The Economic Record

1925 - 2025

Current editor(s): Paul Miller, Glenn Otto and Martin Richardson

From The Economic Society of Australia
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 101, month 03, 2025

Changes in the Inflation Target and the Comovement Between Inflation and the Nominal Interest Rate pp. 3-40

Yunjong Eo and Denny Lie

Children and the Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence for Australia pp. 41-75

Elif Bahar, Natasha Bradshaw, Nathan Deutscher and Maxine Montaigne

Inequality of Opportunity and the Probability of Being Very Rich or Very Poor pp. 76-100

Alessio Rebechi, Nicholas Rohde and Gordon Anderson

How Principals Decide Which Students With Disability Sit Standardised Tests and the Implications for School Accountability pp. 101-120

John de New, Cain Polidano and Chris Ryan

Microeconomics for Managers: Principles and Applications pp. 121-122

Kentaro Tomoeda

The Legacy of the Global Financial Crisis pp. 122-124

Aneeq Sarwar

Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth pp. 124-127

Marco Ranaldi

What's the Worst that Could Happen? Existential Risk and Extreme Politics pp. 127-129

Roland Rich

Inside the Invisible Cage pp. 129-130

Nina Roussille

Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy pp. 130-132

Adam Triggs

Australia's Pandemic Exceptionalism: How We Crushed the Curve but Lost the Race pp. 132-134

Declan Trott

Religious Influences on Economic Thinking pp. 134-136

Matthew Watson

Volume 100, month 12, 2024

How Does Transport‐Related Deprivation Reduce Hours of Work in Australia? pp. 441-461

Opoku Adabor

Greedy Jobs, Labour Market Institutions, and the Gender Pay Gap pp. 462-490

Kristen Sobeck

An Incentive Program with Almost no Incentive: Overlooked Benefits of Pay for Performance pp. 491-512

Chunzhou Mu and Shiko Maruyama

Lost in Transition: A Cohort Analysis of Catch‐Up in Homeownership in Australia pp. 513-532

Kadir Atalay, Rebecca Edwards and Fang Han

Interaction Between Age Pension Means Testing and Innovative Income Streams in Australia pp. 533-567

Wenqi Ai, Adam Butt and Gaurav Khemka

Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High‐Tech Economy pp. 568-570

Sry Warnalynm and Muhammad Yusri Zamhuri

The Future of the Factory: How Megatrends are Changing Industrialization pp. 571-573

Wannaphong Durongkaveroj

Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy pp. 573-575

Nga Pham

Trade‐Offs: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning pp. 575-576

Leigh Moran

A Review of Wellbeing: Science and Policy pp. 576-578

Kristen B. Cooper

Statistics for Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Being Mostly Right (or At Least Respectably Wrong) pp. 578-581

Mark Badger and Björn Dressel

A Thousand Cuts: Social Protection in an Age of Austerity pp. 581-583

Ben Clift

Circular Economies in an Unequal World: Waste, Renewal, and the Effects of Global Circularity pp. 583-585

Alexander Emile D'Aloia

Volume 100, month 06, 2024

Alternative Monetary Policy Commitments and the Yield Curve pp. 137-159

Prasanna Gai and Cameron Haworth

Impacts of Monetary Policy Shocks on Inflation and Output in New Zealand pp. 160-187

Robert Kirkby and Huong Ngoc Vu

The Causal Effect of Financial Crisis and Its Long‐Run Impact on Fertility pp. 188-208

Shao‐Hsun Keng

Labour Market Preferences of Retrenched Australian Auto Industry Workers for Job Quality and Meaningful Work pp. 209-233

Akshay Vij, Lynette Washington, Sally Weller, Jacob Irving and Ilke Onur

Revisiting the Macroeconomic Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks pp. 234-259

Firmin Doko Tchatoka and Qazi Haque

Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships: Nehiyawak Narratives pp. 260-261

Siobhan McDonnell

Zero Interest Policy & the New Abnormal: A Critique pp. 261-266

James Morley

Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income pp. 266-269

Ben Spies‐Butcher

Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950 pp. 269-271

Selwyn Cornish

Optimally Irrational: The Good Reasons we Behave the Way we Do pp. 271-274

Jason Collins

Power and Progress: Our Thousand‐Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity pp. 274-276

Sam Gilbert

Tax and Transfer Policy Using Behavioural Microsimulation Modelling: Design and Evaluation pp. 276-278

Ben Phillips

Structuralist and Behavioural Macroeconomics pp. 278-279

Cameron Gordon

Volume 100, month 03, 2024

Can we Use High‐Frequency Data to Better Understand the Effects of Monetary Policy and its Communication? Yes and No! pp. 3-43

Jonathan Hambur and Qazi Haque

When Does the Gender Gap in Financial Literacy Begin? pp. 44-73

Alison Preston and Robert E. Wright

Economic Aspects of Australian Federation: Trade Restrictiveness and Welfare Effects in the Colonies and the Commonwealth, 1900–3 pp. 74-100

Brian Varian and Luke Grayson

International Differences in Profitability pp. 101-116

Harry Bloch and Yixiao Zhou

Migration and Health pp. 117-119

Alfredo Paloyo

Robots and AI: A New Economic Era pp. 119-121

Aneeq Sarwar

Finance in Rural China pp. 121-123

Xuerong Wang and Yu Sheng

Foundations of Real‐World Economics: What Every Economics Student Needs to Know, by John Komlos (Routledge, New York, 2023) pp. 123-125

Eileen Tipoe

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century pp. 125-127

Declan Trott

Giants: The Global Power Elite pp. 127-129

Alexander Vadilyev

COVID‐19 in Indonesia: Impacts on the Economy and Ways to Recovery pp. 129-131

Firman Witoelar

Volume 99, month 12, 2023

Nowcasting with Google Trends pp. 1-12

Hal Varian

Uncovering Urban Advantages: Evidence from Australian Firm‐Level Data pp. 13-34

Antonio Bellofatto, Begoña Domínguez and Elyse C. Dwyer

Measuring Local Economic Activity Using Pedestrian Count Data pp. 35-49

Yonatan Navon and Ashton de Silva

Does Unsatisfactory Subjective Well‐Being of School Children Decrease their Cognitive Skill Development? pp. 50-66

Nadezhda V. Baryshnikova, Florian Ploeckl and Nasantogtokh Yunren

Basic Reading and Mathematics Skills and the Labour Market Outcomes of Young People: Evidence from PISA and Linked Administrative Data pp. 473-491

Lisa Meehan, Gail Pacheco and Thomas Schober

Stamp Duty Reform and Home Ownership pp. 492-511

Michael Warlters

Retail Investor Trading Intentions: New Evidence from Australia pp. 512-535

Sarantis Tsiaplias, Qi Zeng and Guay Lim

Broadband Internet and Cognitive Functioning pp. 536-563

Klaus Ackermann, Sefa Awaworyi Churchill and Russell Smyth

The Power of Hope: How the Science of Well‐Being Can Save Us From Despair pp. 564-566

Leisa Aitken

How Economics Can Save the World: Simple Ideas to Solve Our Biggest Problems, by Erik Angner (Penguin Business, London, 2023), pp. 288 pp. 566-568

N. Emrah Aydinonat

The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level pp. 568-572

Willem Buiter

A Handbook for Wellbeing Policy‐Making, by Paul Frijters and Christian Krekel (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2021), pp. xix + 433 pp. 572-573

Uwe Dulleck

Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? pp. 573-576

Mark Fabian

The Job Ladder: Transforming Informal Work and Livelihoods in Developing Countries pp. 576-577

Nurina Merdikawati

Australian Economic History: Transformations of an Interdisciplinary Field, by Claire E.F. Wright (ANU Press, Canberra, 2022), xvii+214 pp pp. 577-579

Alex Millmow

Volume 99, month 09, 2023

Estimating the Effects of Monetary Policy in Australia Using Sign‐restricted Structural Vector Autoregressions pp. 329-358

Matthew Read

The Yield and Market Function Effects of the Reserve Bank of Australia's Bond Purchases pp. 359-384

Richard Finlay, Dmitry Titkov and Michelle Xiang

The Steppingstone Effect of Casual Employment in Australia: A Re‐Examination pp. 385-409

Lixin Cai

Consuming Contests: The Effect of Outcome Uncertainty on Spectator Attendance in the Australian Football League pp. 410-435

Patrick J. Ferguson and Karim R. Lakhani

Urban Residential Water Demand and Household Size: A Robust Meta‐Regression Analysis pp. 436-453

Alemken Jegnie, James Fogarty and Sayed Iftekhar

Fair Game: Lessons from Sport for a Fairer Society & a Stronger Economy pp. 454-455

Robert Breunig

A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021 pp. 455-457

Selwyn Cornish

More Than Fiscal: The Intergenerational Report, Sustainability and Public Policy in Australia pp. 457-459

Andrew Leigh

The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth pp. 459-461

Omer Majeed

Public Finance with Behavioural Agents pp. 461-463

Guy Mayraz

From Free to Fair Markets: Liberalism after Covid‐19 pp. 463-464

Greg Melleuish

Beyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics pp. 464-466

Dominic Murphy

The Institutional Foundation of Economic Development pp. 466-468

Matthew Woolf

Volume 99, month 06, 2023

Lifecycle Earnings Risk and Insurance: New Evidence from Australia pp. 141-174

Darapheak Tin and Chung Tran

Age of Starting School, Academic Performance, and the Impact of Non‐Compliance: An Experiment within an Experiment, Evidence from Australia pp. 175-206

Tony Beatton, Michael P Kidd, Anthony Niu and Francis Vella

Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Labour Market Outcomes and Well‐being pp. 207-237

Nicholas Biddle and Maria Jahromi

On Market‐Friendly Central Bankers pp. 238-252

Prasanna Gai and Sherry X. Wu

Monitoring Financial Conditions and Downside Risk to Economic Activity in Australia pp. 253-287

Luke Hartigan and Michelle Wright

Towards Better Banking Crisis Prediction: Could an Automatic Variable Selection Process Improve the Performance? pp. 288-312

Xianglong Liu

Innovation and Public Policy pp. 313-314

Christopher Bottomley

The Debt Trap pp. 315-318

Bruce Chapman

When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm pp. 318-320

Florence Neymotin

Central Banking, Monetary Policy and the Future of Money pp. 320-322

Colin Rogers

Financial Econometrics Models and Methods pp. 322-323

Sriram Shankar

Digital Economic Policy pp. 323-325

Rod Sims

Value(s): Building a Better World for All pp. 325-326

Anna Sturman

How Novelty and Narratives Drive the Stock Market pp. 326-327

Terry Zhang

Volume 99, month 03, 2023

House Prices, Monetary Policy and Commodities: Evidence from Australia pp. 1-31

James Graham and Alistair Read

Product Market Competition and its Implications for the Australian Economy pp. 32-57

Jonathan Hambur

Gender, Financial Literacy and Pension Savings pp. 58-83

Alison Preston and Robert E. Wright

Crime, Weather and Climate Change in Australia pp. 84-107

Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Russell Smyth and Trong‐Anh Trinh

A Traditional Nominal Wage Phillips Curve: Theory and Evidence pp. 108-121

Christopher Malikane

Theory and Reality of International Trade pp. 122-124

Wannaphong Durongkaveroj

The Singapore Economy pp. 124-126

Joelle H. Fong

The Informal Economy pp. 126-128

Nicholas Avery and Elizabeth Hill

Tax and Government in the 21st Century pp. 128-131

Andrew Leigh

Probable Justice: Risk, Insurance, and the Welfare State pp. 131-133

Andrew Podger

The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition pp. 133-134

John Quiggin

Critical Perspectives on Economics of Education pp. 134-136

Chandra Shah

The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work pp. 136-139

Haishan Yuan