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Working Papers

2020

1. Australia’s Forgotten Copper Mining Boom: Understanding How South Australia Avoided Dutch Disease, 1843-1850
   Working Papers, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Australia’s Forgotten Copper Mining Boom: Understanding How South Australia Avoided Dutch Disease, 1843–1850, The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia (2021) View citations (3) (2021)
2. Did Speculation in Land Pay Off for British Investors? Buying and Selecting Land in South Australia, 1835-1850
   Working Papers, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics
   Also in CEH Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic History, Research School of Economics, Australian National University (2018)
   Working Papers, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics (2018)
3. South Australia’s Employment Relief Program for Assisted Immigrants: Promises and Reality, 1838-1843
   CEH Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic History, Research School of Economics, Australian National University View citations (2)
4. South Australia’s Employment Relief Program for Assisted Immigrants: Promises and Reality, 1838-1843
   Working Papers, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics View citations (1)
5. Understanding the Gains to Capitalists from Colonization: Lessons from Robert E. Lucas, Jr., Karl Marx and Edward Gibbon Wakefield
   Working Papers, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics
   See also Journal Article Understanding the gains to capitalists from colonization: Lessons from Robert E. Lucas, Jr., Karl Marx and Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2021) View citations (1) (2021)

2019

6. Prices, Wages, and Welfare in Early Colonial South Australia, 1836-1850
   Working Papers, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics View citations (1)
   Also in Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics (2019) View citations (1)

2013

7. A preliminary examination of the effects of credit instruments on de facto and de jure political power: lien laws in the postbellum United States South and nineteenth century New South Wales, Australia
   CEH Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic History, Research School of Economics, Australian National University

2011

8. DE FACTO AND DE JURE PROPERTY RIGHTS:LAND SETTLEMENT AND LAND CONFLICT ON THE BRAZILIAN FRONTIER IN THE 19THCENTURY
   Anais do XXXVIII Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 38th Brazilian Economics Meeting], ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics]
9. Does franchise extension reduce short-run economic growth? Evidence from New South Wales, 1862-1882
   Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics View citations (1)

2010

10. Estimating Residential Water Demand using the Stone-Geary Functional Form: the Case of Sri Lanka*
    Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article Estimating Residential Water Demand Using the Stone-Geary Functional Form: The Case of Sri Lanka, Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer (2012) View citations (24) (2012)
11. Scarcity and the Evolution of Water Rights in the Nineteenth Century: the Role of Climate and Asset Type
    Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics View citations (2)

2009

12. De Facto and De Jure Property Rights: Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers
    CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Economics, Australian National University View citations (18)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2009) View citations (20)
13. The effects of centrally determined water prices on irrigation water demand: evidence from the Victorian State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, 1908-1984
    Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics

2008

14. THE PERSISTENCE OF CORRELATIVE WATER RIGHTS IN COLONIAL AUSTRALIA: A THEORETICAL CONTRADICTION?
    Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics View citations (2)

2007

15. DAMS AND DISPUTES: WATER INSTITUTIONS IN COLONIAL NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, 1850-1870
    Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics View citations (1)

2006

16. LOBBYING FOR LEGISLATION: AN EXAMINATION OF WATER RIGHTS TRANSITION IN COLONIAL VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA 1840-1886
    Monash Economics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Economics

2005

17. An Analysis of Watermove Water Markets
    Monash Econometrics and Business Statistics Working Papers, Monash University, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics View citations (3)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Did Different Rules for Establishing Property Rights in Land Impact Development? Evidence from Colonial South Australia, 1837-1910
   Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 2025, 181, (2), 298-342

2021

2. Australia’s Forgotten Copper Mining Boom: Understanding How South Australia Avoided Dutch Disease, 1843–1850
   The Economic Record, 2021, 97, (318), 424-439 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper Australia’s Forgotten Copper Mining Boom: Understanding How South Australia Avoided Dutch Disease, 1843-1850, Working Papers (2020) View citations (1) (2020)
3. Understanding the gains to capitalists from colonization: Lessons from Robert E. Lucas, Jr., Karl Marx and Edward Gibbon Wakefield
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 187, (C), 348-359 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Understanding the Gains to Capitalists from Colonization: Lessons from Robert E. Lucas, Jr., Karl Marx and Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Working Papers (2020) (2020)

2020

4. Sumner La Croix, Hawai'i: Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019
   Australian Economic History Review, 2020, 60, (2), 276-279

2016

5. Conditions of Successful Land Reform: A Study of Micronesia
   Australian Economic History Review, 2016, 56, (3), 292-316 View citations (1)

2014

6. Price leadership and information transmission in Australian water allocation markets
   Agricultural Water Management, 2014, 145, (C), 83-91 View citations (10)

2013

7. Price clustering in Australian water markets
   Applied Economics, 2013, 45, (6), 677-685 View citations (16)
8. Why Australia Prospered: The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth. By Ian W. McLean. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2013. Pp. ix, 281. $35.00, hardcover
   The Journal of Economic History, 2013, 73, (3), 896-898

2012

9. Estimating Residential Water Demand Using the Stone-Geary Functional Form: The Case of Sri Lanka
   Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2012, 26, (8), 2283-2299 View citations (24)
   See also Working Paper Estimating Residential Water Demand using the Stone-Geary Functional Form: the Case of Sri Lanka*, Monash Economics Working Papers (2010) (2010)
10. The Development of Property Rights on Frontiers: Endowments, Norms, and Politics
    The Journal of Economic History, 2012, 72, (3), 741-770 View citations (30)

2011

11. The Impact of Institutional Path Dependence on Water Market Efficiency in Victoria, Australia
    Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2011, 25, (15), 4069-4080 View citations (10)

2009

12. Market depth in an illiquid market: applying the VNET concept to Victorian water markets
    Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16, (13), 1361-1364 View citations (6)

2008

13. COLONIALISM AND LONG‐RUN GROWTH IN AUSTRALIA: AN EXAMINATION OF INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN VICTORIA'S WATER SECTOR DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
    Australian Economic History Review, 2008, 48, (3), 266-279 View citations (1)
14. DISORDER WITH LAW: A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF VIOLENCE IN RESPONSE TO WATER RIGHTS VIOLATION IN COLONIAL NEW SOUTH WALES
    Economic Papers, 2008, 27, (2), 135-145
15. Efficiency gains from water markets: Empirical analysis of Watermove in Australia
    Agricultural Water Management, 2008, 95, (4), 391-399 View citations (43)

2007

16. Historical regulation of Victoria's water sector: A case of government failure?
    Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2007, 51, (3), 10 View citations (2)
    Also in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2007, 51, (3), 343-352 (2007) View citations (3)
17. INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: THE EVOLUTION OF WATER RIGHTS IN VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA 1850–1886
    Economic Papers, 2007, 26, (2), 118-127 View citations (3)

Chapters

2024

1. Cliometric Contributions to Australia’s Economic History
   Springer

2011

2. Property Rights, Land Settlement and Land Conflict on Frontiers: Evidence from Australia, Brazil and the US
   Chapter 1 in Research Handbook on the Economics of Property Law, 2011 View citations (2)