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Ross Guest

Ross Guest

Ross Guest is a Professor of Economics, and Dean (Learning and Teaching), in the Griffith Business School at Griffith University. He is an Adjunct Professor with the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) and a National Senior Teaching Fellow with the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching.

Before joining Griffith University in 1998 he spent 8 years at Monash University in Melbourne where he was appointed Senior Lecturer in 1997. He has a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Higher Education from Griffith University.
His current research programme is concerned mainly with the economics of population ageing in Australia and other regions of the world. He has published articles on this and related topics in, for example, the Journal of Population Economics, the Journal of Macroeconomics, The Economic Record, The Review of Development Economics, The Journal of Policy Modelling, Oxford Economic Papers, The Singapore Economic Review, The Journal of Asian Economics, and Economic Modelling. He has received 4 ‘Discovery Grants’ from the Australian Research Council, as 1st Chief Investigator, to support this work. He was an invited participant at the Prime Minister’s 2020 Summit in 2008 on the basis of his work on population economics.
His teaching in recent years has been primarily in public economics at Griffith University and for ANZSOG in their Executive Master of Public Administration where he is a Subject Leader for Australia and New Zealand. He is Editor-In-Chief of the International Review of Economics Education, and co-author with Stiglitz et al. of Principles of Economics, First Australian Edition.

Dentists need a licence to practice. Why not economists?

Mar 14, 2019 03:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

The great British economist John Maynard Keynes said he longed for the day when economics could be thought of as a matter for specialists - like dentistry. Its easier to become an economist than a dentist, or a doctor...

Financial literacy is a public policy problem

Oct 23, 2017 01:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

As the world of finance becomes more complex, most of us arent keeping up. In this series were exploring what it means to be financially literate. Its pretty common nowadays to see the likes of the Reserve Bank of...

Research shows the banks will pass the bank levy on to customers

May 19, 2017 04:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Studies of European countries show that bank taxes similar to the 0.06% bank levy introduced by the government in the 2017 federal budget will be largely borne by customers, not shareholders. The levy could also make...

Budget explainer: if you want to know about the economy, look past the budget forecasts

Apr 20, 2017 03:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

When the federal government releases its annual budget it provides an economic outlook that includes forecasts and key indicators of the state of the economy. But we should be critical of some of these numbers. Many either...

What's behind the numbers? MYEFO in seven charts

Dec 21, 2016 05:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

With all the data in the governments Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) for 2016-17 were breaking it down for you in seven charts. The A$0.6 billion drop in the 2016-17 deficit in MYEFO compared with the...

It's not just a drop in GDP that should worry us

Dec 12, 2016 11:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

It seems like we havent had much good economic news lately. This was neatly summarised in the drop in national output (GDP) of 0.5% due to weak investment, both private and public. Private investment is unexpectedly...

It's good the government will report GDP per capita, but it shouldn't stop there

Dec 01, 2016 02:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

The governments horse trading over legislation with the senate will have a profound effect on the way the government reports economic data. Part of the governments agreement with Senator Leyonhjelm to support the...

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