Our research

The REACH network focuses on the economics of arts, heritage and culture, and market and non-market interventions that promote their sustainability.

Our applied research includes:

• arts professionals
• copyright and digital rights management and the impact of digital distribution platforms
• culture in sustainable development
• demand for cultural goods and services
• evaluation of cultural heritage
• the creative economy.

We’re regularly engaged in national and international collaborations with other universities, organisations, federal and state government agencies, NGOs.

Our partners in the arts and culture industry include:

• UNESCO
• World Bank
• Australia Council for the Arts
• Australian Federal Government.

To learn more, visit the REACH network page or contact Distinguished Professor David Throsby on david.throsby@mq.edu.au or Associate Professor Jordi McKenzie on jordi.mckenzie@mq.edu.au.

The Microeconomics, Behavioural Economics, and Experimental Economics research network focuses on the motivations and decisions of individuals, firms, and governments that impact economic and societal outcomes.

Our research includes:

• behavioural factors influencing firm boundaries
• behavioural underpinnings of reciprocity
• duration estimation biases in project management
• finance micro-structure, namely trade execution algorithms and their impact on trader behaviour and marker quality
• formation of informal agreements capable of fostering trust and cooperation in the absence of written contracts
• generosity, charitable giving, and volunteering
• incentives and norms of compliance behaviour in the finance sector
• links between governance structure and wage compression
• organisation of markets and market entry decisions
• time-delay effects in sequential search
• time constraints and decision-making in health
• social preferences in the workplace.

Our behavioural research laboratory is the home of cutting-edge experimental research and teaching in social science.

Data collected in experiments are used to test the validity of economic theories, address open policy questions, and solve industry-relevant economic issues.

Our experiments are developed to help understand how and why markets and other exchange systems function as they do.

To learn more, contact Dr Lyla Zhang on lyla.zhang@mq.edu.au.

The MAFS research network investigates the determinants of macroeconomic and financial stability including related government policies and financial crises.

Our research includes:

• consumer sentiment
• economics forecasting
• energy markets
• financial bubbles, econometrics, market developments
• fiscal and monetary policies
• international macroeconomics and finance
• linkages between the real economy and financial market developments
• on time series econometrics applied to financial markets.

Members of the network regularly provide commentary on economic policy, covering both monetary and fiscal policy, and on retirement saving policy.

Our external partners include:

• Asian Development Bank
• Australian Treasury
• International Finance Group, Maastricht University.
• National Economic Panel (Economic Society of Australia)
• Shadow Reserve Bank Board (Australian National University)
• State University of New York, USA
• University of Luxembourg.

To learn more, contact Professor Jeffrey Sheen on jeffrey.sheen@mq.edu.au.

The LEAD research network investigates global and regional economic advancement and development, with a focus on our region.

It addresses broad issues of economic advancement such as:

• education
• women’s empowerment
• poverty
• inequality
• global labour issues
• productivity and wages with an eye to the rapid evolution of the Asia-Pacific region.

The network has published outputs in the form monographs and books and high-impact research articles in the highly ranked journals.

The members form an influential economic policy network throughout the Southeast, East and South Asian regions. Importantly, members of this network are advisers of governments and non-government organisations that promote economic development and political change in our region.

Members of the network regularly provide commentary on economic policy, covering both monetary and fiscal policy, and on retirement saving policy.

To learn more, contact Associate Professor Pundarik Mukhopadhaya on pundarik.mukhopadhaya@mq.edu.au.