In this seminar, Dr Currie discusses the history of central banking with reference to the evolution of the current Australian financial system, detailing the role of parliamentary inquiries and the eventual restructuring of the role of central bank prudential supervision as distinct from monetary policy.

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The Australian Energy Regulator has recently released guidance on the cost to attach to carbon emissions in the evaluation of energy investments. This seminar will provide an overview of the issues and explain the AER's approach.

To celebrate the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, NSW WEN invites you to a panel event discussing the achievements of women in sport and the challenges they face.

This presentation will provide an overview of recent research analysing the key drivers of retirement in Australia. 

This talk covers issues in the uses of the value of statistical life in cost-benefit studies, with special reference to Australia.

Dr Graham draws on one popular theory of behaviour to understand household spending patterns in response to the receipt of unusual income (e.g. a tax refund, or a bonus check).  He explores the concept of "mental accounts" in consumption choices and the effectiveness of fiscal stimulus policies on household spending.

The way the market works is clear to us, thanks to the many available economic statistics. However, there is another type of production that happens outside the market, usually in people's homes, which we don't see as easily. This non-market production also uses resources - time in particular - to create goods and services without involving money payments.

Professor Norman speaks on LALC entrepreneurship and the opportunities for greater inclusion in new economies that mobilises the Aboriginal land estate to ensure survival on country in a climate changing world.

Australian women earn on average 15% less per hour than men. What are the causes of this pay gap? Is it rooted in different occupational choices between men and women? Or does it reflect differences in pay across genders for identical occupations? We answer these questions using use population-wide taxation data covering the Australian workforce.

As former Competition Policy Minister and now as Independent Reviewer of the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct, Dr Emerson will speak on the prevalence of oligopolies in Australia and the role and limits of government regulation dealing with oligopolies.

At this seminar, CEDA Economists James Brooks and Liam Dillon will present recent research on remote work in Australia and clean energy precincts respectively. 

As COVID-19 slowly dissipated, working from home (WFH) continues to be popular, with support from notable numbers of employees and employers. With growing evidence that we have either reached, or appear to be close to, a level of WFH to some extent that might be described as an equilibrium outcome going forward, we need to update any travel behaviour response models that have been developed during the passage of the pandemic.

Productivity growth, the key driver of long-run growth in incomes, has slowed significantly in advanced economies over the past few decades. In this seminar, Angus Wheeler will present the main findings from the paper and discuss the important implications, including that we should expect slower long-term output and tax revenue growth, as well as smaller positive spillovers from R&D activity.

For all the talk of near/re/on/friend-shoring, global supply chains have in fact been expanding. In a recent work commissioned by Hinrich Foundation, Thang Nguyen-Quoc (Oxford Economics) traces the evolution of global supply chain through the lens of intermediate goods trade.

The increasing cost and accessibility of housing is now a major public policy issue. The recent explosion of professional, political and public discussion on housing prices focuses on immediate events and often presents a partial explanation.

For 650 days, the author and economics professor was unjustly incarcerated in a Myanmar jail on a trumped-up charge of being a spy. When he was imprisoned alongside Myanmar’s democratic leadership following the military coup in February 2021, Professor Turnell was an economic policy advisor to Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

This will be a compelling and insightful talk as Sean reflects on his deep commitment to using his economic expertise to promote social justice.

The Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector faces a host of problems from supply shortages, worker shortages and inflationary pressures. Ensuring parents are able to secure accessible and affordable childcare options is key to supporting women’s workforce participation, promoting productivity growth and assisting children’s development. Critical to addressing the problems plaguing the ECEC sector is understanding what parents want from ECEC services.

The NSW ESA Branch, together with the NSW WEN Branch, are pleased to welcome Dr Lilla Csorgo, Chief Economist of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), to the ESA lunchtime seminar series. In this session, Dr Lilla Csorgo will present on the topic Competition Economics: Is It Broken?.

In this lunch-time seminar, three leading economists - Professor Tom Kompas from the University of Melbourne, Emma Richardson from the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and Nicki Hutley, Independent Economist discuseds the economic impacts of climate change, what it looks like in Australia and how it affects regions, industries and policies. The session covered issues such as economic damages, what the economic modelling tells us in Australia and abroad, and implications for policymakers and businesses.

A talk by Richard King, author of Here Be Monsters: Is Technology Reducing Our Humanity? (Monash University Publishing)

Technology is a constant in human affairs. The use of stone tools predates the emergence of humanity by some three million years, and helped to shape the beings we are now. We are Homo faber – ‘man the maker’ – the tool-using animal par excellence.

The Commonwealth Productivity Commission’s 5-year Productivity Inquiry Report – Advancing Prosperity - was released in March. In this report, the Productivity Commission gives particular attention to the challenges Australia faces from the shift towards service industries. Almost 90% of Australians now work in service industries, including education, health, hospitality, retail and finance. It has traditionally been difficult to lift productivity in these sectors. Productivity in these areas can be hard to measure and achieve. In many cases, the goal will be to improve quality rather than reducing cost, but it remains important that we pursue productivity improvements in these areas.

With the release of ChatGPT—a ground-breaking AI-powered chatbot—automation has progressed from dull and repetitive tasks to complex and creative ones. The world is again being amazed by the speed at which artificial intelligence (AI) is developing.

Mike Smart, Chief Economist at IPART, discusses "Discounting the future re-examined: how climate change makes us think differently about the time value of money, and what that means for economic regulation".

The conventional economics curriculum does not address the problems economists should be addressing. This is the view driving CORE Econ – Curriculum Open-access Resources in Economics.

Join our three incredible panellists – Nicki Hutley, Danielle Wood and Danielle Woolley - as we discuss what the Federal Budget means for women. Putting a gender lens on the Budget, we will cover a range of issues including superannuation, the gender pay gap, paid parental leave, violence against women and social policy issues.