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Andrew Wait

@AndrewWait2006

Professor, School of Economics, University of Sydney @USydneyEcon

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sydney.edu.au/arts/schools/school-of-economics.html
Joined October 2021
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Call for Papers: Australasian Public Choice Conference 19 & 20 November at the University of Sydney. Submit your best papers on public choice, political economy & development sites.google.com/view/17thap… See you in Nov @USydneyEcon!

17th Australasian Public Choice Conference - Call for papers

The call for papers to be presented at the APCC is now open. Deadline: Friday 31st July 2026. Original research papers dealing with any aspect of public choice, political economy and economic...

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The program for the inaugural Judith Yates Housing Economics Workshop, to be held at the University of Sydney, is available. The workshop theme is The Economics of Housing Vulnerability and it will be held in Rm 203, RD Watt on Friday 15th May 2026. See sites.google.com/view/jyhous…

Judith Yates Housing Economics Workshop

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We’re recruiting for a Head of School to champion excellence across our teaching, research and engagement! Deadline is 4 February 2026 timeshighereducation.com/uni… #schoolofeconomics #usyd #economics #headofschool #recruiting #fass #workwithus @USydneyEcon @ArtSS_Sydney
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David Byrne@dprbyrne1 Dec 2025
Excited to share a draft 2025 Asia-Pacific IO Conference program. A bunch of great contributed and invited sessions. The keynotes on "Procrastination Markets" by hashtag#PaulHeidhues and "Serial Acquisitions in Tech" by Ginger Jin should be fascinating. apios.org.au/wp-content/uplo…
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🚨 WE @UNSWEcon ARE HIRING! 🚨 JMC: apply and email/DM for any question! A short 🧵 on @UNSWEcon and why you want to apply and join us in Sydney👇 econjobmarket.org/positionGr…
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In my Economics Explained column in @FinancialReview this week I offer my take on the 2025 Economics Nobel. Spoiler alert: what a great prize! afr.com/policy/economy/this-…
This Nobel Prize winner just gave an extraordinary press conference

This Nobel Prize winner just gave an extraordinary press conference

Philippe Aghion gave a rapid-fire tour de force on innovation, markets, and competition. On AI, he said past predictions of mass job destruction “never happened”.

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We have just posted our job ad for a faculty position in econometrics. Application deadline is November 23, 2025. econjobmarket.org/positions?…
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I'm advertising for 2 full-time pre-docs at the Manos Institute for Cognitive Economics at UNSW. If you've got a strong honors degree in economics or computer science check us out at cognitiveeconomics.com. external-careers.jobs.unsw.e…. @cognitiveecon
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David Byrne@dprbyrne3 Sep 2025
#APIOC2025 submissions deadline today. Details for the conference, Dec 12-14 in Brisbane, are in the thread below. Submit your papers via Editorial Express: editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin…
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#IOTwitter - 2025 Asia-Pacific IO Conference: Dec 12-14 in Brisbane, Australia apios.org.au/. Call for papers in mid-July. Keynotes by #PaulHeidhues & #GingerZheJin and great invited speakers. It's 10 years of APIOC, and we couldn't pick a better place. Please share! 🙏
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Hyping! 2025 Australian Political Economy Workshop @UNSWEcon, 18 November Announcements, emails, speakers list coming this week!
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The call for papers for the next Organizational Economics Working Group is up! We will meet in Cambridge, MA on November 13 and 14 2025. Please submit your paper by September 1st 2025 at: conference.nber.org/confsubm…
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We are hiring at Rotman Strategy in the Fall. Apply here. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto…

Assistant Professor - Strategic Management

Assistant Professor - Strategic Management

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I’m honoured to receive the 2025 Young Economist Award from the Economic Society of Australia for my contribution to the discipline. This recognition is especially meaningful to me given the unconventional path I’ve taken in my research. Thank you!
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Oliver Hart shared the 2016 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He has been at the forefront contract theory for many decades. I was honored to be a graduate student of his at MIT and to write his biography for the Palgrave Companion to Harvard Economics:
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We are hiring! We are seeking expressions of interest for appointment as Full Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University. DM me if you have questions. econjobmarket.org/positions/…
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Interesting Conversation piece from Professor Kieron Meagher (ANU) and coauthors on working from home theconversation.com/more-tha…
More than two-thirds of organisations have a formal work-from-home policy. Here’s how the benefits...

More than two-thirds of organisations have a formal work-from-home policy. Here’s how the benefits...

Researchers at the Australian Workplace Index have found the negative impacts of working from home they originally uncovered in a 2022 survey had reversed in 2024.

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New WP! “Getting along or getting ahead? The domestic roots of status-seeking in international relations” By @ashaniamar @USydneyEcon @KathrynBaragwa @UniMelb ideas.repec.org/p/syd/wpaper… Comments welcome!
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Congratulations to Dr. Ashani Amarasinghe @ArtSS_Sydney 2024 Teaching Award Recipient! @ashaniamar has been recognised for her teaching excellence.
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📢 So much looking forard to this year's APEN Workshop. When: Nov 8 Where: Sydney Uni (org. by @ashaniamar @AndrewWait2006) Program: 👇👇👇👇👇👇
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