BA(Hons),BEc(Hons),MEc (ANU), PhD (UNE)

John Quiggin is an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow in Economics and Political Science at the University of Queensland. Professor Quiggin is prominent both as a research economist and as a commentator on Australian economic policy. He has published over 750 research articles, books and reports in fields including risk analysis, production economics, and environmental economics. He has also written on policy topics including unemployment policy, micro-economic reform, privatisation, competitive tendering, and sustainable management of the Murray–Darling system. He was awarded the Thomson ISI Australian Citation Laureate for Economics in 2004. He is a Fellow of the Australian Social Science Academy, the American Agricultural Economics Association, and the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.

TOP 10 SELECTED RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Books:

• Quiggin, J. & Chambers, R.G. (2000), Uncertainty, Production, Choice and Agency: The State-Contingent Approach, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Quiggin, J. (1996), Great Expectations: Microeconomic Reform and Australia, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW.
• Quiggin, J. and Langmore, J. (1994), Work for All: Full Employment in the Nineties, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.

Articles:

• Quiggin, J. & Chambers, R.G. (2004), 'Invariant risk attitudes', Journal of Economic Theory, 117, 96–118.
• Grant, S. and Quiggin, J. (2002), 'The risk premium for equity: implications for the proposed diversification of the social security fund', American Economic Review, 92(5), 1104–15.
• Quiggin, J. (2001), 'Environmental economics and the Murray–Darling river system', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 45(1), 67–94.
• Quiggin, J. and Chambers, R. G. (1998), 'A state-contingent production approach to principal–agent problems with an application to point-source pollution control', Journal of Public Economics 70, 441–72.
• Dowrick, S. and Quiggin, J. (1997), 'True measures of GDP and convergence', American Economic Review 67(1), 41–64.
• Quiggin, J. (1982), 'A theory of anticipated utility', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 3(4), 323–43.
• Quiggin, J. (1981), 'Risk perception and risk aversion among Australian farmers', Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics 25(2), 160–9.