ACE 2025 was held in Sydney from 6-9 July 2025.

Economics is essential to many of the pressing issues of our time including climate and the energy transition, aging population, inequality, geoeconomic competition, resource management and circular economy, healthcare, water and food security, poverty employment and livelihoods. It is with this in mind that Australian Conference of Economists (ACE) 2025 explored Economics for a Changing World, illustrating the practical and solution focused contribution of economics to these challenges. An acceleration in the availability, use and scale of data and experimental techniques has transformed our approach to these challenges. 

Additionally, 2025 represents the centenary of the Economic Society of Australia. Now in its fifty-second year, ACE 2025 recognised the contribution economists have made to Australian society, business, finance and public policy over the past 100 years. During this time, towering Australian born or adopted economists have also contributed to many international debates, from the Great Depression to Bretton Woods. Economics has been central to many of the turning points in Australian history including industrial relations, trade, monetary, social and health policies. As we navigate a new turning point, economics is more central than ever.


Presented Papers

First Name Last Name Paper Title
Alex Millmow An Evolving Record: A Centennial History of the Economic Society of Australia
Andrew Wait Depression, unobserved management effects and the
endogeneity of job demands and control at work
Angus Wheeler An evaluation of the economic outcomes achieved from the NSW 2021 COVID-19 business support programs
Angus Woods Development of NSW specific carbon values which are mandatory for use in cost-benefit analysis across the NSW public sector 
Anthony DeBellis Trade pattern dependence on Trade Liberalisation
Anthony Rush Projecting electricity and energy costs over the transition
Ashani Abayasekara Mental health and differential belief updating: Evidence from unemployment shocks
Ayasha Akter Drivers of Productivity in the Australian States and Territories: A Comparative Analysis
Ben Philips A better tax and transfer system for Australia
Blair Chapman The Australian Beveridge curve in the wake of COVID-19
Bowen Wang Impact of Adult Migrant English Program on Government Benefit Receipt: Evidence from Australian Humanitarian Migrants
Bowen Zhang The Dual Legacy of KAFTA: Trade Growth, Economic Gains, and Structural Risks in Australia-Korea Minerals/Metals Trade and Resource Dependency
Boyd Hunter Indigenous Economic History and Demography
Brendan Coates Renting in retirement: Why Rent Assistance needs to rise
Brodie Dobson-Keeffe The Impact of Labour Mobility on Innovation in Australia
Cameron Murray Rent-controlled resources: Why are we under-charging Australia's mining tenants?
Carolyn Currie One Ocean – Stopping Oceanic Pollution is the biggest challenge of Climate Change
Catherine de Fontenay Income and wealth inequality
Chanyoung Lee Making the Invisible Visible: International Evidence on the Economic Value of Socioemotional Skills
Christopher Carter Exploring Declining Job Mobility in Australia: The Role of Demographic Changes
Christopher Gibbs Resolving New Keynesian Puzzles
Dan Liu Distance as a Barrier to Care: Evidence from the Expansion of Cancer Treatment Centres Using a Continuous Difference-in-Differences Approach
Debajyoti Chakrabarty Domestic Tourism Demand in Fortress Australia: Insights from a Natural Experiment
Deborah Cobb-Clark Personal Reflections on Claudia Golden’s Nobel Prize
Duc Vo Financial Literacy as a Pathway to Better Mental Health:
A Global Perspective
Eliyathamby Selvanathan A new method to estimate the income elasticity of marginal utility of income in the absence of price data
Emma Chow Where Have All The Economics Students Gone? Insights from Recent RBA Research
Fangyuan Liu The "She-Power" in the Household: The Managerial Advantage of Women in China's Energy Poverty and Its Boundary
Gene Tunny Why Trump’s Tariffs Are Better Than You Think—And Much Worse
Geraldine Carter What is the role of economics in government and how does economic policy made by Government shape our lives?
Gianni La Cava The Effects of Stamp Duty on Home Purchases, Mobility and Prices
Harshit Shah From study to work: the effect of extending poststudy work rights
Heng Zhe Zhao Distributional Impact of Means-Test Reform in Residential Aged Care
Hugh Harley Implications of recent advances in evolutionary biology for economic policy and theory
Ingrid Burfurd Policies to correct market failures and to harness Australia’s comparative advantage in green iron exports
Jack Buckley Who stays, who goes? A new look at teacher attrition using administrative data
James Graham Monetary Policy and the Homeownership Rate
James Lennox Planning to Construct: a DSGE model of the Australian Economy
James Morley Assessing monetary-fiscal interactions in New Zealand using a regime-switching Bayesian Local Projection model
Jeff Borland Decline to boom and back again: The Australian labour market in the COVID-19 era (2000-2024)
Jennifer Gordon What women bring to economics and why we need more of them
Jessica Xu NSW Performance and Wellbeing Framework
Joel Bowman Examining the Macroeconomic Costs of Occupational Entry Regulations
Joel Pallikunnel International Student market
John Dundas Smarter regulation through experiments
Jose Merigo Centennial anniversary of the Economic Record: A bibliometric retrospective
Josh Lipp Award-reliant employees' position in the household income distribution of employees
Julian Pearce A Louder Bark for Australia’s Fiscal Watch Dog
Juliana Silva Goncalves Wings of Growth : A Mindset Intervention in Rural China
Julie Berry Cullen Unintended consequences of education reforms
Kerong Song Green Finance and High-Quality Economic Development: Examining the Mediating Role of Regional Talent Dividend and the Moderating Impact of Innovation Efficiency
Kevin Nguyen Exploring Innovation Pathways: An Insight Into the Drivers of Patenting Among Australia’s R&D Firms
Kwabena Addai Maternal Access to Rural Advisory Services and Child Nutrition: Impacts and Pathways
Larry Liu The Trade-Inflation Nexus: The Role of Production Networks
Lee Mead A Cost-Benefit Framework for Evaluating Investments in Improved Drinking Water Quality: An Australian Perspective
Lochlan Savoca Analysation of the impact of Trade Liberalization on Electric Vehicles in Australia
Luke Hartigan House prices and divorce: evidence from Australia
Marc Jim Mariano Understanding structural change from transitioning to a low-carbon economy: an integrated multi-model approach for Australia
Matteo Lanzafame Structural Change and Growth Trajectories through Counterfactual Quantile Decomposition
Meimei Chen Causal Inference with Time-to-Event Outcomes: A Debiased Machine Learning Framework for Treatment Parameters
Michael Dore Australia's Trade with China Between 2014-2024 after the Signing of ChAFTA
Mohammad Razib Hossain Effects of extreme weather events on economic resilience: Empirical evidence from Australian households
Nadira Barkatullah Economic Impact Assessment and Energy Asset Transition
Natalia Ponomareva Impact of commodity price uncertainty on industries in a small open economy: the case of Australia
Nataliya Ilyushina How Digital Abilities Shape Wellbeing and Social Inclusion: An Empirical Study of Victorians
Nicholas Gray AI-driven Information Retrieval from Liaison: The Reserve Bank of Australia’s New Tool
Omer Majeed Price elasticity and habit formation: The Australian Aviation Sector
Owen Gabbitas US trade policy impacts on Australia and the world – analysis
Persis Eskander Financial mechanisms for better value hospital care
Philip Adams Carbon pricing when an emissions trading scheme is off the table
Philipp Grozinger Do Homeowners Consume Gains in their Home Equity by Refinancing?
Reuben Finighan Australia’s comparative advantage in renewable energy
Riko Stevens Alfred Marshall on the Microeconomics of Speculation
Riley Smithers Understanding trends in full-time labour force participation of Australian-born men
Roger Wilkins Long-term inequality trends in Australia: Evidence, explanations and international context
Russell Thomson Persuading voters with partisan TV news: a natural experiment using spatial reception data 
Safdar Khan Employment Prospects in the Age of AI
Sam Mathieson Understanding the NSW First Nations business sector
Samuel Munn Household Interest-Rate Expectations and Monetary Policy Decisions
Sarah Davies A new methodology for measuring and tracking concentration and business employment at the regional and industry level
Sebastian Broadhurst Powering Down Pollution: Health and Economic Benefits
of PM10 Reductions from Coal Station Closures
Simin Tao Relative Earnings and Decision Power within the Household: Evidence from Australia
Simon Sagerer Applying a mixed-effects beta regression approach in rail mode share modelling—a case on Greater Sydney
Stefanie Schurer Using data to improve policy and trust outcomes
Stephen Bartos Does independent scrutiny of government spending proposals improve fiscal outcomes?
Sujan Dhungel Consumer Preferences for Safe and Quality Milk in Nepal: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment
Summer Xia Shareholder Participation and Wealth Transfer in Rights Offerings
Susantha Dissanayake Measuring fiscal sustainability: A novel multidimensional index, a developed country perspective
Tanya Livermore Declining Diversity and Enrolment in Australian Economics Education: Challenges and Insights from Recent RBA Research
Thomas Moran Is JAEPA Still an Effective FTA for the Australian Economy?
Tim Helm Zoning and housing supply: empirics in search of a theory
Tris Sainsbury What drives the emergence of new technology-driven industries in Australia? 
Tunye Qiu School Funding and Student Performance in Australia
William Morton Productivity before and after COVID-19
Xinyi Zhao Global Supply Chain Resilience and Geopolitical Uncertainty
Yi-Ling Cheng Product Bundling and Quality Innovation in Network Industries

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