RBA Annual Conference – 1990 The Australian Macro-Economy in the 1980s 20–21 June 1990

A range of prominent Australian academic, business and policy economists participated in the 1990 conference. Of the five papers presented at the conference, three were written by academic economists: Bruce Chapman of the Australian National University, Ross Milbourne of the University of New South Wales and Jeffrey Carmichael of Bond University, and the remaining two were written by economists from the Bank's Research Department.

Contents

• Introduction
  Stephen Grenville, Reserve Bank of Australia
• The Labour Market
  Bruce Chapman, Australian National University
  Discussion
  Richard Blandy, National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University
  George Fane, Australian National University
• Saving and Investment
  Malcolm Edey and Mark Britten-Jones, Reserve Bank of Australia
  Discussion
  John Piggott, University of New South Wales
  Tom Nguyen, Griffith University
• The Balance of Payments
  Warren Tease, Reserve Bank of Australia
  Discussion
  John Pitchford, Australian National University
  Jeffrey R Shafer, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Money and Finance
  Ross Milbourne, University of New South Wales
  Discussion
  Ian R Harper, University of Melbourne
  Peter J Stemp, Australian National University
• Inflation: Performance and Policy
  Jeffrey Carmichael, Bond University
  Discussion
  Doug McTaggart, Bond University
  John Nevile, University of New South Wales