Fields of Research

Environment and resource economics
Economic theory
Industry economics and industrial organisation
Experimental economics
Macroeconomic theory
Public economics - publicly provided goods
Applied economics
Police administration, procedures and practice
Economic models and forecasting
Mechanical engineering
Public economics - taxation and revenue
Macroeconomics (incl. monetary and fiscal theory)
Other economics
Legal institutions (incl. courts and justice systems)
Fisheries management
Criminology
Environment policy

Research Objectives

Microeconomics
Macroeconomics
Industrial organisations
Market-based mechanisms
Water services and utilities
Assessment and management of coastal and estuarine ecosystems
Industry policy
Other economic framework
Industry costs and structure
Monetary policy
Consumption
Law enforcement
Environmental policy, legislation and standards
Ground water quantification, allocation and impact of depletion
Preference, behaviour and welfare
Hydro-electric energy
Agricultural and environmental standards and calibrations
Rights to environmental and natural resources (excl. water allocation)
Other environmental management
Justice and the law
Fisheries - recreational freshwater
Environmental protection frameworks (incl. economic incentives)

Career Best Publications

A Search-Theoretic Interpretation of Multi-Outlet Retailers; The Economic Record
How Monetary Policy Can Have Permanent Real Effects with Only Temporary Nominal Rigidity; Scottish Journal of Political Economy
Loss averse customers and price inflexibility; Journal of Economic Psychology
Price Inflexibility in Markets with Repeat Purchasing; Journal of Macroeconomics
Social comparisons and reference group formation: Some experimental evidence; Games and Economic Behavior

Research Publications

A decomposition of monopolistic quality distortion; Research in Economics
A Search-Theoretic Interpretation of Multi-Outlet Retailers; The Economic Record
Advertising in Customer Markets; Scottish Journal of Political Economy
An Integrated Approach to Teaching Price Discrimination; International Review of Economics Education
An investigation of the determinants of profitability in a short‐stay accommodation market; Australian Economic Review
Asymmetric Information Flows in Customer Markets; Bulletin of Economic Research
Bringing competition to urban water supply; The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Can Urban Water Markets Work? An Optimistic View; Agenda
Cooperation and turn taking in finitely-repeated prisoners' dilemmas: An experimental analysis; The Journal of Economic Psychology
Credit Rationing, Implicit Contracts, Risk Aversion and the Variability of Interest Rates; Journal of Macroeconomics
Cycle and Trend in Models of the Range of Equilibria; Australian Economic Papers
Default Risk in Implicit Contract Models of the Credit Market; Australian Economics Papers
Efficient Urban Water Pricing; Water, Security, Economics and Governance
Efficient Urban Water Pricing; The Australian Economic Review
Estimates of the Range of Equilibrium Rates of Unemployment for Australia; The Economic Record
Geoffrey M Hodgson Economics and Evolution: Bringing Life Back into Economics; The Economic Record
How do people design a mechanism? Experimental evidence; Economic Record
How Monetary Policy Can Have Permanent Real Effects with Only Temporary Nominal Rigidity; Scottish Journal of Political Economy
Loss averse customers and price inflexibility; Behavioural Macroeconomics: The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 265
Loss averse customers and price inflexibility; Journal of Economic Psychology
Loss aversion, price and quality; Journal of Socio-Economics
Managing Water Variability Issues; Understanding and Managing Urban Water in Transition
Me and my behavior: An experiment on individual characteristics and compliance behavior in recreational fishing; Frontiers in Marine Science
Price Dynamics in Repeat-Purchase Markets; Economic Record
Price Inflexibility in Markets with Repeat Purchasing; Journal of Macroeconomics
Pricing and Management of Recreational Activities Which Use Natural Resources; Environmental and Resource Economics
Pricing and Management of Walking Tracks in National Parks; Conference of Economists '97
Pricing stategies with costly customer arbitrage; Review of Industrial Organization
Product quality with heterogeneous consumers and linear pricing; Australian Economic Papers
Scoping Study for Proposed National Parks Research
Social comparisons and reference group formation: Some experimental evidence; Games and Economic Behavior
Testing for Pricing Asymmetries in Customer Markets; Australian Economic Papers
The consequences of using increasing block tariffs to price urban water; Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
The demand and supply of esteem: An experimental analysis; Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
The determinants of the quantity-quality balance in monopoly; Australian Economic Papers
The diamond of Macroeconomic equilibria and non inflationary expansion; Behavioural Macroeconomics
The Diamond of Macroeconomic Equilibria and Non-Inflationary Expansion; Metroeconomica
The influence of nudges on compliance behaviour in recreational fisheries: a laboratory experiment; ICES Journal of Marine Science
The Non-Robustness of the Nash-Stackelberg-Hybrid Equilibrium; Australian Economic Papers
The Pricing and Management of Walking Tracks in Tasmania; The Australian Economic Review
Third-degree price discrimination in a short-stay accommodation industry; Applied Economics
Urban water policy when environment inflows are uncertain; Water Resources and Economics
Urban Water Pricing; AGENDA
What is the value of forensic science? An overview of the effectiveness of forensic science in the Australian criminal justice system project; Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences
When push comes to shove in recreational fishing compliance, think ‘nudge’; Marine Policy

Research Projects

Economic Modelling of the Recreational Use of a Natural Resource When User Preferences are Heterogeneous; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Predictive Cost and Maintenance Models for Short Term Scheduling Strategies in Hydro Power Plants; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Pricing in Australian Manufacturing; Australian Research Council (ARC)
The Effectiveness of Forensic Science in the Criminal Justice System; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Alternative Pricing Approaches for Urban Water
Appointment as Assistant Commissioner
Calculation of Long Run Marginal Cost
Water and Sewerage Reform - Advisory Services
Water pricing in Tasmania

Research Candidate Supervision

An Investigation of Pricing and Profitability in the Short-stay Accommodation Industry in Tasmania
Cost models for intermittent and off-design operation and deferred maintenance of hydro-power generators.
Inequality, Welfare, Household Composition & Prices- A Comparative Study on Australian and Canadian Data
The Traverses of a Post-Keynesian Model of a Corn-Credit Economy