The latest report from the Grattan Institute, finds that claims about Australia being dominated by oligopolies are overblown.
- Productivity Growth Program Director, Grattan Institute
The Productivity Commission has released a mammoth report summarising several years worth of reccomendations.
Treasurer Scott Morrison said Australia’s banks have a return on equity about twice that of banks in other advanced economies. Is that right?
Many of the claims about the impact of the company tax are overblown, including the government’s estimation of how much it would cost.
The current subdued level of non-mining business investment may be the “new normal”.
The Productivity Commission has set in train a comprehensive evaluation of how super works.
What are the key policy challenges facing the new Turnbull government in terms of economic growth and budgets, cities, transport, energy, school education, higher education and health?
The government should consider five options to increase economic growth.
A Productivity Commission report on digital disruption argues that government’s should stop creating barriers to innovation but it fails to provide solutions on privacy and ownership of data.
The Productivity Commission’s take-no-prisoners report on our anti-dumping regime was met with an odd silence.
Federal treasurer Scott Morrison said that expenditure as a share of the economy under this government is falling, not increasing. Is that right?
The superannuation sector argues it is competitive, but that doesn’t mean it’s efficient.
The federal government has released its National Industry Investment and Competitiveness Agenda, committing around A$400 million towards “industry growth centres”, new tax incentives for employee share…
Most companies that live and breathe the online revolution are not tech startups, but smart smaller firms that use online tools to run their core business better: to cut costs, reach customers and suppliers…
From the days of the gold rushes, to the banking and mining booms of the last 15 years, Australians have long worried that most of the world’s innovation was happening somewhere else. Did our good fortune…
The Australian dollar was floated this day in 1983. By 1985, it seemed to take on water, list badly, and sink. And that actually was the idea. The real exchange rate – roughly, the dollar rate, adjusted…
“They [the Labor government] haven’t just slowed the growth of productivity, they have actually produced a diminution of Australia’s multi-factor productivity by 3% since the end of 2007. This is a very…
The biggest mining boom in Australian history since the gold rush of the 1850s is about to change shape. The investment phase of the boom, which has seen A$400 billion invested in the last decade, is tapering…
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