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Research Associates

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Mark Berry
Mark Berry is a barrister with Barristers.Comm and a Research Associate of ISCR, having formerly been a partner of Bell Gully Buddle Weir, a consultant for Chapman Tripp, and deputy chairman of the NZ Commerce Commission. Mark is co-author of Gault on Commercial Law, and has published on a range of competition law topics in US, Australian and New Zealand law journals.

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Matt Burgess
Matt Burgess began his career with Telecom and subsequently worked for Charles River Associates in Wellington and California. He now lives in Christchurch - where he developed and operates the mytradesman website - and is a Research Associate of ISCR. Matt has specialist interests in industrial organisation and microeconomics.

During 2006, he worked with Glenn Boyle on a project for ACC analysing the cost effectiveness of a falls prevention programme. He is currently Manager of ipredict - a NZ-focused predictions market owned by ISCR and Victoria University of Wellington.

 

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Eric Crampton

Eric Crampton is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Canterbury. His main research interests are in public economics and public choice theory. He intends to make use of iPredict data to answer questions about voter behaviour and preferences.

For more information on Eric, please visit his homepage.

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Phillip Gumby

Phillip Gumby, is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Canterbury and a Research Associate of ISCR. His special interests are  the economics of education, the economics of information and  contracts, industrial organisation, and the economics of technological  change.

With Alan Woodfield, he is currently working on an ISCR-funded project "Competition for students in a regulated school environment: the role of information."

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Tim Hazeldine

Tim Hazeldine is Professor of Economics at the University of Auckland and a Research Associate of ISCR. Before returning to New Zealand in 1992, he was a Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and also served in the T. D. MacDonald Chair in Industrial Economics at the Bureau of Competition Policy in Ottawa.

During 2005-06, he worked on an ISCR-funded project "Pricing and Competition in Australasian Air Travel Markets."

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Roger Stover

Roger Stover is Professor of Finance and the Iowa Bankers Association Fellow at Iowa State University where he teaches graduate courses on financial decision making for managers. He is the author of numerous articles focusing on the roles banks play in the financial markets, both in the U.S. and internationally. His current research focuses on governance issues in banks and topics involving the structure of syndicated lending. Prior to an academic career, he was with the First National Bank of Chicago.

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Alan Woodfield

Alan Woodfield is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Canterbury and a Research Associate of ISCR. His main research interests are in applied microeconomics, particularly imperfect information, law and economics, industrial organization and strategic decision-making, and regulation.

With Philip Gumby, he is currently working on an ISCR-funded project "Competition for students in a regulated school environment: the role of information."

 

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