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Services the key to post-election growth – Christopher Findlay
As we move into the post-Federal-election period, there is continuing debate about where growth will come from and what voters thought of the pitches on this question made by the various parties. Data always helps these debates and here’s an example. This is a story about exports – and services exports in particular. An article […]
Federal election: should we vote again to save the economy? – Paul Kerin
In my January column in Company Director, titled “The election effect” (and available here), I pointed out that economic research shows that in the year leading up to an election, business investment is (on average) about 5% lower than it otherwise would be. As business investment accounts for about 15% of GDP, a typical election […]
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Brexit: another economics crisis? – Andreas Cebulla
Outside the monetarist and free-marketeer camps, few UK economists advocated Brexit (the few notable exceptions included Cardiff University’s Patrick Minford). In fact, the UK’s most prominent independent economic research centres – the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Centre for Economic Performance – went as far as […]
Brexit to complicate Australia-EU free trade talks
Two University of Adelaide experts – Director of the EU Centre for Global Affairs Jane Drake-Brockman and Jane Drake-Brockman and the Regional Director (Southeast Asia) of the Institute for International Trade’s Centre for Economic Studies Associate Professor Shandre Thangavelu – have commented on the implications of Brexit for Australia and other Asia-Pacific nations regarding free trade negotiations […]
Trade agreements in a second-best world – public lecture
On July 21, the Institute for International Trade and the School of Economics will host a public lecture at the University of Adelaide by leading trade economist Professor Iwan Azis on the topic of “Trade agreements in a second-best world”. The lecture will examine the challenges and issues that nations face in negotating trade agreements in a less-than-perfect […]
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Economic briefing on SA, Australian & global economies – SACES
At the SA Centre for Economic Studies’ Economic Briefing Luncheon this week, the Centre’s Deputy Director Steve Whetton, gave an excellent overview of the SA, Australian and global economies. Steve’s slides are available here.
Fixing Australia’s Infrastructure Problem – Garry Bowditch
Garry Bowditch, Executive Director of the University of Sydney’s Better Infrastructure Initiative, makes the case for reforming our approach to infrastructure investment… All too often I attend infrastructure forums where policymakers and industry leaders call for the urgent need to fix the infrastructure deficit, by building more assets and deliver more projects. This point of […]
Brexit: Its not over! – Hein Roelfsema
Hein Roelfsema, a recent visitor to the University of Adelaide and Associate Professor of International Macroeconomics at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, has a unique perspective on the implications of Brexit… There is no doubt about the significance of the impact of the UK’s choice to exit the EU on its economy. The market’s assessment […]
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Gender differences in earnings among Australian GPs – Terence Cheng
New research by University of Adelaide economist Dr Terence Cheng and his collaborators has identified substantial gender differences in earnings in the oldest and most prestigious of professions in Australia: medicine. The study, published in the international journal Industrial Relations, (and available here), analysed data of over 3,400 Australian general practitioners (GPs) from the Medicine […]
Beef with knock-back of Kidman sale: a lost foreign direct investment opportunity – Christopher Findlay & Paul Kerin
In their article in The Weekend Australian, Christopher Findlay and Paul Kerin argue that the Federal Treasurer’s rejection of the sale of the S. Kidman & Co. cattle stations to a consortium 80% backed by private Chinese businesses has not been in Australia’s public interest. As well as forgoing the usual benefits that foreign direct […]
