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Dr David Prentice Title: Senior Lecturer Department: Economics and Finance Location: Donald Whitehead Building Room 402 Tel: +61 3 9479 1482 Email: d.prentice@latrobe.edu.au Fax: +61 3 9479 1654

BCom Melb., MCom Melb., MArts Yale, PhD Yale

David Prentice completed his PhD at Yale University in 1997. After working one year at UNSW, he joined the School of Business as a lecturer in June 1997 and was promoted to senior lecturer in 2004. He has also been a visitor at RSSS at the Australian National University, Lehigh University, UCLA and, most recently, at the University of Melbourne. His research fields are empirical industrial organization and economic history. His current projects include research on the development of the American Portland cement industry and the effects of unionisation on productivity.

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Teaching: Applied Econometrics, Marketing Economics, Public Policy.

Research Interests: Empirical Industrial Organization, Economic History, Empirical Labor Economics.

Recent Publications:

Elizabetta Magnani and David Prentice (forthcoming),  “Outsourcing and unionization: A tale of misallocated (resistance) resources”, Economic Inquiry

Elisabetta Magnani and David Prentice (2006), “Unionization and Input Flexibility in U.S. Manufacturing, 1973 – 1996”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 59(3), 386 – 407.

Clarke, Harry, David Prentice, John Shannon and Karen Wade (2006), “Population Movements in Regional Victoria”, La Trobe University, March 2006.

Michael Kremmer and David Prentice (2005), “On the Double Imputation Hedonic Price Index”, Economic Analysis and Policy, 35(1&2), 103-112

David Prentice and Xiangkang Yin (2004), “Constructing a Quality-Adjusted Price Index for a Heterogeneous Oligopoly”, The Manchester School, 72(4), 423-442.

Elisabetta Magnani and David Prentice (2003), “Did Globalization Reduce Unionization? Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing”, Labour Economics, 10(6), 705-726.