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Personal profile
Biography
Research interests: Applied microeconomics and econometrics, especially to issues of environment, resources, and sustainability.
Michael Ward joined the department in 2012, following previous faculty appointments at ANU and UC Berkeley. He holds a joint appointment with the Monash Sustainability Institute. Michael's research focuses on issues in environmental and resource economics, such as water management, pollution regulation and enforcement, land use, and biodiversity conservation.
Select Publications:
- Climate change scepticism and public support for mitigation, Global Environmental Change (2012, forthcoming). With Sonia Akter and Jeff Bennett.
- Determinants of Residential Water Consumption: Evidence and Analysis from a 10-country Household Survey,Water Resources Research (2011). With Quentin Grafton, Hang Tho, and Tom Kompas.
- On the fixed-effects vector decomposition, Political Analysis (2011). With T. Breusch, H. Nguyen, and T. Kompas
- Mercury Advisories and Household Health Trade-offs, Journal of Health Economics (2010). With Jay Shimshack
- Prices versus Rationing: Marshallian Surplus and Mandatory Water Restrictions. The Economic Record (2008). With Quentin Grafton.
- Enforcement and Over- compliance. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2008). With Jay Shimshack.
- Mercury advisories: Information, education, and fish consumption. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2007). With Jay Shimshack and Tim Beatty.
-- Selected in 2008 as "Best Economics Paper" by the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association for work in the area of Food Safety and Nutrition. - Search, bioprospecting, and biodiversity conservation. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2006). With Chris Costello.
- Regulator reputation and environmental compliance. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2005). With Jay Shimshack.
- The effects of the private-label invasion in food industries. American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2002). With Jay Shimshack and Jeff Perloff.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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RACE for 2030: Reliable Affordable Clean Energy for 2030 Cooperative Research Centre (RACE for 2030 CRC)
Beins, D., Liebman, A., Bahrani, B., Leroux, A., Kraal, D., Razzaghi, R., Strengers, Y., Goodwin, S., Pink, S., Rudolph, C., Raven, R., Bergmeir, C., Saunderson, J., Leslie, G., Gangadharan, L., Islam, A., Wang, L. C., Ward, M., Xiao, E., Wallace, M., Tack, G., Stuckey, P., Li, Y., Pan, S., de Nijs, F., Buckingham, E., Denis-Ryan, A., Ens, B., Dargaville, R., Chang, X., Yu, J., White, S., Zlatanov, N., Hyndman, R., Panagiotelis, A. & Athanasopoulos, G.
1/07/20 → 30/06/31
Project: Research
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Incentivising within-day shifting of household electricity use
Leslie, G., Leroux, A. & Ward, M.
2/05/22 → 2/11/22
Project: Research
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Adaptive economic management of Australia's urban water
Ward, M. & Grafton, R.
Australian Research Council (ARC), Australian National University (ANU)
30/06/12 → 1/11/17
Project: Research
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Costly sanctions and the treatment of frequent violators in regulatory settings
Shimshack, J. P. & Ward, M. B., Oct 2022, In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 116, 21 p., 102745.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
Price perceptions in water demand
Brent, D. A. & Ward, M., Nov 2019, In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 98, 21 p., 102266.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
27 Citations (Scopus) -
Energy efficiency and financial literacy
Brent, D. A. & Ward, M. B., 1 Jul 2018, In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 90, p. 181-216 36 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
32 Citations (Scopus) -
Language, mixed communes, and infrastructure: sources of inequality and ethnic minorities in Vietnam
Nguyen, H. T. M., Kompas, T., Breusch, T. & Ward, M. B., Aug 2017, In: World Development. 96, p. 145-162 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
23 Citations (Scopus) -
Application of portfolio theory to asset-based biosecurity decision analysis
Akter, S., Kompas, T. & Ward, M. B., 2015, In: Ecological Economics. 117, p. 73 - 85 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
13 Citations (Scopus)