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Kevin Fox

Kevin Fox 

PhD and Master of Arts, University of British Columbia

Master of Commerce and Bachelor of Commerce, University of Canterbury

Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

Member of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth

Professor, Director of Centre for Applied Economic Research (CAER)

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+61 2 9313 6337 

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On sabbatical leave in 2013 

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Kevin Fox works primarily in the field of economic measurement, with a focus on productivity and prices. After studying Japanese in Tokyo for two years, he studied economics at the University of Canterbury and the University of British Columbia. He joined the School in 1994.

 

He chaired the 16th Series CPI Review Advisory Group in 2009-2010, he is a member of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Methodology Advisory Committee, and a member of an Expert Working Group of the Australian Council of Learned Academies advising Australia’s Chief Scientist on productivity. He has been a consultant for agencies such as the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the Swiss National Bank, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the Asian Development Bank, and the New Zealand Treasury. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Productivity Analysis.

Publications

Books

 

  • Fox, K.J. (ed.), Efficiency in the Public Sector, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002
  • Diewert, W.E., B.M. Balk, D. Fixler, K.J. Fox and A. Nakamura (eds.), Index Number Theory and the Measurement of Prices and Productivity, Trafford Publishing, Victoria, Canada, forthcoming


Articles and book chapters

 

  • Ivancic, L. and K.J. Fox, ‘Understanding Price Variation Across Stores and Supermarket Chains: Some Implications for CPI Aggregation Methods," Review of Income and Wealth, forthcoming.
  • Ivancic, L. and K.J. Fox (2013), ‘Can Dissimilarity Indexes Resolve the Issue of when to Chain Price Indexes?’ Economics Letters, 118, 6 - 9
  • Fox, K.J. and D. Melser, ‘Non-linear Pricing and Price Indexes: Evidence and Implications from Scanner Data,’ Review of Income and Wealth, forthcoming, DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12000
  • Fox, K.J. (2012), 'Problems with (Dis)Aggregating Productivity, and Another Productivity Paradox,’ Journal of Productivity Analysis, 37, 249-259
  • Ivancic, L., W.E. Diewert and K.J. Fox, (2011) 'Scanner Data, Time Aggregation and the Construction of Price Indexes' Journal of Econometrics, 161, 24-35
  • Diewert, W.E. and K.J. Fox (2010), 'Malmquist and Törnqvist Productivity Indexes: Returns to scale and technical progress with imperfect competition,' Journal of Economics 101(1), 73–95
  • Fox, K.J., U. Kohli and A. Shiu (2010), Trade Agreements and Trade Opportunities: A Flexible Approach for Modelling Australian Export and Import Elasticities,' Review of International Economics 18(3), 513-530
  • Diewert, W.E. and K.J. Fox (2008), 'On the Estimation of Returns to Scale, Technical Progress and Monopolistic Markups,' Journal of Econometrics 145, 174-193
  • Fox, K.J., R.Q. Grafton, T. Kompas and T.N. Che (2007), 'Capacity Reduction and Productivity: A Profit Decomposition for the Australian South East Trawl Fishery,' in R. Curtis and D. Squires (eds.), Fisheries Buybacks, Blackwell Publishing
  • Diewert W.E. and K.J. Fox, 'On Measuring the Contribution of Entering and Exiting Firms to Aggregate Productivity Growth,' in W.E. Diewert, B.M. Balk, D. Fixler, K.J. Fox and A. Nakamura (eds.), Index Number Theory and the Measurement of Prices and Productivity, Trafford Publishing, Victoria, Canada, forthcoming
  • Fox, K.J., 'Returns to Scale, Technical Progress and Total Factor Productivity Growth in New Zealand Industries,' in W.E. Diewert, B.M. Balk, D. Fixler, K.J. Fox and A. Nakamura (eds.), Index Number Theory and the Measurement of Prices and Productivity, Trafford Publishing, Victoria, Canada, forthcoming
  • Fox, K.J. and R. Milbourne (2006), 'Is it Harder to Soar with Eagles when you Work with Turkeys?' Australian Economic Papers 45, 362-371
  • Fox, K.J., R.Q. Grafton, T. Kompas, and T.N. Che (2006), 'Capacity Reduction, Quota Trading and Productivity: The Case of a Fishery,' Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 50, 189-206
  • Fox, K.J. (2006), 'A Method for Transitive and Additive Multilateral Comparisons: A Transitive Bennet Indicator,' Journal of Economics/Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie 87(1), 73-87
  • Lawrence, D., W.E. Diewert and K.J. Fox (2006), 'The Contribution of Productivity, Price Changes and Firm Size to Profitability,' Journal of Productivity Analysis 26, 1-13
  • Connolly, E. and K.J. Fox (2006), 'The Impact of High-Tech Capital on Productivity: Evidence from Australia,' Economic Inquiry 44(1), 50-68
  • Dupont, D.P., K.J. Fox, D.V. Gordon and R.Q. Grafton (2005), 'Profit and Price Effects of Multi-species Individual Transferable Quotas, Journal of Agricultural Economics 56, 31-57
  • Fox, K.J., R.J. Hill and W.E. Diewert (2004), 'Identifying Outliers in Multi-Output Models,' Journal of Productivity Analysis 22, 73-94
  • Fox, K.J., U. Kohli and R.S. Warren, Jr. (2003), 'Sources of Growth and Output Gaps in New Zealand: New Methods and Evidence,' New Zealand Economic Papers 37(1), 67-92
  • Fox K.J. (2003), 'An Economic Justification for the EKS Multilateral Index,' Review of Income and Wealth 49(3), 407-413
  • Fox K.J., R.Q. Grafton, J. Kirkely and D. Squires (2003), 'Property Rights in a Fishery: Regulatory Change and Firm Performance,' Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 46, 156-177
  • Fox K.J., U. Kohli and R.S. Warren, Jr. (2002), 'Accounting for Growth and Output Gaps: Evidence from New Zealand,' Economic Record 78, 312-326
  • Fox K.J. (2002), 'Introduction,' in KJ Fox (ed.), Efficiency in the Public Sector, Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Fox K.J., (2002), 'Measuring Technical Progess in Matching Models of the Labour Market,' Applied Economics 34, 741-748
  • Fox K.J. (2002), 'The Output Gap and Growth in Japan,' in T-T Fu, CJ Huang and CAK Lovell (eds.) Productivity and Economic Performance in the Asia-Pacific Region, Edward Elgar Publishing
  • Diewert W.E. and K.J. Fox (2001), 'The Productivity Paradox and the Mismeasurement of Economic Activity,' in K Okina and T. Inoue (eds.) Monetary Policy in a World of Knowledge-based Growth, Quality Change, and Uncertain Measurement, Palgrave
  • Diewert W.E. and K.J. Fox (2000), 'Incentive Indexes for Regulated Industries,' Journal of Regulatory Economics 17, 5-24
  • Fox K.J. and R.Q. Grafton (2000), 'Nonparametric Estimation of Returns to Scale: Method and Application, ' Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 48, 341-54
  • Fox K.J. (2000), 'Information-Rich Expressions for Model Selection Criteria,' Applied Economics Letters 7, 59-62
  • Grafton, R.Q., D. Squires and K.J. Fox (2000), 'Private Property and Economic Efficiency: A Study of a Common-Pool Resource,' Journal of Law and Economics, XLIII, 679-714
  • Diewert W.E. and K.J. Fox (1999), 'Can Measurement Error Explain the Productivity Paradox?' Canadian Journal of Economics 32, 251-280
  • Fox K.J. (1999), 'Economic Efficiency at Different Levels of Aggregation: Public vs. Private Sector Firms,' Economics Letters 65, 173-176
  • Fox K.J. and R. Milbourne (1999), 'What Determines Research Output of Academic Economists?' Economic Record 75, 256-267
  • Fox K.J. and W.E. Diewert (1999), 'Is the Asia-Pacific Different? Technical Progress Bias and Price Elasticity Estimates for 18 OECD Countries, 1960-1992,' in T-T Fu, CJ Huang and CAK Lovell (eds.) Economic Efficiency and Productivity Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region, Edward Elgar Publishing
  • Fox K.J. and U. Kohli (1998), 'GDP Growth, Terms-of-Trade Effects and Total Factor Productivity,' Journal of International Trade and Economic Development 7:1, 87-110
  • Diewert W.E. and K.J. Fox (1998), 'The Measurement of Inflation after Tax Reform,' Economics Letters 61, 279-284
  • Fox K.J. (1998), 'Non-Parametric Estimation of Technical Progress,' Journal of Productivity Analysis 10, 235-250
  • Fox K.J. (1997), 'White Noise and Other Experiments on Augmented Dickey-Fuller Tests,' Applied Economics Letters 4, 689-694
  • Hill R.J., and K.J. Fox (1997), 'Splicing Index Numbers,' Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 15, 387-389
  • Fox K.J. (1996), 'Specification of Functional Form and the Estimation of Technical Progress,' Applied Economics 28, 947-956
  • Owen P.D. and K.J. Fox (1992), 'Further Tests of the Buffer Stock of Money Hypothesis,' Journal of Macroeconomics 1-16, winter

 

Professional activities

Research interests

  • Econometrics
  • Economic measurement
  • Environmental economics

Research grants

  • 2008-2013: Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, 'Tackling the Tough Problems in Productivity Measurement: Infrastructure, Services and R&D,' with G. Otto, W.E. Diewert, E. Connolly and D. Parham. Industry Partners: Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Productivity Commission. Total cash funding: $947,322
  • 2007-2010: Commonwealth Environmental Research Facilities program, 'Salinity, Uncertainty and Property,' with R.Q. Grafton and R. Keenan: $308,000
  • 2007-2010: Commonwealth Environmental Research Facilities program, 'The Benefits and Costs of Bio-security,' with T. Kompas: $380,000
  • 2006-2008: Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, for 'Scanner Data in the Consumer Price Index: How to expand and improve their use,' with J. de Haan, P-H. van Mulligan and M. Silver. Industry Partners: Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Central Bureau of Statistics (Netherlands). Total cash funding: $287,000
  • 2005-2007: Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, for 'Biosecurity or Trade Barrier? The Economic Costs of Quarantine,' with R.Q. Grafton: $142,402
  • 2005-2007: Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, for 'Measurement and Sources of Productivity Growth under Imperfect Competition,' with W.E. Diewert: $257,000
  • 2005-2007: Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, for 'Economic Analysis of an Environmental Challenge: Salinity, Uncertainty and Property,' with R.Q. Grafton and R. Keenan. Industry Partner: Bureau of Rural Sciences. Total cash funding: $180,000
  • 2004-2005: Spanish Ministry of Education Grant: 26,500 euros
  • 2003-2005: Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, for 'Can Electronic Point-of-Sale (POS) Data Improve the Australian Consumer Price Index,' with R.J. Hill. Industry Partner: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Total cash funding: $161,500
  • 2003-2004: Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, for 'Regional Comparisons of Prices, Income and Growth in Australia,' with R.J. Hill. Industry Partner: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Total cash funding: $131,000

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