Policy Forum

Policy Forums (PF) collates and expands on lectures given at CIS Forum or workshop.
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TARGET30: Reducing the burden for future generations
TARGET30 is a campaign promoting smaller government and cutting government spending to less than 30% of GDP in the next 10 years. This collection of speeches presented at the campaign’s launch focuses... Read More
Regulation or Strangulation? Banking After the Global Financial Crisis
Inadequate regulation of finance has taken much of the blame for the global financial crisis, leading governments around the world to design a new, tighter regime of regulation centred on the Basel III... Read More
Flight of the Kiwi: Addressing the Brain Drain
Why are so many New Zealanders flocking to Australian shores, and what can be done to stop the so-called Kiwi ‘brain drain’? In Flight of the Kiwi,four New Zealanders discuss the policy reforms that... Read More
Trans-Atlantic Fiscal Follies: The Sequel
What started as the US subprime crisis became the global financial crisis and has now developed into the Trans-Atlantic sovereign debt crisis. Read More
Regulating for Competition? Trade Practices Policy in a Changing Economy
Arguments for a greater reliance on market forces to protect consumer welfare are explored in this collection by leading Australia, New Zealand and international authorities on the theory and practice... Read More
Takeovers and Corporate Control: Towards a New Regulatory Environment
These papers from a CIS conference on takeovers represent a wide variety of viewpoints on the pros and cons of an unregulated market for corporate control. Read More
Changes in the Air? Issues in Domestic Aviation Policy
The papers in this volume examine various aspects of domestic aviation in Australia in light of economic research and attempt to suggest improvements. Read More
The Entreprenuer in Society
These papers explore the role of the entreprenuer in society. Read More
The Economics of Bureacracy and Statutory Authorities
This book looks at how government enterprises and regulatory agencies are evaluated by their efficiency and in terms of incentives. Read More

