The story of coinage in New Guinea between the world wars to an extent involved a clash of the symbolic meanings attached to money by Europeans and those of the indigenous people.

This paper looks critically at the contention that Australian governments of the intewar period consistently promoted motor vehicle manufacture for defence and national development.

Many widely used models, including proportional hazards models with un- observed heterogeneity, can be written in the form (Y ) = min[ 0 X + U; C], where is an unknown increasing function, the error term U has unknown distribution function and is independent of X, C is a random censoring...

The failure of human capital theory to explain firm related effects on wages, new empirical approaches to internal labor markets, and new work on careers have all led to a recent surge in interest in how firm internal structure, and the jobs within firms, help determine wages. The least...

Thie study attempts to examine changes that have occurred in the extent of internatinal capital flows over the past three decades. In addition, the paper investigates the influence of changes in large economies interest rates on rates in smaller economies. Empirical results of the study show...