Program lead: Alan Woodland (School of Economics, UNSW Sydney)
This research stream aims to:
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assess fiscal sustainability, economic efficiency, and equity of policy alternatives. These will include, inter alia, health policies including access issues, home equity access schemes, means testing for aged care and pensions, and private retirement saving;
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investigate the effects of government economic policy on the macroeconomic, distributional and welfare outcomes in an economy, especially one experiencing population ageing;
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include theoretical and quantitative analyses of the effects of government policy changes – particularly in relation to income taxation, age pension and retirement – on households and the economy, and of the construction of optimal government policy settings to achieve a range of potential objectives.