Our History
Econtech Pty Ltd was established in 1994 with Chris Murphy, a leading economic modeller, as its Director. Our history is as follows.
1994 to July 2008
Econtech Pty Ltd operated as a boutique economic modelling practice. It was well-known in Australia for its
industry and policy modelling, its tax modelling, and its macroeconomic modelling and forecasting. Econtech came to particular prominence with
its modelling of the introduction of the GST in 2000. It also established an international practice providing modelling services
to the Governments of Singapore and Malaysia.
August 2008 to June 2011
KPMG Australia acquired the Australian economic models of Econtech Pty Ltd, and established a wholly-owned
economic modelling practice which operates under the trading name of KPMG Econtech. Econtech Pty Ltd remained a separate entity with Chris Murphy
as its Director. Chris, through Econtech Pty Ltd, provided services to KPMG as Principal of KPMG Econtech in a 3-year contract that
was successfully completed in June 2011.
Now
Econtech Pty Ltd has now entered a new phase and has adopted Independent Economics (IE) as its trading name. In this new phase, IE is
not affiliated with KPMG Econtech, and is an independent, boutique economic modelling practice. Chris has been joined at IE by Dinar Prihardini, an
experienced macroeconometric modeller, and Kelly Neill, an experienced tax and industry modeller.
We provide modelling services to Australian and international clients. Currently, we are developing completely new macro and industry models
of the Australian economy that will come into operation in the first half of 2012. We are strongly committed to independent economic modelling that provides
robust analysis and real solutions for your economic problems.
email: office@independenteconomics.com.au
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