Introduction to the Policy Forum

This Policy Forum highlights the links between the exchange rate and Australia's macroeconomic policy.     

Introduction to the Policy Forum on Commonwealth–State Funding Arrangements

This article introduces the Policy Forum on funding arrangements between the Commonwealth and the States.     

Special Policy Forum on Unemployment: Editorial Note

The papers for this Policy Forum were presented at a Melbourne Institute Conference in November. Comments by discussants are included.     

Policy Forum: Designing a Carbon Price Policy: Empirical Uncertainties in Climate Policy Implementation

Despite the passing of the carbon price legislation, implementation of climate policy must confront a number of challenges. These include the uncertain nature of benefits from the policy, uncertainty surrounding the cost of abatement within Australia, uncertainties about international action and challenges in the interaction between policy instruments (for example, between the carbon price and large subsidies to renewable energy). Each of these issues implies a substantial empirical challenge for the Australian Government and the independent agencies charged with implementation. Effort should be focused on increasing the knowledge base, rather than relying on simplified scenarios from a narrow range of economic models.     

Policy Forum: Designing a Carbon Price Policy: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions at the Lowest Cost

Arguments for using a tax or an emission‐trading scheme on a comprehensive base of greenhouse gas emissions as a lower‐cost way of reducing pollution than regulations or subsidies are explained. While the Australian Government's ‘Clean Energy Future’ scheme, with its proposal for a price on carbon, moves in the low‐cost direction, the base is less than comprehensive and the scheme persists with, and in important ways increases the roles of, cost‐ineffective regulations and subsidies.     

宏微观交叉研究再出发——第七届宏观经济政策与微观企业行为交叉研究学术研讨会综述

<正>2018年11月3日,第七届"宏观经济政策与微观企业行为交叉研究"学术研讨会在北京大学光华管理学院召开。本次研讨会由北京大学财务分析与投资理财研究中心、重庆大学经济与管理学院、暨南大学管理学院、南京大学商学院、清华大学中国经济社会数据研究中心、中国社会科学院经济研究所《经济研究》编辑部联合主办,旨在进一步推动"宏观经济政策与微观企业行为"交叉研究领域的发展。会议开幕式由北京大学研究生院副院长、北京大学光华管理学院姜国华教授主持,《经