Discussion of Housing in Australia in the 2000s: On the Agenda Too Late?
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It is a great privilege to have been invited to be a discussant at this prestigious Conference. The last RBA Conference I attended was in 2003 when the topic was ‘Asset Prices and Monetary Policy’. Many of the conclusions from that Conference around the potential impact of asset prices on economies were quite prophetic given the subsequent events in the global economy. For me, this Conference therefore represents a hard act to follow but the papers are of a very high standard and useful insights abound.
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