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Businesses like Virgin Australia have offered a number of incentives for customers, in an attempt to speed up the vaccine rollout in Australia. Photo: Shutterstock

7 reasons why a government bailout is not possible for Virgin Australia

23 Apr 2020

While a second airline is valuable to provide competition for Qantas, a government bailout of Virgin is not desirable. 

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Open letter from 122 Australian economists: don't sacrifice health for 'the economy'

20 Apr 2020

Leading Australian economists in four countries have signed an open letter calling on the national cabinet to think carefully before easing restrictions 'for the sake of 'the economy'.

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Vital Signs: APRA's extraordinary gift to banks under pressure to pay dividends

17 Apr 2020

APRA is allowing the big four banks to coordinate in a way that might otherwise be illegal.

In the case of a two-fold crisis of public health and economics, it could well be proven that the shield is more effective than the stimulus.

Coronanomics: 8 things we now know about economic policy at home and beyond

16 Apr 2020

If the 1991 recession is the ‘recession we had to have’ then 2020 is the economic slowdown we had to engineer.

The next US presidential election is scheduled for 3 November 2020.

2020 US election: Biden vs. Trump

09 Apr 2020

JW Nevile Fellow in Economics Tim Harcourt discusses the 2020 US presidential race and the Biden-Trump showdown.

JW Nevile Fellow in Economics Tim Harcourt, UNSW Business School.

Coronanomics: key learnings about the economics of coronavirus

08 Apr 2020

Tim Harcourt, JW Nevile Fellow in Economics at UNSW Business School, shares key learnings that will help the Australian economy recover from the coronavirus outbreak.

‘The Tyranny of Social Distance’ preventing people from being in crowds and increasingly in smaller and smaller groups.

Coronanomics: What we’ve learnt so far about the impact of COVID-19 on the economy

03 Apr 2020

The global economy will never be the same again after the COVID-19 outbreak and neither will Australia in terms of how we work and how we engage with nature. 

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Vital Signs: Scott Morrison is steering in the right direction, but we're going to need a bigger boat

03 Apr 2020

After blowing the budget to deal with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, we now need a revolution in our national thinking about debt and deficits.

General Motors will be retiring the Holden brand in Australia and New Zealand. Credit: Shutterstock

Economic reform in the automotive industry needs a change of gears

20 Feb 2020

Tim Harcourt, economic adviser to the Bracks Review, says the end of Holden reminds us of how the automotive industry can guarantee its future in Australia.

Summer experts

Spin yarns with our experts this summer

20 Dec 2019

UNSW has a team of experts available for media interviews who can comment on the hottest topics this summer – from bushfires, climate change and wage theft scandals to the spike in domestic violence, pitfalls with technology and making New Year’s resolutions.

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