Commentary

2024 REGIONAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Making Our Future: New Directions for Human Development in Asia and the Pacific, by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The report
was prepared by staff at the UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (RBAP), with contributions by academics and consultants. Dr Sudyumna Dahal (CAMA PhD graduate) and Prof Markus Brueckner (CAMA Research Associate) were the core contributors to the Report.

The Science of Flexible Retirement Choices: Switching Retirement Savings into an Annuity
By Andrew Clare, James Seaton, Peter N. Smith and Stephen Thomas

A Proposal for a Decarbonization Tax Discount to Increase Australian Lithium Production to Meet Electric Vehicles and Net Zero Global Targets
By Russell Smyth and Joaquin Vespignani

Why climate policy scenarios are important, how to use them, and what has been learned
By Roshen Fernando, Larry Weifeng Liu and Warwick McKibbin

Australia can no longer afford to kick carbon adjustment down the road
By Warwick McKibbin and Frank Jotzo

Wage subsidy was essential to save jobs during lockdowns
By James Graham

A future-focused review must question Reserve Bank’s inflation target
By Warwick McKibbin

How do businesses deal with uncertainty effectively?
By Kamiar Mohaddes

Replace JobKeeper with a better and fairer JobMaker
By Peter Downes, Renee Fry-McKibbin and Warwick McKibbin

Will Joe Biden’s stimulus plan cause the US economy to overheat?
By Laurent Ferrara

Democracy Sausage: Climate, the coronavirus, and the cost of uncertainty
By Mark Kenny, Warwick McKibbin and Helen Sulivan

Australia must have a new macroeconomic framework
By Warwick McKibbin

The Reserve Bank of Australia is stabilising the economy
By Warwick McKibbin

Podcast: Talking with the tax team about policy
By Robert Breunig and others

Non-sterile bubbles: Asset bubbles with Covid-19 crisis
By Sirimon Treepongkaruna and others

Broken wings: Crisis “world aviation industry” in the Covid-19 era
By Sirimon Treepongkaruna and others

Do you need both a checking and savings account?
By Sherrill Shaffer

Should every small business owner have a business rewards credit card?
By Sherrill Shaffer

Strenthening JobKeeper
By Robert Breunig and Timothy Watson

Macroeconomic frameworks need urgent review
By Warwick McKibbin, Richard Holden and John Quiggin

How long will COVID-19 last? The power of good habits and good systems
By Anella Munro and Eli Remolona

Simple steps to reduce the odds of a global catastrophe
By Warwick McKibbin

As wage growth picks up, the Fed needs to be careful about overreacting
By Nick Bunker and Tara Sinclair

Good policy needs good data
By Robert Breunig and Warwick McKibbin

We must not politicise the RBA
By Warwick McKibbin and Bruce Preston

Tweeting the world into a slump
By Warwick McKibbin

Podcast: The Auspolicy issue – what the country voted for
By Ahrens J, Allen L, Burke P, Henson H, McKibbin W, Cotton B and Grafton Q

Policy matters more than targets
By Warwick McKibbin

How should technocrats count the true costs of cooling the climate?
By Warwick McKibbin

The theory that’s too good to be true
By Warwick McKibbin

The US Labor Market Is Changing Fast — But Job Seekers Are Keeping Up
By Martha Gimbel and Tara Sinclair

Is Australia ready for the next GFC?
By Warwick McKibbin

The Perils of Nationalism in Global Finance
By Chiara Oldani

How countries could respond to Trump’s Trade War
By Warwick McKibbin

Lost inflation
By Rod Tyers

Short-term gain, long-term pain
By Warwick McKibbin and Andrew Stoeckel

The health system is still awaiting modernisation
By Philip Clark and Warwick McKibbin

Trump’s economic plan would be hostage to the almighty dollar - The fraught road ahead for the President’s economic agenda
By Warwcick McKibbin

An uncertain future: Surging US Dollar may shape the world’s fortunes in 2017
By Warwick McKibbin

Climate storm shows political failure
By Warwick McKibbin

The US shale oil revolution requires major reforms in the macroeconomic policy frameworks and institutions in the MENA region
By Kamiar Mohaddes and Mehdi Raissi

Unreal interest rates will not create real demand
By Warwick McKibbin

Big carbon cuts need new policy framework
By Warwick McKibbin

Acting on interest rate uncertainty
By Warwick McKibbin

Targets put Australia in front of climate fight
By Warwick McKibbin

Keeping the status quo is no longer an option
By Warwick McKibbin

Short term pain, long term gain
By Warwick McKibbin

Getting better by design
By Warwick McKibbin

Other publications

• Baldwin R and di Mauro B, 2020, Economics in the time of COVID-19, CEPR Press.

• Kavuri AS and Milne A, Evolution or revolution? Distributed ledger technologies in financial services. The short version of this report was published as CAMA Working Paper 4/2020

• McKibbin W and Sidorenko AA, Global Macroeconomic Consequences of Pandemic Influenza (PDF 747kb), Lowy Institute for International Policy, February 2006.
  [CAMA Working Paper 26/2006]

• Lee J-W and McKibbin W, Globalization and Disease: The case of SARS, Asian Economic Papers, 2004, vol. 3, issue 1, 113-131

• Stoeckel A and McKibbin W, The SARS outbreak: How bad could it get? Economic Scenarios.com, Issue 5, 2003