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Dr Jordi McKenzie

BEc (Hons) Tasmania, MEc Sydney, PhD Sydney
Senior Lecturer

H04 - Merewether Building
The University of Sydney

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Biographical details

Dr. Jordi McKenzie is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics. He joined the School in 2007 after being awarded his PhD (University of Sydney) in 2006. Dr. McKenzie’s research is primarily applied microeconomics and industrial organisation with a principal focus on the entertainment industries. More recently, his research has also focused on the design and application of information aggregation mechanisms (e.g. prediction markets) in the laboratory and field.
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Research interests

Applied microeconomics
Industrial organisation
Cultural economics
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Selected grants

2011

  • Nobody knows anything? Applying parimutuel prediction markets to the motion picture industry; McKenzie J, Court D, Plott C; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP).
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Selected publications

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Book Chapters

  • McKenzie, J. (2013). P2P File-Sharing: How Does Music File-Sharing Affect Recorded Music Sales in Australia? In Tschmuck, Peter; Pearce, Philip L.; Campbell, Steven (Eds.), Music Business and the Experience Economy: The Australasian Case, (pp. 79-97). Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Journals

  • McKenzie, J., Walls, W. (2013). Australian films at the Australian box office: performance, distribution, and subsidies. Journal of Cultural Economics, 37(2), 247-269.
  • Walls, W., McKenzie, J. (2012). The Changing Role of Hollywood in the Global Movie Market. Journal of Media Economics, 25(4), 198-219.
  • McKenzie, J. (2012). The Economics of Movies: A Literature Survey. Journal of Economic Surveys, 26(1), 42-70.
  • McKenzie, J. (2011). Mean absolute percentage error and bias in economic forecasting. Economics Letters, 113(3), 259-262.
  • McKenzie, J. (2010). Do 'African American' films perform better or worse at the box office? an empirical analysis of motion picture revenues and profits. Applied Economics Letters, 17(16), 1559-1564.
  • McKenzie, J. (2010). How Do Theatrical Box Office Revenues Affect DVD Retail Sales? Australian Empirical Evidence. Journal of Cultural Economics, 34(3), 159-179.
  • McKenzie, J. (2010). Movie producers and the statistical distribution of achievement. Applied Economics Letters, 17(17), 1657-1661.
  • Bullen, J., McKenzie, J. (2010). Pari-Mutuel Information Aggregation Mechanisms with Public Knowledge. The Journal of Prediction Markets, 4(2), 23-43.
  • McKenzie, J. (2009). Illegal Music Downloading and its Impact on Legitimate Sales: Australian Empirical Evidence. Australian Economic Papers, 48(4), 296-307.
  • McKenzie, J. (2009). Revealed word-of-mouth demand and adaptive supply: survival of motion pictures at the Australian box office. Journal of Cultural Economics, 33(4), 279-299.
  • McKenzie, J. (2008). Bayesian Information Transmission and Stable Distributions: Motion Picture Revenues at the Australian Box Office. The Economic Record, 84(266), 338-353.

Conferences

  • McKenzie, J. (2010). Predicting Box Office with and without Markets: Do Internet Users Know Anything?. 39th Australian Conference of Economists ACE 2010, Australia: Economic Society of Australia.
  • McKenzie, J. (2008). Underlying Seasonality in the Presence of Increasing Returns to Information: Empirical Evidence from the Australian Motion Picture Industry. 37th Australian Conference of Economists ACE 2008, Brisbane, Australia: The Economic Society of Australia (Queensland) Inc.
  • McKenzie, J. (2007). Increasing Returns to Information and Pareto's Law: New Australian Box Office Revenue Evidence. 36th Australian Conference of Economists ACE 2007, Australia: Economic Society of Australia.

2013

  • McKenzie, J., Walls, W. (2013). Australian films at the Australian box office: performance, distribution, and subsidies. Journal of Cultural Economics, 37(2), 247-269.
  • McKenzie, J. (2013). P2P File-Sharing: How Does Music File-Sharing Affect Recorded Music Sales in Australia? In Tschmuck, Peter; Pearce, Philip L.; Campbell, Steven (Eds.), Music Business and the Experience Economy: The Australasian Case, (pp. 79-97). Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

2012

  • Walls, W., McKenzie, J. (2012). The Changing Role of Hollywood in the Global Movie Market. Journal of Media Economics, 25(4), 198-219.
  • McKenzie, J. (2012). The Economics of Movies: A Literature Survey. Journal of Economic Surveys, 26(1), 42-70.

2011

  • McKenzie, J. (2011). Mean absolute percentage error and bias in economic forecasting. Economics Letters, 113(3), 259-262.

2010

  • McKenzie, J. (2010). Do 'African American' films perform better or worse at the box office? an empirical analysis of motion picture revenues and profits. Applied Economics Letters, 17(16), 1559-1564.
  • McKenzie, J. (2010). How Do Theatrical Box Office Revenues Affect DVD Retail Sales? Australian Empirical Evidence. Journal of Cultural Economics, 34(3), 159-179.
  • McKenzie, J. (2010). Movie producers and the statistical distribution of achievement. Applied Economics Letters, 17(17), 1657-1661.
  • Bullen, J., McKenzie, J. (2010). Pari-Mutuel Information Aggregation Mechanisms with Public Knowledge. The Journal of Prediction Markets, 4(2), 23-43.
  • McKenzie, J. (2010). Predicting Box Office with and without Markets: Do Internet Users Know Anything?. 39th Australian Conference of Economists ACE 2010, Australia: Economic Society of Australia.

2009

  • McKenzie, J. (2009). Illegal Music Downloading and its Impact on Legitimate Sales: Australian Empirical Evidence. Australian Economic Papers, 48(4), 296-307.
  • McKenzie, J. (2009). Revealed word-of-mouth demand and adaptive supply: survival of motion pictures at the Australian box office. Journal of Cultural Economics, 33(4), 279-299.

2008

  • McKenzie, J. (2008). Bayesian Information Transmission and Stable Distributions: Motion Picture Revenues at the Australian Box Office. The Economic Record, 84(266), 338-353.
  • McKenzie, J. (2008). Underlying Seasonality in the Presence of Increasing Returns to Information: Empirical Evidence from the Australian Motion Picture Industry. 37th Australian Conference of Economists ACE 2008, Brisbane, Australia: The Economic Society of Australia (Queensland) Inc.

2007

  • McKenzie, J. (2007). Increasing Returns to Information and Pareto's Law: New Australian Box Office Revenue Evidence. 36th Australian Conference of Economists ACE 2007, Australia: Economic Society of Australia.
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