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Staff Profile

Prof Harry Clarke Title: Professor of Economics Department: Economics and Finance Location: Donald Whitehead Building Room 424 Tel: +61 3 9479 1732 Email: h.clarke@latrobe.edu.au Fax: +61 3 9479 5971

Harry Clarke, BA  (Hons 1) Macq, M.Ec ANU, PhD ANU

After gaining his PhD in international macroeconomics from the Australian National University in 1979, Harry Clarke worked for eight years as a development economist at the Asian Institute of Technology.  In 1987 he came to La Trobe University where he has taught since. Harry was appointed Reader in Economics in 1991 and Professor of Economics in 2005.

Harry now works as an applied microeconomist and consultant. His particular interests are in business economics, the strategic analysis of public and private sector management and public policy.  He has published over 90 papers and two books in these areas. His major current interests are in teaching courses on strategy analysis and game theory to business managers as well as resource and environmental economic problems. His recent research has been concerned with network economics, institutional aspects of managing biodiversity regulation and the economic analysis of health and substance abuse issues.

• Go to Harry Clarke's Curriculum Vitae [updated November 2005, PDF 93 KB]
• Classical Decision Rules and Adaptation to Climate Change [PDF 163 KB]
• Thinking About Alcohol Policy [PDF 71 KB]
• Comment on James Giesecke [PDF 17 KB]
• Conserving Biodiversity in the Face of Climate Change [PDF 69 KB]
• Talking Rationally About Rational Addiction [PDF 87 KB]
• Targeting Urban Congestion: Equity and Second-Best Issues [PDF 52 KB]

Teaching

• La Trobe University 1998 - current
  Intermediate Microeconomics; Microeconomic Theory (Honours); Public Economics; Public Policy (Honours)
• University of Melbourne 2000-
  Competition and Strategy; Environmental Economics 

Research: Education policies; tourism demand, marketing and public policies; motor vehicle industry; health economics and illicit drug management; network economics; biodiversity conservation.

Joint holder with Professor Peter Bardsley (University of Melbourne) of a large Australian Research Council Grant (2005 - 2007): Harm Minimisation Policies and the Economics of Controlling Illicit Drug Use. Please visit the Project's website at: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~efdrgs/.

Consulting: Applied microeconomics; business strategy; public economics; health economics; economics of tourism; population; fertility and immigration economics

Recent Publications:

• An Economic Framework for Traffic Planning in Greater Melbourne
• Addictive Drug Use Management in a Long Term Economic Model

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