Behavioural Insights



Being unemployed is difficult, and unemployment payments are designed to ensure that job seekers are generally financially better off from increasing their hours of work.… Read More ›

The Effect of Penalties on Job Seekers

Policymakers are increasingly relying on behavioural interventions with the aim of improving individual decisions. These interventions have become known as ‘nudges’ following the similarly titled… Read More ›

Nudges Are No Substitutes for Classical Economic Policy Instruments

Tax avoidance of large corporations has been a topic of public and academic debate for decades. Major trends such as globalisation and the increasing importance… Read More ›

The Impact of Country-by-Country Reporting on Corporate Tax Avoidance

Around the world, tax compliance is a serious problem with big consequences. The case is no different in Papua New Guinea (PNG). It is an… Read More ›

Can Sharing the Joy of Tax Increase Government Revenue in PNG?

In the mid-1990s Martin Feldstein, economics professor at Harvard University and perhaps the most Nobel-worthy public finance economist not to receive the prize (he died… Read More ›

Do Couples Bunch More? Evidence from Partnered and Single Taxpayers in New Zealand

The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) published a paper earlier this year entitled ‘Behavioural assumptions and PBO costings’ to support public understanding and transparency around how… Read More ›

Understanding How Behavioural Assumptions Are Accounted for in Policy Costings: The Parliamentary Budget Office’s Approach

The aging population in Australia threatens the sustainability of the Australian pension system. Projections from the Department of Treasury’s 2015 Intergenerational Report suggest that the… Read More ›

Behavioural Responses to Pension Age Increase Do Not Thwart Fiscal Savings

In 2008, the Australian Government increased the excise tax on premixed alcoholic drinks, or alcopops, so that they were taxed at the same rate as… Read More ›

Examining Beverage-Specific Trends in Youth Drinking in Australia Before and After the Implementation of the ‘Alcopops Tax’

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