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In 1990
  • RDP 9013: A Select Bibliography of Published Research by the Reserve Bank of Australia: 1969 – 1990
  • RDP 9012: Some Calculations on Inflation and Corporate Taxation in Australia
  • RDP 9011: Inflation and Corporate Taxation in Australia
  • RDP 9010: Volatility of the Australian Dollar Exchange Rate
  • RDP 9009: An Empirical Model of Australian Interest Rates, Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy
  • RDP 9008: Financial Deregulation and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism
  • RDP 9007: Operating Objectives for Monetary Policy
  • RDP 9006: Wage Contracts, Sticky Prices and Exchange Rate Volatility: Evidence from Nine Industrial Countries
  • RDP 9005: Real Exchange Rates and Australian Export Competitiveness
  • RDP 9004: Saving and Investment in the 1980s
  • RDP 9003: Balance of Payments in the 1980s
  • RDP 9002: Public Sector Growth and the Current Account in Australia: A Longer Run Perspective
  • RDP 9001: Is Pitchford Right? Current Account Adjustment, Exchange Rate Dynamics and Macroeconomic Policy

Research Discussion Paper – RDP 9004 Saving and Investment in the 1980s

Malcolm Edey and Mark Britten-Jones

August 1990

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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Trends in Saving and Investment
  • Influences on Private Saving
  • Saving and Investment
  • Conclusions
  • Data Appendix
  • Bibliography

The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Reserve Bank of Australia.

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