Dr Edwyna Harris - Researcher Profile

Biography

Edwyna Harris is a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY - ECONOMICS & COMMERCE

Institution: Melbourne University

Year awarded: 2002

Publications

Book Chapters

Alston, L., Harris, E., Mueller, B., 2011, Property rights, land settlement and land conflict on frontiers: Evidence from Australia, Brazil and the US, in Research Handbook on the Economics fo Property Law, eds Kenneth Ayotte and Henry E. Smith, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham UK, pp. 9-34.

Harris, E.M., 2005, State administration versus private innovation: The evolution of property rights to water in Victoria, Australia, in The evolution of markets for water, eds J. Bennett, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK, pp. 38-55.

Journal Articles

Dharmaratna, D., Harris, E.M., 2012, Estimating residential water demand using the Stone-Geary functional form: The case of Sri Lanka, Water Resources Management [P], vol 26, issue 8, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht Netherlands, pp. 2283-2299.

Alston, L.J., Harris, E.M., Mueller, B., 2012, The development of property rights on frontiers: Endowments, norms, and politics, Journal Of Economic History [P], vol 72, issue 3, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 741-770.

Harris, E., 2011, The impact of institutional path dependence on water market efficiency in Victoria, Australia, Water Resources Management [P], vol 25, issue 15, Springer, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 4069-4080.

Brooks, R.D., Harris, E.M., Joymungul, Y., 2009, Market depth in an illiquid market: Applying the VNET concept to Victorian water markets, Applied Economics Letters [P], vol 16, issue 13, Routledge, UK, pp. 1361-1364.

Harris, E.M., 2008, Colonialism and long-run growth in Australia: An examination of institutional change in Victoria's water sector during the nineteenth century, Australian Economic History Review, vol 48, issue 3, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Richmond Vic Australia, pp. 266-279.

Harris, E.M., 2008, Disorder with law: A preliminary study of violence in response to water rights violation in colonial New South Wales, Economic Papers, vol 27, issue 2, Economic Society of Australia Inc, St Ives NSW Australia, pp. 135-145.

Brooks, R.D., Harris, E.M., 2008, Efficiency gains from water markets: Empirical analysis of Watermove in Australia, Agricultural Water Management, vol 95, issue 4, Elsevier BV, Netherlands, pp. 391-399.

Harris, E.M., 2007, Historical regulation of Victoria's water sector: A case of government failure?, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, vol 51, issue 3, Blackwell Publishing Asia, Carlton South Vic Australia, pp. 343-352.

Harris, E.M., 2007, Institutional change and economic growth: The evolution of water rights in Victoria, Australia 1850-1886, Economic Papers, vol 26, issue 2, Economic Society of Victoria, St Ives NSW Australia, pp. 118-127.

Harris, E.M., 2007, Troubled waters: An evaluation of current water reform using historical evidence, Monash Business Review, vol 3, issue 2, Monash University ePress, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 1-7.

Harris, E.M., 2006, Development and damage: Water and landscape evolution in Victoria, Australia, Landscape Research, vol 31, issue 2, Routledge, UK, pp. 169-181.

Conference Proceedings

Harris, E.M., 2004, What price the Murray? Management options for a sustainable future, Proceedings of Enviro 04, 28/03/2004 to 01/04/2004, Enviroaust Convention Ltd, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 1-9.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Completed Supervision

Student:

Dharmaratna, G.

Program of Study:

Demand, supply and welfare aspects of pipe-borne water in Sri Lanka. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Ng, Y (Main), Harris, E (Associate), Parasnis, J (Associate).