Associate Professor David Byrne

Director, Capability Building, Centre for Market Design, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne

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Business & Economics

Oil wars, petrol prices and COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic and global oil price wars are having an economic impact worldwide, but one consequence is lower fuel prices at Australian petrol pumps for the foreseeable future

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Business & Economics

2019 Budget: The Verdict Part 2

What does it mean for the unemployed? Refugees? Indigenous Australians? Climate change and education? University of Melbourne experts assess the Federal budget in part two of our coverage

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Business & Economics

Why data is king

We love Google and Facebook. We’ve helped turn them into two of the biggest digital giants in the world. But there’s a tension between our privacy and our data as a valuable business commodity

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Sciences & Technology

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Will water ever be worth more than oil?

Is water a commodity or a right? Cape Town could be the first of many cities around the world to experience the reality of water demand far outstripping supply

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Business & Economics

Outlook 2017: What we learned

The Economic and Social Outlook Conference 2017 featured some of Australia’s leading policy minds; our academics report on key sessions

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Business & Economics

Australia’s energy trilemma explained

Securing an affordable, reliable and environmentally responsible energy sector is a huge challenge for policy makers - here's why

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Business & Economics

How tacit collusion makes consumers pay

The first study of its kind has revealed how petrol retailers can tacitly collude through their own price signalling

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Business & Economics

Smart customers save

A smart way to save some money on your power bills