Programs & Projects
The International Economics Program
The International Economics program aims to explain developments in the international economy, and influence policy. It does so by undertaking independent analytical research.
The International Economics program contributes to the Lowy Institute’s core publications: policy briefs and policy analyses. For example, the program contributed the Lowy Institute Paper, John Edwards’ Beyond the Boom, which argued that Australia’s transition away from the commodities boom will be quite smooth.
Experts
Latest publications
News and media
Commentary
Trapped in history
Trapped in historyJohn EdwardsThe Australian Financial Review21 March 2015Click here for the online text.John Edwards
Commentary
How much debt is too much
How much debt is too much?Stephen GrenvilleNikkei Report3 March 2015Please click here for the online text.Stephen Grenville
Commentary
Greek politicians have to learn to break promises
Greek politicians have to learn to break promisesStephen GrenvilleThe Australian Financial Review24 February 2015Stephen Grenville
Commentary
Low oil prices provide a fleeting chance for reform
Low oil prices provide a fleeting chance for reform Stephen GrenvilleNikkei Asian Review22 January 2015Please click here for the online text.Stephen Grenville
Analyses
Global value chains, border management and Australian trade
In this Lowy Institute Analysis, Nicholas Humphries examines how Australian Customs can increase Australia’s trade competitiveness at a time when goods and services are…
Is the Fed acting as the world's central bank?
'The Federal Reserve enters its second century as the closest the world has to a global central bank.' So says Ted Truman, who speaks with some authority as he played a key…
Are we measuring international trade correctly?
Perhaps the most fundamental change in international trade in recent decades has been the development of multinational 'supply chains'. The production process has been 'unbundled'…
What next for multilateral trade negotiations?
The Director-General of the World Trade Organization is sounding despondent after the latest setback to the December 2013 Bali Agreement. Meanwhile, a survey of exporters has…
G20 must save the WTO, among other things...
As John Lennon wrote, 'life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.' How true for Australia's plans for the G20. Life is not being kind in the lead-up to the…
Credit rating agencies must do better
Standard and Poors' credit ratings. (Wikipedia.)
Foreign investors learn about the Australian economy from a variety of sources, but the credit rating agencies (CRAs) have a…