Research Team
Director
Professor David K. RoundProfessor of Economics and Director: CRMARoom WL3-55, City West Campus |
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David is Professor of Economics and Director, Centre for Regulation and Market Analysis. He is also Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Delaware. David was previously Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide and has held visiting positions at Duke University, the University of Delaware, the College of William and Mary, Wesleyan University, Vanderbilt University, and in 2001 and again in 2004 he was a Visiting Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury.
David has authored around 100 papers in leading Australian and international journals, on a variety of industrial economics, competition policy and antitrust topics. He currently serves on the editorial board of Review of Industrial Organisation, Australian Economic Papers, and the Australian Journal of Economic Education.
From 1986 to 1998 David was an Associate Member of the Trade Practices Commission in Australia, and its successor, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. In April 1998 he was appointed a member of the Australian Competition Tribunal, and which he still sits. In 1989 he was appointed an Associate Member of the Australian Telecommunications Authority (AUSTEL), and in 1997 he was appointed a Member of the Australian Communications Authority. He was also Chairman of the Employment Services Regulatory Authority in 1997. He has acted as a consultant to a large number of Australian and New Zealand companies, law firms and regulatory agencies.
Deputy Director
Professor Martin ShanahanDeputy Director: CRMA and Dean: ResearchRoom WL3-53, City West Campus |
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Martin is Professor in economics and has a PhD from
Flinders University. Martin's research interests include economic
history, wealth and income distribution, applied cost-benefit analysis
and economic education.
Martin is currently co-editor of the Australian Economic History Review,
and has co-edited two books, Globalisation: Australian Regional
Perspectives and Australian Labour History Reconsidered. He has published
in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History; Journal of Income
Distribution; Australian Economic History Review; Australian Economic
Papers; Journal of Economic Education; Higher Education Research and
Development; Studies in Higher Education; International Review of
Economics Education; American Journal of Orthopsychiatry and Child Abuse
and Neglect. He has also contributed to The Australian Dictionary of
Biography, the Wakefield Companion to South Australian History and
Beyond the Contract State Ideas for Social and Economic Renewal for
South Australia.
Research Administrator
Ms Belinda SpagnolettiResearch AdministratorRoom WL3-58, City West Campus |
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Members
Professor Bill BeckerAdjunct Professor
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Bill is a professor of economics at Indiana University, Bloomington, and an adjunct professor at the University of South Australia, where he has been a regular visitor since 1995. Bill is editor of the Journal of Economic Education and of the SSRN Economic Research Network Educator. He also serves on the editorial board of the Economics of Education Review. He is a member of the American Economic Association's standing committee on economic education and a member of the National Bureau on Economic Research working group on higher education. In 2005-06 he was President of the Midwest Economic Association.
Before joining Indiana University, Bill Becker was a tenured faculty
member at the University of Minnesota. He has held visiting appointments at
Princeton University and the Universities of Adelaide, Melbourne and South
Australia. Throughout the 1990s he toured Indonesia, Spain, Abu Dhabi,
Mexico, Portugal and Scotland. He has been a consultant for the US
Department of Justice, The US Department of Education, Ford Motor Company,
Chrysler Corporation, Nissan and Westinghouse, for whom he has given expert
econometrics testimony in Minnesota, Illinois and Indiana courtrooms.
Associate Professor Henning BjornlundAssociate Research ProfessorRoom WL3-54, City West Campus |
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Henning has been involved in water policy research since 1992. Henning is also an Associate Professor at the University of Lethbridge, where he holds a Canadian Research Chair in Water and the Economy - International. Henning is currently working on an ARC Linkage -Project 'Water scarcity and rural social hardship can water markets alleviate the problem?'.
From 1996 to 2001 Henning investigated the socio-economic and structural
adjustment impact of water markets in New South Wales, Victoria and South
Australia, a project funded by Land and Water Australia. He worked on an ARC
SPIRIT Project from 2001 to 2004, and developed a framework for the next generation of water market policies which are socially equitable and ecologically sustainable within rural communities. Henning has also been involved with some minor research project and consultancies within the water policy area. He has worked on issues in groundwater regions and on unregulated rivers in the northern part of the Murray Darling Basin.
Henning has published more than 60 academic papers in national and
international journals on property implications of the separation of land
and water rights and the development water policy frameworks for developing
countries.
Dr Pierre-Jean BordahandySenior LecturerRoom LB1-21, City West Campus |
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Pierre-Jean has a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the
University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, France; a Diploma in Spanish Law from
the Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain; a Diploma in Criminal Sciences from the
University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, France; a Diplome d’Etudes
Supérieures Spécialisées (DESS) in Transport Law from the University of
Aix-en-Provence, France, a Master of Laws (LLM) in International Private Law
and Maritime Law from the University of Stockholm, Sweden; and a D.U.
Diploma in Comparative Law (University of Aix-en-Provence, France). He also
has a PhD in Maritime Law from the University of Queensland and a Doctorat d
Etat en Droit Prive University of Aix-Marseille, his thesis was titled “The
legal implications of the concept of shipping containers”.
After finishing his LLM, Pierre-Jean worked for two years as an in house
lawyer and head of the legal department of Lasry Vitrage France S.A. Whilst
at Lasry Vitrage Pierre-Jean specialised in legal issues concerning cargo
claims, insurance, sales contracts and sole distribution agreements. This
experience led him to undertake the study of the legal problems arising of
the usage of containers for the carriage of goods by sea at the T.C. Beirne
School of Law. While working on his PhD, Pierre-Jean has also spent time as
a consultant to Blake Dawson Waldron and has advised Gadens Lawyers on a
mining project in New Caledonia. More recently Pierre-Jean was consultant
for the Humane Society International Inc. in respect to whaling in
Antarctica.
Pierre-Jean joined the School of Law in 2009. He is also a Research Scholar
of the Maritime and Shipping Law Unit (MASLU) at the University of
Queensland, a member of the French-Australian Chamber of Commerce and
Industry (FACCI) of South Australia and a member of the Maritime Association
of Australia and New Zealand (MLAANZ). Pierre-Jean's work has been published
in Europe, the USA and Australia, and his key research interests include
Maritime Law, Law of the Sea and International Transport Law; Private
International Law and Comparative Law; Export Trade Law, Insurance Law,
Commercial Law; Aviation and Space Law and Criminal Law.
Mr George BredonSenior LecturerRoom WL3-59, City West Campus |
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George has an honours degree in
economics from the University of Natal in South Africa and a masters degree in
economics from the University of Kent at Canterbury. He has held lecturing
posts in South Africa and at the University of New England, and has taught
at the University of South Australia (and its antecedent institutions) since
1987.
George's expertise has been in writing distance education materials and
study guides. He holds a Teaching Excellence Award conferred on him by the
University. In 2004, two of his study guides (co-authored with Peter Curnow)
were part of a teaching and learning package published by McGraw-Hill that
won The Australian Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing.
George's research areas of interest centre almost entirely around economics
education particularly as regards the use of technology in education. He is
an Online Consultant to the Journal of Economic Education (USA). He has
published articles about online delivery technologies, distance education
and computer-aided instruction. George's current area of research interest
is online assessment.
Dr Tony CavoliSenior LecturerRoom WL3-56, City West Campus |
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Tony's research interests relate generally to the effectiveness of the regulatory, institutional and policymaking frameworks in the implementation of monetary and financial policies in Asia. More specifically, his work looks into the issues of exchange rate regime classification, optimal monetary policies, trade and financial integration, and the relationship between exchange rate regimes, capital mobility and institutional quality
Mr Peter CucchiarelliLecturerRoom WL4-51, City West Campus |
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Dr Xin DengLecturerRoom WL3-60, City West Campus |
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Xin holds a PhD in economics from Monash University, and bachelors and masters degrees in Economics from Wuhan University, China.
Xin's research interests include environmental economics, transportation economics, and Chinese economy. Her previous publications cover a wide range of topics including non-tax levies, state owned enterprises in China, and consumer behaviour.
Dr Ron DonatoLecturerRoom WL3-62, City West Campus |
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Ron has been researching in the area of health economics for the past
decade, and has published in a number of journals, including: Australian
Health Review; Journal of Orthopsychiatry; Journal of Health Services
Research Policy; Child Abuse and Neglect; and International Journal of
Pharmacy Practice. Ron teaches health economics to masters students and
has also conducted training programs for health care professionals from
developing countries under the auspices of the World Bank.
Ron's current research is primarily in the area of economics of health care reform, with a particular focus on managed competition. Other recent research has been in relation to the application of diagnostic-based risk-adjustment methodology in the Australian context and the economics of contracting in health care.
Mr Paul KershawAdjunct Research FellowRoom WL4-52, City West Campus |
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After spending a decade in England as a chartered surveyor in private practice, Paul undertook his Master of Science Degree in Urban Land Appraisal before taking up a position as Associate Professor in Land Management at the PNG University of Technology in LAE. Paul was then a Principal Lecturer at UniSA for more than 20 years, and he is currently an Adjunct Research Fellow at UniSA. With significant expertise in finance and estate management, Paul has been involved in many research projects relating to property valuation, market analysis and investment and has a number of refereed papers in these fields. Paul is an accomplished computer programmer and has incorporated advanced computer applications in his work in education, property and finance and has been involved with commercial software and web development for over a decade.
Dr Valerie KupkeSenior LecturerRoom WL4-50, City West Campus |
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Dr Tony LockwoodLecturerRoom WL4-32, City West Campus |
Tony holds a masters in spatial information science, and he recently completed his PhD at the University of Adelaide, his thesis was titled “Delineation of the Geospatial Dimensions of the Residential Real Estate Submarket Structure”.
Tony has worked in the property field in a variety of roles over the last 30
years, both in South Australia as a valuer and in land data management, and
internationally on World Bank funded land titling projects in Thailand and
Laos. Tony has also worked with SAGRIC International on projects on land
information strategic planning in Cyprus and Guam. Tony’s main areas of
research interest include: mass appraisal; spatial analysis; housing market
structure; and land administration systems.
Dr Sulette LombardSenior LecturerRoom LB1-17, City West Campus |
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Sulette moved to Australia from South Africa to join the foundation staff of the Law School as a lecturer, in January 2008. She holds a doctorate in law from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She previously held the position of senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria, where she taught for 11 years, mainly in areas of Entrepreneurial Law, Insolvency Law, Labour Law, Social Security Law, Commercial Law and Business Law.
Her research interests are closely linked with the areas that she teaches
and encompass fields such as corporate governance; corporate social
responsibility; directors duties and director liability and corporate
insolvency. She published in leading refereed South African law journals, as
well as international journals and presented papers at South African, as
well as international conferences on related topics and co-authored a number
of text books and student text books in these areas.
Mr Wayne MaranoProgram DirectorRoom WL3-38, City West Campus |
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Mr Peter RossiniSenior LecturerRoom WL4-52, City West Campus |
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Peter has been in the property
discipline at UniSA and at one of the University's foundation institutions, the
South Australian Institute of Technology (SAIT), since 1982. Prior to
1990 Peter was involved primarily in teaching, but he
has broadened his role to include research and has since published over fifty
articles mainly in the use of analytical techniques for property analysis
and valuation.
Peter's research and consultancy interests have seen him working for in a
number of countries for governments, private organisations and
universities. He is actively involved in international property research
societies and is the web master for the Pacific Rim Real Estate Society (PRRES),
as well as being on the editorial board for the societys journal.
Professor Rick SarreProfessor of Law and Criminal JusticeRoom WL4-31, City West Campus |
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Rick is Professor of Law and Criminal Justice. He holds an undergraduate degree in law from the University of Adelaide and undertook studies in sociology and theology from Graceland University, Iowa, USA, as well as postgraduate degrees in criminology from the University of Toronto and law from the University of Canberra.
Rick currently lectures in criminal justice and criminology, policing, media law and sport law, and commercial law and has published over 140 academic papers in the fields of law, criminology, private security, indigenous socio-legal issues and restorative justice.
Dr Magnus SöderbergResearch FellowRoom WL3-51 City West Campus |
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Magnus' PhD is about utility regulation and since its completion in early 2008 he has continued with the two primary issues addressed in his thesis: evaluation of utility performance and authority decision-making. He is currently evaluating cost efficiency in the Swedish electricity, water and district heating sectors and investigating how authority decisions are influenced by past decisions.
Dr Cento VeljanovskiAdjunct Senior Research Fellow
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Cento is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the CRMA. He is also
Managing Partner of Case Associates, London, IEA Fellow in Law and
Economics, Institute of Economic Affairs (UK), and an Associate Research
Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and an Affiliate of
the Interdisciplinary Centre for Competition Law & Policy at Queen Mary
College, both at the University of London. He has qualifications in
economics and law (BEc (Hons), MEc, DPhil) and is an Associate of the
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
The Global Competition Review 2006 survey voted Cento one of the most
'highly regarded' competition economists. He has over thirty years of
experience assisting lawyers and companies respond to investigations by
the European Competition Commission, national competition authorities,
national regulatory authorities, and in court proceedings in European
Union (EU) Member States and other countries in Europe, Australia and
North America. He also regularly acts as an Expert Witness in
competition law, judicial review and damage litigation matters.
Cento has been a Director/Partner of several management and economics
consulting firms, on the Board of listed public companies, a Director of
an economics research institute. He has also provided economic
assistance in a number of the world's largest mergers including
Carnival/P&O Princess Cruises, MCI/WorldCom, Vodafone/Manessmann,
Seagrams/Polygram, AOL/Time Warner, Telia/Telenor, and Telia/Sonera.
Throughout his career, Cento has also held a number of positions in
higher education, including posts at Oxford University, the University
College London, Monash University, York University. Cento has written
widely and is on the editorial boards of the UK Competition Law Reports,
Journal of Network Industries, and other journals. His most recent books
are Economics of Law (IEA, 2006) and Economic Principles of Law
(Cambridge University Press, 2008). For recent research by Cento,
click here.
Professor Vicki WayeProfessor of LawRoom LB1-03, City West Campus |
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Vicki joined UniSA after 20 years of teaching and research at the Law School University of Adelaide. Vicki's research interests reflect the globalised state of commerce and the legal profession, incorporating international and comparative elements. Her research spans subject matter such as multilateral and bilateral treaties affecting the wine industry, comparisons between the Australian and United States systems of criminal procedure, matters affecting access to justice in England, Australia and the United States, the nature of fiduciary obligation and rights attendant upon dissolution of corporations in England, Australia and the United States. Much of Vicki's research has been process oriented , that is concerned with the efficacy of legal process. Vicki's latest research publication examines the trading of legal claims at common law in England, Australia and the United States.
Dr Sarah WheelerResearch FellowRoom WL3-52, City West Campus |
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Sarah has an honours degree in economics from the University of Adelaide and a PhD in economics from the University of South Australia. She has worked as an economist domestically and internationally at Environment Agency in England; Primary Industries and Resources South Australia; CSIRO and the University of Adelaide. Sarah's research interests include natural resource economics and agricultural economics, and her PhD was on the diffusion of organic agriculture.
Dr John WilsonLecturerRoom WL3-57, City West Campus |
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John has a PhD in economics from the University of Adelaide. John's research interests span a wide range of microeconomic topics, in particular, game theoretic models of rent seeking and corruption in environmental regulation, the role of information in public policy formation, health economics and economic history.
PhD Candidates
Mr Manish AgarwalRoom WL3-50, City West Campus |
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Manish has Master of Arts (M.A.) and Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) degrees in economics from the University of Delhi, India. During his M.Phil, he did research on issues relating to Competition Policy and Law. His M.Phil thesis was on Analyses of Mergers in India, which was the first attempt at doing a comprehensive review of mergers in India.
Manish has worked at the CUTS Centre for Competition, Investment & Economic Regulation, India and the Centre for Good Governance, State Government of Andhra Pradesh, India. His research interests include Competition Policy and Law (particularly merger regulation), Economic Regulation, and Political-economy of Competition and Regulation. Manish has about four years of research experience in these areas. He has written/presented articles and undertaken research projects on these issues. He has also attended several international conference/workshops.
In his PhD, Manish proposes to study the Merger Regulation Regime in Australia to identify appropriate strategy for Merger Regulation in India. There are certain similarities in merger regulation in both jurisdictions: the SLC test (Substantial Lessening of Competition) is used to assess a merger; merger notification is voluntary; other similarities arise due to the small size of their domestic markets and kinds of arguments put forward by parties to justify a merger. While Australia has an experience of 30+ years in enforcing merger regulation provisions, India is yet to implement its merger regulation provisions, which is part of its new competition law, the Competition Act 2002. The thesis would study Australia's experience in merger regulation focusing on the various implementation challenges that have been encountered, and assess its effectiveness. Based on Australia's experience, a strategy, suitable for merger regulation in India would be identified considering the country's socio-political-economic condition.
Mr Ahmed Salim Al-MarshoudiRoom RR5-08, City West Campus |
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Ahmed is a UniSA President's Scholarship holder and is pursuing his PhD studies, under Dr. Henning Bjornlund supervision, after his masters (M.Sc. [agric. Economics) from Wye College, London University.
Ms Judy FrancisRoom RR5-08C, City West Campus |
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Judy studied at Flinders University as a mature age student and graduated
with a masters degree in 2003. She is married with two sons, one who works
at Bedford Foundation (Industries) and another who is an economic advisor to
the Canada Bank in Ottawa, Canada.
Judy's research is considering the infant mortality rates in Toronto, Canada
and Adelaide during the years 1890-1930 and two female reformers Dr
Helen MacMurchy in Toronto and Dr Helen Mayo in Adelaide. Why did so many
babies die? What was done to improve the well-being of infants? What social
reforms were put in place? Did those reforms have any effect on the economy?
Ms Bronwyn Gallacher
Email: bronwyn.gallacher@postgrads.unisa.edu.au
Bronwyn holds a bachelor's
degree in economics and first class honours in arts (labour studies) from
the University of Adelaide, and a bachelor's degree in management (human
resource management) from UniSA.
Bronwyn worked at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
for approximately ten years, up until October 2009. While working at the
Commission she led and provided economic assistance on a number of
high profile litigations and investigations, including ACCC v Liquorland
and Woolworths, ACCC v FILA Oceania and David Carney, ACCC
v Visy Industries Holdings Pty Limited, ACCC v Baxter
Health, ACCC v Knight & Ross (Cardiothoracic Surgeons), ACCC
v Domaine Homes, ACCC v L&L Supply Pty Ltd, and restrictive
covenants in the grocery industry. Bronwyn has also written internal
research papers for the ACCC in relation to the interface between mergers,
intellectual property and competition policy.
Bronwyn’s PhD research study “The Empirical Measurement of Productive
Efficiencies in the Regulation of Competition Law: The Australian and New
Zealand authorisation Experience” will provide competition authorities and
practitioners with guidance in terms of the authorisation decision making
processes of the ACCC and the New Zealand Competition Commission (NZCC) . It
will also be one of the first competition policy surveys to empirically
assess the authorisation decision making processes of the ACCC and NZCC.
Mr Sam HouRoom RR5-08, City West Campus |
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Mr Bernhard LobmayrRoom WL3-50, City West Campus |
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Bernhard holds an undergraduate degree in business and management,
with special focus on business law, from the Management Centre
Innsbruck, Austria.
As a long-term professional in quality and regulatory affairs management
for a medical device manufacturer in Austria his research interests go
into the influences of regulations on innovation in the medical device
market of the European Union.
His PhD study will suggest how to best reach a balance of appropriate
regulation and an innovation-friendly environment.
Mr Adam LochRoom WL3-50, City West Campus |
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Adam holds a master's degree in marketing from Griffith University and another master's degree in business from Central Queensland University. His background has included working in central wholesale markets (Brisbane), irrigated cotton and grains farming in Queensland, as an irrigation advocate in the Fitzroy Basin and more recently in national business development within the wine and viticulture industries. Adam is also a part-time consultant in the water industry with 4T Consultants, Emerald. He is a member of the Australian Water Association, the Australian Agricultural Resource Economics Society Inc., the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and the Australian Institute of Management (SA).
Adam’s PhD topic and research as part of an extended team of researchers
will revolve around water markets and in particular the application of
allocation markets to enhance the current Federal Government’s water
buy-back scheme to address over-allocation and return water to the
environment.