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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. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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.

  5. Shooting the Messenger: The Ban on Short Selling

    John Green, Stephen Kirchner, Robert Bianchi | 01 Feb 2010 | Policy Forum

    In September 2008, governments around the world instituted bans on the short sale of equity securities.  In Australia, the... Read More...

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Opinion & Commentary

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Budget surplus fetish means more harsh spending cuts

    Adam Creighton | 09 Nov 2011 | Crikey

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

  5. Should super contributions be raised to 12 per cent?

    Adam Creighton | 05 Nov 2011 | The Sydney Morning Herald

    Four experts debate the topic in The Question.  Here is Adam Creighton's contribution. Some compulsory saving is sensible. ... Read More

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Ideas@TheCentre

  1. 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 ...

  2. Occupy what?

    Oliver Marc Hartwich | 21 Oct 2011

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

  3. Rate it yourself

    Adam Creighton | 16 Sep 2011

    The National Strategy on Energy Efficiency will require all residential properties, new and existing, to have consistent ...

  4. How to respond to the terms of trade boom

    Stephen Kirchner | 02 Sep 2011

    Historical experience highlights the danger of conditioning public policy on assumptions about the future direction of relative ...

  5. America and Europe jump together

    Oliver Marc Hartwich | 19 Aug 2011

    Rescuing banks, stimulating economies and guaranteeing for bankrupt states, North Atlantic governments have turned an economic ...

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