Our Outputs

Please find below some outputs for public access which Lateral Economics has either produced or collaborated to produce in recent times. 

• Half billion dollar hole in PC’s modelling  Errors and other problems in the PC’s modelling of reductions in automotive tariffs detailed by Professor Peter Dixon:
  

• Should we cut automotive tariffs?
  MONASH modelling of automotive tariff cuts, funded by the Victorian Government.
  

• Beyond Taylorism: Regulating for innovation. Some ideas for discussion for the National Innovation Agenda.  Commissioned by the Victorian Government. 

• Other People's Money Part Two: Making Australia a Supplier of Funds Management to the World. A paper prepared for the Investment and Financial Services Association.

• Other People's Money Part One: Making Australia a Supplier of Funds Management to the World. A paper prepared for the Investment and Financial Services Association. 

• Tax Cuts to Compete: The influence of Corporate Taxation on Australia's Economic Growth.  A paper prepared for The Committee for Economic Development for Australia (CEDA). 

• Tax Cuts for Growth: The impact of marginal tax rates on Australia's Labour supply.  A paper prepared for The Committee for Economic Development for Australia (CEDA). 

• Privatising Electricity Assets and New South Wales
  AAA Credit Rating: a submission to the Unsworth Committee

• A supplementary submission to the Energy Markets review on behalf of ExxonMobil Gas Marketing.  Pdf format ||  Word format

• Getting better results for consumers: An economic perspective from a discount mortgage broker: Submission to the National Review of Finance Broking Regulation. Pdf format ||  Word format

• Down with the empty seat syndrome: Why we should abolish cabotage in the air.   From the Australian Financial Review, 11 March 2002, p. 55.
  Pdf format ||  Word format

• A price cap for greenhouse gas permits: a discussion paper concerning some proposals on greenhouse gas trading by McKibbin and Wilcoxen.  
  Pdf format ||  Word format

• Hot air and high ground in greenhouse debate: September 2002.  

• Some issues on greenhouse and competitiveness - a discussion paper: a paper prepared for Eco-Carbon. Pdf format ||  Word format.

• A speech for BHP's Chief Economist

• Newsletters for the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Prices Regulation for Airports - and archive of all newsletters to the recent inquiry into price regulation at airports

• Newsletters for the Productivity Commission’s 2002 Inquiry into the Automotive Industry (pdf) - and zipped archive.
  

• A strategic review of the universal service obligation 
  Pdf format ||  Word format

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  • (paper)  Pdf format ||  Word format

  [Please note, the views expressed in this presentation are not necessarily those of our client]

Papers and speeches by Nicholas Gruen (sometimes with other authors)

• The future of economics: Re-imagining economic reform - Powerpoint Presentation to the Fabian Society, 2006. 

• Designed defaults: How the Backstop Society can failsafe Australians’ superannuation  - Progressive Essays, 15 September 2005

• Geeks bearing gifts: Open source and it's enemies - Policy Magazine, Winter, 2005
  Pdf format || Word format.

• The economy and the election: A statement  by Six Economists - The Australian, September 22, 2004
  Pdf format || Word format.

• Time for a new economic prudence - AFR op ed, 13th Sep 2004
  Pdf format || Word format.

• Risk, Capital Markets and the Future - a speech to the Property Council of Australia. Pdf format || Word format || PowerPoint Presentation.

• Keep risk focus on big picture - AFR op ed (with Ric Simes) AFR, 12th Nov 2002

• Risk and reinvigorating reform - (with Ric Simes) Feb 2003. 
  Pdf format || Word format || PowerPoint Presentation.

• Information: a key to better health outcomes - The Age, 16th August 2003.
  Pdf format || Word format 

• Health, Information and Economics: some fresh ideas - A presentation to the Victorian Healthcare Association, Friday, 14th Nov 2003   
  PowerPoint Presentation.

• Economic Reform: Renovating the Agenda: With an Example from the Market for Information (Published in The Australian Journal of Public Administration).

• A proposal for 'extended access' to government owned assets (Published in Australian Economic Papers)

• Trade Liberalisation - Towards a more general approach
  Pdf format || Word format  (Published in the Economic Record)

• More Flexible and independent fiscal policy (Published in Agenda)

• Greater independence for fiscal institutions (OECD Journal of Budgeting)
  Pdf format || Word format ||  PowerPoint Presentation

• Rebuilding the Safety Net (For the BCA)
  Pdf format || Word format

• Avoiding Boom Bust (For the BCA)

• Extending Patent Life: Is it in Australia's economic interests?
  Pdf format || Word format (Industry Commission Staff Paper - with others)

The Economist Magazine on independent fiscal policy

• Fiscal flexibility: Could finance ministers learn a few tricks from central bankers?
  Pdf format || Word format || The Economist link (subscription required)