21
May 2026
Conference
The Conference in Honour of Emeritus Professor Alan Woodland
May 21, 2026
Macro Public Finance Lab @ ANU
We integrate micro data into quantitative macroeconomic models to analyse how economic policies jointly determine household behaviour, aggregate outcomes, and social welfare.
Academic base
Research School of Economics, Australian National University.
Policy relevance
Work designed to inform tax, spending, and macro policy evaluation.
Quantitative focus
Lifecycle, overlapping-generations, and microsimulation frameworks.
Research training
PhD workshops, model-based training, and capacity building.
Engage with the Lab
Follow seminars and workshops, request publications, or get in touch about research collaboration and training.
23
Apr 2026
Workshop
The Workshop of the East and South-East Asian Macroeconomic Society
April 23, 2026
Publication
Featured recent work
Selected papers from the lab's working-paper, journal, and policy-facing research output.
Working paper
WP2026-01
On the Complementarity of Public and Private Pensions: Equity, Efficiency, and Optimal Design
Working paper
WP2025-01
The Evolution of Earnings Distribution in a Sustain Growth Economy: Evidence from Australia
Working paper
WP2024-03
Health Heterogeneity, Portfolio Choice and Wealth Inequality
Working paper
WP2024-02
Child-Related Transfers, Means Testing and Welfare
Training
Methods, computation, and policy application
The lab's training program equips graduate students, early-career researchers, and policy economists with practical tools for frontier research in macro public finance.
Training combines quantitative macroeconomic theory with computational implementation, calibration, and policy simulation. The goal is to help participants move from model intuition to applied research practice.
Workshops and seminars are built around the same methods used in the lab's own research on tax policy, transfers, pensions, and inequality.
- 1Introduction to quantitative macro models
- 2Lifecycle models and heterogeneous agents
- 3Calibration and structural estimation
- 4Fiscal policy simulation methods
- 5Applications to Australian tax policy
- 6Communicating research for policy impact