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Australia: Selected Issues

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This Selected Issues paper reviews how Australia’s economy has adapted to a flexible Australian Dollar. The paper provides a background on the float and the initial policy challenges. It discusses the main elements of the Future Fund proposal, and estimates how much Australia and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region would gain from greater financial integration. The results suggest that these welfare gains are large, giving an argument in favor of a progressive capital account liberalization across the region, once the needed supporting measures are in place.

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  • International Monetary Fund, 2005. "Australia: Selected Issues," IMF Staff Country Reports 2005/330, International Monetary Fund.
  • Handle: RePEc:imf:imfscr:2005/330
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