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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 life-cycle behaviors of heterogenous households) applied to studying public and private pensions, income taxation, housing and economy-wide implications of population ageing and policy reforms in (a) developed countries such as Australia and the US and (b) emerging Asian economies with large informal sector such as Indonesia.

Selected recent publications

• “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, forthcoming in Jan 2023 (with Philip O'Keefe and John Piggott)

• “Macro-Demographics and Ageing in Emerging Asia: The Case of Indonesia”, Journal of Population Ageing, Apr 2022 (with Trang Le and John Piggott)

• “Sustainable and Equitable Pensions with Means Testing in Aging Economies”, European Economic Review, Jan 2022 (with Chung Tran and Alan Woodland)

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Contact Information

Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) | UNSW

NICTA Building | East Wing | Level 3

223 Anzac Parade | Kensington NSW 2033

E-mail: g.kudrna@unsw.edu.au