Productivity
As Paul Krugman famously said, “Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run, it’s nearly everything”. I spent half of the interval between working at ANZ and Bank of America Merrill Lynch researching and writing about productivity growth for the Grattan Institute.
Productivity and inclusive growth
Economic Policies, Productivity | 1st July 2013Chapter 5 in Paul Smyth and John Buchanan (eds), Inclusive Growth in Australia, Allen & Unwin (2013) (for more on this book see here or here).
Productivity
Labour Market, Productivity | 24th May 20122nd Bishop Manning Lecture, hosted by the Catholic Commission for Employment Relations, 24th May 2012
Australia’s Productivity Performance
Productivity, Publications | 18th February 2012Essay published in the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA)’s Annual Political and Economic Overview, February 2012
What can be done to improve Australia’s productivity performance
Productivity, Publications | 8th September 2011Saul Eslake | The Conversation | 8th September 2011 What is to be done about Australia’s deteriorating productivity performance? It’s by no means inconceivable that the answer to this question could be “nothing”. Historical precedent strongly suggests Australians and their politicians will feel no great compulsion to embrace a program of productivity-enhancing economic reforms as […]
Productivity: The Lost Decade
Productivity | 15th August 2011Paper presented to the annual policy conference of the Reserve Bank of Australia, 15th August 2011
Australia’s Productivity Challenge
Productivity | 19th February 2011Report co-authored with Marcus Walsh and published by the Grattan Institute, February 2011
Whatever happened to the productivity revolution?
Productivity, Security | 10th January 2007Op-ed article published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 10th January 2007
Competition, Productivity, Economic Growth and Living Standards
Economic Policies, Productivity | 3rd February 2005Address to the Adjudication Branch of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission – Mollymook Shores Resort, New South Wales, 3rd February 2005