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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.
If you want predictions, ask an astrologer. Economists have better things to do
Aug 06, 2021 09:47 am UTC| Economy
If you ask most people what economists do, they might tell you it has something to do with money. Or perhaps forecasting what the economy will look like a year from now. Most of the other comparisons would be less...
Why has growth slowed globally? It has something to do with technology
Jun 20, 2021 11:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Even before COVID-19 hit, Australia was experiencing slow growth in GDP per capita and real wages. There has been a distinctly lower rate of both economic and real wages growth since the financial crisis of...
It's not the Reserve Bank's job to worry about housing prices
Jun 12, 2021 07:15 am UTC| Economy Central Banks
Once again folks are pointing to the potential danger of Australias low interest rates. This week a poll of so-called market economists by ratings agency Fitch had only 12% of respondents in favour of the Reserve Bank...
A bounce-back in investment holds open the possibility of very good news
May 28, 2021 11:12 am UTC| Economy Investing
Private business investment is one of the key drivers of economic growth. Business investment in equipment (and even in buildings) drives productivity, which the Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman famously...
Wages growth desultory, unemployment stunning
May 23, 2021 03:33 am UTC| Economy
The key narrative in Josh Frydenbergs 2021 budget was the need to use more aggressive fiscal policy to drive unemployment down and wages up. Two key pieces of data this week indicate how things are tracking. On...
3 economic facts point to a big-spending federal budget
Apr 30, 2021 07:08 am UTC| Economy
Its difficult to make predictions, the saying goes, especially about the future. The many predictions federal budgets make about the economy over the coming four years must therefore be taken with a large grain of...
The pros and cons of diversity in organisations
Apr 23, 2021 11:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Breaking down the old boys club in business, government and other organisations is intrinsically important. Ensuring greater diversity in organisations on gender, racial, ethnic and other lines is, simply put, the right...
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