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Stephen Kirchner

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Eight Housing Affordability Myths

Stephen Kirchner · July 10, 2014 · IA146

Australians are conflicted in their attitude to this long-run change in real house prices because they are both investors in …
Submission to the National Commission of Audit

Alexander Philipatos, Jennifer Buckingham AOM, Jeremy Sammut, Robert Carling, Simon Cowan , Stephen Kirchner, Trisha Jha · April 1, 2014 · T30.08

The federal government’s Commission of Audit (CoA) was established in 2013 to review the performance and role of government. This …
Strengthening Australia’s Fiscal Institutions

Stephen Kirchner · December 12, 2013 · T30.06

The deterioration in the federal government’s fiscal position reflects a failure to adhere to a rules-based framework for fiscal policy …
Time to Dump Australia’s Anti-Dumping System

Stephen Kirchner · June 5, 2013 · IA141

Customs Act This report argues that Australia should instead scrap its anti-dumping and countervailing system, in addition to other forms …
Compulsory Super at 20: Libertarian Paternalism’ Without the Libertarianism

Stephen Kirchner · December 4, 2012 · PM132

Australia’s approach to retirement incomes policy has three pillars: means-tested age pension, compulsory superannuation, and voluntary saving. The key issue for …
Future Funds or Future Eaters? The Case Against a Sovereign Wealth Fund for Australia

Robert Carling, Stephen Kirchner · February 20, 2012 · PM126

This paper considers the arguments for and against greater use of a sovereign wealth fund in Australia. It argues that …
Hands, Mouths and Minds: Three Perspectives on Population Growth and Living Standards

Stephen Kirchner · November 1, 2011 · PM123

The long-run relationship between population growth and living standards has been a source of controversy among Australian economists, no less …
Taxploitation II: Tax Reform for Incentive,Productivity and Economic Growth

John Humphreys, Robert Carling, Sinclair Davidson, Stephen Kirchner · July 13, 2011 · R12

This volume brings together papers on different aspects of tax reform published by the CIS over the past five years. …
Why Does Government Grow?

Stephen Kirchner · April 13, 2011 · PM117

This paper examines some of the stylised facts in relation to the growth of government in the Western world generally, …
Shooting the Messenger: The Ban on Short Selling

Stephen Kirchner, Robert Bianchi · February 1, 2010 · PF19

In September 2008, governments around the world instituted bans on the short sale of equity securities. In Australia, the ban …

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Australia mustn’t jump the gun on macro-prudential policy
Stephen Kirchner · July 25, 2014

The Financial System Inquiry’s interim report recognised that the Reserve Bank and the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority have considerable scope …
What the RBA really said about renting versus buying
Stephen Kirchner · July 25, 2014

A Reserve Bank Research Discussion Paper on whether Australian housing is over-valued attracted considerable media attention. The bottom-line was that …
Improving housing affordability begins at home
Stephen Kirchner · July 11, 2014

Australia’s capital house prices rose 10% last financial year, with an even stronger rise of 15% in Sydney. While seemingly …
Scapegoating investors won’t slow up house prices
Stephen Kirchner · July 10, 2014 · The Australian Financial Review

Australia’s capital house prices rose 10 per cent last financial year, with an even stronger rise of 15 per cent in Sydney. …
Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014
Stephen Kirchner · May 9, 2014

Gary S. Becker, recipient of the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and University Professor of Economics and of …
Europe holds its breath for ECB action
Stephen Kirchner · April 11, 2014

European Central Bank president Mario Draghi last week gave the strongest indication yet that the bank’s governing council was prepared …
Official statistics need a culture change
Stephen Kirchner · March 27, 2014

Financial difficulties and concerns about its ageing technology highlight the need to re-think the role of the Australian Bureau of …
Don’t blame foreigners for rising house prices
Stephen Kirchner · March 20, 2014 · The Age

Shoddy tax laws, not Chinese investors, are driving up the prices of new dwellings. Foreign investors are not to blame …
Scapegoating foreigners for home-grown policy failures
Stephen Kirchner · March 14, 2014

The debate over housing affordability is over-populated with scapegoats and under-populated with policy solutions. The most popular scapegoats are domestic …
Forget trying to curb demand, build more houses
Stephen Kirchner · January 23, 2014

Debates about housing affordability continue to point to negative gearing as a factor putting upward pressure on house prices. However, …

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Australia’s 2020 Federal Budget

Simon Cowan , Stephen Kirchner, Danielle Wood · October 8, 2020

The Most Consequential Budget of our Generation. Covid-19 has blown an unprecedented hole in the budget and rapidly changed policy …

The Most Consequential Budget of our Generation

Simon Cowan , Stephen Kirchner, Emma Dawson, Danielle Wood · October 7, 2020 · Online Event

On April 16, Prime Minister Morrison signaled that after the immediate pandemic-induced crisis, a market-oriented economic agenda is needed to …

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