Discussion Paper Series - School of Economics - University of Queensland

Discussion Paper Series - Submission guidelines

The Discussion Paper Series is open to members of the MRG group, affiliates and fellows. Papers relevant to macroeconomics research should be submitted to Satoshi Tanaka. Accepted papers will be made available for download in PDF format from the MRG site and RePEc.

Submissions should demonstrate a strong potential for publication, but have not yet been accepted for publication elsewhere.
Papers should be submitted as a plain, non-branded PDF document. MRG staff will add a branded cover letter to this submission.
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Include a cover page with the title of the paper, author name(s), affiliation(s), biographical note(s), and complete contact information.
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Inquiries and submissions should be directed to Satoshi Tanaka.

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Discussion papers will be made available for download in PDF format from the MRG site unless the author specifically requests that the paper not be made available in electronic format.

MRG will attach a cover sheet indicating that discussion papers are unpublished manuscripts and should not be cited without author permission.

If your discussion paper is subsequently published, authors will be given the option to remove the paper from the series and have it replaced with a detailed citation for the published version.

Please notify MRG when your paper has been accepted.

Discussion papers

ISSN 1833-4474

No	Authors	Discussion paper title	Date
47	Jorge Miranda-Pinto, Gang Zhang	Trade Credit and Sectoral Comovement during the Great Recession	2021
46	Benoit Julien, John Kennes, Ian King	Quality Job Programs, Unemployment and the Job Quality Mix	2021
45	Bodman, P.M., Campbell, H. and Le, T.	Public Investment, Taxation, and Growth in Economies with Multi-leveled Governments	2012
44	Le, T	Remittances for Economic Development: the Investment Perspective	2011
43	Carmignani, F. and Laurenceson, J.	Provincial business cycles and fiscal policy in China	2011
42	Le, T	R&D spillovers through student flows, institutions, and economic growth: What can we learn from African countries?	2011
41	Graff, M., Tang, K.K., and Zhang, J.	Does Demographic Change Affect the Current Account? A Reconsideration	2011
40	Le, T. and Tang, K.K.	The impacts of academic and industry research on high-tech manufacturing: Evidence from supercomputer usage	2011
39	Mitra, S. and Sinclair, T.	Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Emerging Economies: An Unobserved Components Approach	2011
38	Ganedogage, R. and Rambaldi, R.	Is the State University System in Sri Lanka a "White Elephant"?	2010
37	Carmignani, F. and Mandeville, T.	Never been industrialized: a tale of African structural change	2010
36	Carmignani, F.	Development outcomes, resource abundance, and the transmission through inequality	2010
35	Bodman, P., Heaton, K. and Hodge, A.	Fiscal Decentralisation and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach	2009
34	Tang, K.K. and Wong, B.	The Ageing, Longevity and Crowding Out Effects on Private and Public Savings: Evidence from Dynamic Panel Analysis	2009
33	Le, T.	North - South R&D Spillovers and Student Flows	2009
32	Bakwena, M., Bodman, P.M., Le, T. and Tang, K.K.	Avoiding the Resource Curse: The Role of Institutions	2009
31	Carmignani, F. and Chowdhury, A.	Four Scenarios of Poverty Reduction and the Role of Economic Policy	2009
30	Bodman, P., Ford, K., Gole, T., and Hodge, A.	What Drives Fiscal Decentralisation?	2009
29	Carmignani, F.	The Making of Pro-poor Growth	2009
28	Barlas Ozer, Y. and Tang, K.K.	An Empirical Analysis of Financial and Housing Wealth Effects on Consumption in Turkey	2009
27	Avom, D. and Carmignani, F.	Is Mother Nature a Curse for Social Development?	2009
26	Bodman, P., Campbell, H., Heaton, K. and Hodge, A.	Fiscal Decentralisation, Macroeconomic Conditions and Economic Growth in Australia	2009
25	Mitra, S. and Sinclair, T. M.	Output Fluctuations in the G-7: An Unobserved Components Approach	2009
24	Carmignani, F.	Cyclical Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries: the Case of Africa	2008
23	Le, T.	Trade, Remittances, Institutions, and Economic Growth	2008
22	Bakwena, M., and Bodman, P.M.	The Role of Financial Development in Natural Resource Abundant Economies : Does the Nature of the Resource Matter?	2008
21	Bakwena, M., Bodman, P.M., and Suardi, S.	Making Abundant Natural Resources Work for Developing Economies: The Role of Financial Institutions	2008
20	Graff, M., Tang, K.K., and Zhang, J.	Demography, Financial Openness, National Savings and External Balance	2008
19	Tang, K.K., Petrie, D. and Rao, D.S.P.	The Climate Trap of Health Development: An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Climate and Income on Mortality	2008
18	Bodman, P.M. and Le, T.	Remittances or technological diffusion: Which is more important for generating economic growth in developing countries?	2007
17	Zhang, J., Davies, J., Zeng, J. and McDonald, S.	Optimal taxation in a growth model with public consumption and home production.	2007
16	Liu, H. and Zhang, J.	Donations in a recursive dynamic model.	2007
15	Bodman, P.M. and Le, T.	International research and development spillovers through foreign direct investment and productivity growth.	2007
14	Strachan. R. W. and van Dijk, H. K.	Bayesian Model Averaging in Vector Autoregressive Processes with an Investigation of Stability of the US Great Ratios and Risk of a Liquidity Trap in the USA, UK and Japan.	2007
13	Yanes, L.	Endogenous Technological Capability, Trade Policy and Coordination Failure: A Reconsideration of Economic Take-Off(s)	2006
12	Zeng, J. and Zhang, J.	Subsidies in an R&D growth model with elastic labor	2006
11	Li, H., Zhang, J. and Zhang, J.	Effects of longevity and dependency rates on saving and growth: Evidence from a panel of countries	2006
10	Zeng, J. and Zhang, J.	Optimal social security in a dynastic model with investment externalities and endogenous fertility	2006
9	Ho, W-M, Zeng, J. and Zhang, J.	Inflation Taxation and Welfare with Externalities and Leisure	2006
8	Tang, K. K., Chin, T. C., and Rao, D. S. P.	Avoidable Mortality Risks and Measurement of Wellbeing and Inequality	2006
7	Bodman, P	Paper published as “Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in the OECD,” (2011), Applied Economics, 43, 23, 3021-3035
6	Tang, K. K. and Zhang, J.	Health, Education and Life-Cycle Savings in Different Stages of Development	2006
5	Lim, A. S. K. and Tang, K. K.	Human Capital Inequality and the Kuznets Curve	2006
4	Bodman, P. M.	Are the Effects of Monetary Policy Asymmetric in Australia?	2006
3	Henry, O. T., Olekalns, N. and Suardi, S.	Testing for Rate-Dependence and Asymmetry in Inflation Uncertainty: Evidence from the G7 Economies	2006
2	Henry, O. T., Olekalns, N. and Suardi, S.	Equity Return and Short-Term Interest Rate Volatility: Level Effects and Asymmetric Dynamics	2006
1	Bodman, P.	Paper published as “Output Volatility in Australia,” (2009), Applied Economics, 41, 22-24, 3117-3130.