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Murray-Darling Basin Program   

2004

  • Quiggin, J. and Chambers, R.G. (2004), 'Drought policy: a graphical analysis', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 48(2), 225-51 Download as PDF file
  • Venn, T.J., McGavin, R.L. and Leggate, W.W. (2004), 'Costs of portable sawmilling timbers from the Acacia woodlands of western Queensland', Australia, Small-Scale Forest Economics Management and Policy, 3(2): 161-75.
  • Venn, T.J. (2004), Visions and realities for a Wik forestry industry on Cape York Peninsula, Australia, Small-Scale Forest Economics Management and Policy, 3(3): 431-51.

2005

  • Tan, P. and Quiggin, J. (2005), Sustainable Management of the Great Artesian Basin: an analysis based on environmental economics and law, Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy, 9(2), 55–103.
  • Mallawaarachchi, Thilak, Morrison, Mark D. and Blamey, Russell K. (2005), 'Choice modelling to determine the significance of environmental amenity and production alternatives in the community value of peri-urban land: Sunshine Coast, Australia', Land Use Policy, (link)
  • Venn, Tyron (2005), ‘Financial and economic performance of long-rotation hardwood plantation investments in Queensland, Australia’, Forest Policy and Economics, 7(3): 437-454.

2006

  • Freebairn, J. and Quiggin, J. (2006), 'Water rights for variable supplies', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 50(3), 295–312.
  • Quiggin, John (2006), 'Repurchase of renewal rights: a policy option for the National Water Initiative', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics,  50(3), 425–435.
  • Quiggin, John (2006), 'Urban water supply in Australia: the option of diverting water from irrigation',  Public Policy, 1(1), 14–22.
  • Quiggin, John (2006), ‘Urban water supply in Australia’, Issues, No. 76, 41–44.

2007

  • Adamson, D., Mallawaarachchi, T. and Quiggin, J. (2007), ‘Water use and salinity in the Murray–Darling Basin: A state-contingent model’, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 51(3), 263–81.
  • Neal, M., Neal, J. and Fulkerson, W. J. (2007), 'Optimal choice of dairy forages in Eastern Australia', Journal of Dairy Science, 90, 3044–3059. doi:10.3168/jds.2006-645
  • Pezzey, J.C.V., Jotzo, F. and Quiggin, J. (2007), ‘Fiddling while carbon burns: Why climate policy needs pervasive emission pricing as well as technology promotion’, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 52, 97–110.
  • Quiggin, J. (2007), ‘Complexity, climate change and the precautionary principle’  Environmental Health, 7 (3), 15–21.
  • Quiggin, J. (2007), ‘The prime ministerial task group on emissions trading: Advocacy and analysis’, Agenda, 14(3), 5–14.
  • Quiggin, J. (2007), ‘Reply to McKibbin and Robson’, Agenda, 14(3), 27–28.
  • Venn, T. and Quiggin, J. (2007), ‘Accommodating indigenous cultural heritage values in resource assessment: Cape York Peninsula and the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia’, Ecological Economics, 61(2–3), 334-44.
  • Quiggin, J. (2007), ‘Turning up the heat: say it isn’t so’,  The Walkley Magazine, Issue 42, 16.
  • Quiggin, J. (2007), ‘ Issues in Australian water policy’, Australian Chief Executive, February, 38–47.
  • Quiggin, J. (2007), ‘Election 2007: Water policy’, Australian Review of Public Affairs, September, http://www.australianreview.net/digest/2007/election/quiggin.html.
  • Gans, J.  and Quiggin, J.  ‘The practicalities of emissions trading’, Melbourne Review, 3(2), 60–65.

  2008

  • Alauddin, M. and Quiggin J. (2008), 'Agricultural intensification, irrigation and the environment in South Asia: Issues and policy options', Ecological Economics, 65(1), 111-24.
  • Bell, S. and Quiggin, J. (2008), 'The metagovernance of markets: The politics of water management in Australia', Environmental Politics, 17(5), 712-29.
  • Pezzey, J.C.V., Joto, F. and Quiggin, J. (2008), 'Fiddling while carbon burns: Why climate policy needs pervasive emission pricing as well as technology promotion', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 52(1), 97-110.
  • Quiggin, J. (2008), 'Counting the cost of climate change at an agricultural level', CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources 2(092), 1-9.
  • Quiggin, J. (2008), 'Managing the Murray-Darling basin: Some implications for climate change policy', Economic Papers, 27(2), 160-66.
  • Quiggin, J. (2008), 'Stern and his critics on discounting and climate change', Climatic Change, 89(3-4), 195-205.
  • Quiggin, J. (2008), 'Uncertainty and climate change policy', Economic Analysis and Policy, 32(2), 203-10.

2009

  • Adamson, D., Mallawaarachchi, T. and Quiggin, J. (2009). 'Declining inflows and more frequent droughts in the Murray-Darling Basin: Climate change, impact and adaption', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 53(3), 345-66.
  • Menezes, F. Quiggin, J. and Wagner, L. (2009), 'Grandfathering and greenhouse: The role fo compensation and adjustment assistance in the introduction of a carbon emissions trading scheme for Australia', Economic Papers, 28(1), 1-11.

2010

  • Quiggin, J., Adamson, D., Chambers, S. and Schrobback, P. (2010), 'Climate change, uncertainty and adaptation: the case of irrigated agriculture in the Murray Darling Basin in Australia', Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 58, 531-4.
  • Quiggin, J. (2010), 'Agriculture and global climate stabilization: a public good analysis', Agricultural Economics, 41(S), 121-32.
  • Quiggin, J. (2010), 'Water policy after the drought', Australian Quarterly, 82(2), 21-25.

2011

  • Chambers, R.G., Hailu, A. and Quiggin, J. (2011), 'Event-specific data envelopment models and efficiency analysis', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 55(1), 90-106.
  • Schrobback, P., Adamson, D. and Quiggin, J. (2011), 'Turning water into carbon: carbon sequestration vs. water flow in the Murray-Darling basin', Environmental and Resource Economics, 49(1), 23-45.

2012

  • Quiggin, J. (2012), 'Stabilizing the global climate: a simple and robust benefit cost analysis', American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 94(2), 291-300

2013

  • Quiggin, J. (2013), 'Is it too late to stabilise the global climate?' Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 57(1), 1-14.
  • Grafton, R.Q., Pittock, J., Davis, R., Williams, J., Fu, G., Warburton, M., Udall, B., Mckenzie, R., Yu, X,., Che, N., Connell, D., Jiang, Q., Kompas, T., Lynch, A., Norris, R., Possingham, H., and Quiggin, J., (2013) 'Global insights into water resources, climate change and governance', Nature Climate Change 3(4), 315-321.

2014

2015

  • Zuo, A., Nauges, C., and S. Wheeler (2015). Farmers’ exposure to risk and their temporary water trading, European Review of Agricultural Economics 42(1): 1-24, doi.10.1093/erae/jbu003
  • Loch, A & Adamson, D 2015, 'Drought and the rebound effect: a Murray–Darling Basin example', Natural Hazards, pp. 1-21, dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-015-1705-y

2016

  • Mallawaarachchi, T., Nauges, C., Sanders, O. and Quiggin, J. (2016), ‘State-contingent analysis of farmers’ response to weather variability: Irrigated dairy farming in the Murray Valley, Australia’, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, forthcoming
  • Venn, T.J. and Quiggin, J. (2016), ‘Economic evaluation of bushfire risk mitigation policies in Australia’, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, forthcoming,

 

Risk and Uncertainty Program

2004

  • Chambers, R.G., Fare, R. and Quiggin, J. (2004), 'Jointly radial and translation homothetic preferences: generalized constant risk aversion', Economic Theory, 23, 689-99. Download as PDF file
  • Bleichrodt, H., Diecidue, E. and Quiggin, J. (2004), 'Equity weights in the allocation of health care: the rank-dependent QALY model', Journal of Health Economics, 23(1), 157-71. Download as PDF file
  • Chambers, R.G. and Quiggin, J. (2004), 'Technological and financial approaches to risk management in agriculture: an integrated approach', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 48(2), 199-223. Download as PDF file
  • Quiggin, J. and Chambers, R.G. (2004), 'Invariant risk attitudes', Journal of Economic Theory, 117(1), 96-118. Download as PDF file

2005

  • Grant, Simon and Quiggin, John (2005), ‘Increasing uncertainty: a definition’, Mathematical Social Sciences, 49(2), 117–141.
  • Chambers Robert G. and Quiggin, John (2005), ‘Incentives and standards in agency contracts’, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 7(2), 201–228.
  • Chambers Robert G. and Quiggin, John (2005), ‘Output price subsidies in a stochastic world’, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 87(2), 501–508.
  • Chambers, Robert G. and Quiggin, John (2005), 'Linear-risk-tolerant, invariant risk preferences', Economics Letters, 86(3), 303-09.

2006

  • Grant, S. and Quiggin, J. (2006), 'The risk premium for equity: implications for resource allocation, welfare and policy', Australian Economic Papers, 45(3), 253–268.
  •  Quiggin, John and Chambers,  Robert G. (2006), ‘Capital market equilibrium with moral hazard and flexible technology’, Journal of Mathematical Economics 42, 358–363.
  • Quiggin, John and Chambers, Robert  G. (2006), 'Supermodularity and risk aversion,' Mathematical Social Sciences, 52, 1–14.
  • Quiggin, John and Chambers, Robert G. (2006), 'The state-contingent approach to production under uncertainty', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 50(2), 153–169.
  • Racionero, M.  and Quiggin, J. (2006), ‘Fixed wages and bonuses in agency contracts: the case of a continuous state space,’ Journal of Public Economic Theory, 8(5), 761–777.

2007

  • Chambers, R.G. and Quiggin, J. (2007), ‘Dual approaches to the analysis of risk aversion’, Economica, 74(294), 189–213.
  • Chambers, R.G. and Quiggin, J. (2007), ‘Information value and efficiency measurement for risk-averse firms’, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 27(3), 197–208.
  • Menezes, F. and Quiggin, J. (2007), ‘Games without rules’, Theory and Decision, 63, 315–47.
  • Quiggin, J. (2007), ‘Ambiguity and the value of information: An almost-objective events analysis’, Economic Theory, 30(3), 409–14.
  • Quiggin, J. and Chambers, R.G. (2007), ‘Supermodularity and the comparative statics of risk’, Theory and Decision, 62, 91–117.
  • Quiggin, J. and van Veelen, M. (2007), ‘Multilateral indices: Conflicting approaches’, Review of Income and Wealth, 53(2), 372–78.

2009

  • Chambers, R.G. and Quiggin, J. (2009), 'Separability of stochastic production decisions from producer risk preferences in the presence of financial markets', Journal of Mathematical Economics, 45(11), 730-37.

2010

  • O'Donnell, C., Chambers, R.G. and Quiggin, J. (2010), 'Efficiency analysis in the presence of uncertainty', Journal of Productivity Analysis, 33(1), 1-17.
  • Menezes, F. and Quiggin, J. (2010), 'Markets for influence', International Journal of Industrial Organisation, 28, 307-10.

2011

  • Nauges, C., O'Donnell, C. and Quiggin, J. (2011), 'Uncertainty and technical efficiency in Finnish agrigulture', European Review of Agricultural Economics, 38(4), 449-67

2012

  • Grant, S., Kline, J.J. and Quiggin, J. (2012), 'Differential awareness, ambiguity, and incomplete contracts: A model of contractual disputes', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 82(2-3), 494-504.
  • Menezes, F. and Quiggin, J. (2012), 'More competitors or more competition? Market concentration and the intensity of competition', Economic Letters, 117, 307-10.

2013

  • Grant, S. and Quiggin, J. (2013), 'Bounded awareness, heuristics and the Precautionary Principle', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 93, 17-31.
  • Bleichrodt, H. and Quiggin, J. (2013), 'Capabilities as menus: A non-welfarist basis for QALY evaluation', Journal of Health Economics, 32(1), 128-37.
  • Grant, S. and Quiggin, J. (2013), 'Inductive reasoning about unawareness', Economic Theory, pp. 1-39, forthcoming
  • Shankar, S. and Quiggin, J. (2013), 'Production under uncertainty - A simulation study', Journal of Productivity Analysis, 39(3) 207-215.

2014

  • Chambers, R.G., Grant, S., Polak, B. and Quiggin, J. (2014), 'A two-parameter model of dispersion aversion', Journal of Economic Theory 150, 611–41.
  • Grant, S., Kline, J.J. and Quiggin, J. (2014), ‘A matter of interpretation?: ambiguous contracts and liquidated damages’, Games and Economic Behavior, 85, 180-87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2014.01.019

2015

  • Grant, S. and Quiggin, J. (2015), ‘A preference model for choice subject to surprise’, Theory and Decision, 79(2), 167-80. DOI 10.1007/s13280-014-0495-x
  • Grant, S., Kline, J., O’Callaghan, P. and Quiggin, J. (2015), ‘Sub-models for interactive unawareness’, Theory and Decision, 79(4), 601-13. doi:10.1007/s11238-015-9485-0

2016

  • Quiggin, J. (2016), ‘The value of information and the value of awareness’, Theory and Decision, 80(2), 167-85.
  • Quiggin, J.C. and Anderson, J.R. (2016), ‘Antipodean agricultural and resource economics at 60: risk and uncertainty’, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, forthcoming,
  • Grant, S., Kline, J., Meneghel, I., Quiggin, J. and Tourky, R. (2016), ‘A theory of robust experiments for choice under uncertainty’, Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming,

Australian Public Policy Program

2004

  • Grant, S. and Quiggin, J. (2004), 'Noise trader risk and the welfare effects of privatization', Economics Bulletin, 5(9), 1-8. Download as PDF file
  • Quiggin, J. (2004), 'Risk, PPPs and the Public Sector Comparator', Australian Accounting Review, 14(2), 51-62.Download as PDF file

2005

  • Quiggin, J. (2005), ‘Public–private partnerships: options for improved risk allocation’, Policy Forum: Financing Public Infrastructure, Australian Economic Review, 38(4), 445–450. (link)
  • Quiggin, J. (2005), ‘The Y2K scare: causes, costs and cures’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 64(3), 46–55.
  • Quiggin, J. (2005), 'Running on empty', Australian Universities Review, 48(1), 2-5.
  • Quiggin, J. (2005), 'The Oil Shock of 2005', Australian Review of Public Affairs, 6(1). (link)
  • Quiggin, J. (2005), 'The equity premium and the socialist case for public ownership', Imprints: Egalitarian Theory and Practice, 8(2), 112-124.
  • Quiggin, J. (2005) 'Pharmaceuticals and intellectual property: The US-Australia FTA', Agenda, 12 (2), 145-158.

2006

  • Bell, S. and Quiggin, J. (2006), 'Asset price instability and policy responses: the legacy of liberalization', Journal of Economic Issues, XL(3),629–649.
  • Grant, S. and Quiggin, J. (2006), 'The risk premium for equity: implications for resource allocation, welfare and policy', Australian Economic Papers, 45(3), 253–268.
  • Hazeldine, T. and Quiggin, J. (2006) ‘No more free beer tomorrow? Economic policy and outcomes in Australia and New Zealand since 1984’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 41(2), 145–159.
  • Quiggin, J. (2006), 'Blogs, wikis and creative innovation', International Journal of Cultural Studies, 9(4), 481–496.
  • Quiggin, J. (2006), 'Public–private partnerships: options for improved risk allocation', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 29(3), 289–293.
  • Quiggin, J. (2006), 'Repurchase of renewal rights: a policy option for the National Water Initiative', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics,  50(3), 425–435.
  • Quiggin, J. (2006), 'Stories about productivity’, Australian Bulletin of Labour,  32(1),18–26.
  • Quiggin, J. (2006), ‘From Working Nation to Work Choices’, Parity, 19(4), 23.
  • Quiggin, J. (2006), ‘A question of adequacy’, Company Director, 21(11), 12–13.

2007

  • Sirasoontorn, P. and Quiggin, J. (2007), ‘The political economy of privatisation in the Thai electricity industry’, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 12(3), 403–19.
  • Quiggin, J. (2007), ‘Net moves from Right to Left’,  The Walkley Magazine, Issue 45, 17.

2008

  • Bell, S. and Quiggin, J. (2008), 'Beyond stop/go? Explaining Australia's long boom', Journal of Australian Political Economy, (61), 71-87.
  • Chambers, R.G. and Quiggin, J. (2008), 'Comparative statics for state-contingent technologies', Journal of Economics, 93, 203-14.
  • Chambers, R.G. and Quiggin, J. (2008), 'Narrowing the no-arbitrage bounds', Journal of Mathematical Economics, 44(1), 1-14.
  • Hunter, D. and Quiggin, J. (2008), 'Money ruins everything', Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal, 30, 203-55.
  • Osaki, Y. and Quiggin, J. (2008), Stochastic dominance representation of optimistic belief: theory and applications', Economics Letters, 101, 275-78.
  • Quiggin, J. and Potts, J. (2008), 'Economics of non-market innovation and digital literacy', Media International Australia (128), 144-50.
  • Quiggin, J. (2008), 'Amateur content production networked innovation and innovation policy', Cultural Science, 1(2.)

2009

  • Quiggin, J. and Chambers, R.G. (2009), 'Bargaining power and efficiency in insurance contracts' The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 34, 47-73.
  • Quiggin, J. (2009), 'Six refuted doctrines' Economic Papers, 28(3), 238-47.

2010

  • Chambers, R. and Quiggin, J. (2010), 'Cost minimization and the stochastic discount factor' Annals of Operations Research, 176(1), 349-68.
  • Quiggin, J. (2010),  'Bad politics makes bad policy: the case fo Queensland's asset sales programme', Economic Papers: A Journal of Applied Economics and Policy, 29(1), 13-22.
  • Quiggin, J. (2010), 'Response to J.E. King's Response to my Article 'Six Refuted Doctrines''. Economic Papers: A Journal of Applied Economics and Policy, 29(1), 40-40.
  • Quiggin, J. (2010), 'Beauty ≠ Truth? Thoughts on Krugmans's How did economicsts get it so wrong?' Agenda, 17(1), 113-8.

2011

  • Farrell, H. and Quiggin, J. (2011), 'How to Save the Euro - and the EU Reading Keynes in Brussels'. Foreign Affairs, 90(3), 96-103
  • Farrell, H. and Quiggin, J. (2011), 'Networks and Ideational Power: The Rise and Decline of Keynesianism during the Economic Crisis' World Politics
  • Freebairn, J. and Quiggin, J. (2011), 'Special Taxation of the Mining Industry', Economic Papers, 29(4), 384-396.
  • Lordan, G. and Quiggin, J. (2011), 'Should we put a thin subsidy on the policy table in the fight against obesity?' Forum for Health Economics and Policy, 14(2), Article 1.
  • Quiggin, J. (2011), 'Economic blogs', Economic Papers, 30(4), 437-440
  • Quiggin, J. (2011), 'Financial markets: masters or servants?', Politics and Society 39(3), 331-45
  • Quiggin, J. (2011), 'What have we learned from the Global Financial Crisis?', Australian Economic Review, 44(4), 355-365.

2012

  • Menezes, F. and Quiggin, J. (2012), 'More competitors or more competition? Market Concentration and the intensity of competition', Economics Letters, 117(3), 712-714
  • Quiggin, J. (2012), 'Equity between overlapping generations', Journal of Public Economic Theory, 14(2), 273-83
  • Quiggin, J. (2012), 'The Queensland Commission of Audit Interim Report: A Critical Review', Public Policy, 7(2), 125-40.

2013

  • Quiggin, J. (2013), 'The state of economics in 2012: Complacency amid crisis', Economic Record 89, 23-30.

2015

  • Quiggin, J. and Mahadevan, R. (2015), ‘The poverty burden: a measure of the difficulty of ending extreme poverty’, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 20(2), 167-77.

2016

  • Farrell, H. and Quiggin, J. (2016), ‘Consensus, Dissensus and Economic Ideas: The Rise, Fall and Partial Resurrection of Keynesianism During the Economic Crisis’, International Politics, forthcoming,

Conference Papers and Workshop Presentations

Murray-Darling Basin Program

2004

  • Quiggin, J. (2004), 'The incompleteness hypothesis and the precautionary principle', Paper presented at the 48th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Melbourne, 1013 February.
  • Quiggin, J. (2004), 'Priorities for policy and research in the National Water Initiative', National Water Initiative policy and modelling workshop jointly hosted by ABARE and the Productivity Commission, Canberra, 24 November.
  • Quiggin, J. (2004), 'Climate change and the precautionary principle', Presentation to the NSW Branch of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Sydney, 8 December.

2005

  • Adamson, D., Mallawaarachchi, T. and Quiggin, J. (2005), 'Modelling basin level allocation of water in the Murray Darling Basin in a world of uncertainty', AARES 49th Annual Conference, Coffs Harbour, 9-11 February 2005.
  • Adamson, David, Mallawaarachchi, Thilak and Quiggin, John (2005), ‘Modelling basin level allocation of water in the Murray–Darling Basin in a world of uncertainty’, Paper presented at the 49th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Coffs Harbour, 9 February.
  • Quiggin, John (2005), ‘Policy and modelling issues for sustainable management of the Murray-Darling Basin’, Presentation to the Productivity Commission, Melbourne, 17th March. 
  • Quiggin, John (2005), ‘Water pricing’, Presentation to The Brisbane Institute’s Public Seminar on ‘Governing Water in South East Queensland’, Customs House, Brisbane, 18th October 
  • Quiggin, John (2005), ‘Modelling sustainable management of the Murray–Darling Basin’ Presentation to a multidisciplinary workshop on ‘Policy Choices for Salinity Mitigation’ jointly hosted by the Bureau of Rural Sciences and the Centre for Applied Economic Research, School of Economics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2nd December.

2006

  • Adamson, David, Mallawaarachchi, Thilak and Quiggin, John (2006), ‘State-contingent modelling of the Murray–Darling Basin: implications for the design of property rights’,  Paper presented at the 50th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Sydney, 8 February.
  • Concu, Giovanni B. (2006), ‘Conservation policies, environmental valuation and the optimal size of jurisdictions’, Paper presented at the 50th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Sydney, 8–10 February.
  • Venn, Tyron and Quiggin, John (2006), ‘Accommodating indigenous cultural values in resource assessemnt: Cape York Peninsula and the Murray–Darling Basin’,  Paper presented at the 50th Annual Conference of the  Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Sydney, 10 February.
  • Neal, Mark and Fulkerson William J., (2006), ‘One size fits all?: The relationship between the value of genetic traits and the farm system’, Paper presented at the 50th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Sydney, 14 February.
  • Adamson, David (2006), ‘Implementing economics into biosecurity risk analysis: avoiding the pitfalls of uncertainty’, Paper presented at the Society for Risk Analysis Conference, University of Melbourne, 17–19 July.
  • Concu, Giovanni B. (2006), ‘Investigating distance effects on environmental values: a choice modelling approach’, Paper presented at the 26th Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, Gold Coast, 12–16 August.
  • Quiggin, John (2006), ‘The uncertain future of water policy’, Keynote address to the 35th Australian Conference of Economists, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, 27 September.

2007

  • Adamson, D. and Cook, D.  (2007), ‘Re-examining economic options for import risk assessments’, Paper presented to the 51st Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Queenstown, New Zealand, 13–16 February.
  • Adamson, D., Mallawaarachchi, T. and Quiggin, J. (2007),’ Climate change and climate uncertainty in the Murray–Darling Basin’, Paper presented to the 51st Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Queenstown, New Zealand, 13–16 February.
  • Tran, T.T., Adamson, D., Quiggin, J. and Wegener, M. (2007), ‘Climate change and its implications for irrigators in the Murray–Darling Basin’, Paper presented to the 51st Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Queenstown, New Zealand, 13–16 February

Risk and Uncertainty Program

2004

  • Grant, S. and Quiggin, J. (2004), 'Unforeseen contingencies: a propositional approach', Paper presented at FUR Conference, Paris.
  • Quiggin, J. (2004), 'Government as a manager of risk', Keynote address, Academy of Social Sciences Symposium, Canberra, 8 November.

2005

  • Quiggin, J. (2005), 'Production under uncertainty: the state-contingent approach', AARES 49th Annual Conference, Coffs Harbour, 9-11 February 2005.
  • Quiggin, John (2005), ‘State-contingent technologies’, Paper presented to the 49th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Coffs Harbour, 11 February.
  • Quiggin, John (2005), ‘Consistent Bayesian updating with unforeseen contingencies’, Paper presented at the 23rd Australasian Economic Theory Workshop, University of Auckland, Auckland NZ, 23 February.
  • Quiggin, John (2005), ‘Consumers attitude to risk’, Presentation at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Roundtable on Consumers and Competition, Melbourne, 18th March.
  • Quiggin, John (2005), ‘Research and discovery: unforeseen contingencies and the economic analysis of uncertainty’, Paper presented to the Economic Society of Australia’s 34th Conference of Economists, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 28 September.
  • Quiggin, John (2005), ‘The precautionary principle and the theory of choice under uncertainty’, Presentation to the Environmental Panel of a workshop on ‘World of Risk: New Approaches to Global Risk Society’ hosted by the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 30th September.

2006

  • Quiggin, John (2006), ‘Learning and Discovery’, Paper presented to the 12th International Conference on the Foundations and Applications of Utility, Risk and Decision Theory (FUR XII 2006), Rome, 26 June and Workshop on Risk, Utility and Decision (RUD), Paris, 30 June.
  • Quiggin, John (2006), ‘Risk and uncertainty in agricultural economics and agricultural policy’, Symposium No. 3 at the 26th Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, Gold Coast, 14 August.

2007

  • Menezes, F. and Quiggin, J. (2007), ‘Can game theory be saved?’ Paper presented to the 2007 Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4 July.
  • Grant, Simon, Kline, Jeff and Quiggin, J. (2007), ‘Lost in translation: honest misunderstandings and ex post disputes’, Paper presented at the 2007 Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 6 July.

Australian Public Policy Program

2003

  • Bell, S. and Quiggin, J. (2003), 'Asset bubbles, financial instability and policy responses: the legacy of liberalisation, Paper presented to the Australian Political Studies Association Conference, Hobart, 29 September-1 October.'

2004

  • Quiggin, J. (2004), 'Risk, discounting and the evaluation of public investment projects', Bureau of Transport and Resource Economics, Canberra.

2005

  • Quiggin, John (2005), ‘Social capital and open content’, Paper presented to the ‘Open Content Licencing (OCL): Cultivating the Creative Commons’ Conference hosted by Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 18 January.
  • Quiggin, John (2005), ‘Government, market and citizen: from Adam Smith to Peter Beattie’, Presentation to the Institute of Public Administration (Qld Division) 2005 IPAA Four Seasons Seminar Series, Brisbane, 9th March. 
  • Quiggin, John (2005), ‘Untangling the web of Commonwealth/State/Local government funding — what did your GST buy?’, Presentation at the Housing Industry Association’s Home and Building Expo, Brisbane, 26th May
  • Quiggin, John (2005), ‘Blogs, wikis and the creative commons’, Presentation to the 2005 Adelaide Festival of Ideas, Adelaide, 10th July. 
  • Quiggin, John (2005), ‘Macroeconomic outlook: social implications and risks’, Presentation for the Economists’ Panel discussion at the Finance and Treasury Association’s 18th Annual Congress on ‘Building Corporate Sustainability’, Brisbane, 20th October. 
  • Quiggin, John (2005), ‘The Information Revolution and the post-economic society’, Presentation of the Giblin lecture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 26th October. 
  •  Quiggin, John (2005), ‘What next for Telstra?' Presentation to the Communications Research and Strategy Forum sponsored by Communication and Media Policy Institute, University of Canberra, Network Insight Institute and Smart Internet Technology CRC, University of NSW, Sydney, 21st November. 
  • Quiggin, John (2005), ‘The (un)sustainability of trade and current account deficits’, Presentation to the Economics Society of Australia (Queensland Branch) Christmas function, Brisbane, 24th November.
  • Quiggin, John (2005), ‘The future of oil’, Presentation to the Brisbane Institute, Brisbane, 25th November. 
  • Quiggin, John (2005), ‘Biodiversity trading: environmental saviour or disaster? Can we make biodiversity trading work?’ Presentation at an event jointly sponsored by the Ecological Society of Australian and ABC Science Outreach (recorded for broadcast for Radio National), University of Queensland, Brisbane, 29th November.
  • Quiggin, John (2005), ‘Employment in remote Aboriginal communities: a regional development perspective’, Presentation to the Ngiya Think Tank Workshop, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology, Sydney, 4th December.
  • Quiggin, John (2005), ‘Economic liberalism: fall, revival and resistance,’ Academy of Social Sciences in Australia Symposium on ‘Ideas and Influence: Social Science and Public Policy in Australia’, Canberra, 7th November.

2006

  • Quiggin, John (2006), ‘Employment in remote Aboriginal communities: a regional development perspective’,  Invited paper presented to a session on ‘Applied econometrics in small populations: issues for measuring indigenous disadvantage’ at the Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Alice Springs, 5 July.

2007

  • Quiggin, J. (2007), ‘Prevention, early intervention and the  Smart State’, Presentation to the Queensland Council of Social Service (QCOSS) Conference  on ‘Poverty, prosperity and progress: ensuring the inclusion of all Queenslanders’, Brisbane, 26 March.

Books

2012

  • Quiggin, J, Mallawaarachchi, T & Chambers, S (eds) 2012, Water policy reform: lessons in sustainability from the Murray-Darling Basin Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, Massachusetts, USA.

2014

  • Quiggin, J, Adamson, D & Quiggin, D (eds) 2014, Carbon Pricing: Early Experience and Future Prospects, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA.

Book Chapters

Murray-Darling Basin Program

2014

  • Loch, A, Wheeler, SA & Adamson, D 2014, 'People versus place in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin: Balancing economic, social, ecosystem and community outcomes', in V Squires, H Milber, M. & K Daniell (eds), River Basin Management in the Twenty-First Century: Understanding People and Place, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, pp. 275-303.

Risk and Uncertainty Program

2006

  • Quiggin, J. (2006), ‘Risk, discounting and the public sector’ in Pannell,  Dave and Schilizzi, Steven (eds) Economics and the Future: Time and Discounting in Private and Public Decision Making, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 57–68.

2007

  • Quiggin, J. & Grant, S. (2007), ‘Conjectures, refutations and discoveries: Incorporating new knowledge in models of belief and choice under uncertainty’, pp. 9–25 in Uncertainty and risk: Mental, formal, experimental representations, (Eds, Abdellaoui, M., et al.) Springer, Heidelberg.

2008

  • Quiggin, J (2008), 'Economists and uncertainty', pp 195-204 in Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary perspectives (Eds, Bammer, G. and Smithson, M) Earthscan , London.
  • Quiggin, J (2008), 'Uncertainty, risk and water management in Australia', pp. 61-73 in Water Policy in Australia: The Impact of Change and Uncertainty (Ed. Crase, L). Resources for the Future Press, Washington, DC.

2010

  • Marston, G., Moss, J. and Quiggin, J. (2010), 'Introduction: Shifting risk?' pp. vii-xvi in Risk, Welfare and Work (Eds. Marston, G., Moss, J. and Quiggin, J.). Melbourne University Press, Carlton Victoria.
  • Quiggin, J. (2010), 'Government as the ultimate risk manager', pp. 30-32 in Jobs, Industry and Opportunity: Growth Strategies after the Crisis. Policy Network (Progressive Governanace), London.
  • Quiggin, J. (2010), 'Risk shifts in Australia: implications of the financial crisis', pp. 3-23 in Risk Welfare and Work (Eds. Marston, G., Moss, J. and Quiggin, J.) Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria.

2011

  • Quiggin J. (2011), 'Managing Risk in the Murray-Darling Basin' in Basin Futures: Water Reform in the Murray-Darling Basin (Eds. Connell, D. and Grafton, Q.) ANU E Press, Canberra.

Australian Public Policy Program

2004

  • Quiggin, J. (2004), 'Economic policy' in Manne, R, (ed.) The Howard Years, Black Inc. Agenda, Melbourne, pp. 169190.
  • Quiggin, J. (2004), 'Electricity privatisation in Victoria: fiscal and economic impacts' in Hodge G., Sands V., Hayward D. and Scott D. (eds) Power Progress: An Audit of Australia's Electricity Reform Experiment, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 109123.
  • Quiggin, J. (2004), 'The economic policy debate' in Boreham, P., Stokes, G. and Hall, R. (eds), The Politics of Australian Society: Political Issues for the New Century (2nd edn). Pearson Longman, Sydney, pp. 263277.
  • Quiggin, J. (2004), 'The Australian economy in the 21st century' in Crompton, P. (ed.) The Politics of Australian Macroeconomic Policy Debates: Contributions from the Shann Memorial Lectures 19912000, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, pp. 277291.

2005

  • Quiggin, J. (2005), ‘Economic liberalism: fall, revival and resistance’ in Saunders, P. and Walter, J. (eds), Ideas and Influence: Social Science and Public Policy in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 21–43.

2006

  • Bell, S. and Quiggin, J. (2006), 'Employment policy: unemployment and labour market insecurity' in McLelland, Alison and Smyth, Paul (eds) Social Policy in Australia: Understanding for Action, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp.147–160.
  • Chapman, B., Freiberg, A., Quiggin, J. and Tait, D. (2006), 'Criminal reparations: using the tax system to collect fines’, in Chapman, Bruce (ed.), Government Managing Risk: Income Contingent Loans for Social and Economic Progress, Palgrave Macmillan, Sydney,  pp.140–156.
  • Quiggin, J. (2006), ‘Economic constraints on public policy’ in Moran, Michael, Rein, Martin and Goodin, Robert E. (eds), Oxford Handbook of Public Policy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 526–539.
  • Quiggin, J. (2006), 'Five observations on financing health care', in Grewal, Bhajan S and Kumnick, Margarita (eds) Engaging the New World: Responses to the Knowledge Economy, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne pp. 222–237.
  • Quiggin, J. (2006), 'Globalisation: macroeconomic management and public finance' in Islam, Iyanatul and Hossain, Moazzem (eds), Globalisation and the Asia–Pacific: Contested Perspectives and Diverse Experiences, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK,  pp. 60–72.
  • Quiggin, J. (2006), 'Economic blogs and blog economics' in Bruns, Axel and Jacobs, Joanne (eds), Uses of Blogs, Peter Lang Publishing, New York, pp. 69–79.
  • Quiggin, J. (2006), 'Republican war on science: introduction to a seminar’, in Holbo, John (ed.), Looking For a Fight: Is There a Republican War on Science?, Parlor Press, West Lafayette, Indiana, pp. 3–4.
  • Quiggin, J. (2006), 'Worldwide war on science’, in Holbo, John (ed.), Looking For a Fight: Is There a Republican War on Science?, Parlor Press, West Lafayette, Indiana, pp.14–22.
  • Quiggin, J. (2006), 'War over science or war on science’, in Holbo, John (ed.), Looking For a Fight: Is There a Republican War on Science?, Parlor Press, West Lafayette, Indiana, pp. 79–81.
  • Quiggin, J. (2006), 'The end of the public sector debate’, in Sheil, Christopher (ed.), The State of the States: The State of the Public Sector, Evatt Foundation, University of New South Wales, Sydney,  pp. 49–61.

2007

  • Quiggin, J. (2007), ‘Internet and innovation’, pp. 150–55. in Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons, (Ed, Fitzgerald, B.) Sydney University Press, Sydney.

2008

  • Quiggin, J. (2008), 'Employment and innovation in the information economy' pp. 175-187 in Knowledge Policy: Challenges for the 21st Century (Eds. Hearn G. and Rooney, D.) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.
  • Quiggin, J. (2008), 'Is creative capitalism illegal?' pp. 77-79 in Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and other Economic Leaders (Eds. Kinsley, M. and Clark, C.) Simon and Schuster, New York.
  • Quiggin, J. (2008), 'Putting creativity back into creative capitalism', pp. 284-286 in Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and other Economic Leaders (Eds. Kinsley, M. and Clark, C.) Simon and Schuster, New York.

2009

  • Bell, S. and Quiggin, J. (2009), 'Unemployment policy: unemployment, underemployment and labour market insecurity', pp. 145-157 in Social Policy in Australia: Understanding for Action (2nd edn), (Eds. McClelland, A. and Smyth, P.) Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
  • Gruen, N. and Quiggin, J. (2009), 'Boiling frogs and black swans: How resilient is our economy  - and how could we improve its resilience?' pp. 41-46 in Brighter Prospects: Enhancing the Resilience of Australia, (Ed. Cork, S.) Australia21 Shaping the Future, Canberra.

2010

  • Quiggin, J. (2010), 'Australia and the Global Financial Crisis', pp. 99-123 in Goodbye to All That, (Eds. Manne, R. and McKnight, D) Black Inc. Agenda, Melbourne.
  • Quiggin, J. (2010), 'Lessons from the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement', pp. 98-108 in No Ordinary Deal: Unmasking the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement (Ed. Kelsey, J.) Bridget Williams Books with the New Zealand Law Foundation, Wellington, New Zealand.
  • Quiggin, J. (2010), 'Surviving the next crisis', in More Than Luck: Ideas Australia Needs Now, (Eds, Davis, M. and Lyons, M.) Centre for Policy Development Sydney.
  • Adamson, D 2010, 'Quarantine and Food Safety Issues in a TPPA', in J Kelsey (ed.), No Ordinary Deal: Unmasking Free Trade and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal, Bridget Williams Books Ltd., Wellington, pp. 124-35.

2011

  • Quiggin, J. (2011), 'The Economics of New Media' in Blackwell Companion to New Media Dynamics, (Eds. Bruns, A., Burgess, J. and Hartley, J.) Blackwell, London.
  • Quiggin, J. (2011), 'Making it work' in (Eds. Quiggin, J., Chambers, S. and Mallawaarachchi, T.) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
  • Quiggin, J. (2011), 'The Lost Golden Age of Productivity Growth' Wrap up discussion in 2011 Conference. Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney.

2014

  • Adamson, D, Zalucki, MP & Furlong, MJ 2014, 'Pesticides and integrated pest management: practice, practicality and policy in Australia', in R Pershin & D Pimentel (eds), Integrated Pest Management- Experiences with Implementation, Global Overview, Volume 4, Springer, pp. 387-411, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-7802-3.