Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by title
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Asset Prices, Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Stability
Published 2009-01-01A focal point of macroeconomic policy analysis over the past decade has been whether central banks should respond to changes in asset prices. This thesis addresses the question from the distinct perspective of equilibrium ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Being ‘Too’ Smart Doesn’t Always Pay Off; Truth-Telling in a Strategy-Proof Mechanism
Published 2023-01-25In strategy-proof mechanisms truth-telling is a dominant strategy yielding optimal results for all participants, yet according to experimental evidence truthful revelation rates are worryingly low. This thesis is based on ...Open AccessThesis -
Can we make investors smarter using a nudge? Maybe, but we can’t prove it using the most common experimental disposition effect environment.
Published 2023-01-18Investors have been shown to behave in a way that reduces their earnings by being over hesitant to sell stocks that have decreased in price and over eager to sell stocks that have increased in price, exhibiting what is ...Open AccessThesis -
Commitment Mechanisms and Blood Donation
Published 2009-10-01The Australian Red Cross Blood Service (ARCBS) recently introduced a policy of compulsory appointments for blood donations. This thesis examines the effect of these appointments on donor satisfaction and donation behaviour. ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Does the composition of credit matter for Australian monetary policy transmission?
Published 2025-05-14The composition of credit is rarely discussed when quantifying the role of credit in Australian monetary policy transmission. As the share of household and business credit has changed, it is important to understand whether ...Open AccessThesis -
Equilibrium Price Dispersion: A Model of Intermediated Search with Repeated Interaction
Published 2008-01-01This thesis develops a model in which homogeneous producers and merchants interact repeatedly in a search market. Merchants are able to reduce the cost of search by o ering trading certainty to pro- ducers with whom they ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Ethnic Conflict: A Model of Concessions
Published 2008-01-01The Coase Theorem suggests that the ability of completely informed agents to make transfers should generally avert conflict. This thesis considers a complete information model of ethnic conflict where the dominated group ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Financialisation and Income Distribution in Australia: Theory and Evidence
Published 2023-02-24While rising income inequality and financialisation are widely recognised as prominent features of advanced capitalist economies, theoretical explanations of these phenomena, and how they interact, have varied significantly. ...Open AccessThesis -
The Hold-up Problem in the Presence of Free Trade Agreement Negotiations
Published 2010-01-01This paper examines how the underinvestment that results from the hold-up problem is affected when there is some probability of reaching a free trade agreement (FTA). This paper examines the canonical domestic hold-up ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
How does household consumption respond to housing price changes in China?
Published 2022-12-09How house price changes impact household consumption is a long-lasting debate in macroeconomics. Previous literature mainly analyses this relationship with macro-level data, while this thesis aims to identify the relationship ...Open AccessThesis -
Impure Altruism and the Volunteering Puzzle
Published 2011-12-07There have been few attempts to model the behavioural microfoundations of charitable giving, particularly with regard to the choice between giving money and volunteering. An hour of a volunteer’s time is usually of a lower ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Keynes’s economics and the question of public debt
Published 2012-01-04The Global Financial Crisis generated renewed interest in the relevance of John Maynard Keynes’s economic policy proposals, particularly those related to budget deficits, public debt and government expenditure. ‘Keynesian’ ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Macroeconomic Effects of Quantitative Easing
Published 2011-12-07The recent crisis has raised two key macroeconomic issues. First, has the quantitative easing policy pursued by the Federal Reserve had an effect on output, employment and prices? Second, whether ‘quantitative easing,’ is ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Mass Media and Aspiration Manipulation: An Experiment Altering Preferences Over Goals
Published 2011-12-07Mass media consumption has increasingly been found to adversely impact upon psychological states but research has largely neglected the potential influence of media on aspirations. An experiment demonstrates aspirational ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Monetary Policy and Inequality in Australia
Published 2022Australia has experienced growing income and consumption inequality over the past three decades. As interest rates rise, it is important to understand the impact of monetary policy on household income and consumption. This ...Open AccessThesis -
More lottery tickets than milk and no money in the bank
Published 2011-12-07A significant proportion of US households have insufficient savings to cope with even moderate consumption shocks that can result in substantial externalities. At the same time, the most financially fragile households have ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Policy-at-Risk: The Effects of Financial Conditions on the Conduct of Monetary Policy in Australia
Published 2025-06-02The global financial crisis (GFC) of the late 2000s marked an important event in terms of changing attitudes towards prudential and financial regulation. However, it also demonstrated the close connectivity between financial ...Open AccessThesis -
Pricing Decisions by Australian General Practitioners
Published 2008-01-01In the Australian market for primary healthcare, some General Practitioners (GPs) bulk bill patients while others charge them a direct fee. The prevalence of these two fee structures means that patients are paying different ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Relationship Between Commodity Prices and Australia’s Gross Domestic Income
Published 2023-01-30Commodities dominate Australia’s export composition. To this effect, there is a plausible relationship between commodity prices and the prosperity of Australians. Gross domestic income is chosen as a proxy for prosperity ...Open AccessThesis -
Retaining Australian Nurses: An Analysis of Nurses’ Wages and Exit Rates
Published 2023-11-14This study examines the factors influencing Australian nurses’ decisions to leave the nurse profession, describes the pathways that nurses take after leaving the profession, and estimates the average wage change associated ...Open AccessThesis