Research
Through our research the Commission contributes to the public debate and encourage informed policy discussion.
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Growing the Digital Economy in Australia and New Zealand: Maximising Opportunities for Small Medium...
Released: 14 Feb 2019
This joint Australian and New Zealand report looks at the broad challenges and opportunities created by the digital economy and at what institutional and regulatory settings by the Australian and New Zealand Governments would be most effective.
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Introducing Bilateral Exchange Rates in Global CGE Models
Released: 4 May 2018
This research note discusses the role of national currencies and nominal exchange rates in CGE models. It uses a prototype model to demonstrate the theoretical properties of a multi-country CGE model with currencies and exchange rates.
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Rising Protectionism: Challenges, threats and opportunities for Australia
Released: 19 Jul 2017
This paper outlines a three pronged strategy that would help achieve better outcomes for all Australians and foster public confidence in open markets.
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Rules of Origin: can the noodle bowl of trade agreements be untangled?
Released: 3 May 2017
This research note seeks to answer some questions about Rules of Origin and Preferential Trade Agreements.
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A Rationale for Developing a Linked Employer-Employee Dataset for Policy Research
Released: 29 Jul 2016
This staff research note by Matthew Forbes and Patrick Jomini highlights the importance of Linked Employer-Employee Data (LEED) and provides a rationale for further developing the Foundation LEED for policy research.
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Digital Disruption: What do governments need to do?
Released: 15 Jun 2016
This paper focuses on the role of government in the face of potentially disruptive technological change.
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Housing Decisions of Older Australians
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.
/research/completed/housing-decisions-older-australians
Tax and Transfer Incidence in Australia
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
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Superannuation Policy for Post-Retirement
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
/research/completed/superannuation-post-retirement
Efficiency in Health
Released: 23 Apr 2015
In this paper, the Commission has identified and assessed opportunities to improve the operation of Australia's health care system. This is based on a roundtable the Commission held with health policy experts in November 2014, as well as follow-up
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As well as the inquiries and studies the Government commission us to do, we also undertake other policy-relevant research. This page contains links to our current research projects.
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This is our catalogue of policy relevant research that has been completed.
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We produce a number of regular reports that review a range of topics including Indigenous wellbeing, government services and expenditure, trade and assistance and productivity performance.
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Commission staff undertake supporting research and analysis, data compilation and model development in support of our inquiry and study activity.