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Financial Stability Review March 2004

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Contents

  • Foreword
  • Overview
  • The Macroeconomic Environment
  • Box A: Tax Data on Households' Property Investment Exposures
  • Box B: The Use of Debt Agreements as an Alternative to Personal Bankruptcy
  • Financial Intermediaries
  • Developments in the Financial System Infrastructure

Articles

  • The Australian High-Value Payments System
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  • Credit Quality in the Australian Non-Government Bond Market
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  • List of graphs
  • List of tables
  • List of figures

The material in this Financial Stability Review was finalised on 23 March 2004.

ISSN 1449–3896 (Print)
ISSN 1449–5260 (Online)

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