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Finance, Banking, Monetary Systems

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Research into why a sound financial and monetary system is critical for economic prosperity continues to be an ongoing project at the CIS.

Publications

  1. Future Funds or Future Eaters? The Case Against a Sovereign Wealth Fund for Australia

    Robert Carling, Stephen Kirchner | 20 Feb 2012 | Policy Monographs

    This paper considers the arguments for and against greater use of a sovereign wealth fund in Australia. It argues that the... Read More...

  2. Trans-Atlantic Fiscal Follies: The Sequel

    Adam Creighton, Oliver Marc Hartwich, Robert Carling | 30 Nov 2011 | Policy Forum

    What started as the US subprime crisis became the global financial crisis and has now developed into the Trans-Atlantic sovereign... Read More...

  3. Trans-Atlantic Fiscal Follies: The Sequel

    Adam Creighton, Oliver Marc Hartwich, Robert Carling | 30 Aug 2011 | Speeches

    The GFC is back. What started as the US subprime crisis became the global financial crisis, which has now developed into... Read More...

  4. BOOK REVIEW: Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance

    Stephen Kirchner | 20 Aug 2011 | POLICY Magazine

    Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance by Viral A. Acharya, Matthew Richardson,... Read More...

  5. FEATURE: International Trade: First Principles Forgotten

    David Robertson | 26 Apr 2010 | POLICY Magazine

    The global financial crisis has distracted attention from impediments to international trade.

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Opinion & Commentary

  1. Why a sovereign wealth fund won't work

    Stephen Kirchner | 21 Feb 2012 | Business Spectator

    Many of the desirable objectives of a sovereign wealth fund could be achieved through greater use of enforceable fiscal policy ... Read More

  2. Give austerity a chance

    Robert Carling, Stephen Kirchner | 08 Feb 2012 | Australian Financial Review

    Fiscal policy should focus on micro-economic issues such as promoting incentives to save, work and invest, as well as ensuring ... Read More

  3. Budget heat in a revenue drought

    Robert Carling | 08 Dec 2011 | Business Spectator

    Governments in other countries are in deeper fiscal distress than ours, but governments at the federal and state levels in ... Read More

  4. Countdown to a US debt debacle

    Robert Carling | 21 Nov 2011 | The Business Spectator

    It says something about the depths of Europe’s economic malaise that America’s economic managers are attending international ... Read More

  5. Italy defaults on debt and sends lenders broke? So be it

    Adam Creighton | 15 Nov 2011 | Crikey

    The federal government will need to cut spending to ensure a surplus in 2012-13.... Read More

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Ideas@TheCentre

  1. The taxman cometh

    Robert Carling | 17 Feb 2012

    The government isn’t making any economic sense fighting against a deficit in the budget....

  2. Foreigners are not going to take our food

    Stephen Kirchner | 10 Feb 2012

    Foreigners owning agricultural land is not a threat to our food security....

  3. ‘Building a new economy’ – really, Prime Minister?

    Robert Carling | 10 Feb 2012

    Government should look at the big picture and give the private sector the best tools to build a solid economy....

  4. Car industry handouts are childish

    Alexander Philipatos | 27 Jan 2012

    Paying for an industry that can’t support itself is lunacy. Car companies need to bite the bullet and find a sustainable ...

  5. Occupy what?

    Oliver Marc Hartwich | 21 Oct 2011

    The Occupy movement’s message is slightly lost, but they still may have a point....

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