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Alan Moran
Director, Deregulation Unit
Dr Alan Moran, Director of the IPA's Deregulation Unit, is an economist who has made a specialty of regulatory matters, in particular covering energy, global warming, housing, transport, and competition issues. He has written three books on these matters delivered dozens of addresses and had over a hundred press articles published.
Alan has worked in a range of positions with the Federal Departments of Trade and Industry and Commerce. He headed up the Commonwealth's Business Regulation Review Unit within the Productivity Commission. He became the Research Director of the Tasman Institute (now ACIL Tasman) in 1990 where he worked on privatization and environmental economics. He joined the Victorian Department of Agriculture, Energy and Minerals, in 1994 as Deputy-Secretary of Energy.
He joined the IPA in 1996.
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Related publications
Submission to Senate Economics Committee Inquiry into the exposure drafts of the legislation to implement the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
The great lock out: the impact of housing and land regulations in Western Australia
Government interventions in the housing market restrict the supply of land for housing and raise its costs. The public policy interventions in land supply and development markets are numerous. Centred on planning and environmental policies, they...
The adverse effects of government actions against cartels
Government intervention against cartels is seldom effective and sometimes counterproductive. Competitive firms may conspire to push up prices and profits, but this is difficult to achieve for a lengthy period of time. Firms have...
Climate Change: China's approach
In November 2008, Dr Alan Moran, Director of the IPA's Deregulation Unit travelled overseas to get on-the-spot looks at the international policy climate for global warming mitigation strategies. This second part looks at China. (The first part, on...
Japan and Global Warming Policies
In November 2008, Dr Alan Moran, Director of the IPA's Deregulation Unit travelled overseas to get on-the-spot looks at the international policy climate for global warming mitigation strategies. This first report looks at Japan. Japan has not...
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