Fiscal policy
Report
Beyond neoliberalism: insights from emerging markets
This report, which is the output of an academic workshop hosted in January 2019, is organized around five areas where neoliberalism provides incomplete or unsatisfactory policy guidance: growth strategies and industrial policy, inequality, finance and monetary policy, the environment, and power and politics.
Report
Pre-election economic and fiscal outlook 2019
This report provides updated information on the economic and fiscal outlook for Australia in advance of the May 2019 federal election.
Discussion paper
Explaining monetary spillovers: the matrix reloaded
Using monetary policy shocks for 7 advanced economy central banks, measured at high frequency, this paper documents the strength and characteristics of interest rate spillovers to 47 advanced and emerging market economies.
Guide
2019-20 Budget: pre-election fiscal outlook
The aim of this briefing is to provide some context for the 2019-20 Budget based on the latest economic and fiscal forecasts released at the 2018-19 MYEFO in December 2018. The figures are current at the time of publication but the government’s economic and fiscal forecasts will be updated with the release of the 2019-20...
Report
Net debt and investment funds: trends and balance sheet implications
This paper examines the impact of growth in government investment funds on net debt. The focus in this report is conceptual—whether the long-standing frameworks that define net debt would benefit from review in light of the growing use of investment funds—and suggests that increased transparency around these impacts is warranted.