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The Economics Program is committed to four major goals: enhancing our international reputation as an outstanding research group, strengthening our research into economic problems of national importance, continuing our engagement in economic policy advice and contributing to the development of the Australian economics profession through the training of graduate students, joint research with members of other universities and fostering professional conferences. Click here for details of the PhD Program
The Program's current research is primarily organized around applied micro economics and econometrics, and quantitative macroeconomics.
Within this grouping current topics include: immigration, the labour market of China, labour supply, economics of the trade unions, environmental economics, behavioural economics, health and education economics, discrimination in the market place, description and analysis of business cycle behaviour and the economics of the Australian welfare system. Much of this work has an Australian focus and provides research underpinnings for policy development. Three special features are the econometric analysis of large data bases to increase understanding of important policy issues, empirical and theoretical labour economics and an exceptional visitors program of eminent scholars from overseas and Australian universities.
The Program is linked to and shares staff and resources with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research (SPEAR) Centre. The program includes appointments that are funded from endowments: the Coghlan Professor of Economic History and F H Gruen Distinguished Fellows.
Members of the Program
contribute to teaching in the School of Economics and the Crawford School.
