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The Australian Research Council (ARC) has announced the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellows for 2025, including the University of Melbourne’s Dr Siqi Pan.

The Faculty of Business and Economics congratulates Professor Byrne on his successful Australian Research Council Future Fellowship application for ‘Informational Foundations of Monopoly Power in the Digital Age’.

New research shows that paradoxically, by changing the way companies target customers, loyalty programs can sometimes reduce price competition, writes Associate Professor Alexandru Nichifor for The Conversation.

Professor David Byrne from the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne is the Economic Society of Australia’s Young Economist of the Year for 2023.

Access videos, presentations and materials from The Future of Work (From Home) Workshop, June 3, 2022

Policymakers need a new roadmap for navigating the balance between managing a pandemic and supporting the economy, and setting criteria and targets for action can help.

Congratulations to Bing Liu for winning the 2019 Professor Wilson Prize.

How market design theory, or ‘experimental economics’, and specialist software helped reform travel services for students with disability.

The government can turn to behavioural economics to support its COVID-19 tracing app, say David Byrne, Joshua Miller and UNSW's Richard Holden on Crikey.

Australians can expect continued fluctuation in petrol prices as oil prices move during the COVID-19 pandemic, Associate Professor David Byrne tells The Age.

Associate Professor David Byrne talks oil, fuel and COVID-19, in Pursuit.

A national ventilator exchange could address critical shortages, say Professors Simon Loertscher and Leslie Marx in The Hill.

We should expect petrol prices to drop to below $1 a litre, says CMD Director of Capability Building, Associate Professor David Byrne, who spoke to ABC TV's The Business.

CMD affiliate Dr Maria Recalde is investigating how organisations may be able to help close labour market gender gaps.

The CMD team has been recognised for its exceptional record of delivering public value, with a University of Melbourne Excellence Award.

We propose a new solution for discrete exchange economies and resource‐allocation problems, the exclusion core. The exclusion core rests upon a foundational idea in the legal understanding of property, the right to exclude others.

The joint CMD, Victorian Government and industry project, Power Changers, to reduce household power use and ease impact on the energy grid has won a second industry award.

The Centre for Market Design has hosted a group of PhD and Master's students from across Australia for the inaugural Hordern Winter School on Frontiers in Market Design and Analysis.

Globalization reshaped supply chains and the boundaries of firms in favor of outsourcing. Now, even vertically integrated firms procure substantially from external suppliers. To study procurement and the structure of firms in this reshaped economy, we analyze a model in which integration grants a downstream customer the option to source internally.

This paper studies equilibrium selection in the retail gasoline industry. We exploit a unique dataset that contains the universe of station-level prices for an urban market for 15 years, and that encompasses a coordinated equilibrium transition mid-sample.