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.
Spending away Australia's Triple A?
Apr 14, 2016 23:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views
This week: The IMF warns of secular stagnation while Moodys ponders a credit downgrade for Australia if GST and negative gearing are not tackled. The big news this week was domestic. And it was about the big...
Vital Signs: all eyes on the Aussie dollar
Apr 08, 2016 09:41 am UTC| Insights & Views
Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting...
Goldilocks and the economics of election campaigns
Apr 05, 2016 00:12 am UTC| Politics
Theres increasing speculation there will be a July 2 election in Australia this year, called shortly after the May 3 budget. Or will it be later in the year? If so when will it be called? Well, who knows. Perhaps not...
Australian economy doing well but rate cuts loom
Apr 04, 2016 02:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
The rising Aussie dollar gives the RBA cause for concern, credit-fuelled spending slows, and US unemployment ticks up amid growing US confidence. The basic logic of interest rate policy is that when the economy is...
Mar 17, 2016 22:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
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Vital Signs: confidence ranges from 'ok' to 'not great'; meanwhile, the Euro crisis simmers
Mar 10, 2016 23:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting...
Vital signs: the missing link between labour markets and growth
Feb 19, 2016 02:53 am UTC| Insights & Views
Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting...
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