Capability / Expertise

SACES has expertise in:

• Cost benefit analysis
• Economic impact analysis (i.e. employment and production impacts)
• Public policy analysis (including taxation, funding and public sector performance reviews)
• Public finance issues and management, including federal-state fiscal arrangements
  
• Regulatory economics
  
• Regional economic development
  
• Labour market analysis and skill audits, including labour market program assessments
  
• Industry analysis (e.g. water, electronics, information technology, defence)
  
• Assessment of economic competitiveness
  
• Innovation
  
• Demography
  
• Existing and emerging social issues (e.g. gambling, crime, petrol sniffing)

Particular skill-sets

• Applied economic theory
  
• Econometric and quantitative data analysis including analysis of large datasets
  
• Data modelling
• Qualitative data analysis including interviews, focus groups, surveys
  
• Cost benefit analysis and cost effectiveness analysis
  
• Input output tables