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Position Available: Research Assistant - Cartel Criminalisation Project
Located in the Melbourne Law School, this is a position for a research assistant on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project regarding the criminalisation of serious cartel conduct (for example, price fixing, market sharing, bid rigging) in Australia. The project will investigate how and why criminalisation has become bipartisan policy in Australia. It will assess the likely impact of criminalisation on deterrence and compliance with the law, and compare criminalisation policy and enforcement in the United States, the United Kingdom and Sweden.
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ARC grants awarded to Centre Director and CRMA member
David Round in conjunction with the University of Melbourne's Caron Beaton-Wells, Christine Parker and Fiona Haines, have been approved for an ARC grant for their project titled: A cancer on our economy? An empirical interdisciplinary study of the criminalisation of serious cartel conduct in Australia. They have been awarded $340,000 over three years. For a summary of the project, click here.
Gigi Foster alongside of Queensland University of Technology's Benno Torgler and Paul Frijtters have also been awarded an ARC grant for their project titled: Should rational individuals be optimistic? Theory, survey evidence, experimental evidence, and policy implications. They have been awarded $221,000 over three years. For a summary of the project, click here.
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About the Centre
The Centre for Regulation and Market Analysis (crma) is a University recognised Research Centre within the School of Commerce. The crma specialises in policy-relevant research, focusing on the behaviour of markets and the participants in them, including consumers, firms, governments and regulators. The crma is especially noted for its work on competition, regulation, consumer protection, business history, water markets, health economics, property markets and criminal law.
The
crma currently focuses on Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia, East
Asia and Europe. The crma has PhD students working in it, on a
variety of topics in regulation and applied microeconomics. In addition to
its prime focus on academic research and high quality publications, the crma
provides advice to governments, regulatory agencies, lawyers and firms in
Australia and beyond.
In recent years members of the crma have:
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chaired state government inquiries;
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led studies and written reports on a variety of aspects of market regulation;
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acted as arbitrators and sat as lay members of leading State and Federal courts;
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received recognition as invited international visitors at a number of highly regarded universities;
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acted as editors and on the editorial boards of international journals;
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hosted international and national conferences within the University;
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received numerous recent grants from Australian and overseas universities; and
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delivered keynote addresses and invited papers at many international conferences.