Workshop in Honour of Professor Martin Richardson

Friday 6 September, 9am – 5pm (AEST)
Fred Gruen Economics Seminar Room, HW Arndt Building 25A,
Kingsley Street, Acton
 

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We invite colleagues to a Workshop in Honour of Professor Martin Richardson, Australian National University, on the occasion of his retirement. Martin will become an Emeritus Professor of the ANU and will continue to be active in his research activities.

After obtaining his Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at Princeton University, Professor Martin Richardson has published widely in international trade, industrial organization, law and economics, and applied microeconomics. His main area of research has been international trade, where he has studied and contributed to the literature in:

• political economy of protection
• commercial policy
• preferential trading areas
• trade and competition policies

Professor Richardson, Martin to his numerous friends, has published in leading academic journals, during his long and highly productive academic career, and has also edited two volumes and written the book “Dimensions of Trade Policy”, published by World Scientific Publishing.

Professor Richardson has been an outstanding instructor, supervisor of many PhD, master and honours students and has received University and national level awards for his teaching and supervision.  He was also Head of the old School of Economics at the ANU in 2008 and 2009 and has served in many other service roles, both at the university and in the economics profession more widely.

Martin has worked at Georgetown University in Washington DC, the University of Otago in New Zealand, and since 2003 he has been at the Australian National University. He has also held many visiting positions at universities around the world.

From fair trade to expert witnesses, from broadcasting quotas to trade policy and parallel imports, from international agreements to the “uniform pricing puzzle” in recorded music, from “buying local” policies to the study of free trade areas, Martin is an economist with a wide range of research interests and the ability to explain economics in simple terms. Indeed, Martin was appointed as a Lay Member of the New Zealand High Court in 2001 and has worked on many influential cases since then.

We invite all colleagues to attend the Workshop in Honour of Professor Martin Richardson.  Several distinguished economists, both domestic and international, with links to Professor Richardson will be gathering to present an appropriately eclectic range of papers at the Workshop.

The event will take place on Friday 6^th September 2024 at the Fred Gruen Seminar room of the Research School of Economics, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University, Canberra.