Richard Charles CORNES CURRICULUM VITAE: AUGUST 2011 DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: 19 June 1946, London, U. K. NATIONALITIES: British and Australian ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS: 1967 B.Sc. (Hons.I) (Southampton) 1972 M.Sc. (Southampton) 1993 PhD (ANU) [On basis of published research] HONOURS RECEIVED: 1994 Elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia 1997 Quality of Communication Award, Honourable Mention, American Agricultural Economics Association. POSTS HELD 1967-1969 Research Assistant, Southampton University 1969-1971 Lecturer in Economics, Overseas Development Group, University of East Anglia 1971-1972 Technical Adviser to Government of Ceylon, Ministry of Planning 1972-1979 Lecturer in Economics, Faculty of Economics & Commerce, Australian National University 1979 Visiting Fellow at University of Warwick 1980-1986 Senior Lecturer in Economics, Faculty of Economics & Commerce, Australian National University 1984 (January-March) Visiting Professor at Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva (April-July) Visiting Fellow, Research School of Pacific Studies, A.N.U. 1987-93 Reader in Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, Australian National University. 1989 (Jan/March) Visiting Professor, University of Washington, Seattle.
1992 (Jan/June) Visiting Fellow, Economics Division, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. 1993 (Feb/June) Visiting Fellow, Federalism Research Centre, Australian National University. 1993-95 Senior Fellow, Federalism Research Centre, Australian National University. 1996-2000 Professor of Economics, Keele University. 2000-08 Professor of Economic Theory, University of Nottingham 2001 (May-July) Visiting Scholar, Centre for Economic Studies, Munich University. 2003 (July-August) Visiting Professor, Economic Theory Centre, Melbourne University. 2006 - Visiting [Adjunct] Professor, School of Economics, ANU. 2008 - FH Gruen Professorship, Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. PUBLICATIONS (A) Papers 1. "The Incidence of Taxation on Factor Inputs: A General Equilibrium Approach and Its Application to State-Local Taxation", in Mathews, R. (ed.), State and Local Taxation (ANU Press, 1977), pp.10-38. 2. "Further Applications of the Dual Approach to Equilibrium in the Production Sector", Canadian Journal of Economics. Vol.12, No. 3, August 1979, pp. 511-517. 3. (With M. Homma, Osaka University), "Consumption Externalities and Stability", Economics Letters, Vol.4, 1979, pp. 301-306. 4. "External Effects: an Alternative Formulation", European Economic Review, Vol.14, No. 3, November 1980, pp.307-321. 5. (With R. Albon, ANU), "Evaluation of Welfare Change in Quantity Constrained Regimes", Economic Record, Vol.57, June 1981, p.186-190.
6. (With T.C. Bergstrom, Michigan), "Gorman and Musgrave are Dual - an Antipodean Theorem on Public Goods", Economics Letters, Vol. 7, 1981, pp.371-8. 7. (With A.K. Dixit, Princeton), "Comparative Effects of Devaluation and Import Controls on Domestic Prices", Economica, Vol. 49, 1982, pp. 1-10. 8. (With T.C. Bergstrom), "Independence of Allocative Efficiency from Distribution in the Theory of Public Goods", Econometrica, Vol. 51, 1983, pp.1753-1765. 9. (With T. Sandler, University of Wyoming), "On Commons and Tragedies", American Economic Review, Vol. 73, 1983, pp. 787-792. 10. (With T. Sandler), "The Theory of Public Goods: Non-Nash Behaviour", Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 23, 1984, pp. 367-379. 11. (With T. Sandler), "Easy Riders, Joint Production and Collective Action", Economic Journal, Vol. 94, 1984, pp. 580-598. 12. (With T. Sandler), "Externalities, Expectations, and Pigouvian Taxes", Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol.12, 1985, pp. 1-13. 13. (With T. Sandler), "The Simple Analytics of Pure Public Good Provision", Economica, Vol. 52, 1985, pp.103-116. 14. (With T. Sandler), "On the Consistency of Conjectures with Public Goods", Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 27, 1985, pp. 125-129. 15. (With M. Homma), "A Tentative Analysis of the Stability of a Competitive Economy with Externalities", Osaka Economic Papers, Vol. 35, 1985, pp.98-109. 16. (With C. Mason and T. Sandler), "The Commons and the Optimal Number of Firms" Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 100, 1986, pp. 641-646.
17. (With J. Cauley and T. Sandler), "Nonmarket Institutional Structures; Conjectures, Distribution, and Allocative Efficiency", Public Finance/Finances Publiques, Vol.41, 1986, pp.l53-172. 18. (With C. Mason and T. Sandler), "Expectations, the Commons and Optimal Group Size", Journal of Environmental Economics and Management", Vol.15, 1988, pp.99-110. 19. (With F. Milne, A.N.U.), "A Simple Analysis of Mutually Disadvantageous Trading Opportunities", Economic Studies Quarterly, Vol. 40, 1989, pp.122-34. 20. (With T. Sandler), "Public Goods, Growth, and Welfare", Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 6, 1989, pp.243-51. 21. "Consumer Sovereignty: Normative Status and Positive Underpinnings", in H.G.Brennan and C. Walsh (eds.), Rationality, Individualism and Public Policy, (1990) pp.l9-27. 22. "Dyke Maintenance and other Stories: Some Neglected Types of Public Good", Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 107, 1993, 259-71. 23. (With T. Sandler), "Comparative Static Properties of the Impure Public Good Model", Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 54, 1994, 403-421. 24. (With T. Sandler), "Are Public Goods Myths?", Journal of Theoretical Politics, Vol. 6, 1994, 369-85. 25. "Measuring the Distributional Impact of Public Goods", in D. Van de Walle and K. Nead (eds.), Public Spending and the Poor: Theory and Evidence, 1996, Johns Hopkins University Press/World Bank. 26. (with A. Schweinberger), Free riding and the inefficiency of the private production of pure public goods, Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 29, 1996, 70-91.
27. (With Emilson Silva, Tulane University), Rotten kids, purity and perfection, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, 1999, 1034-40. 28. (With Todd Sandler, Iowa State University, and Jon Cauley, University of Hawaii- Hilo), "Stakeholder incentives and reforms in China's state-owned enterprises: A common-property theory," China Economic Review, Vol. 10, 1999, 191-206. 29. (With Roger Hartley, Keele University, and Todd Sandler, Iowa State University), Equilibrium existence and uniqueness in public good models: Proof via contractions, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 1, 1999, 499-509. 30. (With Emilson Silva, Tulane University), Local public goods, risk sharing and private information in federal systems, Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 47, 2000, 39-60. 31. (With Emilson Silva, Tulane University, and Arthur Caplan, Weber State University) "Pure public goods and income redistribution in a federation with decentralised leadership and imperfect labour mobility," Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 77, 2000, 265-84. 32. (With Todd Sandler, Iowa State University), Pareto improving redistribution in the pure public good model, German Economic Review, Vol. 1, 2000, 169-86. 33. (With Ngo Van Long, McGill University, and Koji Shimamura, Kobe University), "Drugs and pests: Intertemporal production externalities," Japan and the World Economy, Vol. 13, 2001, 255-78. 34. (With Emilson Silva, Tulane University), "Local public goods, inter-regional transfers and private information," European Economic Review, Vol. 46, 2002, 329-56. 35. (With Emilson Silva, Tulane University), "Public good mix in a federation with incomplete information," Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 5, 2003, 381-97.
36. (With Roger Hartley, Keele University), "Risk aversion, heterogeneity and contests," Public Choice, Vol. 117, 2003, 1-25. 37. (With Arthur Caplan, Weber State University, and Emilson Silva, Tulane University), "An ideal Kyoto protocol: emissions trading, redistributive transfers and global participation," Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 55, 2003, 216-34. 38. (With Roger Hartley, Keele University), Asymmetric contests with general technologies, Economic Theory, Vol. 26, 2005, 923-46. 39. (With Wolfgang Buchholz, University of Regensburg, and Wolfgang Peters, European University Viadrina Frankfurt Oder), On the frequency of interior Cournot- Nash Equilibria in a Public Good Economy, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 8, 2006, 401-8. 40. (With Wolfgang Buchholz, University of Regensburg, and Wolfgang Peters, European University Viadrina Frankfurt Oder), Lindahl equilibrium versus voluntary contribution to a public good: The role of income distribution, Finanzarchiv, Vol. 62, 2006, 28-49. 41. (With Roger Hartley, University of Manchester), Aggregative public good games, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 9, 2007, 201-19. 42. (With Mehrdad Sepahvand, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran), Ownership versus timing of the game, Australian Economic Papers, Vol. 46, 2007, 305-14. 43. (With Roger Hartley, University of Manchester), Weak links, good shots and other public good games: Building on BBV, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 91, 2007, 1684-1707.
44. (With Wolfgang Buchholz, University of Regensburg, and Wolfgang Peters, European University Viadrina Frankfurt Oder), Existence, uniqueness and some comparative statics for ratio and Lindahl equilibria, Journal of Economics, Vol 95, 2008, 167-77. 45. Global public goods and commons: Theoretical challenges for a changing world, International Tax and Public Finance, Vol 15, 2008, 353-59. 46. "Voluntary contribution model of public goods." The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Online Edition. Eds. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 47. (With Roger Hartley, University of Manchester), Risk aversion in symmetric and asymmetric contests, Economic Theory, forthcoming. 48. (With Jun-ichi Itaya, Hokkaido University), On the private provision of two or more public goods, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol 12, 2010, 363-85. 49. (With Wolfgang Buchholz, University of Regensburg, and Dirk Ruebbelke, Basque Centre for Climate Change), Interior matching equilibria in a public good economy: An aggregative game approach, Journal of Public Economics, Vol 95, 2011, 639-45. 50. (With Jun-ichi Itaya, Hokkaido University, and Aiko Tanaka, Hokkaido University), "Private Provision of Public Goods between Families", Journal of Population Economics, forthcoming. (B) Books 1. (With T. Sandler, University of Wyoming), The Theory of Externalities, Public Goods and Club Goods, (Cambridge University Press, 1986). 2. Duality and Modern Economics, (Cambridge University Press, 1992).
3. (With T. Sandler, University of Wyoming), The Theory of Externalities, Public Goods and Club Goods, 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press, 1996). (C) Book reviews B. Hazari, P.M. Sgro and D.C. Suh, Non-Traded and Intermediate Goods and the Pure Theory of International Trade (Croom Helm, 1981), in Economic Record, vol.59, 1983, pp.409-10. A.D. Woodland, International Trade and Resource Allocation (North-Holland, 1982) in Economic Record, vol.60, 1984, pp.304-5. A.J. Auerbach and M. Feldstein (eds.) Handbook of Public Economics: Volume I (North- Holland, 1985), in Economic Record, v. 62, 1986, pp.519-21. J.R. Hicks, Wealth and Welfare: Essays on Economic Theory, Volume I (Blackwell, 1986), in Economic Record, vol.63, 1987, pp.282-3. P. Earl, Lifestyle Economics: Consumer Behaviour in a Turbulent World (Wheatsheaf, 1986), in Economic Record, vol.64, 1988, pp.224-8. M. James, How Much Government? (Centre for Independent Studies Policy Monograph 11, 1987), in Economic Record, vol.65, 1989, pp.404-5. A.J. Auerbach and M. Feldstein, Handbook of Public Economics: Volume II (North- Holland 1987), in Economic Record, vol.67, 1991, pp.361-3. D. Campbell, Equity, Efficiency, and Social Choice (Clarenden Press, Oxford), in Economic Record, 1993. CURRENT WORK IN PROGRESS A. RECENT WORKING PAPERS (With Roger Hartley, Keele University), "Joint production games and share functions," University of Nottingham Discussion Paper in Economics #00/23. (With Roger Hartley, Keele University), "Disguised aggregative games," University of Nottingham Discussion Paper in Economics #01/11. (With Roger Hartley, Keele University), "Dissipation in rent-seeking contests with entry costs," University of Nottingham Discussion Paper in Economics #02/08. (With Roger Hartley, Keele University), "Loss aversion and the Tullock paradox," University of Nottingham Discussion Paper in Economics #03/17.
(With Roger Hartley, University of Manchester), The geometry of aggregative games, University of Nottingham discussion paper #05/06. B. OTHER PAPERS IN PROGRESS (With Doug Nelson, Tulane University, and Roger Hartley, Keele University), Groups with intersecting interests. (With Roger Hartley, University of Manchester, and Alex Robson, Australian National University), Production and appropriation with many players. (With Midori Hirokawa, Hosei University), A bargaining model of the anticommons. (With Jun-ichi Itaya, Hokkaido University), Private provision of public goods between families. (With Wolfgang Buchholz and Wolfgang Peters), Income transfers and population change in the Lindahl equilibrium. C. BOOKS (With Roger Hartley) Modelling Aggregative Games [currently being drafted].
TEACHING EXPERIENCE [At Australian National University] 2 nd year undergraduate: microeconomics, mathematics for economists 3 rd year undergraduate: international economics, development economics 4 th year undergraduate: (hons.) microeconomic theory, public economics. MA: microeconomic theory, public economics [At Keele University, 1996-2000] 1 st year undergraduate: microeconomics 2 nd year undergraduate: introduction to game theory 3 rd year undergraduate: social choice theory MA: microeconomic theory, public economics, environmental economics [At University of Nottingham, 2000-2006] 3rd year undergraduate: Economics of the Public Sector, Advanced Mathematics for Economists MSc: Microeconomic Theory MSc: Economic Applications of Game Theory MSc: Public Economic Theory MSc: Global Environmental Issues 1 st year PhD programme: Advanced Topics in Economic Theory REFEREEING DUTIES Associate editor, Manchester School for Economic and Social Studies, Fiscal Studies, Journal of Public Economic Theory. Recent refereeing for American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Bulletin of Economic Research, Economics Letters, European Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Economic Theory, Canadian Journal of Economics, German Economic Review, World Economy, and others..