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Google’s merger with Fitbit puts our health data at risk. It should be opposed.

Google’s merger with Fitbit puts our health data at risk. It should be opposed.

If Google is given the green light to acquire Fitbit, sensitive health data could find its way to advertisers and insurance companies, to the detriment of global consumers.

Chongwoo Choe

Zhijun Chen

Centre for Global Business

Are cleaner energy policies possible for India post-COVID-19?

Are cleaner energy policies possible for India post-COVID-19?

India's energy sector was already experiencing production issues, so does COVID-19 present an opportunity to introduce more renewables?

Mita Bhattacharya

Department of Economics

Why depression can be contagious, with lasting effects into adulthood

Why depression can be contagious, with lasting effects into adulthood

Girls exposed to negative influences in their teenage peer group experience 'contagious' depression that continues into adulthood, ground-breaking research reveals.

Yves Zenou

Department of Economics

Post-communist countries: a new ‘business as usual’?

Post-communist countries: a new ‘business as usual’?

Following the end of the former Soviet Union, communist countries were forced to open their economies. Some 30 years along, how have they fared?

Gennadi Kazakevitch

Department of Economics

The way students size up their chances at high school influences their future studies

The way students size up their chances at high school influences their future studies

Students’ beliefs about whether they will complete high school predict whether they go on to further education.

Johannes Kunz

How to boost Australian jobs: construction and manufacturing

How to boost Australian jobs: construction and manufacturing

With three possible scenarios for the Australian economy, only one will get us out of recession faster – boost jobs in construction and manufacturing.

Heather Anderson

Giovanni Caggiano

Farshid Vahid-Araghi

Benjamin Wong

Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics

Can friendship networks help pinpoint those most in need?

Can friendship networks help pinpoint those most in need?

When it comes to handing out aid, friendship networks can provide a way of determining who are the neediest in the community.

Matthew Olckers

Department of Economics

As they were driven from their homes, these refugees clung to one thing

As they were driven from their homes, these refugees clung to one thing

A unique study of economic history reveals those forcefully uprooted go on to invest in assets they can take with them – such as education.

Sascha Becker

Department of Economics

The economics of energy policy (it’s complicated)

The economics of energy policy (it’s complicated)

Australia needs to reduce its carbon emissions. But that's about the only thing we agree upon, it seems. With Dr Gordon Leslie.

Gordon Leslie

Department of Economics

Caught between two powers, where does Australia’s future lie?

Caught between two powers, where does Australia’s future lie?

The escalating trade dispute between China and the United States has Australia caught between its key trading partner and its key security partner. Should we be taking sides? And can our economy dodge the global fallout? With Dr Giovanni Di Lieto.

Giovanni Di Lieto

Why wages are higher and other tales of the city: with Professor Tony Venables

Why wages are higher and other tales of the city: with Professor Tony Venables

“An absolutely charismatic figure for graduate students like me.” How a Nobel prize winner helped Oxford Professor Tony Venables pioneer the study of cities and spatial economics.

Richard Hall

Senior Leadership team