Issue Information

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8462.12244
• Published date: 01 December 2018
• Date: 01 December 2018

Challenges Facing the World Trade Organization: An Overview 453

Gary P Sampson

Contributed Articles

Policy Options to Reduce Electricity Greenhouse Gas Emissions 474

John Freebairn

How Financial Freedom and Integration Change Public Debt Impact

on Financial Development in the Asia-Pacif‌i c: A Panel Smooth

Transition Regression Approach 486

Duy-Tung Bui

Australia’s Growth in Households and House Prices 502

Creina Day

Policy Forum: Cryptocurrencies

Introduction 512

Efrem Castelnuovo

Cryptocurrencies: A Crash Course in Digital Monetary Economics 514

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

Cryptocurrencies and Digital Fiat Currencies 527

Robert Kirkby

Central Bank Digital Cash and Cryptocurrencies: Insights from

a New Baumol–Friedman Demand for Money 540

Donato Masciandaro

Cryptocurrencies, Mainstream Asset Classes and Risk Factors:

A Study of Connectedness 551

George Milunovich

Data Survey

Australia Has the World’s Best Petrol Price Data: FuelWatch

and FuelCheck 564

David P Byrne, Jia Sheen Nah and Peng Xue

For the Student

Ratios of Parameters: Some Econometric Examples 578

Jenny Lye and Joe Hirschberg

CONTENTS

The Australian Economic Review

Volume 51, Number 4, December 2018