Hi, my name is Shashi and I am a final year student at the University of Queensland studying a Bachelor of Advanced Finance and Economics (Honours). I am passionate about economic analysis and its intersection with policy, markets and technology. Particularly, I am interested in understanding more about how AI and Machine Learning can be used in economic modelling, forecasting and reasoning anaylsis. I have created this blog page to share my research and thought pieces. I am very happy to connect - my socials are at the bottom of the page.

Despite the Federal government’s historically corrective efforts to minimise income inequality, the desirability for the optimal equity-efficiency balance has not yet been achieved, leading to stifled economic growth. This article analyses Australia’s income inequality and the mechanics and value of a negative income tax.