Honorary Associate Professor Ian Wills

Organisation:

Department of Economics

Title:

Honorary Associate Professor

Qualifications:

PhD (Agricultural Economics) University of Illinois, MAgrSc (Hons) University of Melbourne

Ian is honorary associate professor in the department. He retired in 2006, after many years teaching in the economics and commerce and graduate environmental science programs. His recent research has centred on the economics of transaction costs and institutions and information problems in implementing sustainability. Ian is the author of two editions of the highly-regarded textbook, Economics and the Environment: a Signalling and Incentives Approach. In early 2008 he was elected Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.

Office:

Clayton Campus
Room E973, Building 11
Monash University Vic 3800

Telephone:

+61 3 9905 2371

Fax:

+61 3 9905 5476

E-mail:

Ian.Wills@BusEco.monash.edu.au

Research Interests:

The economics of transaction costs and institutions, Environmental economics, in particular: - Information exchange and risk perception in environmental policy making, Pollution controls, Sustainable development, Third World agricultural development

Selected Publications:

Wills, I. R , Xiaokai , Y, "The importance of private property rights for economic growth: The case of rural China, 1979-1987", Economic Papers, 2006

Wills, I. R , "Informational barriers to pollution reduction in small businesses", Economic Papers, 2003

Wills, I. , "Community participation in pollution control", Agenda, 2001