Prof Jeff Borland
MA (Melbourne), PhD (Yale)
Biography
Jeff Borland is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne. He has a B.A. (Hons) in Economics and History from the University of Melbourne, and a Ph.D in Economics from Yale University. He has held a full-time teaching position in the Department of Economics at University of Melbourne since 1988. He was also Head of the Department between 2003-2006. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University between 1996-98, and has had visiting teaching positions at the University of Iowa and University of Wisconsin-Madison. His main research interests are program and policy evaluation and design, applications of microeconomic theory, analysis of the operation of labour markets in Australia and Australian economic history. In 1997 he was awarded the Australian Academy of Social Sciences Medal for Excellence in Scholarship in the Social Sciences, and in 2002 was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His current teaching is in the areas of microeconomics, Australian economic history and world economic history. At University of Melbourne he has been a recipient of the Ed Brown University Teaching Prize and the Dean’s Award for Individual Teaching, and at Yale University he was awarded the Raymond Powell Prize for Excellence in Teaching in the Department of Economics. In 2007 he was awarded a Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. He is currently Editor of the ‘For the Student’ section of the Australian Economic Review and on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Sports Economics, and between 1998 and mid-2002 was Co-Editor and Editor of the Economic Record. He has acted as a consultant on labour market and microeconomics issues to organisations such as the OECD, IMF, ACCC, New Zealand Treasury, and Productivity Commission, and is currently a member of the Commonwealth Treasury’s Academic Reference Panel.
Research Interests
- LABOUR MARKETS IN AUSTRALIA
- PROGRAM AND POLICY EVALUATION AND DESIGN
- APPLIED MICROECONOMICS
- MEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS
Teaching responsibilities
- 316-102 Introductory Microeconomics
- 316-214 Australian Economic History
- 800-116 Generating the Wealth of Nations