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Finance and Economics

The IPA is committed to the advancement of free market ideas. Free markets encourage innovation, wealth and the allieviation of poverty. Here you will find the IPA's work on free market economics, the role of govenrment in an economy, and how to lift people out of poverty.
Media Releases
IPA Report: Red Tape Reaches Crisis Point In Australia

IPA Report: Red Tape Reaches Crisis Point In Australia

Daniel Wild 7 November 2017 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has today released a new landmark report, Barriers to Prosperity: Red Tape and the Regulatory State in Australia, authored by IPA research...

Research Papers
Reigniting Australia’s Entrepreneurial Flame: Finding The Missing 275,000 Businesses

Reigniting Australia’s Entrepreneurial Flame: Finding The Missing 275,000 Businesses

Matthew Lesh 5 November 2017 Finance and economics, Innovation and entrepreneurship,

The Institute of Public Affairs has tracked the state of entrepreneurship in Australia since 2014. This research was developed by Dom Talimanidis, the IPA’s former Ian Mence Fellow for...

Media Releases
Reigniting Australia’s Entrepreneurial Flame

Reigniting Australia’s Entrepreneurial Flame

Matthew Lesh 5 November 2017 Finance and economics, Innovation and entrepreneurship,

Australian entrepreneurship is in a state of stagnation, largely due to red tape, which is threatening our prosperity, according to a new Institute of Public Affairs report Reigniting Australia’s...

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ACTU Right On The Problem; Wrong On The Solution

ACTU Right On The Problem; Wrong On The Solution

Daniel Wild 2 November 2017 Dignity of work, Finance and economics,

“The ACTU is right to say that the rising cost of living needs urgent policy attention. But the right way to reduce the cost of living is to cut red tape to increase competition in the energy...

Research Papers
Australia’s Declining Economic Competitiveness

Australia’s Declining Economic Competitiveness

Daniel Wild 30 October 2017 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

The World Economic Forum’s annual Global Competitiveness Report ranks the competitiveness of 134 countries. Competitiveness is measured using 114 indicators such as macroeconomic health, the...

IPA TODAY
Bank Regulation: Liberals Try To Prove They Hate Banks Even More Than Labor

Bank Regulation: Liberals Try To Prove They Hate Banks Even More Than Labor

John Roskam 27 October 2017 Constitution and law, Finance and economics,

“Since when did a conservative government become more socialist than the ALP? What does a conservative government stand for if it wants to regulate the employment conditions of leaders in...

Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
Opinion
Australia’s Descent Into Economic Mediocrity

Australia’s Descent Into Economic Mediocrity

John Roskam 12 October 2017 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

Countries become mediocre the same way Mike, a character in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises went broke. “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
Opinion
The Problem With Nobel Laureate Richard Thaler’s Nudgonomics

The Problem With Nobel Laureate Richard Thaler’s Nudgonomics

Chris Berg and Sinclair Davidson 12 October 2017 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

Economists have spent the last 240 years – ever since Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations – trying to understand how decentralised economies work. In that time they have established that...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
Finance and Economics
Default on Debt Conversation

Default on Debt Conversation

Sinclair Davidson Started 1 October 2017 Finance and economics,

The debt debate is over with the political class, writes Professor Sinclair Davidson. Recently on The Bolt Report Michael Kroger—former IPA director and now Victorian Liberal Party president—made...

Media Releases
Australia Is One Of The Most Hostile Nations For Business Investment And Job Creation

Australia Is One Of The Most Hostile Nations For Business Investment And Job Creation

Daniel Wild 28 September 2017 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

Australia continues its slide down the global competitiveness rankings on key areas such as taxes, regulations, and energy supply, according to the latest World Economic Forum Global...

Opinion
A Question Of Trust In Greater Opportunity

A Question Of Trust In Greater Opportunity

Daniel Wild 1 August 2017 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

The Labor Party is proposing another attack on wealth-creating businesses with its planned tax hike on discretionary trusts. It remains unclear how substantial the tax hit will be. Labor is...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
Media Releases
SA Bank Levy Has Already Caused Harm To The South Australian Economy

SA Bank Levy Has Already Caused Harm To The South Australian Economy

Chris Berg and Sinclair Davidson 7 July 2017 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

A new report released today by the Institute of Public Affairs, has found that the South Australian Bank Levy has already damaged the investment reputation of South Australia, despite not yet...

Research Papers
The South Australian Major Bank Levy: Arbitrary, Unjustified, and Harmful for South Australia And The Rest Of The Country

The South Australian Major Bank Levy: Arbitrary, Unjustified, and Harmful for South Australia And The Rest Of The Country

Chris Berg and Sinclair Davidson 7 July 2017 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

In the South Australian state budget 2017-18, South Australian Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis announced that the state government intended to introduce a South Australian Major Bank Levy, one of two...

Media Releases
Liberals Right To Reject Economic Vandalism

Liberals Right To Reject Economic Vandalism

Daniel Wild 3 July 2017 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has welcomed the call of the South Australian Liberal Party Room to block South Australia’s disastrous bank levy. “This is a bad tax which...

Opinion
State Government Bank Levy Makes South Australia Riskiest Place For Investment In Australia

State Government Bank Levy Makes South Australia Riskiest Place For Investment In Australia

Chris Berg 3 July 2017 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

Imagine being an international investor looking at Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis’s Budget. You wouldn’t be interested in his infrastructure spend and “future jobs fund”. You’d immediately hone in on...

Originally appeared in The Advertiser
IPA TODAY
How Howard’s Great GST Bargain Got Trashed By Canberra

How Howard’s Great GST Bargain Got Trashed By Canberra

Sinclair Davidson 28 June 2017 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

Policy elites take the view that former prime minister John Howard did a deal with Meg Lees and the Democrats to introduce the GST. In a trivial procedural sense that is accurate. More...

Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
Opinion
SA’s Bank Levy Adding To Business’ Burden Is Derelict Conduct

SA’s Bank Levy Adding To Business’ Burden Is Derelict Conduct

Simon Breheny 26 June 2017 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

It’s hard to know where to start on the South Australian bank tax. It is just that bad. The massive new impost on the four major banks and the ­Macquarie Group was announced by SA Treasurer Tom...

Originally appeared in The Australian
IPA TODAY
Central Bank Has A Strange Idea Of How To Strengthen The Economy

Central Bank Has A Strange Idea Of How To Strengthen The Economy

Sinclair Davidson 24 June 2017 Finance and economics, Ipa today,

Who wouldn’t like to get a huge pay increase? According to RBA governor Philip Lowe we should all be nagging our bosses for a greater share of the national economic pie. If we all got a huge...

Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
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