Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
Something New in Medical Residency Matching Markets
Published 2023-01-25Worldwide medical residency markets commonly employ variants of the two-sided central clearinghouse designed by Roth and Peranson in 1999. In the NSW physiotherapy residency matching market, a one-sided and computationally ...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 -
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