscription Lotteries, David W. Johnston, Michael A. Shields, and Peter Siminski
Do Australian Catholic and Independent Primary Schools Produce Better Academic Outcomes than Government Schools?, Ian Moran, Frank Neri, and Joan Rodgers
Heterogeneous Treatment Effects? An examination of Australian Non-Government Primary Schools, Joan Rodgers, Frank Neri, and Ian Moran
Papers from 2014
Breaking the Link Between Legal Access to Alcohol and Motor Vehicle Accidents: Evidence from New South Wales, Jason Lindo, Peter Siminski, and Oleg Yerokhin
Maternal working hours and the well-being of adolescent children, Silvia Mendolia
The contribution of Australian academia to the world’s best economics research: 2001-2010, Joan Rodgers and Frank Neri
Papers from 2013
A knowledge economy approach in empirical growth models for the Nordic countries, Arusha Cooray, Marcella Lucchetta, and Antonio Paradiso
The Premium for Part-Time Work in Australia, Iris Day and Joan Rodgers
Would a rational underage binge-drink?, Amnon Levy
Royalties, Entry and Spectrum Allocation to Broadcasting, Amnon Levy, Michael R. Caputo, and Benoit Pierre Freyens
Family Impacts on Cognitive Development of Young Children: Evidence from Australia, Jessica Meredith, Frank Neri, and Joan Rodgers
Does the Military Train Men to be Violent Criminals? New Evidence from Australia’s Conscription Lotteries, Peter Siminski, Simon Ville, and Alexander Paull
Papers from 2012
Technical Efficiency of Thai Manufacturing SMEs: a Comparative Study of North-eastern Provinces, Teerawat Charoenrat and Charles Harvie
The effect of female and male health on economic growth: cross-country evidence within a production function framework, Gazi Hassan and Arusha Cooray
A Stock Targeting International Carbon-Tax Rule with Uncertainty and Diminishing Compliance, Amnon Levy
Optimal Control of Broadcasting Spectrum with Variety-Reception Trade-off and Consumers’ Income Sensitivity, Amnon Levy
Who is responsible for the CO2 emissions that China produces?, Ying Lis and Kankesu Jayanthakumaran
Human capital externalities, departmental co-authorship and research productivity, Frank Neri and Joan Rodgers
I Was Only Nineteen, 45 Years Ago: What Can we Learn from Australia’s Conscription Lotteries?, Peter Siminski and Simon Ville
Modelling Australia’s Retail Mortgage Rate, Abbas Valadkhani and Sajid Anwar
How to capture the full extent of price stickiness in credit card interest rates?, Abbas Valadkhani, Sajid Anwar, and Amir Arjomandi
The Dynamics of Resource-Based Economic Development: Evidence from Australia and Norway, Simon Ville and Olav Wicken
Papers from 2011
Dynamics, Structural Breaks and the Determinants of the Real Exchange Rate of Australia*, Khorshed Chowdhury
Abstinence with Reputation Loss, Understating Expectations and Guilt and the Effectiveness of Emission Tax, Amnon Levy
A Stock Targeting International Carbon-Tax Rule with Uncertainty and Diminishing Compliance, Amnon Levy
Introduction to the Economics of Atmospheric Carbon-Dioxide Control, Amnon Levy
Optimal Control of Broadcasting Spectrum with a Variety-Reception Tradeoff and Consumers’ Income Sensitivity, Amnon Levy and Benoit P. Freyens
Determinants of the Long-Run Growth Rate in the South-Asian Countries, B Bhaskara Rao and Arusha Cooray
Are Low Skill Public Sector Workers Really Overpaid? A Quasi-Differenced Panel Data Analysis, Peter Siminski
A Fair and Equitable Method of Recruitment? Conscription by Ballot into the Australian Army during the Vietnam War, Simon Ville and Peter Siminski
The Social Cost of Blackmail, Oleg Yerokhin
Papers from 2010
Identifying and measuring technical inefficiency factors: evidence from unbalanced panel data for Thai listed manufacturing enterprises, Yot Amornkitvikai and Charles Harvie
Banks’ efficiency and productivity analysis using the Hicks-Moorsteen approach: a case study of Iran, Amir Arjomandi and Abbas Valadkhani
An Analysis of Productivity Changes in the Iranian Banking Industry: a Bootstrapped Malmquist Approach, Amir Arjomandi, Abbas Valadkhani, and Charles Harvie
An analysis of the world’s environment and population dynamics with varying carrying capacity, concerns and skepticism, Peter Berck, Amnon Levy, and Khorshed Chowdhury
The Role of Education in Economic Growth, Arusha Cooray
An empirical analysis of international stock market volatility transmission, Indika Karunanayake, Abbas Valadkhani, and Martin O’Brien
Firm performance in Vietnam: evidence from manufacturing small and medium enterprises, Viet Le and Charles Harvie
Optimal control of broadcasting spectrum, Amnon Levy and Benoit P. Freyens
The Effect of Motherhood on Wages and Wage Growth: Evidence for Australia, Tanya Livermore, Joan Rodgers, and Peter Siminski
Exploring older male worker labour force participation across OECD countries in the context of ageing populations: a reserve army of labour?, Martin O'Brien
The financial crisis 2007-08 and causality: a hicksian perspective, Eduardo Pol
Employment Effects of Army Service and Veterans’ Compensation: Evidence from the Australian Vietnam-Era Conscription Lotteries, Peter Siminski
Long-run mortality effects of Vietnam-era army service: evidence from Australia’s conscription lotteries, Peter M. Siminski and Simon Ville
Is the age gradient in self-reported material hardship explained by resources, needs, behaviours or reporting bias?, Peter M. Siminski and Oleg Yerokhin
Papers from 2009
Ricardian equivalence and the efficacy of fiscal policy in Australia, Shane Brittle
The financial sector and economic growth, A. Cooray
Resource price turbulence and macroeconomic adjustment for a resource exporter: a conceptual framework for policy analysis, Charles Harvie and Grant M. Cox
Community valuations of environmental quality in coastal lakes: Lake Illawarra case study, Ann Hodgkinson and Abbas Valadkhani
Trade and investment liberalisation and industrial per capita emissions in China: 1990 to 2007, Kankesu Jayanthakumaran and Ying Liu
How can Iran’s black market exchange rate be managed?, Amin Reza Kamalian, Abbas Valadkhani, and Majid Nameni
Modelling Australian stock market volatility: a multivariate GARCH approach, Indika Karunanayake, Abbas Valadkhani, and Martin O'Brien
Theoretical implications of endogenously changing carrying capacity and concern for the world’s population and environment, Amnon Levy and Peter Berck
An analysis of the world’s environment and population with varying carrying capacity and concerns, Amnon Levy, Peter Berck, and Khorshed Chowdhury
International emission inequality: abatement on a per capita basis with rewards, Amnon Levy, Khorshed Chowdhury, and Jonathan Livermore
Emission abatement with per capita and trade considerations, Amnon Levy and Jonathon Livermore
Regulating financial innovations without apology, Eduardo Pol
How useful is growth literature for policies in the developing countries?, B. Bhaskara Rao and Arusha Cooray
Do retail petrol prices rise more rapidly than they fall in Australia’s capital cities?, Abbas Valadkhani
Analysing the asymmetric effects of inflation on real investment: the case of Iran, Abbas Valadkhani, Amin Reza Kamalian, and Mosayeb Pahlavani
Papers from 2008
Exploring student engagement for Generation Y: a pilot in Environmental Economics, Ann Hodgkinson and Alisa Percy
Environmental Concern and Rational Production, Consumption and Rehabilitation, Amnon Levy
Ramsey with Environmental Awareness, Amnon Levy
Technical efficiency in Botswana’s financial institutions: a DEA approach, B. Moffat and Abbas Valadkhani
Identifying productivity change in Botswana’s financial institutions: an application of Malmquist productivity indices, B. Moffat, Abbas Valadkhani, and Charles Harvie
The Australian Labour Market in 2007, Martin O'Brien, Abbas Valadkhani, and K. Townsend
An Empirical Analysis of Sustainability of Trade Deficit:Evidence from Sri Lanka, N. Perera and R. Verma
Travail to No Avail? Working Poverty in Australia, D. Robson and Joan Rodgers
Changes in Poverty Rates During the Howard Era, Joan Rodgers, Peter M. Siminski, and J. Bishop
The Recipient Value and Distributional Impact of the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card in 2007, Peter Siminski
Do Government Benefits for High Income Retirees Encourage Saving?, Peter M. Siminski
The Price Elasticity of Demand for Pharmaceuticals amongst High Income Older People in Australia: A Natural Experiment, Peter M. Siminski
What Would the Average Public Sector Employee be Paid in the Private Sector?, Peter M. Siminski
Identifying the Most Research Intensive Faculties of Business in Australia: A Multidimensional Approach, Abbas Valadkhani and Simon Ville
Social Innovation: Buzz Word Or Enduring Term?, Simon Ville and Eduardo Pol
Papers from 2007
Testing for the Random Walk Hypothesis and Structural Breaks in International Stock Prices, S. Chancharat and A. Valadkhani
An Empirical Analysis of the Thai and Major International Stock Markets, S. Chancharat and Abbas Valadkhani
Are The Real Exchange Rate Indices of Australia Non-Stationary in the Presence of Structural Break?, K. Chowdhury
Balassa-Samuelson Effect Approaching Fifty Years: Is it Retiring Early in Australia?, K. Chowdhury
Pair-Wise Output Convergence in East Asia and the Pacific: An Application of Stochastic Unit Root Test, K. Chowdhury and G. Mallik
Testing the Keynesian Proposition of Twin Deficits in the Presence of Trade Liberalisation: Evidence from Sri Lanka, K. Chowdhury and A. S. Saleh
Composition of Trade between Australia and Latin America: Gravity Model, M. Cortes
Lebanon’s Fiscal Crisis and Economic Reconstruction after War: the case of a bridge too far?, Charles Harvie and A. S. Saleh
An initial push for successful transition from import substitution to export-orientation in Taiwan and China: The FDI-led hypothesis, Kankesu Jayanthakumaran and S. W. Lee
A Mean-Variance Portfolio Analysis of the Demand and Supply of a Potentially Infectious Service, Amnon Levy
A theoretical analysis of rational diet of healthy and junk foods, Amnon Levy
Wealth, Social Capital and Happiness: The Case of Status Sensitive People, Amnon Levy
Optimal Control of Locusts in Subsistence Farming Areas, Amnon Levy and M. R. Caputo
New Developments in the Australian Labour Market in 2006, Martin O'Brien, Abbas Valadkhani, P. Waring, and R. Denniss
An Appreciative Model of Schumpeterian Evolution, Eduardo Pol
Statistically Significant Changes in the Poverty-Rate, 1997-98 to 2002-03, Joan Rodgers