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Treasury memo misses the real impact of Labor's negative gearing policy

  • Written by: Michelle Baddeley, Research Professor at the Institute for Choice, University of South Australia

Labor MPs might be rubbing their hands together with glee at a Treasury memo that shows the federal opposition’s negative gearing policy will have a “small” impact on the property market. But insights from behavioural public policy, as highlighted by the 2017 Economics Nobel laureate - Richard Thaler and his colleague Cass...

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Politicians are inflating the evidence used to justify tax increases

  • Written by: Chris Doucouliagos, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Deakin Business School and Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University

Many government policies are flawed because the economics research upon which they are based suffers from high bias and low credibility.

Governments rely upon economics research to identify those policies that produce public benefit. However, a new survey we conducted with our fellow researcher, John Ioannidis, shows economic studies frequently...

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  39. From sleeping beauty to the frog prince – why we shouldn't ban fairytales
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