The Australian economy is constantly affected by technological, demand and policy shocks from home and abroad. The opportunities and challenges presented by these shocks create demand for government advice on the likely effects on households, firms and the Australian economy, and in turn...

Dollar stores have become the fastest-growing retail format in the United States. However, there is considerable controversy regarding their entry, particularly into markets without grocery stores, and concerns that dollar-store entry decisions are motivated by preemptive incentives. In this...

This paper presents a dynamic model averaging approach for forecasting nominal exchange rates, which is a novel approach in exchange rate forecasting literature. This framework encompasses most of the approaches commonly used in the forecasting literature. We focus on nine major trading currency...

This paper considers a first-order autoregressive panel data model with individual-specific effects and a heterogeneous autoregressive coefficient. It proposes estimators for the moments of the cross-sectional distribution of the autoregressive coefficients, with a focus on the first two...