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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.
Vital signs: we need those tax cuts now, all of them. The surplus can wait
Jul 12, 2019 09:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
In an enormous week for economic news at the start of the month, parliament passed the governments three-stage personal income tax plan, and the Reserve Bank cut official interest rates to an unprecedented low of 1%. It...
Trump's nominations for the US Federal Reserve are an odd lot, and an even bet
Jul 07, 2019 15:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
This week US president Donald Trump announced two more nominees Judy Shelton and Christopher Waller for the two vacant positions on the US Federal Reserves board of governors. He will be hoping for better luck than he...
Once were Kiwis. Here's the hidden history of Australia's own well-being framework
Jun 21, 2019 01:38 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Amid all the fanfare around New Zealands so-called well-being budget, you would be forgiven for thinking our neighbour to the east had revolutionised its priorities and how to measure them. Lets recap. During the midst...
If we fall into a recession (and we might) we'll have ourselves to blame
Jun 07, 2019 15:52 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The facts are not in dispute. Annual GDP growth has fallen to 1.8%. On a per-capita basis we have had three consecutive quarters of negative growth. The last time that happened was during the drought and recession of...
Vital Signs: policies come and policies go, but surely we shouldn't be subsidising inheritances
May 03, 2019 17:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Theres an election on. Half a million of us have already voted. Theres just two weeks to go. With that comes more intense scrutiny of different policies (which is good) and disingenuous claims by those with vested...
Zero inflation means the Reserve Bank should cut rates as soon as it can, on Tuesday week
Apr 27, 2019 06:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
What do US pizza executive Herman Cain, US conservative commentator Stephen Moore, US Chief Justice Earl Warren, and Australias Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe have in common? More than you might think. The...
Australia's sudden ultra-low economic growth ought not to have come as surprise
Mar 09, 2019 06:09 am UTC| Insights & Views
Australias big little economic lie was laid bare on Wednesday. National accounts figures show that the Australian economy grew by just 0.2% in the last quarter of 2018. This disappointing result was below market...
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