Reserve Bank of Australia

Members PresentPhilip Lowe (Governor and Chair), Guy Debelle (Deputy Governor), Wendy Craik AM, Philip Gaetjens, Ian Harper, Allan Moss AO, Carol Schwartz AM, Catherine Tanna Members granted leave of...

Luci Ellis - RBA Assistant Governor (Economic)Plenary Session Address to the Melbourne Institute Outlook Conference Melbourne – 11 October 2018 I'd like to thank the organisers of this...

Merylin Coombs - Deputy Head (Economic Analysis Department)Speech to the Kimberley Economic Forum Broome – 10 October 2018 It is a great pleasure to be here today to speak with representatives...

The credit card market offers consumers a wide range of options when choosing a card. While many factors may influence this choice, this paper focuses on the main financial costs and benefits of...

Table 1: Presents data on official reserve assets denominated in Australian dollars.Table 2: Expresses these figures in US dollar terms. Changes in the value of official reserve assets reflect...

Alexandra Heath Head of Economic Analysis DepartmentBusiness Educators Australasia 2018 Biennial Conference Canberra – 5 October 2018 Much has been said about the structural changes underway in...

At its meeting today, the Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 1.50 per cent.The global economic expansion is continuing. A number of advanced economies are growing at an above-trend rate...

Economists have been grappling with both a long-run and a shorter-run wage 'puzzle'. The long-run wage puzzle is why real wages have for decades been growing slower than labour productivity: that is,...

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The unemployment rate is the most commonly used indicator for understanding conditions in the labour market. The labour market is the term used by economists when talking about the supply of labour...