School of Economics: Recent submissions
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Involuntary Retirement and the Resolution of the Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: Evidence from Australia
Published 2010-09-01A substantial body of international research has shown that household expenditure on food and non-durables significantly decreases at the time of retirement - a finding that is inconsistent with the standard life-cycle ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Major Indian ICT firms and their approaches towards achieving quality
Published 2004-07-01Of the three basic theories of innovation: the entrepreneur theory, the technology-economics theory and the strategic theory, the third one seems to be highly appropriate for the analysis of recent growth of the information ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Why do the Rich Save More? A Theory and Australian Evidence
Published 2006-03-01We provide a theory to explain the existence of inequality in an economy where agents have identical preferences and have access to the same production technology. Agents consume a “utility” good and a “health” good which ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Possibilities of Trade Expansion among the SAARC Countries: Evidence from the Macro-Economic and Regional Trade Link Models
Published 2005-02-01The paper examines the macroeconomic structure of SAARC countries-Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka- individually with a view that this would help policy makers and planners to analyse the impacts of different ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Central Bank Interventions in the Yen-Dollar Spot Market
Published 2004-07-01We test the effectiveness of Bank of Japan (BOJ)’s foreign exchange interventions on conditional first and second moments of exchange rate returns and traded volumes, using a bivariate EGARCH model of the Yen/USD market ...Open AccessWorking Paper