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Richard Holden
Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
Richard Holden is Professor of Economics at the UNSW Australia Business School and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow from 2013-2017.
Prior to that he was on the faculty at the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a PhD from Harvard University in 2006, where he was a Frank Knox Scholar.
His research focuses on contract theory, law and economics, and political economy. He has written on topics including: political districting, the boundary of the firm, incentives in organizations, mechanism design, and voting rules.
Professor Holden has published in top general interest journals such as the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
He is currently editor of the Journal of Law and Economics, and is the founding director of the Herbert Smith Freehills Inititative on Law & Economics at UNSW.
He has been a Visiting Professor of Economics at the MIT Department of Economics and Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
His research has been featured in press articles in such outlets as: The New York Times, The Financial Times, the New Republic, and the Daily Kos.
Untaxing childcare is a bold idea that seems unfair, but might benefit us all
Nov 24, 2019 14:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Australias system of childcare support is pretty good. It ensures high-quality care is provided to a large number of children, it is targeted through income-based subsidies, and it is attentive to the needs of...
Vital signs. Our compulsory super system is broken. We ought to axe it, or completely reform it
Oct 20, 2019 10:16 am UTC| Insights & Views
The just-announced inquiry into Australias retirement income system ought to be anything but run-of-the-mill. Taking place 25 years after the introduction of compulsory superannuation, it provides an opportunity to...
Yes, house prices will rise with lower interest rates, but that's not the only effect
Oct 04, 2019 14:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks Real Estate
With the Reserve Bank of Australia cutting official rates to 0.75% on Tuesday, has been a wave of commentary about the move doing little to help the economy apart from boosting housing prices. There are two parts to...
Vital Signs: Why can't Australia be friends with both US and China?
Sep 28, 2019 13:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Australias prime minister, Scott Morrison, had to walk a series of fine lines in his official visit to the United States this week. He had to appear supportive of US president Donald Trump without looking like a...
Vital Signs: NBN's new price plans are too little, too late
Sep 22, 2019 13:51 pm UTC| Insights & Views
This week NBN Co announced pricing changes for the National Broadband Network. It includes a new plan boasting a download speed of 1 gigabit per second and an upload speed of 50 megabits per second for $80 a...
All this overinflated talk about an index-fund bubble is very passive-aggressive
Sep 13, 2019 10:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
If youve seen the movie The Big Short you will remember Christian Bales quirky character Michael Burry the manager of the Scion Capital hedge fund who realises the US mortgage-backed security market is a massive bubble....
Sure, economic growth is low, but think about what's gone right
Sep 06, 2019 07:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Official figures released Wednesday show the Australian economy growing at the slowest pace since the financial crisis. GDP growth was only 0.5% for the June quarter, meaning that in the past year output grew by a...
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