Contributions to Economic Policy
POLICY RESEARCH
INNOVATION
Assessing Australia’s Innovative Capacity: 2009 Update (with Richard Hayes) December 2010.
“Using Markets in Innovation Policy,” Australian Economic Review, Vol.42, No.1, pp.88-95.
Assessing Australia’s Innovative Capacity: 2008 Update (with Richard Hayes) April, 2009
Assessing Australia’s Innovative Capacity: 2007 Update (with Richard Hayes) February, 2008
Assessing Australia’s Innovative Capacity: 2006 Update (with Richard Hayes) December, 2006
“Measuring innovative performance,” (with Richard Hayes) The Melbourne Review, Vol.2, No.1, May, 2006, pp.70-77.
Assessing Australia’s Innovative Capacity: 2005 Update (with Richard Hayes) December, 2005
Assessing Australia’s Innovative Capacity: 2004 Update (with Richard Hayes) November, 2004
Assessing Australia’s Innovative Capacity in the 21st Century (with Scott Stern) June, 2003
“Driving the Hard Bargain for Australian R&D“, Prometheus, Vol.16, No.1, March, 1998, pp.47-56.
“Does Australia Really Need to Encourage its Innovators to Commercialise In-House?” Policy, Vol.13, No.4, 1998, pp.36-40.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
“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.
COMPETITION
“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), 2006, pp.40-50.
“Potential Anticompetitive Effects of Bundling,” (with Stephen King) Australian Business Law Review, Vol.33, No.1, February 2005, pp.29-35.
“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.
“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 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.
“Contracts and Electricity Pool Prices” (with Danny Price and Kim Woods), Australian Journal of Management, Vol.23, No.1, June 1998, pp.83-96.
REGULATION
“Competitive Neutrality in Access Pricing,” (with Stephen King) Australian Economic Review, Vol.38, No.2, 2005, pp.128-136.
“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.
“Options for Electricity Transmission Regulation in Australia,” (with Stephen King) Australian Economic Review, Vol.33, No.2, June 2000, pp.145-161.
Comparing Alternative Approaches to Calculating Long-Run Incremental Cost (with Stephen King) 1st June, 2004
“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.
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, 1999
“Efficient Investment Pricing Rules and Access Regulation,” (with Philip Williams) Australian Business Law Review, Vol.27, No.4, August, 1999, pp.267-279.
“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.
BROADBAND
“‘Big Bang’ Telecommunications Reform,” (with Stephen King), Australian Economic Review, Vol.43, No.2, 2010, pp.179-186.
“Creating an efficient national broadband network,” Australia’s Broadband Future: CEDA’s Growth, No.60, December 2008.
“Looking Local on Broadband,” Public Policy, Vol.2, No.1, 2007, pp.10-24.
The Local Broadband Imperative, CEDA Information Paper, No.86. 6th December, 2006
HEALTH
“Does Australia’s Health Insurance System Really Provide Insurance?” Policy, Vol.20, No.3, Spring 2004, pp.10-14.
“Anti-insurance: Analysing the Health Insurance System in Australia,” (with Stephen King) Economic Record, Vol.79, No.248, December 2003, pp.473-486.
HOUSING
“The Housing Lifeline: A Policy for Short-Run Housing Affordability,” (with Stephen King) Agenda, Vol.11, No.2, 2004.
“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.
Policy Options for Housing for Low Income Households (with Stephen King) 6th June, 2003
OTHER
“How partisan is the press? Multiple Measures of Media Slant” (with Andrew Leigh), 2009.
“The delicate balance on parental leave,” Melbourne Review, Vol.4, No.2, November 2008, pp.47-55.
“Paid Parental Leave,” Policy Brief, Crawford School of Economics and Government, ANU, August 2008.
“The 2020 Summit: ‘The Productivity Agenda’,” Agenda, Vol.15, No.2, 2008, pp.13-14.
‘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 (Postscript: Reaction and Market Update, June 2008)
“The practicalities of emissions trading,” (with John Quiggin), The Melbourne Review, 3 (2), November 2007, pp.60-65.
Grower Returns and Single Desk Selling of Australian Wheat 18th November, 2004
“Of Grand Prix and Circuses,” Australian Economic Review, No.115, 3rd Quarter 1996, pp.299-307.
PUBLIC SUBMISSIONS
INNOVATION
The Royal Society (Science as a Public Enterprise), “Funding Conditions and the Incentives to Disclosure Scientific Knowledge,” (with Fiona Murray), 30th July 2011.
National Innovation Review: “Rationales and Funding Mechanisms for Innovation in Australia” 10th April, 2008
Productivity Commission study on Public Support for Science & Innovation (and Supplementary Submission) July, 2006
House of Representatives Review on Technological Protection Measures Exceptions September, 2005
BROADBAND
“The right policy for telecommuncations and broadband,” Submission to the Senate Select Committee on the National Broadband Network, 18th June 2009.
“Creating an Efficient National Broadband Network,” Submission to the Senate Inquiry on the National Broadband Network, 8th September, 2008.
“Issues in Competition in Retail Banking: Comments on switching costs, exit fees and mergers in banking,” Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, Inquiry into Competition in the Banking and Non-Banking Sectors, 2nd July, 2008
“Evaluating FuelWatch,” Submission to Senate Standing Committee on Economics, Inquiry into National FuelWatch Bill, 1st July 2008.
National Broadband Network Request for Proposals 20th March, 2008
Broadband Expert Taskforce 20th August, 2007
ACCC Petrol Pricing Inquiry: Assessing the Impact of Shopper Docket Schemes, 9th July, 2007
ACCC Petrol Price Inquiry (Supplementary Submission), 19th July, 2007
CLIMATE CHANGE
Garnaut Climate Change Review: “The Practicalities of Emissions Trading” (with John Quiggin) 16th April, 2008
Garnaut Climate Change Review: “Innovation and Environmental Policy” 7th April, 2008
Emissions Trading Task Group (with John Quiggin) 5th March, 2007
PAYMENT SYSTEMS
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
OTHER
“Comments on the proposed amendments to parallel importation laws for books,” Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry on Parallel Importation of Books, April 2009.
“AussieMac,” (with Christopher Joye), Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, Inquiry into Competition in the Banking and Non-Banking Sectors, 23rd June 2008.