Through our research, the Commission contributes to the public debate and encourages informed policy discussion.
The Commission has a statutory mandate to conduct a program of research to support its inquiries, annual reporting and other responsibilities, including promoting community awareness and understanding of various productivity and regulatory issues.
Released: 29 Feb 2016
This research paper provides an economic stocktake of recent anti-dumping activity and the changes to Australia's anti-dumping system since the Commission's last report.
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/completed/antidumping-developments
Released: 19 Feb 2016
CAPITA-B replicates the common elements inherent in behavioural microsimulation models while keeping to a minimum details that would be required to model a particular policy application. This makes it easier to extend CAPITA-B to answer future
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/supporting/capita-b
Released: 18 Feb 2016
As the first service sector to be examined, there are new questions as to what is actually being measured and how well it reflects the underlying concept of productivity.
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/supporting/productivity-financial-insurance-services
Released: 21 Dec 2015
This working document provides an introduction to the concept of effective marginal tax rates on the return to savings.
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/supporting/effective-marginal-tax-on-savings
Released: 2 Dec 2015
This report is the sixth in the series of performance assessments for the Closing the Gap targets. In making its assessments, the Commission has therefore sought to ensure an appropriate degree of comparability with the assessments made by the COAG
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/supporting/indigenous-reform-assessment
Released: 1 Dec 2015
The report is the third flagship research paper and it continues the investigation of issues relating to the ageing of Australia's population, this time focusing on the housing choices made by older Australians.
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/completed/housing-decisions-older-australians
Released: 7 Oct 2015
This paper sheds light on how Australia's tax and transfer system functions to distribute income across the population and over lifetimes. It presents a descriptive analysis to inform public debate about the distributive impacts of the tax and
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/completed/tax-and-transfer-incidence
Released: 21 Sep 2015
This report assesses the performance of State and Territory government against the four benchmarks set out in the National Partnership Agreement on Essential Vaccines for the period 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015.
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/supporting/national-partnership/essential-vaccines/2014-2015
Released: 7 Jul 2015
This report is a detailed analysis of two aspects of superannuation policy affecting the post-retirement phase: What might happen if the age that individuals can access their superannuation (the 'preservation age') were raised? Is the way people
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/completed/superannuation-post-retirement
Released: 25 Jun 2015
This report assesses the performance of State and Territory government against the four benchmarks set out in the National Partnership Agreement on Essential Vaccines for the period 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014.
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/supporting/national-partnership/essential-vaccines/2013-2014
We undertake other policy relevant research in addition to our commissioned public inquiries and studies. This web page lists our current research projects.
This is our catalogue of policy relevant research that has been completed.
Commission staff undertake supporting research and analysis, data compilation and model development in support of our inquiry and study activity.
Employment & Education
Industry & Trade
Natural Resources
Productivity Analysis
Social & Community