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Testing the validity of the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle for Australia (2012)
Journal Article
Kumar, S., Webber, D. J., & Fargher, S. (2012). Testing the validity of the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle for Australia. Applied Economics, 44(5), 599-605. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2010.511993

This article presents the details of an investigation into the relationship between investment and savings in Australia over the period 1960 to 2007. Using five time series techniques our results reveal that the Feldstein- Horioka puzzle exists in a... Read More about Testing the validity of the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle for Australia.

Wagner's law revisited: Cointegration and causality tests for New Zealand (2012)
Journal Article
Kumar, S., Webber, D. J., & Fargher, S. (2012). Wagner's law revisited: Cointegration and causality tests for New Zealand. Applied Economics, 44(5), 607-616. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2010.511994

Wagner's Law states that the share of government expenditure in Gross National Product (GNP) will increase with economic development; many associated empirical studies substitute GNP with Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This article presents an empiric... Read More about Wagner's law revisited: Cointegration and causality tests for New Zealand.

Income velocity and non-GDP transactions in the UK (2012)
Journal Article
Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal, I., & Howells, P. (2012). Income velocity and non-GDP transactions in the UK. International Review of Applied Economics, 26(1), 97-110. https://doi.org/10.1080/02692171.2011.580270

It is widely reported for many countries, including the UK, that income velocity has been highly variable around a declining trend in recent years. This paper advances the following hypothesis. The demand for credit and hence the broad money stock ar... Read More about Income velocity and non-GDP transactions in the UK.

Adopters and non-adopters of internet banking: A segmentation study (2012)
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Patsiotis, A. G., Hughes, T., & Webber, D. J. (2012). Adopters and non-adopters of internet banking: A segmentation study. International Journal of Bank Marketing, 30(1), 20-42. https://doi.org/10.1108/02652321211195686

Purpose: This study examines internet banking adoption and resistance behaviour in Greece in order to develop profiles of adopters and non-adopters of the service. The aim is to illustrate customers' resistance behaviour towards internet banking. The... Read More about Adopters and non-adopters of internet banking: A segmentation study.

Measuring poverty/health: A cautionary note (2012)
Journal Article
Shamsan, Y., White, P., & Webber, D. J. (2012). Measuring poverty/health: A cautionary note. Empirical Economics Letters, 11(12),

Economists use various measures to account for the effect of poverty, welfare or health on economic growth but there is a lack of understanding of the movement of such variables over time and whether countries experiences similar trends. This paper p... Read More about Measuring poverty/health: A cautionary note.

Convergence across Spanish provinces: Cross-section and pairwise evidence (2012)
Journal Article
Webber, D. J., White, P., Minondo, A., & Allen, D. O. (2012). Convergence across Spanish provinces: Cross-section and pairwise evidence. Empirical Economics Letters, 11(6), 611-622

Distribution free statistics are employed to investigate biennial income per capita convergence across 52 Spanish provinces over the period 1955-1997. Based upon ideas of concordance and discordance that capture convergence and divergence properties,... Read More about Convergence across Spanish provinces: Cross-section and pairwise evidence.