Australian Economic Review

In the latest issue, Paul Miller and Derby Voon analyse data from the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) data, finding that private schools produce better results than government schools, even after differences in student background are taken into account. Read the article online now.

Read the top five The Australian Economic Review articles accessed online:

Review of the Australian Economy 2010–11: Growth, Jobs and Debt
Guay C. Lim, Chew Lian Chua, Edda Claus and Jounghyeon Kim

Some Basic Economics of Carbon Taxes
Harry Clarke

Review of the Australian Economy 2009–10: On the Road to Recovery
Guay C. Lim, Chew Lian Chua, Edda Claus and Sarantis Tsiaplias

The Global Financial Crisis and Undergraduate Macroeconomics
Ross Guest

Australia's Housing Affordability Crisis
Judith Yates

An applied economics journal with a strong policy orientation, The Australian Economic Review publishes high-quality articles applying economic analysis to a wide range of macroeconomic and microeconomic topics relevant to both economic and social policy issues. Produced by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, it is the leading journal of its kind in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. While it is of special interest to Australian academics, students, policy-makers, and others interested in the Australian economy, the journal also considers matters of international interest.

Asia has never been more important to and closely linked with Australia, and the articles in this policy forum examine this relationship from a number of angles. Read the latest research now:

• the way the profound structural changes now taking place in the Chinese economy change the nature of Australian opportunities in China (Ross Garnaut)
• the extent to which fluctuations in business conditions in Australia are increasingly being synchronized with those in East Asia (Lei Lei Song and Sui-Lay Tan)
• the dynamics of Australian–Asian relations using a unique multi-indicator index of engagement (Anne Leahy and Paul Jenson)
• recent developments in the Indian economy and the opportunities for significant growth in Australian–Indian economic links, including the possible role of a free trade agreement (Sisira Jayasuriya and Laura Panza)
• the impact of the Thailand–Australia Free Trade Agreement (Prema-chandra Athukorala and Archanun Kohpaiboon).