Call for Papers - Special Issue: Macroeconomic Policy and Australia

The Economic Record is inviting submissions for a special issue on “Macroeconomic Policy and Australia”.

The special issue welcomes theoretical, empirical and quantitative research across a broad range of macroeconomic topics, including monetary and fiscal policy, inflation, financial stability, international macroeconomics, productivity and growth, labour markets, and the climate and energy transition.

Importantly, papers do not need to focus directly on Australia. Research on other economies is also welcome, provided it speaks to policy questions relevant to Australia. These include inflation and interest rates, government budgets and public debt, housing and household debt, commodity-price and terms-of-trade shocks, exchange rates, labour markets, productivity, and the climate and energy transition, among others.

Submission deadline  31 December 2026

Topics of interest

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Monetary policy transmission, strategy and communication
• Fiscal policy, public debt and monetary-fiscal interactions
• Macroprudential policy, housing markets and household balance sheets
• Inflation dynamics, expectations and the labour market
• Small open economy macroeconomics: commodity cycles, terms of trade and exchange rates
• International spillovers, including from China, the United States and the Asia-Pacific region
• Productivity, growth and structural reform
• Artificial intelligence: its macroeconomic effects on productivity and labour markets, and machine learning tools for forecasting and policy analysis
• Climate change, the energy transition and macroeconomic policy
• Macroeconometric methods for policy analysis: VARs, state-space and nonlinear models, Bayesian methods, forecasting and risk assessment
• Central banking institutions and the role of research in policymaking

Guest Editors: 

Solmaz Moslehi, Monash University

Benjamin Wong, Monash University