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.
The GFC and me. Ten years on, what have we learned?
Sep 24, 2018 07:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
A little more than a decade on from the the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the largest bankruptcy in history, many of the worlds advanced economies are only now beginning to recover fully. I was on the faculty at the...
When cutting interest rates might not help
Sep 13, 2018 21:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks
Theres a meme around official interest rates since the financial crisis, and it goes like this. Central banks have already cut them to nearly zero (or actually zero) but advanced economies are still languishing. Therefore...
National accounts show past performance no guarantee of future results
Sep 09, 2018 20:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Wednesdays GDP figures were good. Growth was up 0.9% in the June quarter and 3.4% over the past 12 months. As they say in baseball: You cant boo a home run. But you can ask how likely the batter is to do it next time....
South Africa is missing out on fresh fruit export growth. What it needs to do
Currency manipulation and why Trump is picking on Brazil and Argentina
How to protect the NHS in a post-Brexit trade deal with the US
Market-led infrastructure may sound good but not if it short-changes the public
The government is hyping digitalised services, but not addressing a history of e-government fails