Ashton de Silva

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Ashton de Silva is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing at RMIT University. He has research interests in macroeconomic modelling, forecasting, and multivariate time series analysis. He has published in Economic Modelling and The International Journal of Statistical Modelling.

Work for the Minerals Council of Australia

In July 2011 de Silva, with SInclair Davidson, co-authored Costing of The Greens’ Economic Policies: Mining, a report for the Minerals Council of Australia, the peak mining industry lobby group, criticising the Australian Greens policy of a phase out of the coal industry in Australia.

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• Australia and coal
• Arguments used against a ban on new coal mines or a coal phase-out in Australia

External resources

• Ralph Hillman, How the government's carbon tax will impact the Australian coal industry and diminish economic growth" Speech to the National Press Club, Canberra, July 6, 2011.
• Sinclair Davidson and Ashton de Silva, Costing of The Greens’ Economic Policies: Mining, Minerals Council of Australia, July 2011.

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