Creina Day

Creina Day is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. She founded and directs the ‘Growth, Demographics and Productivity’ research program and is an inaugural research associate of the ‘COVID-19 and the Macroeconomy’ program in the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA). Her reputation in the field of macroeconomics and economic growth has been established through seminal papers in leading international journals and recognised with the JG Crawford Award for best original paper.

Creina’s research focuses on R&D-based economic growth, house prices and household debt, gender wage inequality, optimal fossil fuel extraction, and fiscal policy. Her principal publications appear in Oxford Economic Papers, Review of Income and Wealth, Economic Record, Economic Modelling and Fiscal Studies. Her analysis of population aging and house prices has received media coverage in leading newspapers including The Australian, The Age and The Australian Financial Review.

Creina is a Management Committee member for CAMA. Previous positions in the Crawford School of Public Policy include Director of Education, Deputy Head of the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics and PhD Convenor of the Economics Program. Creina lectures post-graduate Open Economy Macroeconomics, Finance and Development, for which she has received several awards. In 2016, she won the College of Asia and the Pacific (CAP) Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.