The Melbourne Institute Macroeconomic Policy Meetings aim to foster discussion on “hot issues” in macroeconomic policy by involving leading scholars conducting research with state-of-the-art theoretical and/or empirical tools. The 2018 edition of the Meetings will focus on "Macroeconomic...

The Winter School will provide an opportunity for PhD economics students, early career academics and professional economists to learn about new techniques in the evaluation of public policy. The Winter School will explore the application of economics to public policy and how natural experiments...

Issues explored by the two-day conference will include budget sustainability, education, infrastructure, trade with Asia, aged care, federalism, the labour market and employment, climate change and energy, social disadvantage and exclusion and the end of the aged of entitlement.

For 2013 the SHE Conference theme is Heterodox economics and the crisis that won’t go away. Despite a prolonged economic crisis, which has led to increasing levels of unemployment and low rates of growth, particularly throughout Europe and in the USA, governments and mainstream economists are...

Major Theme: The Unemployment Aftermath of the Crisis While papers in any area of labour market analysis will be of interest, papers will be particularly welcome in the following research and policy areas: - Reflections on the global financial crisis? Reform agendas etc. - Any research on...

Freedom to Choose is an annual one-day economics conference devoted to considering the degree to which policy makers should pursue free-market policies. The 2013 Conference has the sub-theme of "The Economics of Government Failure". The speakers will consider how and why the costs of government...

Major Theme: The Way Forward - Austerity or Stimulus The Conference will seek to explore the apparent contradictions of the policy stances that are now emerging amidst the global unemployment crisis. More specific themes: - Reflections on the global financial crisis? Reform agendas etc. - Any...

The workshop is intended to bring together academics and practitioners to discuss economic developments in east Asia, with a particular emphasis on China. Topics: - International trade and capital flows - Economic development and related policies - Issues related to monetary and fiscal...

The theme for this year's conference is The Aftermath of the Crisis and will thus focus on the challenges facing policy makers in the recovery phase. Participation will enable you to share ideas with some of the best researchers in this field about how we can quickly reduce the labour market...

Topics: - Fiscal and monetary policies when interest rates are at, or close to, the zero lower bound, including balance sheet and debt management considerations. - Modelling financial stability Attendance at the workshop is by invitation only.