Professor Kieron Meagher
Areas of expertise
- Microeconomic Theory 140104
- Industry Economics And Industrial Organisation 140209
- Applied Economics 1402
Research interests
Organizational Economics, especially hierarchies and decsion making/managment in firms.
Political Economy, especially public provision of infrastructure, political parties and voting theory.
Spatial Competition
Biography
Kieron Meagher received an MA (Hons.) in pure mathematics from Waikato University and a PhD in Economics from the Australian National University. Kieron's research is focused in the fields of Industrial Organization, Organizational Economics and Political Economy and he has published in a number of international journals including Journal of Economic Theory, Economic Theory, Journal of Law, Economics & Organization and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. His research interests include decision making and management in firms; spatial competition, public-private partnerships, the political economy of infrastructure investment and the formation of political parties.
Kieron has consulted for Woolworths on regulation issues and for Telstra on telecoms policy. He has worked with over 100 firms and government organizations to improve their performance. He is also one of the authors of the government funded Society for Knowledge Economics report High Performing Workplaces. The report can be accessed via: http://www.innovation.gov.au/skills/SkillsTrainingAndWorkforceDevelopment/Documents/SKEHPW.pdf.
Researcher's projects
LARGE COMPETITIVE GRANTS
$515,000, DEEWR Grant, “Leadership, Culture and Management Practices for High Performing Workplaces in Australia”, (with Christina Boedker (Accounting, UNSW), Richard Vidgen (SISTM, UNSW), Julie Cogin and Peter Sheldon (O&M, UNSW), Jan Mouritsen (Copenhagen Business School and Peter Langford (Macquarie)). (2010- 2013).
$2,250,000 ARC Network Grant, “The Economic Design Network: Practical Policy Tools for Industry, Infrastructure, Services and the Environment” . Founding member and steering committee member of the ARC Economic Design Network. RN0458466 (2005-2009).
$230,000 “Market Contingent Hierarchies: Theory and Evidence” ARC Discovery grant DP0556363 (2005-2007).
Publications
- Meagher, K, Wong, A & Zauner, K 2020, 'A competitive analysis of fail fast: Shakeout and uncertainty about consumer tastes', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 177, no. -, pp. 589-600.
- Katayama, H, Meagher, K & Wait, A 2018, 'Authority and communication in firms', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 155, pp. 315-348pp.
- Boedker, C, Meagher, K, Vidgen, R et al 2017, 'Doing more with less: productivity or starvation? The Intellectual Asset Health Check', Public Money and Management, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 31-38pp.
- Meagher, K & Prasad, S 2016, 'Career concerns and team talent', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 129, pp. 1-17.
- Ghosh, A & Meagher, K 2015, 'The politics of infrastructure investment: The role of product market competition', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 119, pp. 308-329.
- Meagher, K & Wait, A 2014, 'Delegation of Decisions about Change in Organizations: The roles of competition, trade, uncertainty and scale', Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, November 30 (4), 709-733.
- Meagher, K & Wang, W 2014, 'Firm Organization and Market Structure: Centralization vs. Decentralization', Organizational Economics Proceedings, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-23.
- Meagher, K, Teo, E & Xie, T 2014, 'Socially-Optimal Locations of Duopoly Firms with Non-Uniform Consumer Densities', Theoretical Economics Letters, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 431-445.
- Meagher, K & Strachan, R 2013, 'Gaussian Process: A Smooth and Flexible Approach to Estimating Index Complementarities in Organizational Economics', Organizational Economics Proceedings, Vol. 2, No. 1.
- Walshaw, R & Meagher, K 2013, 'Vertical Integration and Capacity Competition in Electricity Markets', Organizational Economics Proceedings, vol. 2, no. 1.
- Meagher, K 2012, 'Optimal product variety in a Hotel ling model', Economics Letters, vol. 117, no. 1, pp. 71-73.
- Meagher, Kieron and Suraj Prasad (2012) “Optimal Incentives in Problem Solving Teams”, Organizational Economics Proceedings, Vol. 1, No. 1. http://ojs-prod.library.usyd.edu.au/index.php/OEW/article/view/6708/7358
- Ghosh, A, Meagher, K & Teo, E 2011, 'Integration of Asymmetric Nations', Economic Record, vol. 87, no. 277, pp. 221-234.
- Meagher, K & Zauner, K 2011, 'Uncertain spatial demand and price flexibility: a state space approach to duopoly', Economics Letters, vol. 113, no. 1, pp. 26-28.
- Boedker C., Cogin J., Langford P., Meagher K., Mouritsen J., Runnalls J. M., Sheldon P., Simmons S. and Vidgen R. (2011), Leadership, Culture and Management Practices of High Performing Workplaces in Australia: Literature Review and Firm Diagnostics. Funded by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Published by the Society for Knowledge Economics, January, 2011. 168 pages. ISBN: 978-0-9775436-2-5.
- Boedker C., Vidgen R., Meagher K., Cogin J., Mouritsen J., and Runnalls J. M. (2011) Leadership, Culture and Management Practices of High Performing Workplaces in Australia: High Performing Workplace Index. Funded by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Published by the Society for Knowledge Economics, October, 2011. 65 pages. ISBN: 978-0-9775436-3-2.
- Meagher, K & Whelan, S 2011, 'Confidentiality is Not Enough: Framing Effects in Student Evaluation of Economics Teaching', International Review of Economics Education, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 70-82.
- Meagher, K, Teo, E and Wang, W 2008, 'A Duopoly Location Toolkit: Consumer Densities Which Yield Unique Spatial Duopoly Equilibria' The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Vol. 8 : Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 14. http://www.bepress.com/bejte/vol8/iss1/art14
- Meagher, K and K Zauner, (2005) Location-then-Price Competition with Uncertain Consumer Tastes, Economic Theory 25(4), pp. 799-818. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/25055916]
- Meagher, K and Teo, E 2005, 'Two-part tariffs in the Online Gaming Industry: The Role of Creative Destruction and Network Externalities', Information Economics & Policy, 17,pp457-470.
- Meagher, Kieron, and Andrew Wait, (2005), "Delegation of decision making, competition and business strategy", Proceeding of the Australian Conference of Economics, 2005, ISBN 07340 26080, University of Melbourne September.
- Meagher, K & Zauner, K 2004, 'Product Differentiation and Location Decisions Under Demand Uncertainty' Journal of Economic Theory 117(2), (August), pp. 201-216.
- Meagher, K and Rogers, M 2004, 'Network density and R&D Spillovers', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 53, (February) 2, pp. 237-260.
- Meagher, K and Wilson, H 2004, 'Different firm size effects on wages for supervisors and workers' Economic Letters 84(2), pp. 225-230.
- Meagher, K, 2003, 'Generalising Incentives and Loss of Control in an Optimal Hierarchy: The Role of Information Technology'. Economic Letters, 78, 273-280.
- Meagher, K, Orbay, H and Van Zandt, T 2003, 'Hierarchy size and environmental uncertainty'. In: M. Surtel and S. Koray (Eds.) Advances in Economic Design, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2003, pp. 439-457.
- de Fontenay, C and Meagher, K 2001, 'Returns to Scale in One-Shot Information Processing When Hours Count', Review of Economic Design, 6(1), 113-124.
- Meagher, K 2001, 'The Impact Of Hierarchies on Wages', Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation 45, (August 2001) 4, 441-458.
- Meagher, K and Van Zandt, T 1998, 'Managerial Cost for One Shot Decentralised Information Processing', Review of Economic Design 3(4), pp303-328.
- Meagher, Kieron, (1996), "Efficient Hierarchies Equivalence Under Differing Employment Regimes", Proceedings of the Australian Econometric Society Meetings 1996, Vol. 1: Economic Theory, W. Schorm, M. McAleer and P. W. Miller (Eds.), The University of Western Australia, Perth, 1996, pp541-566.
