Associate Professor Uwe Dulleck

Associate Professor

Phone: (07) 3138 9103
Fax: (07) 3138 1500
E-mail: uwe.dulleck@qut.edu.au
Room: Z817, Level 8, Z Block, GP

Staff CV (PDF, 133kB)

Qualifications

Habilitation (Economics) University of Vienna, PhD (Econ) Humboldt University of Berlin, Diploma (Econ) Free University Berlin (top 2%).

Career Summary

Uwe obtained his PhD at Humboldt University Berlin in 1999. Before Uwe joined QUT he was a Professor of Economics at the University of Linz, Austria and an Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna.  He was recently appointed as one of three editors of 'Economic Analysis and Policy', Queensland's leading Economics journal. His publications can be found in the 'Journal of Economic Literature',  the ‘International Journal of Industrial Organization’, the 'Scandinavian Journal of Economics', among others. His research has been discussed in the Economic Focus of 'The Economist' and the 'Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung' (the Sunday edition of Germany's leading quality newspaper).  Uwe was awarded an ARC Linkage Grant in 2008 and is co-investigator of two Austrian Research grants, totalling more than €500, 000  (AUD 800,000).

Research Interests

• Information Economics, esp. Credence Goods
• Applied Game Theory
• Trade, Growth and Development esp. with focus on transition economies
• Economics of contacts and social networks

Selected Recent Publications

• On Doctors, Mechanics and Computer Specialists - The Economics of Credence Goods (with Rudolf Kerschbamer), Journal of Economic Literature 44 (2006), 5-42.
• See also discussion in 'The Economist', Economic Focus: Sawbones, cowboys and cheats, 15 April 2006, page 78
• Experts vs. Discounters: Consumer Free Riding and Experts Withholding Advice on Markets for Credence Goods (with Rudolf Kerschbamer), Discussion Paper No. 3565, CEPR, London (submitted)
• Dimensions of quality upgrading - Evidence for CEECs (with Neil Foster, Robert Stehrer, Julia Wörz), Economics of Transition 51 (2005), 51-76.
• Reducing Start-up costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labor Market. (with Paul Frijters and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 108 (2006), 317-338.

Refereed Publications

• The Electronic Mail Game Revisited - Modeling Rough Inductive Reasoning, International Game Theory Review, forthcoming
• Dimensions of quality upgrading - Evidence for CEECs (mit Neil Foster, Robert Stehrer, Julia Wörz), Economics of Transition, 51 (2005), 51-76.
• WTOs Anti-dumping Rule and the Protection of Incumbents, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 14 (2005), 229-239.
• Die Großen Zwei - Wettbewerb im Kreditkartenmarkt (The Big Two - How Competitive is the Market for Credit Cards – in German) (with Hans W. Friederiszick), Jahrbücher fürNationalökonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and Statistics), 224 (2004), 445-470.
• Do Customer Information Programs Reduce Household Electricity Demand? - The Irish Program (with Sylvia Kaufmann), Energy Policy 32 (2004), 1025-1032.
• The Absent-minded Centipede (with Jörg Oechssler) Economics Letters 55 (1997), 309-315.

Other Publications

• Why Transition Countries may Specialize in Low Quality Production (mit Neil Foster), Transition Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 114-124
• Are CEECs trapped in low-quality export specialization? (mit Neil Foster, Robert Stehrer und Julia Wörz), Vienna Institute for International Studies - Monthly Report, 8-9/03, 2003
• Low Quality Trap or Quality Upgrading (mit Neil Foster, Robert Stehrer and Julia Wörz), in M. Landesmann (ed.), wiiw (Vienna Institute for International Studies) Structural Report on Central and Eastern Europe, Kapitel 7, 2003
• Besteuerungsobjekt Auto - Lenkungseffekte von Steuern und Abgaben (mit Henry Udoetuk und Christine Zulehner), Publikationsreihe der Julius-Raab-Stiftung, Wien, 2002
• Komitees, Karriereorientierung und interne Kommunikation (mit Hans W. Friederiszick), Publikationsreihe der Julius Raab Stiftung, Wien, 2002
• Zwei Beiträge in Herz, Dietmar (Ed.), Lexikon Ökonomischer Werke (Fudenberg, D. and Tirole, J., Game Theory and Bertrand, J.L.F. Review of Walras, Theorie mathematique de la richesse sociale and Cournot, Recherches sur les principes mathematiques de la theorie richesse)

Papers:

• Reducing Start-up costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market (with Paul Frijtersand Rudolf Winter-Ebmer), Working Paper, University of Vienna, 2004 (revise and resubmit Scandinavian Journal of Economics).
• Experts vs. Discounters: Consumer Free Riding and Experts Withholding Advice on Markets for Credence Goods (with Rudolf Kerschbamer), Discussion Paper No. 3565, CEPR, London (submitted).
• Price Discrimination Via the Choice of Distribution Channels (with Rudolf Kerschbamer), Working Paper, University of Vienna, 2005 (submitted)
• Social Capital, Creative Destruction and Economic Growth (mit Dirk Bezemer und Paul Frijters), Working Paper University of Vienna, 2004 (submitted)
• Why the US and not Brazil, Old Elites and the Development of a Modern Economy (with Paul Frijters), Working Paper, University of Vienna, 2004 (submitted)
• Socialism, Capitalism, and Transition - Coordination of Economic Relations and Output Performance (with Dirk Bezemer and Paul Frijters), Working Paper, University of Vienna (submitted)
• Contacts, Social Capital and Market Institutions - A Theory of Development (with Dirk Bezemer and Paul Frijters), Working Paper, University of Vienna, 2003 (submitted)
• The Electronic Mail Game Revisited - Modeling Rough Inductive Reasoning, Discussion Paper, University of Vienna, 2002 (previous version : A Note on the E-Mail Game - Bounded - Rationality and Induction, SFB 373 Discussion Paper No. 47, HU Berlin, 1997) (submitted)
• Committees and Communication: Strategic voting and qualified majorities (with Hans W. Friederiszick), mimeo, 2002
• Demand Side Management by Customer Information, Humboldt Unversity Discussion Paper - Economics Series - No. 73, HU Berlin, 1996
• Experts vs. Discounters - A Case of an asymmetric Bertrand Duopoly, mimeo

Research in progress

• A General Solution to Multiple “Winner-takes-all” games (mit Paul Frijters und Konrad Podczeck)
• Misdiagnosis in Markets for Credence Goods - Satisfaction Guaranteed and other Remedies (with Rudolf Kerschbamer)

Links

Of Interest for Economists:

   WoPEc - downloadable Working Papers
   IDEAS - downloadable and not downloadable Working Papers
   SSRN - (commercial) Working Paper Database, downloadable (sometimes you have to pay)
   EDIRC - Directory of Economics Departments all over the world
   WebEc - List of and links to almost all Economic Journals
   Inomics - Conference announcements and Job openings for Economists ...
   Subito - Library service: Photocopies via E-Mail of hard-to-get journals articles for little money
   ECONIS - Kiel Database of Economic Literature (unfortunately only in German)
   RationalExpectations.com - Economic Data/Facts and more for Economists articles for little money

Just for fun:

   Kicker online - The German soccer magazine
   Hertha BSC - ok, the Austrians and Non_Germans won't know what this means