Research Grant
[Cite as http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190100537]Researchers: James Morley (Chief Investigator) , Prof Mariano Kulish (Chief Investigator) , A/Prof Francesco Zanetti (Partner Investigator)
Brief description Fiscal policy and unemployment in an open economy. This project aims to improve our understanding of the impact of commodity price changes. Over the past two decades, Australia has experienced unprecedented fluctuations in commodity prices. The fiscal position and potential of the economy depends on the extent to which commodity price changes are temporary or permanent. This project will uncover empirical regularities between commodity prices, unemployment across sectors and measures of fiscal policy. The project will build structural models of unemployment which will be estimated and used to assess implications for unemployment and budget deficits of commodity price shocks and to study the optimal design of fiscal policy. The project will benefit the conduct of economic policy in Australia.
Funding Amount $349,000
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- ARC : DP190100537
- PURL : http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190100537
