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| Welcome | Welcome Reception | The Calyx, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |
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| PLENARY – Economics for a Changing World | Challenges for Economics and the Economics Profession | University of Adelaide |
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| The global economic impacts of President Trump’s policies with a focus on Australia | ANU |
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| SPECIAL SESSION – Education of Economists for a Changing World | Introduction | University of Sydney |
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| Unintended consequences of education reforms | University of California |
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| Declining Diversity and Enrolment in Australian Economics Education: Challenges and Insights from Recent RBA Research | Reserve Bank of Australia |
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| Economics in Queensland: A growth state | Queensland Economics Teachers’ Association |
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| The Treasury | ANU |
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| NSW Curriculum Review – Economics 11-12 | NSW Education Standards Authority |
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| Keynesian Approaches to Stewardship of Economies | The Inflationary Impact of Government Spending Shocks: Do Funding Choices Matter? | Monash University |
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| Resolving New Keynesian Puzzles | University of Sydney |
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| A louder bark for Australia’s Fiscal Watch Dog | Griffith University |
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| Valuation of the Environment and History | Nonmarket values of ecosystem services of the coastal lagoons in small island developing states | Griffith University |
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| Sins of the Fathers: The Legacy of Frontier Violence on Australian Communities | University of Auckland |
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| The Value of Heritage to the New South Wales Community | Community and Patient Preference Research |
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| Financial Markets | Shareholder Participation and Wealth Transfer in Rights Offerings | Macquarie University |
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| Financial Inclusion in a Changing Macroeconomic Environment | RMIT |
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| NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research Gender Relations | How Origin Institutions Shape Immigrants’ Gender Norms: Evidence from Australia | University of Adelaide |
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| Relative Earnings and Decision Power within the Household: Evidence from Australia | University of Technology Sydney |
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| House prices and divorce: evidence from Australia | University of Sydney |
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| Consumer Expenditure Decisions | A new method to estimate the income elasticity of marginal utility of income in the absence of price data | Griffith University |
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| Money’s Identity Crisis: The Roles of Mental Accounting and Personality in Shaping Spending Behaviours | UTS |
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| Domestic Tourism Demand in Fortress Australia: Insights from a Natural Experiment | Charles Darwin University |
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| SPECIAL SESSION – Economics from inside Government | What is the role of economics in government and how does economic policy made by Government shape our lives? | Acting Deputy Secretary, Economic Strategy and Productivity, NSW Treasury |
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| NSW Productivity and Equality Commission – Housing Research | Principal Economist, Productivity Reform, NSW Treasury |
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| First Nations Investment Framework | Senior Analyst, First Nations Economic Wellbeing, NSW Treasury Senior Policy Analyst, First Nations Economic Wellbeing, NSW Treasury |
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| National Competition Policy | Assistant Secretary, Competition Taskforce, Commonwealth Treasury |
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| SPECIAL SESSION – The Economics of Housing Policies | Monetary policy and the home ownership rate | University of Sydney |
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| The effects of stamp duty on home purchase, mobility and prices | e61 Institute |
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| Housing, Income Inequality and Progressivity of Taxes and Transfers | University of Technology Sydney |
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| Labour Markets; Government Support | Does disability funding impact employment prospects? A study of Australian carers and disability funding recipients | Australian National University |
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| Who does the government support through Job Loss? | E61 Institute |
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| Renting in retirement: Why Rent Assistance needs to rise | Grattan Institute |
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| Economic student presentations | The Dual Legacy of KAFTA: Trade Growth, Economic Gains, and Structural Risks in AustraliaKorea Minerals/Metals Trade and Resource Dependency | Brisbane Grammar School |
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| Australia’s Trade with China Between 2014 – 2024 after the Signing of ChAFTA | Brisbane Grammar Schoo |
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| International student market | Padua College |
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| Trade pattern dependence on Trade Liberalisation | Padua College |
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| Analysation of the impact of Trade Liberalisation on Electric Vehicles in Australia | Padua College |
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| Is JAEPA still an effective FTA for the Australian economy | Padua College |
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| Economic policy studies: Australia | A Cost-Benefit Framework for Evaluating Investments in Improved Drinking Water Quality: An Australian Perspective | Ninesquared |
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| Financial Incentives and Fertility: Evidence from Linked Administrative Data on Australia’s Baby Bonus | e61 Institute |
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| Birthday penalties? Employment effects of increases in the discontinuous age based minimum wage. Evidence from Australian Administrative Data | Productivity Commission |
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| Studies of Australian education (demand) | Where have all the Economics students gone? Insights from recent RBA research | RBA |
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| From study to work: the effect of extending post-study work rights | Australian National University/e61 Institute |
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| Mental health impacts on educational outcomes: a longitudinal study of Australian children | Flinders University |
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| SPECIAL SESSION – Trump Tariffs and International Trade | Trade and tariffs – adapting to a new system | London School of Economics |
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| Why Trump’s Tariffs Are Better Than You Think—And Much Worse | Adept Economics |
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| Tariffs, Myths and the Big Picture. “Making America Great Again” | ANU |
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| AI, Technology and Labour | Employment Prospects in the Age of AI | CoGC |
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| Does hiring more tech workers make other workers more productive? | Treasury |
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| What drives the emergence of new technology-driven industries in Australia? | Department of Industry, Science and Resources |
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| 2024 Young Economist Address, Young Economist Network Debate | 2024 Young Economist Address – Intergenerational mobility in Australia | The Treasury / University of Technology Sydney |
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| Young Economist Network Debate – Would a huge increase in the price of oil be a good thing? | Grattan Institute |
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| Commodities | The Economic Impact of Critical Minerals: Nexus of strategic and analytical challenges | AUSMASA |
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| Impact of commodity price uncertainty on industries in a small open economy: the case of Australia | Macquarie University |
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| Rent-controlled resources: Why are we undercharging Australia’s mining tenants? | Fresh Economic Thinking |
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| Economic policy studies: World | Maternal Access to Rural Advisory Services and Child Nutrition: Impacts and Pathways | Griffith University |
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| Consumer Preferences for Safe and Quality Milk in Nepal: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment | University of Queensland |
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| The Evolution of the Child Penalty and Impacts of Maternity Leave Reform | University of Wollongong |
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| Studies of Australian education (supply) | School Funding and Students’ Academic Performance: New Empirical Evidence across Geographical Locations and States in Australia | University of Canberra |
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| School Funding and Student Performance in Australia | Australian National University |
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| Who stays, who goes? A new look at teacher attrition using administrative data | e61 Institute |
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| Theme | Presentation Title | Presenter/s | Powerpoint Slides |
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| SPECIAL SESSION – History and Role of Indigenous Economic History | What economics can contribute to understanding this long journey | ANU |
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| The current state of play for indigenous Australia | Federation University Australia |
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| Using advanced quantitative techniques to understand the successes and pitfalls of policy interventions directed at indigenous Australians | University of Sydney |
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| Economic Analyses and Contributions by the Public Service – LIGHTNING | AI-driven information retrieval from Liaison: The Reserve Bank of Australia’s new tool | RBA |
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| A new methodology for measuring and tracking concentration and business employment at the regional and industry level | Treasury |
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| One Ocean – Stopping Oceanic Pollution is the biggest challenge of Climate Change | Public Private Sector Partnerships Pty Ltd |
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| A health check on Australia’s mineral exploration sector | Department of Industry, Science and Resources |
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| Migration and dwelling demand – analysis of average household representation propensity | Treasury |
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| The impacts of business participation in the government’s largest business advisory program, the Entrepreneurs’ Programme | Department of Industry, Science and Resources |
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| Aged Care and Older Workers | Distributional Impact of Means-Test Reform in Residential Aged Care | Macquarie University |
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| Caregiving and the Labour Market Outcomes of Older Australians | UWA |
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| Population aging and productivity growth | Loughborough University |
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| Development and Labour | Structural Change and Growth Trajectories through Counterfactual Quantile Decomposition | Asian Development Bank |
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| Green Finance and High-Quality Economic Development: Examining the Mediating Role of Regional Talent Dividend and the Moderating Impact of Innovation Efficiency | The Australian National University |
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| Making the Invisible Visible: International Evidence on the Economic Value of Socioemotional Skills | Chonnam National University |
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| Econometric Methods | Causal Inference with Time-to-Event Outcomes: A Debiased Machine Learning Framework for Treatment Parameters | Macquarie University |
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| Distance as a Barrier to Care: Evidence from the Expansion of Cancer Treatment Centres Using a Continuous Difference-in- Differences Approach | The University of Technology Sydney |
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| Applying a mixed-effects beta regression approach in rail mode share modelling—a case on Greater Sydney | WSP |
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| Inflation, Monetary Policy, Expectations and Behaviour | Changes in Australian pricesetting behaviour around a large shock: evidence from microdata | Reserve Bank of Australia |
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| Household InterestRate Expectations and Monetary Policy Decisions | Reserve Bank of Australia |
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| Nowcasting Australian inflation | RMIT |
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| SPECIAL SESSION – Celebrating Women Economists in the Past 100 Years | This session honours the contributions of women economists who have shaped the discipline over the past century in Australia — across academia, public policy, and industry. Speakers will reflect on the legacies of pioneering figures, highlight ongoing challenges, and discuss the progress made in fostering a more inclusive economics profession. The session aims to inspire the next generation by showcasing the impact and leadership of women in economics, both past and present. | University of Sydney Westpac Banking Group Lowy Institute and Centre for Social Research and Methods, ANU |
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| Labour and Health – LIGHTNING | Exploring Declining Job Mobility in Australia: The Role of Demographic Changes | University of Technology Sydney |
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| Understanding trends in full-time labour force participation of Australian-born men | The Treasury |
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| Impact of Adult Migrant English Program on Government Benefit Receipt: Evidence from Australian Humanitarian Migrants | Australian National University |
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| Financial Literacy as a Pathway to Better Mental Health: A Global Perspective | University of Western Australia |
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| Targeting Labour Market Programs Towards the Disadvantaged: An Analysis of the Effects of Job Seeker Streaming in Australia | Department of Employment and Workplace Relations |
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| Housing | Zoning and housing supply: empirics in search of a theory | Prosper Australia |
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| The Short-Term Impact of Net Overseas Migration on Residential Real Estate Prices and Rents – Evidence from Australia Neighbourhood-Level Data | University of Sydney |
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| Do Homeowners Consume Gains in their Home Equity by Refinancing? | Reserve Bank of Australia |
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| Food Waste Policy | The Economics of Food Waste: What Are We Really Throwing Away? | Rawtec |
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| The impact of Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) services on recovery rate, diversion rate and total disposed: Empirical evidence from New South Wales and Victoria in Australia. | The University of Adelaide |
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| Behavioural Economics | Price elasticity and habit formation: The Australian Aviation Sector | Treasury |
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| Policy Evaluation Under the Crowding-In and Out of Social Preferences | Queen Mary University of London |
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| Persuading voters with partisan TV news: a natural experiment using spatial reception data | Swinburne University of Technology |
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| Innovation | The Impact of Labour Mobility on Innovation in Australia | Ip Australia |
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| Product Bundling and Quality Innovation in Network Industries | National Sun Yatsen University |
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| Exploring Innovation Pathways: An Insight into the Drivers of Patenting Among Australia’s R&D Firms | IP Australia |
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| PLENARY Productivity | Working from Home | Harvard University |
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| Productivity in Australia | Productivity Commission |
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| Lifting Business Productivity | Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research |
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| SPECIAL SESSION – Policies to support Australia’s superpower opportunity | Australia’s comparative advantage in renewable energy | The Superpower Institute |
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| Policies to correct market failures and to harness Australia’s comparative advantage in green iron exports | The Superpower Institute |
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| Carbon pricing when an emissions trading scheme is off the table | Victoria University |
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| SPECIAL SESSION – History and Role of Economic Society of Australia (ESA) | An Evolving Record: A Centennial History of the Economic Society of Australia | Federation University |
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| Centennial anniversary of the Economic Record: A bibliometric retrospective | University of Technology Sydney |
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| Labour and Health | The Cost of Chronic Pain: Labour Market Outcomes and the Role of Painkillers | UNSW |
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| Mental health and differential belief updating: Evidence from unemployment shocks | Monash University |
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| Wings of Growth: a mindset intervention in rural China | University of Sydney |
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| Tariffs and Trade | Global Supply Chain Resilience and the Trump Election | The University of Auckland |
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| US trade policy impacts on Australia and the world – analysis | Productivity Commission |
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| The Trade-Inflation Nexus: The Role of Production Networks | Reserve Bank of Australia |
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| Public Service Economics Session – LIGHTNING | An evaluation of the economic outcomes achieved from the NSW 2021 COVID19 business support programs | The Cabinet Office |
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| Understanding the NSW First Nations business sector | NSW Treasury |
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| NSW Performance and Wellbeing Framework | NSW Treasury |
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| Identifying Risk Characteristics of New Mortgage Lending | Reserve Bank of Australia |
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| Development of NSW specific carbon values which are mandatory for use in cost-benefit analysis across the NSW public sector | NSW Treasury |
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| Wealth and Income Distributions | Award-reliant employees’ position in the household income distribution of employees | Fair Work Commission |
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| Gender, Age, and Test Premia: How Firms Shape the Distribution of Earnings Over the Lifecycle | E61 Institute |
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| Are preferences for redistribution and fairness norms sensitive to income inequality? | Queensland University of Technology |
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| Theme | Presentation Title | Presenter/s | Powerpoint Slides |
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| PLENARY – History of Australian Economic Policy | What has Australian macroeconomic thought achieved in the past century – and where can it contribute in the next? | Deputy Governor RBA |
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| History of Economic Policy in Australia | SMH |
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| SPECIAL SESSION – Fiscal Policy and Tax Reform | A better tax and transfer system for Australia | ANU |
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| Does independent scrutiny of government spending proposals improve fiscal outcomes? | University of Canberra |
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| Fiscal Policy and Tax Reform: Where are we headed? | ANU |
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| Economic Impacts of COVID | Decline to boom and back again: The Australian labour market in the COVID-19 era (2000-2024) | University of Melbourne |
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| Productivity before and after COVID-19 | Productivity Commission |
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| The Australian Beveridge curve in the wake of COVID-19 | Seek |
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| Health Policy | Financial mechanisms for better value hospital care | Productivity Commission |
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| Powering Down Pollution: Health and Economic Benefits of PM10 Reductions from Coal Station Closures | Productivity Commission |
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| How Digital Abilities Shape Wellbeing and Social Inclusion: An Empirical Study of Victorians | RMIT |
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| Climate | Climate change risks and its differential impacts on income inequality: An empirical investigation using threshold analysis | Infisum Modelling Inc |
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| Effects of extreme weather events on economic resilience: Empirical evidence from Australian households | The University of Adelaide |
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| Channelling aid towards equality: Climate finance funds and carbon inequality | University of Wollongong |
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| Economic Theory | Reconciling Fairness and Efficiency: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Compulsory Acquisition under Legal Uncertainty | Uni of Adelaide |
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| Implications of recent advances in evolutionary biology for economic policy and theory | University of Sydney |
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| Alfred Marshall on the Microeconomics of Speculation | University of Notre Dame |
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| Trade / Energy / Labour | A Quantitative Evaluation of Static and Dynamic effects of expanding CPTPP membership and free trade in the backdrop of Trade War 2.0 | Auckland University of Technology |
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| The “She-Power” in the Household: The Managerial Advantage of Women in China’s Energy Poverty and Its Boundary | The University of Auckland |
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| SPECIAL SESSION – Inequality | Longer-term inequality | Productivity Commission |
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| Long-term inequality trends in Australia: Evidence, explanations and international context | University of Melbourne |
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| Inequality | University of Melbourne |
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| Energy | Projecting electricity and energy costs over the transition | Australian Energy Market Commission |
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| Understanding structural change from transitioning to a low-carbon economy: an integrated multi-model approach for Australia | CSIRO |
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| Representative The OECD Working Party on Energy Economics The Economics of Small Modular Reactors: Challenges and Approaches |
Director of Economics – Advisory, Aurecon Australasia/ UN |
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| Economic Policy Modelling | Assessing monetaryfiscal interactions in New Zealand using a regime-switching Bayesian Local Projection model | University of Sydney |
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| Planning to Construct: a DSGE model of the Australian Economy | Victoria University |
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| Smarter regulation through experiments | NSW Treasury |
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| Productivity and Asset Pricing | Demand-Shifting Intangibles, Market Concentration and the Pricing of Risk | Seoul National University |
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| The Pricing of Real and Virtual Collectibles: the Case of Damien Hirst’s ‘Currency’ | University of Canberra |
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| Drivers of Productivity in the Australian States and Territories: A Comparative Analysis | Office of the South Australian Productivity Commission |
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| Sustainability, Trust, and Performance | The Impact of Anti-Money Laundering Regulations on House Prices in OECD Countries | Western Sydney University |
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| Measuring fiscal sustainability: A novel multidimensional index, a developed country perspective | University of New England |
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| Labour Markets: Governance and Regulation | Examining the Macroeconomic Costs of Occupational Entry Regulations | Domain |
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| Depression, unobserved management effects and the endogeneity of job demands and control at work | University of Sydney |
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| Gender Differences in Labour Market Outcomes for Recent Skilled Immigrants to Australia: The Confounding Effects of Gender and Application Status | University of Melbourne |
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| PLENARY – Panel Q&A | Shaping Australia’s Economic Future: Prosperity, Productivity and Countering Inequality | The Treasury University of Sydney UNSW University of Sydney University of Melbourne ANU |
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