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Position/Role:
Professor / Presiding Member
Schools/Unit: Economics
Contact Details:
Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Arts, University of North Carolina
- Master of Arts, University of Virginia
- PhD, University of Washington
Research Areas:
- Microeconomics, Productivity and Efficiency Measurement, Decisions under Uncertainty
Academic Profile:
William Schworm is a Professor in the School of Economics at UNSW. He took up this position in 2001 with previous appointments at the University of Sydney (1995 - 2000) and the University of British Columbia (1976 - 1994). Bill received an undergraduate degree (BA) in Economics from the University of North Carolina in 1965, a Masters degree (MA) in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1972, and a PhD from the University of Washington in 1977. Bill has held visiting appointments at Duke University (1980-1981), University\'e catholique de Louvain (1984-1985), University\'e de Montréal (1987), University of Western Ontario (1987-1989), Boston University (1999) and ANU (2001). He has held consultancies at the Bank of Canada (1982), the Canadian Royal Commission (1984), and the China Institute of Mining and Technology (1988). He served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Canadian Journal of Economics during 1992 - 1995. Bill's primary areas of research are investment, growth, and aggregation. He has published extensively in the areas of investment with credit constraints and the aggregation of capital. His current interests include the role of information and risk aversion on the selection of investment projects and the measurement of risk.
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