Since 2016, Evaluate has brought fresh thinking to policy and economic questions. While our principal consultants have worked within a broad range of industries, there are two areas in which Evaluate offers particularly strong expertise. These are:

Social Services and Social Policy


Our primary goal is to identify long-term solutions to ensuring the sustainability of Australia’s admirable social compact, including universal access to healthcare and education as well as the supply of aged care, housing and other social infrastructure.

Our approach is based on a traditional microeconomic toolkit, moderated by the knowledge that social services are accessed by people with a vast variety of experience, needs and resources.  Consequently, Evaluate has no bias towards either public or private supply of services, noting that the different access and welfare needs of Australians typically require a mix of both.

Evaluate has developed an extensive body of expertise around the question of research funding, including tax policy, output measurement, infrastructure planning and research project design.

Evaluate’s Principals are also familiar with a range of international markets for social services – particularly healthcare – including in a number of European and Asian countries.

Competition and Market Regulation


The principal challenge of market regulation is to allow maximum freedom to compete while also delivering on broader equity goals and minimising negative consequences.

Evaluate has advised in recent years on a range of market questions across a multitude of industries, including consumer goods, social services, and property pricing. This has involved application of various areas of expertise, including:

  • General competition measurement and regulatory review, looking at questions of competitive pricing and barriers to entry;

  • Assessment of regulated professional labour, including qualifications and labour movement to identify their impact on market competition;

  • Understanding of multiple forms of intellectual property, including patents, copyrights, trademarks and franchising;

  • Experience with international trade policy, particularly the use of free trade agreements, and

  • Sources of market completion, including new financial instruments such as insurance products.