Refereed journal publications

Breunig, R. and Y. Rocaboy (forthcoming), "Public goods, congestion and population size: A non-parametric analysis using French data," Public Choice.

Breunig, R. (forthcoming), "Nonparametric Density Estimation for Stratified Samples," Statistics and Probability Letters.

Breunig, R., D. Cobb-Clark and X. Gong (forthcoming), "Improving the Modeling of Couples' Labour Supply," Economic Record.

Breunig, R. and F. Menezes (forthcoming), "Maverick Firms: An Exploratory Analysis of Mortgage Providers in Australia," Journal of Competition Law and Economics.

Breunig, R. and M. Wong (forthcoming), "A Richer Understanding of Australia's Productivity Performance in the 1990s: Improved Estimates Based Upon Firm-level Panel Data," Economic Record.

Breunig, R. and M. Wong (2007), "The Role of Firm Dynamics in Australia's Productivity Growth," Australian Economic Review, Volume 40, Number 1, pp. 90-96.

Breunig, R. D. Cobb-Clark, X. Gong, and D. Venn (2007), "Disagreement in Partners' Reports of Financial Difficulty," Review of Economics of the Household, Volume 5, Number 1, pp. 59-82.

Breunig, R. D. Cobb-Clark and C. Ryan (2006), "A couples-based approach to the problem of workless families," Economic Record, Volume 82, Number 259, pp. 428-444.

Breunig, R., S. Stacey, J. Hornby and F. Menezes (2006), "Price Regulation in Australia: How consistent has it been?," Economic Record, Volume 82, Number 256, pp. 67-76.

• Stata .do file Read the instructions in the comment lines to reproduce the results in the paper.
• Data This is a text version of the data to use in conjunction with the Stata program.

Breunig, R. and D. Cobb-Clark, (2006), "Understanding the Factors Associated with Financial Stress in Australian Households," Australian Social Policy 2005, pp 13-64.

Breunig, R. and I. Dasgupta (2005), "Do Intra-household Effects Generate the Food Stamp Cash-Out Puzzle?," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 87, Number 3, pp. 552-568.

• Data and STATA .do files for Breunig and Dasgupta, AJAE (2005)

Breunig, R. and A. Stegman, (2005), "Testing for Regime Switching in Singaporean Business Cycles," Singapore Economic Review, Volume 50, Number 1, pp. 25-34.

Breunig, R. and A. Pagan, (2004), "Do Markov-Switching Models Capture Non-linearities in the Data? Tests Using Non-parametric Methods," Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Volume 64, pp. 401-407.

Breunig, R., S. Najarian, and A. Pagan (2003), "Specification Testing of Markov-Switching Models," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Volume 65, pp. 703-725.

• Gauss procedures for Markov Switching specification tests

Breunig, R. and I. Dasgupta, (2003), "Are People Ashamed of Paying with Food Stamps?," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 54, Number 2, pp. 203-225.

Breunig, R., D. Cobb-Clark, Y. Dunlop, and M. Terrill, (2003), "Assisting the Very Long-term Unemployed: Results from a Randomized Trial," Economic Record, Volume 79, Number 244, pp. 84-102.

Breunig, R. and I. Dasgupta, (2002), "A Theoretical and Empirical Evaluation of the Functional Forms Used to Estimate the Food Expenditure Equation of Food Stamp Recipients: Comment," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 84, Number 4, pp. 1156-1160.

• Rejoinder to Levedahl, Cashout Data, and results.

Breunig, R., (2002), "Bias correction for inequality measures: an application to China and Kenya," Applied Economics Letters, Number 9, pp. 783-786.

Breunig, R., (2001), "Kernel density estimation for clustered data," Econometric Reviews, Volume 20, Number 3, pp. 353-367.

Breunig, R., (2001), "An Almost Unbiased Estimator of the Coefficient of Variation," Economics Letters, Volume 70, Number 1, pp. 15-19.

• Proof of two main propositions.

Breunig, R., O. Lieberman, and A. Ullah, (1997), "On the Bias of the Standard Errors of the LS Residual and the Regression Coefficients Under Normal and Non-Normal Errors," Econometric Theory, Problems and Solutions, Volume 13, December, pp. 896-7.

Breunig, R. and A. Ullah, (1996), "On the Bias of the Standard Errors of the LS Residual and the Regression Coefficients Under Normal and Non-Normal Errors," Econometric Theory, Problems and Solutions, Volume 12, December, pp. 868.

Refereed book chapters and monographs

Breunig, R. and T. Hutchinson, (2008), "Small sample corrections for inequality indices," in W. Toggins, ed., New Econometric Modeling Research, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc, chapter 2, pp 61-83.

Book ordering information.

Breunig, R. and M-H. Wong, (2005), "Estimation of total factor productivity" in Quantitative Tools for Microeconomic Policy Analysis, Canberra: Productivity Commission, pp. 195-214.

Breunig, R., I. Dasgupta, C. Gundersen, and P. Pattanaik, (2001), "Explaining the Food Stamp Cash-out Puzzle." Washington DC: United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Food Assistance and Nutrition Report Number 12. 30 pages.

Breunig, R. and A. Ullah, (1998), "Econometric Analysis in Complex Surveys," in Giles, D. and A. Ullah, eds, Handbook of Applied Economic Statistics, New York: Marcel Dekker, pp. 325-364.

Breunig, R., C. Chiu, and R. Russell, (1998), "Aggregation and Econometric Analysis of Demand and Supply," in Giles, D. and A. Ullah, eds, Handbook of Applied Economic Statistics, New York: Marcel Dekker, pp. 177-236.

Other publications

Breunig, R., D. Cobb-Clark, T. Gorgens and A. Sartbayeva. "User's Guide to the Youth in Focus Data, Version 1.0" Youth in Focus Project Discussion Paper Series, No. 1, September, 2007. ISBN 1835-4025.