Staff profile
Dr Bethany Cooper
Associate Lecturer
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
La Trobe Business SchoolDepartment of Marketing and Tourism and Hospitality
Albury-Wodonga
- T: +61 2 6024 9842
- F: +61 2 6024 9833
- E: b.cooper@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications
PhD, Bachelor of Business (First Class Honours)
Membership of professional Associations
Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, Australian Institutue of International Affairs
Area of study
Business
Brief Profile
Bethany is a lecturer with the School of Business at La Trobe University. She has a PhD in Economics and her fields of competence are urban water policy, consumer choice behaviour and stated preference techniques. In addition to internal recognition of her research outputs, Bethany has won Committee for Economic Development of Australia awards recognising the usefulness of her work for end users. Her PhD and subsequent research has focused on water-using behaviours in urban areas and the reaction of water users to water markets and tariff regimes. She has published several empirical studies in prestigious scholarly journals, such as the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Water Resources Research.
Research interests
Applied econometrics and forecasting
- Choice Modelling
Environmental and resource economics
- Urban Water Policy
Teaching Units
- Foundations of Marketing
- Consumer Behaviour
- Marketing for Sustainability
- Microeconomics
- Macroeconomics
- Market Research
Recent Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
Cooper, B., Rose, J. & Crase, L. (Forthcoming) Does anybody like water restrictions? Some observations in Australian urban communities, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
Cooper, B., Burton, M. & Crase, L. (Forthcoming) Urban water restrictions: avoidance and attitudes, Water Resources Research.
Cooper, B. (2009) A review of “Choice Experiments Informing Environmental Policy”, by Ekin Birol and Phoebe Koundouri (eds), Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, Vol.16, No.4, 77-78.
Cooper, B. & Crase, L. (2008) Waste water preferences in rural towns across north-east Victoria: a choice modelling approach, Australian Journal of Environmental Management 15(1): 41–50.
Cooper, B., Crase, L. & Dollery, B. (2006) Using choice modelling to reveal waste water preferences in regional Victoria, Desalination 188: 31–34.
Book Chapters
Cooper, B. (2011) The use of potable water by tourists: accounting for behavioural differences. In: L. Crase, and S. O’Keefe (eds) Water Policy, Tourism and Recreation: Lessons from Australia, Taylor & Francis: New York.
Cooper, B. (2011) Water pricing, water restrictions and tourism water demand. In: L. Crase, and S. O’Keefe (eds) Water Policy, Tourism and Recreation: Lessons from Australia, Taylor & Francis: New York.
Cooper, B. (2011) Urban water restrictions: accounting for behavioural differences. In: M. Polonsky, C. D’Souza, and M. Taghian. Cases and Readings in Sustainable Marketing: A Strategic Approach to Social Responsibility, Tilde University Press, Melbourne.
Cooper, B., Crase, L. & Dollery, B. (2005) Preferences and values for waste water services in small towns.In: M. Rodgers (ed) Renewing Country Towns, Vurrn Press, Ballarat.
Conference Proceedings
Cooper, B., Crase, L. & Dollery, L. (2005)Using choice modelling to reveal water and wastewater preferences in regional Victoria. In: S.J. Kahn, M.H. Muston & A.I. Schäfer (eds) Integrated Concepts in Water Recycling 2005 (Conference Proceedings), University of Wollongong: Wollongong.
Cooper, B. & O’Keefe, S. (2005) The importance of credit transfer in the decision to undertake post-compulsory education: an exercise in experimental choice analysis, Proceedings of Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association Annual Conference, Brisbane April13–15, Department of Education, Science and Training: Canberra.
