Glenn Harrison

Glenn Harrison (* 1955 ) is an Australian economist and university professor .

Career, research and teaching

Harrison first studied at Monash University in Melbourne , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Economics in 1976 and a Master of Economics two years later . He then went to the United States , where he continued his studies at the University of California, Los Angeles . After obtaining a Master of Arts degree in 1980, he completed his Ph.D. in economics.

Between January 1983 and August 1988 Harrison taught as an assistant professor and later as an associate professor at the University of Western Ontario , interrupted by visiting professorships at the University of Canterbury , University of Arizona and Stockholm University . He then moved to the University of New Mexico before he was appointed full professor at the University of South Carolina in 1990 . In 2003 he followed a call from the University of Central Florida , and from 2007 he worked at the University of Durham in parallel . In 2010 he accepted the Starr CV Chair in Risk Management and Insurance at Georgia State University .

Harrison's work focuses on the areas of experimental economic research , economic analysis of law , trade and environmental policy . He dealt in particular with the survey of risk and time preferences, market access and regulation as well as negotiation behavior. To this end, he published, among other things, studies on compensation payments from the tobacco industry . He has also published on equilibrium models to measure the effects of international and regional trade reforms, and on the effects of global warming.

Web links

• Glenn Harrison at Georgia State University
• Glenn Harrison in the IDEAS database