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DR JOHN FALLON - DIRECTOR
John’s areas of expertise encompass economic regulation, competition policy, industrial economics, international economics, public enterprise reform, public finance, economic development, macroeconomics, quantitative analysis, and economic modelling. John has advised and acted as an expert witness on a wide range of economic regulation and governance matters, including in several high profile cases. He has particular expertise in regulatory arrangements for private and public monopoly-type entities. He has also supervised projects assessing the commercial and economy-wide benefits of major investments, particularly infrastructure investments. John has also been the lead consultant and team leader for many ADB, AusAID and World Bank economic development projects, particularly in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. Prior to becoming a consultant, John worked at the OECD on macroeconomic issues, at the Industry Commission (now the Productivity Commission) on economic reforms, at the Queensland Treasury on public enterprise issues and early in his career at the Reserve Bank of Australia. John has published numerous articles on public policy issues. DR DENIS LAWRENCE — DIRECTOR
Denis has played a key role in the regulation, benchmarking and performance measurement of infrastructure enterprises. He pioneered the use of analytically based performance measurement in the regulation of infrastructure enterprises in Australia and New Zealand. He also has wide experience in public policy issues spanning microeconomic reform and the impact of reforms on growth at the business and economy wide level. Denis has advised Australian and overseas regulators and utilities on a wide range of quantitative and strategic issues in the energy, telecommunications, postal and transport sectors. Key projects where Denis has played a leading role include:
Denis has also advised regulators and utilities in Canada, Saudi Arabia and Hong Kong. Prior to joining Economic Insights, Denis was a Director of Meyrick and Associates and held senior executive positions in the Bureau of Industry Economics and the Industry Commission. PROFESSOR ERWIN DIEWERT — ASSOCIATE
Erwin Diewert is an Associate of Economic Insights and Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Erwin is recognised as one of the world's foremost experts on productivity and performance measurement where his contributions over the last 30 years have laid the foundations for modern index number and duality theory, the underpinnings of total factor productivity measurement. Erwin has made major contributions in efficiency and productivity analysis, index number theory, price level measurement, trade theory, taxation reform, applications of duality theory, general equilibrium modelling, the measurement of waste and welfare, and functional form problems in producer and consumer theory. He has published over 80 separate papers in the world's leading economics journals, has authored 10 books and made major contributions to another 100 books. Erwin is also a leading analyst of regulatory issues and in particular in:
Erwin has provided expert testimony for the Association of American Railways, the British Columbia Telephone Company, the New York Public Service Commission and the Bell Telephone Company of Canada. PROFESSOR TIM COELLI — ASSOCIATE
Tim Coelli is an Associate of Economic Insights and a Partner in Coelli Economic Consulting Services. Prior to 2009, he was Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland where he was and still remains one of Australia's most highly cited academic economists, in particular in the productivity and efficiency analysis field. He has authored five books on the subject and has over 40 related articles in leading academic journals. He has authored a number of widely used computer programs for calculating total factor productivity indices and measuring efficiency levels using stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis. Tim has undertaken numerous productivity and efficiency analysis consulting projects in areas as diverse as electricity distribution, water supply, telecommunications, defence, national parks, health and aged care, tertiary education and agriculture. His clients include Electricité de France, the World Bank, Telstra, NSW Treasury, Water Supply Association of Australia and the Royal Australian Navy. Tim has lectured in theoretical and applied econometrics to undergraduate and graduate students for more than twenty years. He has also presented many training courses on productivity and efficiency analysis and has refereed articles in over 70 leading academic journals. He has held visiting positions at universities in Belgium, Spain and the UK. JOHN KAIN — ASSOCIATE
John Kain is an Associate of Economic Insights and Principal of Erldunda Associates. John has extensive distribution engineering experience at both technical and management levels having served as Chief Engineer of ACT Electricity and Water. Since leaving ACTEW John has consulted to a wide range of distributors and regulators on price setting and cost analysis. John is a former Board Member of Australia's National Electricity Code Administrator. John helps to ensure that our energy team combines solid 'top down' economic modelling skills and sound 'bottom up' power distribution engineering experience. Key projects where John has played a leading role include:
John's most recent assignments include:
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