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Associate Professor Donald Wright

BEc (Hons) Adelaide, MEc Monash, PhD UBC
Associate Professor

H04 - Merewether Building
The University of Sydney

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Biographical details

Don began his employment at the University of Sydney in 1988. His major area of research at that time was the theory of international trade. Over time, his research interests have broadened to include industrial organization and more recently health economics. Don has published widely in all three areas and has publications in the Journal of International Economics, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, and the Journal of Health Economics. Recently he has finished a three year term as the Co-editor of the Economic Record, Australia's flagship economics journal. He has also been Head of the Economics Department (now School) of the University of Sydney.

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Research interests

  • Health Economics
  • Industrial Organisation
  • International Trade
  • Economic Policy

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Selected publications

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Journals

  • Wright, D., Whelan, S. (2013). Health services use and lifestyle choices of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Social Science and Medicine, 84(May), 181-12.
  • Wright, D. (2011). Medical malpractice and physician liability under a negligence rule. International Review of Law and Economics, 31(3), 205-211.
  • Wright, D. (2007). Specialist payment schemes and patient selection in private and pubilc hospitals. Journal of Health Economics, 26(5), 1014-1026.
  • Wright, D. (2006). Insurance and Monopoly Power in a Mixed Private/Public Hospital System. The Economic Record, 82(259), 460-468.
  • Wright, D. (2005). Optimal Global Patent Design. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics-Zeitschrift fur die Gesamte Staatswissenschaft, 161(1), 18-37.
  • Wright, D. (2004). The Drug Bargaining Game: Pharmaceutical Regulation In Australia. Journal of Health Economics, 23(4), 785-813.
  • Wright, D. (2004). The Risk And Incentive Trade-Off In The Presence Of Heterogeneous Managers. Journal of Economics, 83(3), 209-223.
  • Wright, D. (2003). Managerial incentives and firm efficiency in the presence of competition for managers. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 21(3), 419-437.
  • Savage, E., Wright, D. (2003). Moral hazard and adverse selection in Australian private hospitals: 1989-1990. Journal of Health Economics, 22(3), 331-359.
  • Wright, D. (2003). Some economics of integrated and segmented markets. Review of International Economics, 11(1), 72-89.

Conferences

  • Wright, D. (2011). An Equilibrium Model of General Practitioner Payment Schemes. 40th Australian Conference of Economists ACE 2011, Canberra, Australia: Australian Conference of Economists.
  • Wright, D. (2005). Insurance and Monopoly Power in a Mixed Private/Public Hospital System. 34th Australian Conference of Economists ACE 2005, Melbourne: University of Melbourne and ACE.

2013

  • Wright, D., Whelan, S. (2013). Health services use and lifestyle choices of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Social Science and Medicine, 84(May), 181-12.

2011

  • Wright, D. (2011). An Equilibrium Model of General Practitioner Payment Schemes. 40th Australian Conference of Economists ACE 2011, Canberra, Australia: Australian Conference of Economists.
  • Wright, D. (2011). Medical malpractice and physician liability under a negligence rule. International Review of Law and Economics, 31(3), 205-211.

2007

  • Wright, D. (2007). Specialist payment schemes and patient selection in private and pubilc hospitals. Journal of Health Economics, 26(5), 1014-1026.

2006

  • Wright, D. (2006). Insurance and Monopoly Power in a Mixed Private/Public Hospital System. The Economic Record, 82(259), 460-468.

2005

  • Wright, D. (2005). Insurance and Monopoly Power in a Mixed Private/Public Hospital System. 34th Australian Conference of Economists ACE 2005, Melbourne: University of Melbourne and ACE.
  • Wright, D. (2005). Optimal Global Patent Design. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics-Zeitschrift fur die Gesamte Staatswissenschaft, 161(1), 18-37.

2004

  • Wright, D. (2004). The Drug Bargaining Game: Pharmaceutical Regulation In Australia. Journal of Health Economics, 23(4), 785-813.
  • Wright, D. (2004). The Risk And Incentive Trade-Off In The Presence Of Heterogeneous Managers. Journal of Economics, 83(3), 209-223.

2003

  • Wright, D. (2003). Managerial incentives and firm efficiency in the presence of competition for managers. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 21(3), 419-437.
  • Savage, E., Wright, D. (2003). Moral hazard and adverse selection in Australian private hospitals: 1989-1990. Journal of Health Economics, 22(3), 331-359.
  • Wright, D. (2003). Some economics of integrated and segmented markets. Review of International Economics, 11(1), 72-89.
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