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PROF JOSHUA SAMUEL GANS



Contact Details

Organization: Economics, Melbourne Business School
Position: Honorary (Professorial Fellow), Honorary (Chair Melbourne Business School)
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Homepage: http://www.mbs.edu/jgans
Work: 9349 8173
Mobile: 0414911161
Fax: 9822 2446
Room: 1
Level: 01
Building: 202-208 Leicester St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Applied Economic Theory Australia, United States of America

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States Northwestern University Research
United States Washington University in St Louis Research
United States University of Pennsylvania Research
United States Cornell University Research
United States Leland Stanford Junior University Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Economics The University of Queensland 28-Jul-1989
Doctor of Philosophy Stanford University 07-Jan-1995

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Medal University of Melbourne Woodward Medal for Humanities and Social Sciences 01-Oct-2006
Medal Economic Society of Australia Young Economist Medal 28-Sep-2007

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Developing a Coalitional Approach to Business Strategy and Industrial Organisation: Theory and Empirical Operationalisation Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
COLLABORATIVE AGREEMENT - A NEW INNOVATION POLICY FOR VICTORIA - LEAD ECONOMIC CASE Chief Investigator DEPT OF INNOVATION INDUSTRY & REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 05/07/2007

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Access Pricing and Infrastructure Investment
    Year: 2007
    Book: Access Pricing : Theory and Practice
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Journal Articles

  • Do Voluntary Carbon Offsets Work?
    Year: 2007
    Journal: The Economists' Voice
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: Article 7
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  • Introduction to special issue on negotiations and cooperative arrangements in industrial organization: Models and applications
    Year: 2007
    Journal: International Journal of Industrial Organization
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 879-883
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  • Looking local on broadband
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Public Policy
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 10-24
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  • Minding the Shop: The Case of Obstetrics Conferences
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Social Science & Medicine
    Volume: 65
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1458-1465
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  • Perfect Price Discrimination with Costless Arbitrage
    Year: 2007
    Journal: International Journal of Industrial Organization
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 431-440
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  • The practicalities of emission trading
    Year: 2007
    Journal: The Melbourne Review
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 60-65
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  • Unusual days in births and deaths
    Year: 2007
    Journal: The Melbourne Review
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 72-79
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  • Vertical Contracting when Competition for Orders Precedes Procurement
    Year: 2007
    Journal: International Journal of Industrial Organization
    Volume: 55
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 325-346
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Reports

  • Born (Again) on the First of July: Another Experiment in Birth Timing
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Melbourne Business School(Melbourne)
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  • Remedies for Tying in Computer Applications
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Melbourne Business School(Melbourne)
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  • Start-Up Commercialisation Strategy and Innovative Dynamics
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Melbourne Business School(Melbourne)
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  • The Impact of Uncertainty Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence from Patent Grant Delays
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Melbourne Business School(Melbourne)
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  • The impact of uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the market for ideas: Evidence from Patent Grant Delays
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 03/07
    Publisher: Intellectual Property Institute of Australia(Melbourne)
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  • Why Tie a Product Consumers do not Use?
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Melbourne Business School(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Income contingent loans for low-income households
    Year: 2006
    Book: Government Managing Risk
    Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer(Abingdon)
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Journal Articles

  • Inefficient ownership and resale opportunities
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Economics Letters
    Volume: 93
    Page numbers: 242-247
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  • Darth Vader and the Hold Up Problem
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Political Economy
    Volume: 114
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: Web
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  • Did the death of Australian Inheritance Taxes Affect Deaths?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-7
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  • Measuring innovative performance - essential for effective innovation policy and economic growth
    Year: 2006
    Journal: The Melbourne Review
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 70-77
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  • Patent length and the timing of innovative activity
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Industrial Economics
    Volume: 54
    Issue: 3
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  • Paying for loyalty: Product bundling in oligopoly
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Industrial Economics
    Volume: 54
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 43-61
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  • Reconsidering the Public Benefit Test in Merger Analysis: The Role of 'Pass Through'
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Business Law Review
    Volume: 34
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 28-37
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  • Toying with Death and Taxes: Some Lessons from Down Under
    Year: 2006
    Journal: The Economists' Voice
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: Web
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  • What is different about media mergers?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: The Melbourne Review
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 32-36
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • The Dynamics of Ideas Markets
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society
    Conference Publication: Econometric Society Meetings, Alice Springs
    Page numbers: Web
    Publisher: Econometric Society - Australasian Region(Alice Springs)
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  • Tivoed: The Impact of Ad-Avoidance on Broadcaster Behaviour
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 4th Workshop in Media Economics, Washington DC
    Conference Publication: 4th Workshop of Media Economics
    Page numbers: Web
    Publisher: George Washington University(Washington)
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  • Wholesale Bargaining
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 4th Summer Workshop in Industrial Organization (SWIO 2006)
    Conference Publication: SWIO 2006
    Page numbers: Web
    Publisher: University of Auckland(Auckland)
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Reports

  • The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas


    Year: 2006
    Report No:: 8/2006
    Publisher: Melbourne Business School(Melbourne)
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  • Assessing Australia's Innovative Capacity: 2006 Update
    Year: 2006
    Report No:: 03/06
    Publisher: IPRIA Working Papers(Carlton)
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  • Bargaining over Labor: Do Patients have any Power?
    Year: 2006
    Report No:: 11/2006
    Publisher: Melbourne Business School(Melbourne)
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  • Born on the First of July: An (Un)natural Experiment in Birth Timing
    Year: 2006
    Report No:: 12/2006
    Publisher: Melbourne Business School(Melbourne)
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  • Did the Death of Australian Inheritance Taxes Affect Deaths? 
    Year: 2006
    Report No:: 10/2006
    Publisher: Melbourne Business School(Melbourne)
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  • Does the Lunar Cycle Affect Birth and Deaths?
    Year: 2006
    Report No:: 7/2006
    Publisher: Melbourne Business School(Melbourne)
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  • Minding the Shop: The Case of Obstetrics Conferences
    Year: 2006
    Report No::