25th Australasian Economic Theory Workshop
15th - 16th February 2007
Keynote speakers
Richard Cornes is Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Nottingham (UK) since 2000. He held previously a Chair in Economics at Keele University since 1996. Before that he had spent twenty years in various posts at the Australian National University. His research interests lie principally in public economic theory and his work on externalities and public goods has been published widely in refereed journals, including Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy and the Economic Journal. He has also written books on duality theory in economics and on externalities and public goods. The focus of his current research interests is on fiscal federalism and the application of noncooperative game theory to economic models.
Simon Grant is the Lay Family Professor of Economics at Rice University (USA). He was previously Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the Australian National University. He holds a B.Ec. (First Class Honours) degree from the Australian National University, and a M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He has received many Honours and Awards. He was recently awarded the Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship, which he declined, and he was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2002. His areas of specialization include microeconomics, game theory and industrial organisation. He is internationally recognized as a key figure in the areas of decision making under uncertainty and non-expected utility theory. He is currently member of the editorial board of Mathematical Social Sciences and the Economics Bulletin, and has served previously in other editorial boards and committees. His research has been published in the top international refereed journals including Econometrica, American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, International Economic Review, among many others.
Mamoru Kaneko is Professor at the Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences, University of Tsukuba. His research is in economic theory, game theory, and epistemic logic. His recent work has focused on the roles, origin and emergence of beliefs/knowledge, which are related to players’ deductive inferences from their basic beliefs and to inductive inferences from players’ experiences. He has worked also on theoretical issues such as the Nash social welfare function, information in noncooperative games, assignment games, and large markets with small coalitions. He has also papers on various applied issues such as voting on public goods, discrimination and prejudice, international "debt overhang", optimal taxation, and rental housing markets. Recently he has published a book in 2004 entitled "Game Theory and Mutual Misunderstanding: Scientific Dialogues in Five Acts".
Frank Milne is the Bank of Montreal Professor of Economics and Finance at Queen’s University (Canada). He was previously Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics at University of Rochester (New York, USA) and Reader at the Department of Economics at the Australian National University. He holds B.Ec. and M.Ec. degrees from Monash University and a Ph.D. from the Australian National University. He belongs to the editorial board of Mathematical Finance and the Economic Record. His research lies principally in the area of finance theory and asset pricing and has been published in the top international refereed journals including Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, International Economic Review, European Economic Review, Journal of Financial Economics, among many others. He has also published a book, with Oxford University Press, entitled Finance Theory and Asset Pricing.
John Quiggin is currently Australian Research Council Federation Fellow at the University of Queensland. He was previously Australian Research Council Senior Fellow at the Australian National University and James Cook University, Professor of Economics at James Cook University, and Professor at the Centre for Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University. He holds BA (1st class honours in Mathematics), BEc (1st class honours in Economics) and MEc degrees from the Australian National University, and a PhD from the University of New England. He has received several prizes and awards in his career, and he was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 1996, and Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association in 2003. His research interests lie principally in the areas of choice under uncertainty and agricultural economics, but he has published in a wide number of other areas. He has written several books, has edited volumes and has a large number of articles in refereed journals, including top international refereed journals such us American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, among many others. He is also an active commentator of policy issues and has participated actively in the Australian policy sphere, as evidenced by the large number of submissions and reports he has produced.
