During the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Zealand Government introduced a series of economic policies designed to support the health response. The largest was the COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme (WSS). This paper analyses the impacts of the WSS on both firm and worker level economic outcomes.

In preparing this paper, the authors evaluated the value for money of the COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Support programme using cost-benefit analysis from a societal perspective, encompassing the New Zealand economy as a whole.

While the full economic impact will take years to realise, Generative AI (GAI) is already impacting a range of sectors across the economy. This report aims to focus specifically on how GAI could drive value for the Australian economy, and identify the steps needed to seize this opportunity.

Australia’s young people deserve to have their interests considered in Australian policy-making. In the Covid era, many policies were defended on the basis that they would help those vulnerable to Covid, mainly the elderly. In this report, the author attempts to put a price tag on Covid-era policies, from the perspective of Australia’s youth.

Transport taxes could be used much more effectively to steer the United Kingdom towards lower carbon transport and protect the public finances. This paper models a series of reforms across the road, aviation and shipping sectors.