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Natural-rate Estimates for the Australian States: An SVAR Approach

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  • Nicolaas Groenewold
  • A. J. Hagger

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GROENEWOLD N. and HAGGER A. J. (2003) Natural-rate estimates for the Australian states: an SVAR approach, Reg. Studies 37 , 251-263. It has long been recognized that economic policy based on national economic indicators may be inappropriate when evaluated from the point of view of individual regions making up the national economy. One indicator which has recently been widely used as a basis for the formulation of macroeconomic policy is the natural rate of unemployment. There have been various estimates of the natural rate for Australia as a whole in the recent past and these have been used for the assessment of macroeconomic policy. There are, however, no estimates of natural rates for the Australian States and so no basis for the evaluation of macroeconomic policy from the perspective of the States. This paper fills this gap in the literature and reports estimates of a series for the natural rate for each of the Australian States derived from a structural vector auto-regressive (SVAR) model. We compare the estimated natural rates to each other and to estimates of the national natural rate. We go on to an evaluation of national economic policy from the point of view of the States. GROENEWOLD N. et HAGGER A. J. (2003) L'estimation des taux naturels pour les Etats australiens: une approche SVAR, Reg. Studies 37 , 251-263. Depuis de nombreuses annees, on considere que la politique economique fondee sur des clignotants economiques nationaux pourrait s' averer mal choisie du point de vue regional. Un clignotant dont on s'est beaucoup servi pour elaborer la politique macroe conomique c'est le taux de chomage naturel. Dans les dernieres annees, diverses sont les estimations du taux naturel pour ce qui est de l'Australie, et on s'en est servi pour faire le bilan de la politique macroeconomique. Toujours est-il qu'il manque d'estimations au niveau des Etats australiens et, par la suite, il n'y a aucune e valuation de la politique macroeconomique du point de vue des Etats. Cet article cherche a colmater cette breche et a signaler des estimations d'une serie relative au taux naturel pour chacun des Etats australiens et qui decoule d'un modele auto-regressif vectoriel structurel (structural vector auto-regressive; SVAR). Les estimations des taux naturels sont comparees les unes aux autres et aux estimations du taux naturel national. Il s'ensuit une evaluation de la politique e conomique nationale du point de vue des Etats. GROENEWOLD N. und HAGGER A. J. (2003) Naturratenberechnungen fur die Staaten Australiens: ein SVAR Ansatz, Reg. Studies 37 , 251-263. Es ist eine altbekannte Tatsache, dass Wirtschaftspolitik auf der Grundlage gesamtstaatlicher Wirtschaftsindikatoren sich als ungeeignet erweisen kann, wenn sie vom Standpunkt der individuellen Regionen bewertet wird, welche zusammen die Volkswirtschaft ausmachen. Ein in letzter Zeit oft als Grundlage fur die Formulierung einer makrooikonomischen Wirtschaftspolitik verwendeter Indikator ist die naturliche Rate der Erwerbslosigkeit. In jungster Zeit sind verschiedene Berechnungen fur die naturliche Rate ganz Australiens herausgebracht, und als Grundlage zur Festsetzung makrookonomischer Wirtschaftspolitik benutzt worden. Es gibt jedoch keine Berechnungen der naturlichen Rate fur die einzelnen Staaten Australiens, und somit keine Grundlage fur die Bewertung makrookonomischer Bestrebungen aus ihrer Perspektive. Dieser Aufsatz stopft diese Lucke in der Literatur, und berichtet uber Berechnungen einer Serie fur die natu rliche Rate fur jeden einzelnen Staat Australiens, die von einem auto-regressiven, strukturellen Vektormodell (SVAR) abgeleitet wurden. Die Autoren vergleichen die berechneten naturlichen Raten miteinander und mit Schatzungen der gesamtstaatlichen Rate. Dem folgt eine Bewertung der staatlichen Wirtschaftspolitik vom Standpunkt der einzelnen Staaten.

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  • Nicolaas Groenewold & A. J. Hagger, 2003. "Natural-rate Estimates for the Australian States: An SVAR Approach," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(3), pages 251-263.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:37:y:2003:i:3:p:251-263
    DOI: 10.1080/0034340032000065415
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    1. Robert Dixon & David Shepherd, 2013. "Regional Dimensions of the Australian Business Cycle," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(2), pages 264-281, February.
    2. Roberto Bande & Marika Karanassou, 2013. "The Natural Rate of Unemployment Hypothesis and the Evolution of Regional Disparities in Spanish Unemployment," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 50(10), pages 2044-2062, August.
    3. Roberto Bande & Marika Karanassou, 2011. "The NRU and the Evolution of Regional Disparities in Spanish Unemployment," Documentos de trabajo - Analise Economica 0043, IDEGA - Instituto Universitario de Estudios e Desenvolvemento de Galicia.
    4. Robert Dixon, 2007. "Common Cycles in Labour Market Separation Rates for Australian States," Department of Economics - Working Papers Series 991, The University of Melbourne.
    5. Robert Dixon & Guay Lim, 2016. "Modelling the dynamics of regional employment–population ratios and their commonality," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 53(2), pages 338-354, February.
    6. Luis E. Arango & Luz A. Flórez, 2020. "Determinants of structural unemployment in Colombia: a search approach," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 58(5), pages 2431-2464, May.

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