Foster, John

Professor
Professor

Professor John Foster

Email: j.foster@uq.edu.au

Phone: +61 7 336 56780

Fax: +61 7 336 57299

Location: 639 [colin clark building]

Qualifications: BA(Hons) Coventry, MA(Econ) Manchester, PhD Manchester, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

Research interests:

  • Complex economic systems: theory and methodology
  • The economics of low carbon energy generation and carbon abatement policy
  • The statistical properties of time series data in complex economic systems

Selected Publications:

  • Foster, John, Hinich, Melvin J. and Wild, Phillip (2008) Randomly modulated periodic signals in Australia`s National Electricity market. The Energy Journal, 29 3: 105-129.
  • Metcalfe, JS, Foster, J and Ramiogan, R (2006) Adaptive economic growth. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 30 1: 7-32.
  • Foster, John (2011) Evolutionary macroeconomics: a research agenda Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 21, pp. 5-28.
  • Wild, Phillip, Foster, John and Hinich, Melvin J. (2010) Identifying nonlinear serial dependence in volatile, high-frequency time series and its implications for volatility modeling. Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 14, Supplement S1, pp. 88-110
  • Dopfer, K., Foster, J. and Potts, J. (2004) “Micro-meso-macro” Journal of Evolutionary Economics (A), vol. 14, pp. 263-280

Grants:

  • Assessing the impacts of proposed carbon trading and tax schemes on the Australian electricity industry and the overall economy. ARC Linkage Grant (with John Quiggin), $323,986 (July 2008 – June 2011)
  • Market and economic modelling of distributed generation and local cooperating agent-based demand side management. CSIRO, iGRID Flagship Grant, $571,000 (July 2008 - June 2011)

PhD candidates

Roberta Powell and Alan Raine

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