Report

Compensation in the Australian taxi industry


There is a lack of publicly accessible evidence to support the argument that compensation should be paid. Governments should release modelling that justifies their decision to compensate. Consumers should know who is being compensated. There is a lack of publicly accessible date on licence ownership. Consumers should be made aware if they are compensating investors...
Report

Switching gears: reforming negative gearing to solve our housing affordability crisis


This report attempts to break the current political impasse by provide a range of politically pragmatic proposals that would reform negative gearing without abolishing it outright. In each of these scenarios, existing investors are quarantined, with negative gearing only partially restricted. In addition, this report has also attempted to identify opportunities that would restructure negative...
Working paper

Gaming and strategic opacity in incentive provision


It is often suggested that incentive schemes under moral hazard can be gamed by an agent with superior knowledge of the environment, and that deliberate lack of transparency about the incentive scheme can reduce gaming. We formally investigate these arguments in a two-task moral hazard model in which the agent is privately informed about which...

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