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Trump’s policies would hurt the US while boosting most other economies By Anjali V. Bhatt, Megan Hogan, Warwick J. McKibbin and Marcus Noland, Realtime Economics, PIIE, 21 October 2024

Mass deportations would harm the US economy  By Anjali V. Bhatt, Megan Hogan, Marcus Noland and Warwick J. McKibbin, Realtime Economics, PIIE, 26 September 2024

How much would Trump's plans for deportations, tariffs, and the Fed damage the US economy?  By Warwick J. McKibbin, Megan Hogan and Marcus Noland, Realtime Economics, PIIE, 26 September 2024

Australia’s cost-of-living crisis has reached a critical juncture By Warwick McKibbin, Australian Financial Review, 10 June 2024

No, the RBA review won’t mean handing the bank’s decisions to part-time outsiders By Renee Fry-McKibbin, The Conversion, 22 September 2023

To Bring down Imported inflation, interest rates must rise back to normal
 By Warwick McKibbin, 27 February 2023

Dual mandate’s purpose is making monetary trade-offs transparent By Renee Fry-McKibbin, Australian Financial Review, 30 August 2023

The Science of Flexible Retirement Choices: Switching Retirement Savings into an Annuity
 By Andrew Clare, James Seaton, Peter N. Smith and Stephen Thomas, 4 April 2023

A Proposal for a Decarbonization Tax Discount to Increase Australian Lithium Production to Meet Electric Vehicles and Net Zero Global Targets
By Russell Smyth and Joaquin Vespignani, 15 December 2022

Why climate policy scenarios are important, how to use them, and what has been learned
 By Roshen Fernando, Larry Weifeng Liu and Warwick McKibbin, 27 September 2022

Australia can no longer afford to kick carbon adjustment down the road
 By Warwick McKibbin and Frank Jotzo, 25 October 2021

Wage subsidy was essential to save jobs during lockdowns
 By James Graham, 23 September 2021

A future-focused review must question Reserve Bank’s inflation target
 By Warwick McKibbin, 20 September 2021

How do businesses deal with uncertainty effectively?
 By Kamiar Mohaddes, 13 April 2021

Replace JobKeeper with a better and fairer JobMaker
 By Peter Downes, Renee Fry-McKibbin and Warwick McKibbin, 31 March 2021

Will Joe Biden’s stimulus plan cause the US economy to overheat?
 By Laurent Ferrara, 11 March 2021

Democracy Sausage: Climate, the coronavirus, and the cost of uncertainty
 By Helen Sulivan, Warwick McKibbin and Mark Kenny, 9 February 2021

Australia must have a new macroeconomic framework
 By Warwick McKibbin, 4 February 2021

The Reserve Bank of Australia is stabilising the economy
 By Warwick McKibbin, 4 November 2020

Podcast: Talking with the tax team about policy
 By Robert Breunig and others, 7 August 2020

Do you need both a checking and savings account?
 By Sherrill Shaffer, 2020 (updated 9 August 2023)

Strenthening JobKeeper
 By Robert Breunig and Timothy Watson, 16 June 2020

Macroeconomic frameworks need urgent review
 By Warwick McKibbin, Richard Holden and John Quiggin, 7 May 2020

Simple steps to reduce the odds of a global catastrophe
 By Warwick McKibbin and David Levine, 20 February 2020

As wage growth picks up, the Fed needs to be careful about overreacting
 By Nick Bunker and Tara Sinclair, 22 January 2020

Good policy needs good data
 By Warwick McKibbin and Robert Breunig, 7 November 2019

We must not politicise the RBA
 By Warwick McKibbin and Bruce Preston, 20 September 2019

Tweeting the world into a slump
 By Warwick McKibbin, 12 August 2019

Podcast: The Auspolicy issue – what the country voted for
 By Allen L, Burke P, Hewson J, McKibbin W, Cotton B, Grafton Q and Ahrens J, 24 May 2019

Policy matters more than targets
 By Warwick McKibbin, 24 April 2019

How should technocrats count the true costs of cooling the climate?
 By Warwick McKibbin, 31 March 2019

The theory that’s too good to be true
 By Warwick McKibbin, 15 March 2019

The US Labor Market Is Changing Fast — But Job Seekers Are Keeping Up
 By Martha Gimbel and Tara Sinclair, 20 September 2018

Is Australia ready for the next GFC?
 By Warwick McKibbin, 10 September 2018

The Perils of Nationalism in Global Finance
 By Chiara Oldani, 29 May 2018

How countries could respond to Trump’s Trade War
 By Warwick McKibbin, 6 March 2018

Lost Inflations?
 By Rod Tyers and Yixiao Zhou, January 2018

Short-term gain, long-term pain
 By Warwick McKibbin and Andrew Stoeckel, 20 December 2017

The health system is still awaiting modernisation
 By Philip Clark and Warwick McKibbin, 4 October 2017

Trump’s economic plan would be hostage to the almighty dollar - The fraught road ahead for the President’s economic agenda
 By Warwcick McKibbin, 28 April 2017

An uncertain future: Surging US Dollar may shape the world’s fortunes in 2017
 By Warwick McKibbin, 1 March 2017

Climate storm shows political failure
 By Warwick McKibbin, 16 December 2016

The US shale oil revolution requires major reforms in the macroeconomic policy frameworks and institutions in the MENA region
 By Kamiar Mohaddes and Mehdi Raissi, 21 December 2016

Unreal interest rates will not create real demand
 By Warwick McKibbin, 24 February 2016

Big carbon cuts need new policy framework
 By Warwick McKibbin, 2 December 2015

Acting on interest rate uncertainty
 By Warwick McKibbin, 19 September 2015

Targets put Australia in front of climate fight
 By Warwick McKibbin, 1 September 2015

Keeping the status quo is no longer an option
 By Warwick McKibbin, 17 March 2015

Short term pain, long term gain
 By Warwick McKibbin, 1 July 2015

Getting better by design
 By Warwick McKibbin, 12 August 2014

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  • Warwick McKibbin and Roshen Fernando (2020), The economic impact of COVID-19, in Economics in the time of COVID-19edited by Richard Baldwin Beatrice Weder di Mauro, CEPR Press, 6 Mar 2020.

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