Professor Richard Holden
Richard Holden is Professor of Economics at UNSW Business School, Director of the聽, co-director of the New Economic Policy Initiative, and President聽of the聽.
Prior to that he was on the faculty at the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.聽
He received an AM and a聽PhD in economics聽from Harvard University.聽His research focuses on contract theory, organizational economics, law and economics, and political economy.聽He has written on topics including: network capital, political districting, the boundary of the firm, incentives in organizations, mechanism design, voting rules, and blockchain.聽
Professor Holden has published in top general interest journals such as the聽Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy,聽Review of Economic Studies, and Nature.聽He is currently editor of the Journal of Law and Economics.聽
He has been a Visiting Professor of Economics at聽 the MIT Department of Economics and the MIT Sloan School of Management,聽 Visiting Professor of Economics at the Harvard Economics Department, and Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and Columbia Law School.
He is a Fellow of the聽, a Fellow of the聽, a Fellow of the聽, a Distinguished Fellow of the聽, and a Senior Academic Fellow at the聽.
His research has been featured in press articles in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, and The New Republic.聽Professor Holden appears regularly as a media commentator, and has published opinion pieces in outlets including the Australian Financial Review, the Australian, the New York Times, The New Republic, Times Higher Education, and the Sydney Morning Herald.聽He is a regular columnist for the Australian Financial Review.
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