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Dr Paul Blacklow

BEc (Hons) Tasmania, PhD Tasmania

Lecturer

Contact Details
Telephone: +61 3 6226 2283
Fax: +61 3 6226 7587
Location: Hobart Campus, Faculty of Business, Commerce Building , Room 406
Email: paul.blacklow@utas.edu.au

Paul Blacklow has taught at the University of Tasmania since 1995, lecturing since 1999. In 2002 he was appointed as Lecturer after submitting his PhD. He is currently the President of the Tasmanian Branch of The Economic Society of Australia.


Research Interests

Household Behaviour, Taxation and Welfare Reform, Equivalence Scales, Price and True Cost of Living Indexes, Lifetime Cost of Children, Welfare Effects of Price Movements, Inequality and Welfare. Currently working on an intertemporal model of household behaviour with expectations about family size, prices and death, under uncertainty, in order to examine taxation of households.

Teaching

  • Microeconomics
  • Econometrics

Units

Selected Publications:

  • Blacklow, Paul and Ranjan Ray , 2000, 'A Comparison of Income and Expenditure Inequality Estimates: The Australian Evidence, 1975-76 to 1993-94', Australian Economic Review, 33 (4), pgs. 317-329
  • Blacklow, Paul and Ranjan Ray, 2002, 'Optimal Commodity Taxes in Australia', The Australian Economic Review, 35 (1), pgs. 45-54
  • Blacklow, Paul and Ranjan Ray, 2003, 'Intra-Household Resource Allocation, Consumer Preferences and Commodity Tax Reforms: Australian Evidence', The Economic Record, 79 (247), pgs. 425-433

Full Publication List

Dr Paul Blacklow