Supporting research and data
Commission staff undertake supporting research and analysis, data compilation and model development in support of our inquiry and study activity.
Understanding and utilisation of benefits under Free Trade Agreements
21 / 06 / 2024
The Productivity Commission made a submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Trade and Investment Growth. This submission draws mainly on the Commission’s work on trade and relates to the inquiry's terms of reference (TOR) parts a to d.
Review of the Report on Government Services and Performance Reporting Dashboard
12 / 06 / 2024
The Review of Government Service Provision (RGSP) Secretariat made a submission to the Council on Federal Financial Relations' Review of the Report on Government Services and Performance Reporting Dashboard.
Why are investment hurdle rates so high? Risk or market power?
06 / 06 / 2024
This staff working paper discusses the implications for investment and productivity, and questions the role of market power in Australia and the measurement of intangible capital and the risk-free rate.
Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI)
31 / 05 / 2024
The Productivity Commission made a submission to the Senate Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI). The submission makes three key points in relation to opportunities to adopt AI in ways that will benefit economic growth, drawing from the Commission’s recent research.
Competition review: merger reform
11 / 04 / 2024
This Commission submission is in response to a request by the Treasury's Competition Taskforce.
Pharmacy Business Ownership
09 / 02 / 2024
This Commission submission covers aspects of the Inquiry into Queensland's Pharmacy Business Ownership Bill 2023.
An iterative method for solving CGE models
26 / 10 / 2023
This paper presents a solution method for computable general equilibrium (CGE) models, an alternative to the conventional methods based on matrix inversion and mathematical solvers.
Negotiating trade and investment agreements
02 / 10 / 2023
This Commission submission argues among other things that broad and active consultation is required for agreements contribute to community-wide wellbeing and avoid being biased toward sectoral interests.
Commonwealth bilateral air service agreements
20 / 09 / 2023
This Commission submission makes two key points: Benefits of further liberalisation and transparent cost-benefit analysis.
Worsening rental crisis in Australia
18 / 09 / 2023
This Commission submission draws on the Commission’s published work on private renters and rental policy issues.
What can we learn about industries’ vulnerability to overseas price shocks from Merchandise trade data in BLADE?
23 / 06 / 2023
This paper by Melisa Bubonya, Catherine de Fontenay, Tyler Reysenbach, Phillip Smith and James Thiris introduces an alternative Australian dataset that provides insight into the use of inputs in different industries, and the likely impact of a cost shock on each of those industries.
Promoting economic dynamism, competition and business formation
06 / 04 / 2023
This Commission submission considers recent trends in key indicators of dynamism — firm entry and exit, concentration, price-markups, labour market mobility and investment.
National Electric Vehicle Strategy
21 / 11 / 2022
This Commission submission focusses on some of the issues raised in the National Electric Vehicle Strategy consultation paper.
Head in the cloud: Firm performance and cloud service
26 / 10 / 2022
This paper by Henry McMillan, Tim Murray, Catherine de Fontenay and Ralph Lattimore was presented at the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) joint conference on the Economic implications of the digital economy in Sydney on 9-10 March 2022.
Work and care
08 / 09 / 2022
The submission summarises some observations from several Commission reports published over the last decade that address some aspects of work and care that are particularly relevant and still current.
Australian Business Securitisation Fund
06 / 05 / 2022
The Productivity Commission made a submission to the Australian Business Securitisation Fund (ABSF) Review. The submission looks at how the ABSF can impact small and medium enterprise lending markets.
Quality initial teacher education review
25 / 02 / 2022
The Productivity Commission made a submission to the Quality Initial Teacher Education Review. The submission explores issues with attracting high-quality ITE candidates to teaching, including related issues with teacher shortages in specific areas, and looks at research on teacher training and the importance of ongoing professional development.
Australian manufacturing industry
17 / 09 / 2021
The Productivity Commission made a submission to the Senate Economics References Committee Inquiry into the Australian Manufacturing Industry. The submission addresses the role that the Australian manufacturing industry has played, is playing and will play in the future and the role that government can play in assisting our domestic manufacturing industry.
Part IIIB – Why there is no economic case for additional access regulations
27 / 08 / 2021
This paper by Stephen King was a background paper for a presentation to a session of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) / Australian Energy Regulator (AER) Regulatory Conference.
BLADE for productivity research
05 / 05 / 2021
This staff working paper discusses the uses and limitations of the Business Longitudinal Analysis Data Environment (BLADE) for economic research. BLADE is a comprehensive administrative dataset covering almost all Australian businesses between 2001 and 2019 with much potential.