The aim of this study is to re-examine the common belief that the existence of the demand for real money balances during the German hyperinflation episode 1921:01-1923:11 is conditioned on truncating the data on June/July 1923 or on the omission of the first 18 months. It is demonstrated in this...

Given that alcohol remains a heavily taxed good, studies of the demand for alcohol are numerous in the literature. This paper uses annual data from 1964-92 to estimate key elasticities of the US demand for distilled spirits. Unlike previous studies, which typically assume elasticities are...

Following the weak axiom of revealed preference (WARP), developed by Varian, a money-metric expenditure function is derived for a CES utility function in this paper. Using the US aggregate data on consumption used by Varian, the money-metric expenditure function is estimated to calculate an...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the sensitivity of Australian stock returns to US market returns, via an international market model. Our study investigates the relative sensitivity to (1) the US return denominated in Australian dollars and (2) the US market return decomposed into its...

The extent to which EU fiscal policies have converged during the ERM period is investigated. Using tests for cointegration and weak exogeneity, it is found that the degree of commitment towards ERM membership influences the degree of fiscal integration in the EU. It is also found that the German...

Using a method proposed by Imhof in 1961 the exact distribution of the test statistics for the unit root when the AR(1) process has a constant term and a time trend is evaluated numerically. Detailed tables of the exact critical values are presented.

The paper re-evaluates some inflation and unemployment models for the Scandinavian countries, utilizing a general to specific methodology. Two nested models are considered to represent a spectrum of unemployment and inflation models in order to examine the monetarist versus new classical...

We report estimates of long-run and short-run money demand functions in Italy over the period 1861-1980 which are robust in terms of passing a range of diagnostic tests and exhibit a fairly high degree of parameter stability. The results are comparable to those of previous analysis of long-run...

In recent years much evidence has been documented of the existence of regularities in security price returns. However, one of the least investigated anomalies concerns the socalled 'Friday the 13th' effect, where returns on Fridays which fall on the 13th of the month display significantly lower...

The present study analysed Japan's stock market by modelling habit formation and durable effects in consumption, based on data from income quintile groups. The sample period for the empirical research was January 1971 through December 1993. Results of this analysis revealed that durable effects...