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I am a Senior Research Economist at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), located in the UNSW Business School at the University of New South Wales. I am also affiliated with the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and UNSW Ageing Futures Institute. My research expertise lies in the areas of public economics and macroeconomics, more specifically including fiscal policy, pension economics and the economics of population ageing and applied general equilibrium modelling. I develop macroeconomic models (that capture lifecycle behaviors of heterogenous households estimated with microeconomic data) to study public and private pensions, income taxation, housing, and economy-wide implications of population ageing and policy reforms, applied to developed countries such as Australia and the US, and emerging Asian economies with large informal sector such as Indonesia.
Selected recent publications
“Pensions, income taxes, and homeownership: A cross-country analysis”, International Economic Review, 2024 (with Hans Fehr & Maurice Hofmann) (Online appendix)
“Non-linear means-tested pensions: Welfare and distributional analyses”, Economic Modelling, 2024 (with Daniel Wheadon, Gonzalo Castex & Alan Woodland)
“Pension policy in emerging Asian economies with population ageing: What do we know, where should we go?”, in Bloom, D., Sousa-Poza, A., Sunde, U. (ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Population Ageing, Routledge, 2023 (with Philip O'Keefe & John Piggott)
“Macro-demographics and ageing in emerging Asia: The case of Indonesia”, Journal of Population Ageing, 2022 (with Trang Le & John Piggott)
“Sustainable and equitable pensions with means testing in aging economies”, European Economic Review, 2022 (with Chung Tran & Alan Woodland)
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Contact Information
ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR)
UNSW Business School | UNSW Sydney
NICTA Building | East Wing | Level 3
223 Anzac Parade | Kensington NSW 2033
E-mail: g.kudrna@unsw.edu.au