Although Australia has an equivalently large trading relationship with Japan and the US, current macro models often incorporate only US variables in the external sector of Australia. This paper explores the consequences of including both US and Japanese effects in the international sector of an SVAR model of Australia. The results indicate the significance of the Japanese effects. Excluding Jap...

Partitioning a multi-dimensional data set (array) into rectangular regions subject to some constraints (error measures) is an important problem arising from applications in parallel computing, databases, VLSI design, and so on. In this paper, we consider two most common types of partitioning used in practice: the Arbitrary partitioning and (p × p) partitioning, and study their relationships und...