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Has the EU’s stress test failed?
Oliver Marc HartwichJuly 7, 2011 Business Spectator

As the whole world worried about a potential Greek collapse, another European country experienced two...

Sending profits abroad is a good thing
Oliver Marc HartwichJuly 4, 2011Online Opinion

On Sunday, Senator Bob Brown was interviewed on ABC 1's Insiders program. The Greens leader...

Foreign investment will boost food security
Stephen KirchnerJuly 2, 2011The Australian Financial Review

There is perhaps only one issue in federal politics that seemingly unites Labor, coalition, Green...

US will Remain the Preeminent Player in Asia
John LeeJuly 1, 2011China - US Focus

In early May, I gave an interview to the Chinese state-run Global Times newspaper arguing...

The phantom giant of Luxembourg
Oliver Marc HartwichJune 30, 2011Business Spectator

If there has ever been a country routinely punching above its weight it is Luxembourg....

Glamour over substance
Oliver Marc HartwichJune 17, 2011

Just days after the resignation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn from the International Monetary Fund, French finance...

The Condensed Wealth of Nations and The Incredibly Condensed Theory of Moral Sentiments
Eamonn ButlerJune 12, 2012OP126

Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations is one of the most important books ever written....

Regulation or Strangulation? Banking After the Global Financial Crisis
Ian Harper, Robert CarlingJune 12, 2012PF23

Rightly or wrongly, inadequate regulation of finance has taken much of the blame for the...

Flight of the Kiwi: Addressing the Brain Drain
Andrew Patterson, David Kirk, Don Turkington, Luke MalpassMarch 27, 2012PF22

In early 2009, the NZ government established the 2025 Taskforce to provide recommendations on closing...

The Henry Tax Review: A Liberal Critique
March 14, 2012IA130

The public release of Australia’s Future Tax System—known as the Henry review—in May 2010 sparked...

A Waste of Energy: Why The Clean Energy Finance Corporation is redundant
Oliver Marc HartwichMarch 1, 2012PM129

The federal government’s plans to establish a Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) should be scrapped....

Future Funds or Future Eaters? The Case Against a Sovereign Wealth Fund for Australia
Robert Carling, Stephen KirchnerFebruary 20, 2012PM126

This paper considers the arguments for and against greater use of a sovereign wealth fund...

ASIC v Westpac
Simon CowanAugust 23, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

The recent furore about Justice Perram’s remarks that “borrowers ditch wagyu steaks and shiraz for...

Whither structural economic reform?
Robert CarlingJune 14, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Australia’s vaunted economic miracle is looking a bit ragged after another sluggish quarter. There is...

Interest rate myths
Simon CowanJune 14, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

With last week’s cut, Australia’s cash rate has fallen to its lowest level in decades,...

Not a super idea to make saving for deposits hard
Simon CowanMay 30, 2019The Australian

Much about the recent election ­result came as something of a surprise, but the central...

Bring tax cuts forward
John HumphreysApril 12, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Dynamic modelling of the new tax changes proposed in the 2019/20 budget shows the government...

Why Socialism always fails
Steven KatesMarch 15, 2019Spectator

A recent Wall Street Journal editorial Who’s Afraid of Socialism laid out the case that...

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Submission to the inquiry into the Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions and Other Measures Bill
Robert CarlingMay 14, 2024CIS
Submission to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee in relation to its inquiry into the Better...
Principles and recommendations for tax reform – CIS submission National Reform Summit
Simon Cowan, Robert Carling, Henry ErgasAugust 27, 2015CIS Submission

The slant towards cutting taxes before 2010 was welcome, but for such an approach to...

Submission to the National Commission of Audit
Alexander Philipatos, Jennifer Buckingham OAM, Jeremy Sammut, Robert Carling, Simon Cowan, Stephen Kirchner, Trisha JhaApril 1, 2014T30.08

The federal government’s Commission of Audit (CoA) was established in 2013 to review the performance...

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