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Quantifying The Effect Of Gst On Inflation In Australia’S Capital Cities: An Intervention Analysis, Abbas Valadkhani, A. P. Layton
Quantifying The Effect Of Gst On Inflation In Australia’S Capital Cities: An Intervention Analysis, Abbas Valadkhani, A. P. Layton
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper examines the magnitude and duration of the GST effect on inflation in Australia’s eight capital cities using the Box and Tiao intervention analysis and quarterly data spanning from 1948:4 to 2003:1. We found that GST had a significant but transitory impact on inflation only in the September quarter of 2000 when this new tax system was implemented. In this quarter inflation showed an additional increase of 2.6 per cent in Sydney (minimum effect) and 2.8 per cent in Australia as a whole, the same figure for Hobart was 3.3 per cent (maximum effect). Based on the Wald test …
Does The Term Structure Predict Australia’S Future Output Growth?, Abbas Valadkhani
Does The Term Structure Predict Australia’S Future Output Growth?, Abbas Valadkhani
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper examines whether the term structure of interest rates provides predictive power for real output growth using quarterly time series data from 1980:1 to 2002:2. The empirical results are consistent with previous studies undertaken for France, Germany and the UK as well as earlier Australian works. It is found that a 10 per cent increase in the interest rate spread between the 10-year Treasury bond and the 90-day bank bill results in approximately 4 per cent rise in GDP growth over the succeeding seven-nine quarters. This result is robust to the inclusion of two other relevant predictors in the …
Accelerating New Product Development: The Experience Of Concurrent Engineering In Australia, Paul Couchman
Accelerating New Product Development: The Experience Of Concurrent Engineering In Australia, Paul Couchman
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Concurrent engineering (CE) is a distinctive approach to the organisation and management of new product development (NPD) which seeks to achieve cross-functional integration, product life cycle design integration and high levels of project task concurrence in order to reduce development lead times. To address the limited research to date on CE in the Asia-Pacific region, the paper presents findings from a survey of Australian manufacturers (n = 150) and from five in-depth case studies on the application of CE in Australia. The survey found that just over one-half (54%) of the companies surveyed used CE to some extent and that, …
Prospects For An Fta Between Australia And Korea, Charles Harvie
Prospects For An Fta Between Australia And Korea, Charles Harvie
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Since the I 960s, trade opportunities based on complementary economies have driven the Australia-Korea economic relationship. Australia exported raw materials, principally minerals and energy, which Korea processed and subsequently sold on domestic and international markets. In return Australia purchased increasing volumes of Korean manufactures, initially textiles, clothing and footwear and later automobiles. With the onset ofthe financial and economic crisis in Korea during 1997-98 trade and investment opportunities were severely constrained. However, in the wake of the crisis, and the rapid recovery of the Korean economy underpinned by corporate and financial sector reforms, trade and investment opportunities in traditional areas …