Joshua Gans: Research
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Vertical Integration, Bargaining and the Theory of the FirmInnovation and Intellectual PropertyBilateral Bargaining with Externalities (with Catherine de Fontenay) 30th October, 2007
When Will Efficient Ownership Arise? Trading over Property Rights 31st March, 2005
Intrafirm Bargaining with Heterogeneous Replacement Workers (with Catherine de Fontenay) June, 2005
Bargaining over Labor: Do Patients have any Power? (with Andrew Leigh) 9th June 2006
Operationalizing Value-Based Business Strategy (with Glenn MacDonald and Michael Ryall) 22 April, 2005
The Allocation of Decisions in Organizations (with Susan Athey, Scott Shaefer and Scott Stern) November, 1994
Why Tie a Product Consumers Do Not Use (with Dennis Carlton and Michael Waldman) August, 2007Other
Remedies for Tying in Computer Applications October, 2007
The Dynamics of Intellectual Property Practices September, 2005
The Economics of User-Based Innovation (with Scott Stern) October, 1998
Does Venture-Backed Investment in Start-Ups Drive Incumbent Innovation? Evidence from the Computer, Semiconductor and Pharmaceutical Industries (with Setio Anggoro Dewo and Joseph Hirschberg) August 2006
Start-Up Commercialisation Strategy and Innovative Dynamics 22nd October, 2007
Born on the First of July: An (Un)natural Experiment in Birth Timing (with Andrew Leigh) January, 2008
Born (Again) on the First of July: Another Experiment in Birth Timing (with Andrew Leigh) November, 2007
Carbon Offset Provision with Guilt-Ridden Consumers March, 2007
Intellectual Property and Innovation
Submission to the National Innovation Review: "Rationales and Funding Mechanisms for Innovation in Australia" 10th April, 2008
Submission to the Garnaut Climate Change Review: "Innovation and Environmental Policy" 7th April, 2008
Submission to the House of Representatives Review on Technological Protection Measures Exceptions September, 2005
Submission to the Productivity Commission study on Public Support for Science & Innovation (and Supplementary Submission) July, 2006
Assessing Australia's Innovative Capacity in the 21st Century (with Scott Stern) June, 2003
Assessing Australia's Innovative Capacity: 2004 Update (with Richard Hayes) November, 2004
Assessing Australia's Innovative Capacity: 2005 Update (with Richard Hayes) December, 2005
Assessing Australia's Innovative Capacity: 2006 Update (with Richard Hayes) December, 2006
Assessing Australia's Innovative Capacity: 2007 Update (with Richard Hayes) February, 2008Competition Policy and Regulation
Submission to the Garnaut Climate Change Review: "The Practicalities of Emissions Trading" (with John Quiggin) 16th April, 2008Housing
Submission to the ACCC on its Merger Guidelines 15th March, 2008
Submission to the National Broadband Network Request for Proposals 20th March, 2008
Submission to the Broadband Expert Taskforce 20th August, 2007
Submission to ACCC Petrol Pricing Inquiry: Assessing the Impact of Shopper Docket Schemes, 9th July, 2007
Supplementary Submission to the ACCC Petrol Price Inquiry, 19th July, 2007
The Local Broadband Imperative, CEDA Information Paper, No.86. 6th December, 2006
Evaluating the Impact of the Payment System Reforms: Submission to the Reserve Bank of Australia's Payment System Board's 2007-08 Review of Payment System Reforms 19th January 2007
Submission to the House Standing Committee on Economics, Finance and Public Administration "Review of the Reserve Bank & Payments System Annual Report 2005 April 2006
Grower Returns and Single Desk Selling of Australian Wheat 18th November, 2004
Comparing Alternative Approaches to Calculating Long-Run Incremental Cost (with Stephen King) 1st June, 2004
Termination Charges for Mobile Phone Networks: Competitive Analysis and Regulatory Options (with Stephen King) December, 1999
Regulation of Termination Charges for Non-Dominant Networks (with Stephen King) December, 1999Policy Options for Housing for Low Income Households (with Stephen King) 6th June, 2003Other PolicyReturn to Work Credits: Ideas for Efficient and Equitable Parental Leave following Child-Birth 13th May 2008
'AussieMac': A Policy Initiative for the Australian Government to Protect Households and the Financial System Against Current and Future Credit Crises (with Christopher Joye) April 2008
Submission to the Emissions Trading Task Group (with John Quiggin) 5th March, 2007
Does the Lunar Cycle Affect Births and Deaths? (with Andrew Leigh) April, 2007
Competing for Public Goods and Private Business [PS]
Parentonomics: An economist dad's parenting experiences, New South, 2008.
Core Economics for Managers, Thomson Learning: Melbourne, 2005.
Finishing the Job: Real World Policy Solutions in Housing, Health, Education and Transport (with Stephen King), Melbourne University Publishing: Melbourne, 2004.
Principles of Economics (with Stephen King, Robin Stonecash and N. Gregory Mankiw), 3rd Pacific Rim Edition, Thomson, 2005 (2nd Pacific Rim Edition, Thomson, 2003, 1st Australasian Edition, Harcourt, Sydney, 2000).
Publishing Economics: Analyses of the Academic Journal Market in Economics (edited volume), Edward Elgar, Cheltnam, 2000.
Principles of Macroeconomics (with Robin Stonecash, Stephen King and N. Gregory Mankiw), 3rd Pacific Rim Edition, Thomson, 2005 (2nd Pacific Rim Edition, Thomson, 2003, 1st Australasian Edition, Harcourt-Brace, Sydney, 1999).
Principles of Microeconomics (with Stephen King and N. Gregory Mankiw), 3rd Pacific Rim Edition, Thomson, 2005 (2nd Pacific Rim Edition, Thomson, 2003, 1st Australasian Edition, Harcourt-Brace, Sydney, 1999)
Vertical Integration, Bargaining and the Theory of the Firm"A Bargaining Perspective on Strategic Outsourcing and Supply Competition," (with Catherine de Fontenay), Strategic Management Journal, 2008 (forthcoming).Innovation and Intellectual Property
"Introduction to Special Issue on "Negotiations and Cooperative Arrangements in Industrial Organization," (with Roman Inderst) International Journal of Industrial Organization, August 2007 (forthcoming). "Concentration-Based Merger Tests and Vertical Market Structure," Journal of Law and Economics, 2007 (forthcoming).
"Vertical Contracting when Competition for Orders Precedes Procurement," Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol.55, No.2., June 2007, pp.335-346.
"Inefficient Ownership and Resale Opportunities," Economics Letters, Vol.93, 2006, pp.242-247.
"Optional Fixed Fees in Multilateral Vertical Relations," (with Catherine de Fontenay) Economics Letters, Vol.88, 2005, pp.184-189.
"Vertical Integration and Competition Between Networks," (with Catherine de Fontenay), Review of Network Economics, Vol.4, No.1, March 2005, pp.4-18. (Here is the 2001 Version: Extending Market Power through Vertical Integration)
"Vertical Integration in the Presence of Upstream Competition," (with Catherine de Fontenay), RAND Journal of Economics, Vol.36, No.3, 2005, pp.544-572. For previous working paper version, click here.
"Markets for Ownership," RAND Journal of Economics, Vol.36, No.2, 2005, pp.433-455. For previous version with re-sale model, click here.
"Can Vertical Integration by a Monopsonist Harm Consumer Welfare?" (with Catherine de Fontenay), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 22, No. 6, 2004, pp. 821-834.
"A Technological and Organisational Explanation of the Size Distribution of Firms," (with John Quiggin), Small Business Economics, Vol.21, No.3, November 2003, pp. 243-256.
"Organizational Design and Technology Choice under Intrafirm Bargaining: Comment" (with Catherine de Fontenay), American Economic Review, Vol.93, No.1, 2003, pp.448-455.
"Exclusionary Contracts and Competition with Large Buyers," (with Stephen King) International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol.20, 2002, pp.1363-1381."The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence for Patent Grant Delays" (with David Hsu and Scott Stern), Management Science, Vol.54, No.5, May 2008, pp.982-997.Industrial Organisation
"Patent Length and the Timing of Innovative Activity," (with Stephen King), Journal of Industrial Economics, September, 2006 (web)
"Patent Renewal Fees and Self-Funded Patent Offices," (with Stephen King and Ryan Lampe), Topics in Theoretical Economics, Vol.4, No.1, 2004, Article 6.
"When Does Funding Research by Small Firms Bear Fruit? Evidence from the SBIR Program," (with Scott Stern), Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol.12, No.4, 2003, pp.361-384. Click here for NBER Working Paper (February 2000).
"Managing Ideas: Commercialization Strategies for Biotechnology," The ICFAI Journal of Intellectual Property Rights, Vol.2, No.2, May 2003, pp.17-28.
"The Product Market and the 'Market for Ideas': Commercialization Strategies for Technology Entrepreneurs," (with Scott Stern), Research Policy, Vol.32, No.2, February, 2003, pp.333-350.
"When Does Start-Up Innovation Spur the Gale of Creative Destruction?" (with David Hsu and Scott Stern), RAND Journal of Economics Vol.33, No.4, 2002, pp.571-586. Click here for NBER Working Paper (February, 2000)
"Innovation and Market Structure in General Equilibrium," (with Robin Stonecash), Economic Theory and International Trade: Essays in Honor of Murray Kemp, A. Woodland (ed.), Edward Elgar: Cheltnam, 2002, pp.181-191
."Incumbency and R&D Incentives: Licensing the Gale of Creative Destruction," (with Scott Stern) Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Vol.9, No.4, pp.485-511, 2000. "A Strategic Theory of In-House Research and Development," in S. MacDonald and J. Nightingale (eds.), Information and Organization: A Tribute to the Work of Don Lamberton, Elsevier: Amsterdam, 1999, pp.167-182. [PS]
"Inside the Black Box: A Look at the Container," Prometheus, Vol.13, No.2, December, 1995, pp.169-183.Publishing in Economics"Price Discrimination with Costless Arbitrage," (with Stephen King), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol.25, 2007, pp.431-440. (Published version)Competition and Regulation in Telecommunications
"Paying for Loyalty: Product Bundling in Oligopoly," (with Stephen King) Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol.54, No.1, March 2006, pp.43-62."Wireless Communications," (with Stephen King and Julian Wright), Handbook of Telecommunications Economics, Volume II, Martin Cave et.al. (eds.), North-Holland: Amsterdam, 2005.Access Regulation and Investment
"Using 'Bill and Keep' Interconnect Arrangements to Soften Network Competition," (with Stephen King) Economics Letters, Vol. 71, No.3, June 2001, pp.413-420.
"Numbers to the People: Regulation, Ownership and Local Number Portability," (with Stephen King and Graeme Woodbridge) Information Economics and Policy, Vol.13, No.2, June 2001, pp.167-180. "Regulating Endogenous Customer Switching Costs," (with Stephen King), Contributions to Theoretical Economics, Vol.1, Issue 1, 2001, Article 1.
"Mobile Network Competition, Customer Ignorance and Fixed-to-Mobile Call Prices" (with Stephen King), Information Economics and Policy, Vol.12, No.4, 2000, pp.301-328.
"Network Competition and Consumer Churn," Information Economics and Policy, Vol.12, No.2, 2000, pp.97-110."Access Pricing and Infrastructure Investment," in Dewenter, Ralf and Haucap, Justus (eds.) Access Pricing: Theory and Practice, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 2005 (forthcoming).Payment Systems
"Access Holidays and the Timing of Infrastructure Investment," (with Stephen King), Economic Record, Vol.80, No.248, March 2004, pp.89-100.
"Regulating Private Infrastructure Investment: Optimal Pricing for Access to Essential Facilities," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol.20, No.2, 2001, pp.167-189.
"Access Regulation and the Timing of Infrastructure Investment" (with Philip Williams), Economic Record, Vol. 79, No.229, June 1999, pp.127-138."A Theoretical Analysis of Credit Card Reform in Australia," (with Stephen King) Economic Record, Vol.79, No.247, December 2003, pp.462-472.
"Approaches to Regulating Interchange Fees in Payment Systems," (with Stephen King) Review of Network Economics, Vol.2, No.2, June 2003, pp.125-145.
"The Neutrality of Interchange Fees in Payment Systems," (with Stephen King) Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol.3, No.1, 2003, Article 1."First Author Conditions" (with Maxim Engers, Simon Grant, Stephen King), Journal of Political Economy, Vol.107, No.4, August 1999, pp.859-883.Economic Growth
"Why Referees Don't Get Paid (Enough)" (with Maxim Engers), American Economic Review, Vol.88, No.5, December 1998, pp.1341-1349. [PS]
"How Are The Mighty Fallen: Rejected Classic Articles By Leading Economists," (with George Shepherd), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol.8, No.1, Winter, 1994, pp.165-179."Growth in Australian Cities" (with Rebecca Bradley), Economic Record, Vol.74 (No.226) September 1998, pp.266-278.Game Theory
"Industrialisation with a Menu of Technologies: Appropriate Technologies and the Big Push", Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Vol.9, No.3, 1998, pp.63-78. [PS]
"Time Lags and Indicative Planning in a Dynamic Model of Industrialisation," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol.12, 1998, pp.103-130. [PS-Paper] [PS- Figure 1] [PS- Figure2] "Industrialization Policy and the Big Push," in K.J. Arrow et.al. (eds.), Increasing Returns and Economic Analysis, Macmillan: London, 1998, Chpt 13. [PS]
"Fixed Cost Assumptions in Industrialisation Theories," Economics Letters, 56, 1997, pp.111-119. [PS]
"Urban Productivity and Factor Growth in the Late Nineteenth Century," (with Raphael Bostic and Scott Stern), Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 41, No.1, January 1997, pp.38-55. [PS]
"Knowledge of Growth and the Growth of Knowledge," Information Economics and Policy, Vol.4, No.3, 1989-90, pp.201-224."Engendering Change," in W. Barnett et.al. (eds.), Commerce, Complexity and Evolution, Cambridge University Press: New York, 2000, Chapter 19, pp.390-414.Other
"Best Replies and Adaptive Learning," Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol.30, No.3, 1995, pp.221-234.
"Evolutionary Selection of Beliefs," Economics Letters, Vol.49, No.1, July, 1995, pp.13-17."Do Voluntary Carbon Offsets Work?" The Economists' Voice, Vol.4, Iss.4, Article 7.
"The Millennium Bub," (with Andrew Leigh) Applied Economics Letters, 2007 (forthcoming).
"Minding the Shop: The Case of Obstetrics Conferences," (with Andrew Leigh and Elena Varganova), Social Science and Medicine, Vol.65, No.7, October 2007, pp.1458-1465.
"Did the Death of Australian Inheritance Taxes Affect Deaths?" (with Andrew Leigh) Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol.6, No.1, 2006, Article 23.
"Toying with Death and Taxes: Some Lessons from Down Under," (with Andrew Leigh) The Economists' Voice, Vol.3, Issue 6, 2006.
"Darth Vader and the Hold Up Problem," Journal of Political Economy, Vol.114, No.2, April, 2006, back page suggestion.
"Measuring Product Diversity" (with Robert Hill), Economics Letters, Vol.55, No.1, 1997, pp.145-150.
"Majority Voting With Single-Crossing Preferences," (with Michael Smart) Journal of Public Economics, 58 (1), February 1996, pp.219-238.
"On the Impossibility of Rational Choice Under Incomplete Information," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol.29, No.2, March, 1996, pp.287-309.
"Chaos Theory, Nonlinearities and Economics: A Speculative Note," Economic Papers, Vol.10, No.1, March 1991, pp.40-53.
"Time and Economics: Reflections on Hawking," Methodus, Vol.2, No.2, December 1990, pp. 80-81.
Australian Economic Policy
Intellectual Property and Innovation
"Measuring innovative performance," (with Richard Hayes) The Melbourne Review, Vol.2, No.1, May, 2006, pp.70-77.Competition Policy and Regulation
"Intellectual Property Rights: a Grant of Monopoly or an Aid to Competition," (with Philip Williams and David Briggs) Australian Economic Review, Vol.37, No.4, December 2004, pp.436-445.
"The Value of IP Protection in Markets for Ideas," Australian Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, Vol.16, No.6, 2003, pp.88-90.
"Benefits and Costs of Copyright: An Economic Perspective - Part 2," (with Megan Richardson, Frances Hanks and Philip Williams) Australian Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, Vol.13, No.6, 2000, pp.79-92.
"Benefits and Costs of Copyright: An Economic Perspective," (with Megan Richardson, Frances Hanks and Philip Williams) Australian Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, Vol.13, No.5, 2000, pp.62-65.
"Driving the Hard Bargain for Australian R&D", Prometheus, Vol.16, No.1, March, 1998, pp.47-56. [PS]
"Does Australia Really Need to Encourage its Innovators to Commercialise In-House?" Policy, Vol.13, No.4, 1998, pp.36-40. [PS]"Looking Local on Broadband," Public Policy, Vol.2, No.1, 2007, pp.10-24.Health
"What is different about media mergers?" (with Simon Anderson), The Melbourne Review, Vol.2, No.2, November 2006, pp.32-36.
"Reconsidering the Public Benefit Test in Merger Analysis: The Role of 'Pass Through'," Australian Business Law Review, 2006 (forthcoming).
"Dealing with Difficult Mergers," The Melbourne Review, Vol.1, No.1, November 2005, pp.78-82.
"Protecting Consumers by Protecting Competition: Does Behavioural Economics Support this Contention?," Competition and Consumer Law Journal, 13 (1), 2005, pp.40-50.
"Competitive Neutrality in Access Pricing," (with Stephen King) Australian Economic Review, 2005 (forthcoming).
"Potential Anticompetitive Effects of Bundling," (with Stephen King) Australian Business Law Review, Vol.33, No.1, February 2005, pp.29-35.
"Taking into Account Extraordinary Circumstances in Regulatory Pricing," (with Stephen King), Agenda, Vol.11, No.4, 2004, pp.349-362.
"When are Regulated Access Prices Competitively Neutral? The Case of Telecommunications in Australia (with Stephen King), Australian Business Law Review, Vol.32, No.6, 2004, pp.407-414.
"Supermarkets and Shopper Dockets: The Australian Experience," (with Stephen King) Australian Economic Review, Vol.37, No.3, 2004 pp.311-316.
"The Decision of the High Court in Rural Press: How the literature on credible threats may have materially facilitated a better decision," (with Rajat Sood and Philip Williams) Australian Business Law Review, Vol.33, No.5, October 2004, pp.337-344.
"Structural and Behavioural Market Power under the Trade Practices Act: An Application to Predatory Pricing," (with Anthony Niblett and Stephen King) Australian Business Law Review, Vol.32, No.2 April, 2004, pp.83-110.
"Contestability, Complementary Inputs and Contracting: The Case of Harbour Towage," (with Stephen King), Australian Economic Review, Vol.36, No.4, December 2003, pp.415-427.
"Regulating Interconnection Pricing," (with Stephen King), Australian Telecommunications Regulation, A. Grant (ed.), UNSW Press: Sydney, 2003, Chapter 3.
"Access Holidays: The Panacea for Network Infrastructure Investment," (with Stephen King), Agenda, Vol.10, No.2, 2003, pp.163-178.
"Regulating Termination Charges for Telecommunications Networks," (with Stephen King) Australian Journal of Management, Vol.27, No.1, June 2002, pp.75-86.
"The Economic Consequences of DVD Regional Restrictions," (with Emily Dunt and Stephen King) Economic Papers, Vol.21, No.1, March 2002, pp.32-45.
"The Treatment of Natural Monopoly under the Australian Trade Practices Act: Three Recent Decisions," (with Frances Hanks and Philip Williams) Australian Business Law Review, Vol.29, No.6, December, 2001, pp.492-507.
"The Role of Interchange Fees in Credit Card Associations: Competitive Analysis and Regulatory Options," (with Stephen King), Australian Business Law Review, Vol.29, No.2, April 2001, pp.94-122.
"Options for Electricity Transmission Regulation in Australia," (with Stephen King) Australian Economic Review, Vol.33, No.2, June 2000, pp.145-161.
"The Competitive Balance Argument for Mergers," Australian Economic Review, Vol.33, No.1, March 2000, pp.83-93.
"The Role of Undertakings in Regulatory Decision-Making" (with Teresa Fels and Stephen King), Australian Economic Review, Vol.33, No.1, March 2000, pp.3-16.
"Economic Issues Associated with Access to Electronic Payments Systems," (with Richard Scheelings) Australian Business Law Review, Vol.27, No.5, December 1999, pp.373-390.
"Efficient Investment Pricing Rules and Access Regulation," (with Philip Williams) Australian Business Law Review, Vol.27, No.4, August, 1999, pp.267-279.
"Contracts and Electricity Pool Prices" (with Danny Price and Kim Woods), Australian Journal of Management, Vol.23, No.1, June 1998, pp.83-96.
"A Primer on Access Regulation and Investment" (with Philip Williams), in M. Arblaster and M. Jamison (eds.), Infrastructure Regulation and Market Reform: Principles and Practice, ACCC/PURC: Melbourne, 1998, pp.150-160. [PS]"Does Australia's Health Insurance System Really Provide Insurance?" Policy, Vol.20, No.3, Spring 2004, pp.10-14.Housing
"Anti-insurance: Analysing the Health Insurance System in Australia," (with Stephen King) Economic Record, Vol.79, No.248, December 2003, pp.473-486."The Housing Lifeline: A Policy for Short-Run Housing Affordability," (with Stephen King) Agenda, Vol.11, No.2, 2004.Other Policy
"Housing and Income Contingent Loans for Low Income Households," (with Stephen King) Managing Government Risk: Income contingent loans for social and economic progress, Bruce Chapman (ed.), Routledge: London, 2006, Chapter 11."The practicalities of emissions trading," (with John Quiggin), The Melbourne Review, 3 (2), November 2007, pp.60-65.
"Unusual Days in Births and Deaths," (with Andrew Leigh), The Melbourne Review, 3 (1), May 2007, pp.72-79.
"Limited Information, the Possibility of Rational Choice, and the Contingent Valuation Method," International Journal of Social Economics, Vol.26, Nos.1/2/3, 1999, pp.402-414. [PS]
"Of Grand Prix and Circuses," Australian Economic Review, No.115, 3rd Quarter 1996, pp.299-307. [PS]
"Comparative Statics Made Simple: An Introduction to Recent Advances," Australian Economic Papers, June 1996, pp.81-93. [PS]
2008:
"Family Policy Still In Gestation," Australian Financial Review, 19th May, 2008.
"Back to Boredom," ABC Online Opinion, 14th May, 2008.
"Advance Australia Where?" Innovation 08, 5th May, 2008, pp.17-18.
"Who pays for summit schemes?" The Age, 22nd April, 2008.
"Views from the 2020 Summit," Crikey, 21st April, 2008.
"Where is the petrol price data?" Crikey, 18th April, 2008.
"Facilitating the blooming of liquidity," (with Christopher Joye) The Age, 10th April, 2008.
"Home loans need an Aussie Mac," (with Christopher Joye) Australian Financial Review, 27th March, 2008, p.79.
"Time for a baby bonus rebirthing," Crikey, 14th March, 2008.
"Blame babies, not migrants, for our economic and environmental woes," The Age, 5th March, 2008.
"Tax Cuts - What the experts say," The Age, 13th February, 2008, B2.
"Finally, Telstra comes to broadband party," Australian Financial Review, 12th February, 2008.
"Facebook's a real beauty. Next page - real profits," Qantas Australian Way, February, 2008.
"New tools needed to make super choices," The Age, 24th January, 2008.
"Switching banks a trying effort," Herald Sun, 10th January, 2008.2007:
"What's the best way to spend $60 billion?" The Age, 21st November, 2007, p.1.
"A big price tag for campaign -- but not much silver lining," Crikey, 13th November, 2007.
"$834: how baby bonus adds up to baby boom," Crikey, 9th November, 2007.
"Australia's biggest birthday," ABC Unleashed, 9th November, 2007.
"Reserve Bank gives Labor Pass Mark," ABC Unleashed, 7th November, 2007.
"Parity blues," Business Spectator, 31st October, 2007.
"Blurred picture of the landscape," The Age, 24th October, 2007.
"Who pockets the child care rebate?" Crikey, 23rd October, 2007.
"What to spend $34 billion on?" The Age, 18th October, 2007.
"Technical breakthroughs," Business Review Weekly, 6th September, 2007, p.27.
"Susan Athey Awarded John Bates Clark Medal," Stanford Business, August 2007.
"No level playing field for TV rights," The Age, 30th July, 2007.
"Rhythm of the night fills music coffers," The Age, 16th July, 2007.
"Rhyme and reason in economists' half-glass view," The Age, 13th July, 2007.
"The broadband fantasy," Business Review Weekly, 12th July, 2007, p.27.
"Rudd's next platform: affordable housing," Crikey, 4th July, 2007.
"The missing bytes in broadband," Australian Financial Review, 2nd July, 2007.
"Next generation recorder," Business Review Weekly, 28th June, 2007, p.32.
"Broadband plans speed towards the toughest obstacle," The Age, 21st June, 2007.
"Brakes on net speed," The Courier Mail, 20th June, 2007, p.30.
"Broadband is much broader than a fibre cable," Crikey, 19th June, 2007.
"Happy, happy talk: What to think about the economy?" Crikey, 8th June 2007.
"Time to book some ad space between the covers?" Crikey, 7th June, 2007.
"Are broadband speeds really affecting business users?" Crikey, 16th May, 2007.
"The Future Fund: Set-up to be raided?" Crikey, 14th May, 2007.
"Cursors, foiled again," Business Review Weekly, 10th May, 2007.
"Budget claws back on education; doesn't move forward," Crikey, 10th May, 2007.
"Fun and games," Courier Mail, 23rd March, 2007, p.29.
"Is this newfangled broadband a true economic boon?" Crikey, 22nd March, 2007.
"Needed: smarter policy on speed," Australian Financial Review, 19th March, 2007, p.63.
"The game is never over," Business Review Weekly, 15th March, 2007, p.27.
"Don't let broadband become an election issue," Crikey, 14th March, 2007.
"Rent subsidies a good idea -- if you're looking to help landlords," Crikey, 22nd February, 2007.
"The state's watered down drought response," Crikey, 6th February, 2007.
"Opportunity lost," Business Review Weekly, 1st February, 2007, p.49.
"Trading on the holiday market," Crikey, 1st February, 2007.
"iPod Index .. why not an iTunes Index," Crikey, 19th January, 2007.
"Local solutions to national issues," Exchange, Vol.19, No.1, 19th January, 2007, p.122006:
"Go local for next generation," Australian Financial Review, 12th December, 2006, p.55.
"How do we get Australian broadband up to speed?" Crikey, 6th December, 2006.
"Look at what happens when the obstetrician's away ..." Crikey, 5th December, 2006.
"Is there a political wage cycle?" Crikey, 30th October, 2006.
"No one listens to the fridge," Business Review Weekly, 26th October, 2006, p.28.
"Nine's attempt to break the ice," Crikey, 16th October, 2006.
"Your child's future," Courier Mail, 18th September, 2006
. "Encourage that Spark!" Business Review Weekly, 14th September, 2006, p.54.
"The inconvenient truth about Gore's movie," Crikey, 11th September, 2006.
"Telstra's travails will continue," Australian Financial Review, 28th August, 2006, p.63.
"No longer self evident: is all internet content created equal?" New Matilda, 25th August, 2006.
"Telstra the Entrant sings a different tune," Crikey, 23rd August 2006.
"The government's broadband obligation," Crikey, 9th August, 2006.
"Should the ACCC take away Telstra's Advantages," Crikey, 8th August, 2006.
"T3 must ring in rule changes," (with Jerry Hausman), Australian Financial Review, 8th August, 2006, p.55.
"How petrol companies are making hay," Crikey, 5th July, 2006.
"For some people being dead on time can save taxes," (with Andrew Leigh) The Age, 27th June, 2006.
"Birthing pain makes health system suffer," (with Andrew Leigh) The Australian, 20th June, 2006. (Also Online Opinion). "
Galbraith a maverick," The Age, 2nd May, 2006.
"Government loans no remedy for biotech blues," The Age, 25th April, 2006.
"Government must put right health insurance pains," The Age, 28th March, 2006.
"Fee change gets too much credit," The Age, 17th March, 2006.
"Toll was slow to put its cards on the ACCC's table," The Age, 14th March, 2006.
"Road-use charge would force more to public transport," The Age, 7th March, 2006.
"Getting Cross with the Media and Cross-Media Ownership," New Matilda, 1st March, 2006.2005:
"Companies open path to customer innovation," The Age, 18th November, 2005.
"Sting a song for sixpence? Not likely," The Age, 4th November, 2005.
"Dirty Harry proves the point," The Age, 24th October, 2005.
"Selling Telstra will free it to negotiate with ACCC," The Age, 3rd October, 2005, p.6.
"Leave trading: the pitfalls for workers," (with Martin Byford), The Age, 26th September, 2005.
"Consumers put at the end of the queue," The Age, 19th September, 2005.
"Three Words: Structure, Structure, Structure," New Matilda, 31st August, 2005.2004:
"What price in trading for ideas," The Age, 11th December, 2004, p.19.
"How much will you pay for an idea?" The Age, 4th December, 2004, p.23.
"Togetherness makes good cents," The Age, 27th November, 2004, p.23.
"Tendering ... springboard for business," The Age, 20th November, 2004, p.21.
"When reputations go on the line," The Age, 13th November, 2004, p.23.
"Dividing up outsourced production," The Age, 6th November, 2004, p.21.
"Bidding for a better bottom line," The Age, 30th October, 2004, p.19.
"The trouble with outsourcing" The Age, 23rd October, 2004, p.21.
"Can everyone play the same tune?" The Age, 16th October, 2004, p.21.
"Can the web catch everything?" The Age, 2nd October, 2004, p.20.
"Can you bring competition inside the firm?" The Age, 25th September, 2004.
"Schools: Make a 'club good' better," Australian Financial Review, 20th September, 2004.
"Bidding for the budget," The Age, 18th September, 2004, p.20.
"Bundled bidding," The Age, 11th September, 2004.
"Integration sometimes stacks up," Australian Financial Review, 6th September, 2004.
"Cost-plus, haggle-minus," The Age, 4th September, 2004, p.18.
"Who are you insuring anyway?" The Age, 28th August, 2004, p.21.
"Does the winner really take it all?" The Age, 21st August, 2004, p.17.
"Talking in billions," Campus Review, 19th May, 2004, p.5
"A measure of all things innovative," Australian Financial Review, 17th May, 2004.
"System blocks better health care," (with Stephen King) Australian Financial Review, 22nd March 2004.2003:
"Auction tips takes a hammering," Herald Sun, 25th August 2003.
"Petrol deals a blow to the average consumer," (with Stephen King), Australian Financial Review, 20th August 2003.
"Innovation Nation?" Interview for The Buzz, Radio National, 18th August 2003.
"Minds Need Money Too," Interview for Business Review Weekly, 14th August 2003.
"Internet auctions fairer for all," Herald Sun, 14th August 2003, p.18.
"Housing lifelines would rescue many," (with Stephen King) Australian Financial Review, 6th August, 2003.
"The Case for Credit Card Reform: A Primer for Students," Ecodate, July 2003.
"Is it Time to take an Access Holiday?" (with Stephen King) The Pipeliner, 2003.2000:
"Stephen King's Game of Horror," The Manager, August 2000.
"The Failure of Language in Anti-trust Debate," The Manager, April 2000. 1999:
"Will Sony Recognise the Game it is Playing?" The Manager, March 1999.1998:
"Libraries and Banks and Cyberspace Challenge," Issues, Vol.30, September, 1998, p.2.
"When being first doesn't pay," Australian Financial Review, Friday 30th January, 1998, p.32.1997:
"Tracks of your tears - choosing CDs," Australian Financial Review, Wednesday, 31st December, 1997, p.9.
"By and buy, Yule regret it," Australian Financial Review, Friday, 28th November, 1997, p.33.
"A paparazzi-free environment," (with Stephen King) Australian Financial Review, Monday 8th September, 1997, p.16.
"Illegal drugs: the supply side," Australian Financial Review, Wednesday 27th August, 1997, p.20.
"Privatisation debate futile," Australian Financial Review, Monday 14th July,1997, p.17.
"It's all about producing ideas, not objects," Letter to the Editor, Australian Financial Review, Thursday 19th June, 1997, p.20.
"The inventive alternative," Australian Financial Review, Thursday12th June, 1997, p.19.
"In full or not at all," Letter to the Editor, The Australian, Monday 9th June, 1997, p.10.1996:
"Playing off the States delivers a grand prix," Australian Financial Review, 7th March, 1996, p.17.
1995:
"Surprising and Nobel rejections," Australian Financial Review,25th October, 1995, p.19.
2008:
"Changing Birthdays," Economic Society of Australia, NSW, Lunchtime Presentation, 14th May, 2008.
"New Ideas in Innovation Policy," Economic Society of Australia Innovation Policy Workshop, 8th May, 2008.
"Economic Aspects of Broadband," ACMA Presentation, 20th March 2008.
"Buying Solutions: Government Procurement for Innovation," Victorian Government Workshop, 28th February, 2008.2007:
"Patents, Secrecy and Disclosure," Seminar Presentations at Stanford, Colorado and Hong Kong, September 2007
"The Tangled Web of Broadband Policy," Parliamentary Library Seminar Series, 15th August 2007 (on YouTube: Part I and Part II)
"Taking into Account Regulatory Risk," ACCC Regulatory Conference, Gold Coast, 25th July, 2007.
"Start-Up Commercialisation Strategy and Innovative Dynamics," Seminar Presentation, University of Virginia, 16th April, 2007.
"Start-Up Commercialisation Strategy and Innovative Dynamics," International Industrial Organization Conference, Savannah (GA), 14th April, 2007.
"Tivoed," Seminar Presentations, Stern-NYU & Cornell, 10th and 11th April, 2007
"A Ridiculously Simple Resolution to the Empty Core Problem," 25th Australasian Economic Theory Workshop, ANU, 16 February, 2007.
"Wholesale Bargaining," Seminar Presentation, Wharton School of Management, 8 January, 2007
"Start-Up Commercialisation Strategy and Innovative Dynamics," NBER Entrepreneurship Pre-Conference, Chicago, 7 January, 20072006:
"Tivoed," Media Economics Workshop, Washington DC, 17-18 November, 2006
"The Dynamics of Ideas Markets," Seminar Presentation, MIT Sloan School of Management, 14 November; and Yale School of Management, 15 November, 2006
"Wholesale Bargaining," Seminar Presentation, Yale School of Management, 16 November, 2006
"Are we done with the dominant firm model?" ACCC Regulatory Conference, Gold Coast, July, 2006
"Dramatic Credit Card Reform: What Happened?" Payment Systems Conference, MBS, March 20062005:
"Real Consumers and Telco Choice: The Road to Confusopoly," Australian Telecommunications Summit, Sydney, November 2005
"Cartels and Competition," Workshop on Cartel Enforcement, Melbourne, September, 2005
"The Road to Confusopoly," ACCC Regulatory Conference, Gold Coast, July 2005
"Protecting Competition to Protect Consumers," ACCC Workshop on Consumer Protection, March, 2005