#centreForEconomicHistory ANUDemography Chung Tran - at ANU’s Fertility Workshop - points out problems of designing sustainable and equitable #pensions in low #fertility ageing economies ANU Economics ANU CBE @RabeeTourky

Tax progressivity in Australia!

Check out "Quantitative Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy in Action" by Laboratory for Macroeconomics and Policy and ANU Economics: eventbrite.com.au/e/quantitative… @Eventbrite

SED 2019 Annual Meeting (sed2019stlouis.org) is a showcase of frontier macroeconomics research. ANU RSE Macro/ANU LaMP Laboratory for Macroeconomics and Policy contributes 3 papers to the program: editorialexpress.com/conference/SED…

Research conducted by Chung Tran at anusha ANU Economics Life Advice Lamp contributes to designing better pension systems in aging economies.

(Wonkish) Treasury's new paper on tax progressivity is disappointingly lightweight, largely ignoring the public finance literature on how to properly estimate tax progressivity indices. The ANU study from March is a much more careful analysis: taxpolicy.crawford.anu.edu.au/sites/default/… #ausecon

Talked to PM&C economists about how to design a pension system in aging economies, and shown them that Australia has a pretty good one, compared to the US and other OECD countries.

Cross fertilizing academic and fiscal policy research at the first ANU-Treasury Policy Modelling Workshop A collaborative event at Laboratory for Macroeconomics and Policy ANU Economics ANU CBE

"ANU currently has two representatives on the elite panel [advising the Australian government on its economic models]: Tran and Professor Warwick McKibbin, Director of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at the University."

New Paper: Lifecycle Earning Risk and Insurance: New Evidence from Australia We find some interesting facts on the nature of earnings shocks and the insurance role of family and government from the Australian data. Paper: bit.ly/33HDQgQ Slides: bit.ly/3JQsneb

How much additional revenue could be generated by raising taxes? What is the limit to raising taxes? Chung Tran & Nabeeh Zakariyya ANU Economics on quantifying the fiscal limit of Australia’s tax system. #austax #BudgetForum buff.ly/353pF6u

Social health insurance: A quantitative exploration On the welfare benefits of expanding the public and private components of the US health insurance system doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc… or dropbox.com/s/2i2rfz7u57qp…

#NewPost "The United States system is somewhat of an outlier." Juergen Jung and Chung Tran on expanding US Medicare and its public finance effects. buff.ly/3Llroow

Forthcoming article by Juergen Jung and Chung Tran “Health Risk, Insurance and Optimal Progressive Income Taxation” EEA @OUPEconomics doi.org/10.1093/jeea/j…

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To what extent can a tax and transfer system moderate the distributional impact of uneven economic growth? Nabeeh Zakariyya will address this question in this Friday's #TTPI #seminar. buff.ly/3OKMDng

Earnings Risk and Insurance: New Evidence from Australia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

📢📢 Calling all Economics PhD students! Apply now for the RIDGE Summer School. World-class lectures amidst breathtaking scenery. What else could you ask for? 😍 Application Deadline: Aug-31. Apply here: ridge.org.uy/summer-school/…

October 2023 issue (21,5) of JEEA Journal of EEA available online @OUPEconomics Check it out at academic.oup.com/jeea/issue Teaching material available: eeassoc.org/teaching-mater… (marked in yellow) 👇

New working paper with Chung Tran MacroPublicFinance_OZ ANU Economics . Australia had 3 decades of uninterrupted growth. We ask how was this growth distributed? How did it impact lifetime incomes? What was the role of tax and transfers in moderating uneven gains? 1/4