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A/PROF LATA GANGADHARAN



Contact Details

Organization: Economics
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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Homepage: http://www.economics.unimelb.edu.au/who/profile.cfm?sid=16
Work: 8344 5408
Fax: 8344 6899
Room: 622
Level: 06
Building: Economics And Commerce
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Experimental Economics United States of America
Environmental Economics Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
New Zealand The University of Auckland Research
United States Purdue University Research
United States University of Pennsylvania Research
United States University of California - Berkeley Research
United States World Bank Group Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts University of Delhi 15-Jul-1990
Master of Arts University of Delhi 15-Jul-1992
Doctor of Philosophy University of Southern California 15-Jan-1998

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Association of Environmental and Resource Economics Member 30-Jan-2006
Member Economic Science Association Member 30-Jan-2006
Member Econometric Society Member 30-Jan-2006

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Scholarship Prize Political Economy Research Center (PERC) Bozeman Montana Research Fellow 01-Jan-1996
Scholarship Purdue University Visiting Scholar 01-Jan-2004
Scholarship Prize Govt of India, University Grants Commission 15-Jul-1992
Scholarship Prize University of Southern California 1993-1997 Teaching Fellowship 18-Aug-1993
Other (Award) Faculty of Economics, University of Melbourne Dean's Certificate for Excellence in Teaching 15-Apr-2005
Other (Award) Faculty of Economics & Commerce, University of Melbourne Dean's Certificate for Excellence in Teaching 15-Apr-2003

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
New Directions in information economics & environmental policy Chief Investigator DEPT OF NATURAL RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENT Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2003
The Economics of Corruption and Institutional Change: Theory and Experiments Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006

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 2009

Journal Articles

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • A Testbed Experiment for Water and Salinity Rights Trading in Irrigation Regions of the Murray Darling Basin, Australia
    Year: 2008
    Book: Environmental Economics, Experimental Methods
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Salinity in Water Markets: An Experimental Investigation of the Sunraysia Salinity Levy, Victoria
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Ecological Economics
    Volume: 68
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 486 - 503
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • An Experimental Analysis of Trust and Trustworthiness
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Southern Economic Journal
    Volume: 73
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 959-985
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Reports

  • Behavioural Anomalies, Bounded Rationality and Simple Heuristics
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 1012
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • An experimental study of compliance and leverage in auditing and regulatory enforcement
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Economic Inquiry
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 352-366
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  • Emissions variability in tradable permit markets with imperfect enforcement and banking
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization
    Volume: 61
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 199-216
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  • Environmental compliance by firms in the manufacturing sector in Mexico
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Ecological Economics
    Volume: 59
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 477-486
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Reports

  • Gender and corruption: insights from an experimental analysis
    Year: 2006
    Report No:: 974
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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    URL - open access http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00002509/
  • Subject pool effects in a corruption experiment: a comparison of Indonesian public servants and Indonesian students
    Year: 2006
    Report No:: 975
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • A laboratory comparison of uniform and discriminative price auctions for reducing non-point source pollution
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Land Economics
    Volume: 81
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 51-70
    Publisher: University of Wisconsin(Wisconsin)
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Reports

Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Analysis of prices in tradable emission markets: an empirical study of the regional clean air incentives market in Los Angeles
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Applied Economics
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 14
    Page numbers: 1569-1582
    Publisher: Routledge(Hants)
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  • Auction design for voluntary conservation programs
    Year: 2004
    Journal: American Journal Of Agricultural Economics
    Volume: 86
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1211-1217
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Massachusetts)
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Reports

Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • A laboratory study of auctions for reducing non-point source pollution
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 446-471
    Publisher: Academic Press
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  • Comparing travel cost models and the precision of their consumer surplus estimates: Albert Park and Maroondah Reservoir
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Economic Papers
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 399-417
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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  • Market power in tradable emission markets: a laboratory testbed for emission trading in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Ecological Economics
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 469-491
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Testing for son preference in South Africa
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of African Economies
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 371-416
    Publisher: Oxford University Press
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  • The effect of education on the timing of marriage and first birth in Pakistan
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Quantitative Economics
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 114-133
    Publisher: Indian Econometric Society
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  • Transaction costs in tradable permit markets: an experimental study of pollution market designs
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Regulatory Economics
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 145-165
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(Dordrecht)
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Reports

  • A laboratory comparison of uniform and discriminative price auctions for reducing non-point source pollution
    Year: 2003
    Report No:: 882
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Environmental compliance by firms in the manufacturing sector in Mexico
    Year: 2003
    Report No:: 881
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Gender differences in trust and reciprocity
    Year: 2003
    Report No:: 875
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Environmental labeling and incomplete consumer information in laboratory markets
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 113-134
    Publisher: Academic Press
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Book review of natural resource and environmental economics
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 498-500
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  • Compliance in environmental markets
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Applied Economic Letters
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 641-644
    Publisher: Routledge
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  • Interrelationships between income, health and the environment: extending the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Ecological Economics
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 513-531
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Two aspects of fertility behavior in South Africa
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Economic Development and Cultural Change
    Volume: 50
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 183-200
    Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Journals Division
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Transactions costs in tradable permit markets: an experimental study
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Econometric society Australasian meeting
    Conference Publication: Econometric society Australasian meetings 2001
    Page numbers: 1-28
    Publisher: Econometric Society(Auckland)
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Reports

  • Comparing travel cost models and the precision of their consumer surplus estimates: Albert Park and Maroondah Reservoir
    Year: 2001
    Customer: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
    Report No:: 796
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Tradable permit markets for pollution control
    Year: 2001
    Customer: Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Victorian State Goverment
    Publisher: Department of Natural Resources and Environment(Melbourne)
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