Economic modelling
Report
Downward economic mobility in Australia
This report documents the patterns of declining economic mobility around Australia. It also provides a foundation for further research, exploring factors associated with the trends outlined.
Article
Missing evidence base for big calls on infrastructure costs us all
Billions of taxpayer dollars are committed before all the evidence for, and against, infrastructure projects is in, and basic rules of economic modelling are broken.
Report
Whole-of-economy modelling: beyond the black box
Governments are the main audience for economic modelling, largely because of their role in making investments on behalf of taxpayers. As such, the public service plays a key role in influencing the behaviour of economic modellers and consequently the quality of information modellers provide to aid public discourse and decision-making.
Report
World Alzheimer report 2016
The World Alzheimer Report 2016 looks at ways of improving the coverage, as well as the quality, of healthcare for people living with dementia, and the costs associated.
Working paper
Modelling the impacts of a cut to company tax in Australia
In this paper, the authors investigate the impact of a cut to the company tax rate using a miniature version of the Vic-Uni computable general equilibrium model of the Australian economy with additional detail on ownership of physical capital.