Don Wright
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Email don.wright@sydney.edu.au
phone +61 2 9351 6609
fax +61 2 9351 4341
Address Room M337
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Don Wright is currently the Co-editor of the Economic Record, the journal of the Economic Society of Australia. He was in charge of the academic program of the Australian Conference of Economists in 2004, on the organising committee for the Australasian Econometric Society meeting in 1993, and the book review editor for the Economic Record. He is also a research associate at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) at UTS Sydney.
Don predominantly works in the area of health economics, but his interests are broad and he has published articles on international trade and industrial organization as well as health economics. He has presented his work at the Royal Economics Society conference, at Econometrics Society Conferences in Europe and Latin America, and at The World Congresses of the International Health Economists Association in Barcelona and Beijing.
Research Expertise
- Health Economics
- Industrial Organisation
Research Interests
- International Trade
- Economic Policy
Publications
2011
Journal Article/s
DJ Wright 2011 'Medical Malpractice and Physician Liability Under a Negligence Rule', International Review of Law and Economics, vol.31:3, pp. 205-211
Conference Paper/s
Wright DJ 2011 'An Equilibrium Model of General Practitioner Payment Schemes', 40th Australian Conference of Economists (ACE2011), ANU Australia, 11th-14th July 2011
2009
Conference Paper/s
Wright DJ 2009 'Medical malpractice and physician liability under a negligence rule, 7th World Congress on Health Economics - "Harmonizing Health and Economics", Beijing, China, 15th July 2009
2007
Journal Article/s
Wright DJ 2007 'Specialist payment schemes and patient selection in private and public hospitals', Journal of Health Economics, vol.26:5, pp. 1014-1026
2006
Journal Article/s
Wright DJ 2006 'Insurance and Monopoly Power in a mixed Private/Public Hospital System', The Economic Record, vol.82:259, pp. 460-468 Link
2005
Journal Article/s
Wright DJ 2005 'Optimal Global Patent Design', Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, vol.161:1, pp. 18-37
Conference Proceeding/s
Wright DJ 2005 'Insurance and Monopoly Power in a Mixed Private/Public Hospital System', 34th Conference of Economists, Economic Society of Australia, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 28th September 2005 Link
2004
Journal Article/s
Wright DJ 2004 'The Drug Bargaining Game: Pharmaceutical regulation in Australia', Journal of Health Economics, vol.23, pp. 785-813 Link
Wright DJ 2004 'The Risk and Incentive Trade-off in the Presence of Heterogeneous Managers', Journal of Economics, vol.83:3, pp. 209-233 Link
2003
Journal Article/s
Wright DJ 2003 'Managerial Incentives and Firm Effiency in the Presence of Competition for Managers', International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol.21, pp. 419-439 Link
Wright DJ and Savage E 2003 'Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection in Australian Private Hospitals: 1989-90', Journal of Health Economics, vol.22, pp. 331-359
Wright DJ 2003 'Some Economics of Integrated and Segmented Markets', Review of International Economics, vol.11:1, pp. 72-89 Link
2000
Journal Article/s
Wright DJ 2000 'Corruption and government', Economic Record, vol.76:235, pp. 423-424
Internal Working Paper/s
Wright DJ 2000 'Some Economics of Integrated and Segmented Markets', Sydney University, School of Economics and Political Science
1999
Journal Article/s
Wright DJ 1999 'Optimal patent breadth and length with costly imitation', International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol.17, pp. 419-4396 Link
Wright DJ and Fisher TCG 1999 'Unionized Oligopoly and Trade Liberalization', Canadian Journal of Economics, vol.32, pp. 799-816
1998
Journal Article/s
Wright DJ 1998 'Strategic trade policy and signalling with unobservable costs', Review of International Economics, vol.6:1, pp. 105-119
1997
Internal Working Paper/s
Wright DJ 1997 'Optimal Patent Breadth and Length with Costly Imitation', Sydney University, School of Economics and Political Science, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1995
Journal Article/s
Towe J and Wright DJ 1995 'Research Published by Australian Economics and Econometrics Departments: 1988-93', Economic Record, vol.71:212, pp. 8-17
Wright DJ 1995 'Incentives, Protection, and Time Consistency', Canadian Journal of Economics, vol.28:4a, pp. 929-938
Wright DJ 1995 'Learning-by-Doing and Asymmetric Information in a Model of Monopoly Regulation', Bulletin of Economic Research, vol.47:1, pp. 39-53
Wright DJ 1995 'Permanent versus Temporary Infant Industry Assistance', The Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies, vol.63:4, pp. 426-434
1994
Journal Article/s
Wright DJ 1994 'Television Advertising Regulation and Program Quality', Economic Record, vol.70:211, pp. 361-367
Internal Working Paper/s
Towe J and Wright DJ 1994 'The Research Output of Australian Econometrics and Economics Department: 1988-1993', Department of Economics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Wright DJ 1994 'Strategic Trade Policy and Signalling with Unobservable Cost', Department of Economics, University of Sydney
1993
Journal Article/s
Wright DJ 1993 'International Technology Transfer and Per-Unit Royalties', Australian Economic Papers, vol.32:60, pp. 11-19
Wright DJ 1993 'International Technology Transfer with an Information Asymmetry and Endogenous Research and Development', Journal of International Economics, vol.35:1-2, pp. 47-67
Wright DJ 1993 'Price Discrimination with Transportation Costs and Arbitrage', Economics Letters, vol.41:4, pp. 441-445