How have views on Australia's current account deficit evolved over the past two decades? What factors have shaped and altered policy and market perceptions of the current account? This paper examines these questions within the framework of the intellectual underpinnings of the debate on the...

This note studies conditions under which sequences of capital per head generated by stochastic optimal accumulation models have law of large numbers and central limit properties. The regularity condition used on the productivity shock is somewhat different to that of previous studies. In...

We devise a simple way of incorporating the financial sector into a growth model that is useful pedagogically. Financial innovation raises the efficiency of financial intermediation, which facilitates capital accumulation. The model may be extended to include real R&D as a symbiotic source of...

In this paper, we construct a macroeconomic growth model where social capital embedded in collaborative networks of firms (such as corporate partnerships and research consortia) increase the rate of technological and business innovations in high-tech industries. Social capital is created via...

In this paper we demonstrate that a simple duality relation underlies balanced growth models with non-joint production. Included in this class of models is the standard neoclassical growth model and endogenous growth models that admit balanced growth paths. In all of these models, the optimal...

In this paper, we study the symbiotic relationship between financial innovation and technological innovation. In particular, we construct a theoretical macroeconomic growth model that correspond to the thesis presented in Perez (2002) that all the technological revolutions and their associated...

It is common to study the asymptotic properties of log-linear stochastic systems by analyzing the behaviour of their linear counterparts. In this paper a formal justification for analysis by log-linearization is given. As an application, a new existence, uniqueness and stability condition is...

This paper examines the symbiosis between financial development and human capital accumulation in generating endogenous growth. We develop a theoretical model where human capital is a key factor in the creation of financial innovations, resulting in financial development which in turns...