Sam Tsiaplias

The Welfare Implications of Unobserved Heterogeneity

Sarantis Tsiaplias

Journal article  |  2021  |  REVIEW OF INCOME AND WEALTH

New conditions are derived for relating household financial well-being to household utility. In particular, a one-for-one mapping ..

The Australian Economy in 2020–21: The COVID‐19 Pandemic and Prospects for Economic Recovery

Guay Lim, Viet Nguyen, Timothy Robinson, Sarantis Tsiaplias, Jiao Wang

Journal article  |  2021  |  The Australian Economic Review

This article summarises developments in the Australian economy in 2020. It describes the economic growth and labour market ramific..

Time-Varying Consumer Disagreement and Future Inflation

S Tsiaplias

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

The inflation expectations of over 285 thousand consumers are used to develop ‘model-free’ estimates of the monthly cross-sectiona..

Does location help explain why some people are vulnerable to financial stress?

Guay Lim, Viet Nguyen, Timothy Robinson, Sam Tsiaplias

Report  |  2020

The Australian labour market has been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with many workers experiencing loss of employmen..

How to reduce household financial stress during COVID-19?

Sarantis Tsiaplias

Report  |  2020

The latest results from the Melbourne Institute's Taking the Pulse of the Nation survey finds that around 30% of Australians are e..

The Australian Economy in 2019-20: Slower Growth, Record Low Interest Rates and a Changing Housing Landscape

Sarantis Tsiaplias, Jiao Wang

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Australian Economic Review

Economic activity in Australia slowed considerably in 2018–19, with domestic demand growth halving and unemployment rising. Consis..

The New Normal: Navigating an Economic Recovery

Guay Lim, Viet Nguyen, Timothy Robinson, Sam Tsiaplias

Report  |  2020

On the road to economic recovery, a pickup in household consumption is key, but GDP growth could be weighed down by low growth in ..

Australia Votes 2019: The Budget

Sarantis Tsiaplias, Mark Triffit

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2019

The budget is a politically clever array of targeted assistance and spending. Despite not achieving a surplus this year, the proje..

2019 Budget: The Verdict Part 1

Sarantis Tsiaplias, Mark Triffitt, Crystal Legacy, Kelsey Hegarty, Cathy Humphreys

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2019

From the politics and macro numbers, to infrastructure and domestic violence, University of Melbourne experts dissect the governme..

Information flows and stock market volatility

S Tsiaplias, CL Chua

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Applied Econometrics

This study examines how news is distributed across stocks. A model is developed that categorizes a stock's latent news into normal..