Andrew Torre

Present position: Lecturer in Economics

Phone: +61 3 9244 6264
Email: andt@deakin.edu.au

Campus: Melbourne Campus at Burwood

Academic Qualifications: BCom (Hons) MCom Melb, PhD La Trobe

Commenced at Deakin: 1993

Books/publications/monographs
Reported in the Deakin University Annual Research Reports since 1995

Research interests

Interface between law and economics
Merger theory and practice in a distorted world.
Implications of post Keynesian economics for traditional “neoclasiical” antitrust analysis.

Publication Highlights

The Impact of Court Delays on the Prosecutor and the Defendant: An Economic Analysis. European Journal of Law and Economics, (2003). 91-111.
Torre, A The Use of Own Price Elasticity of Demand in Competition Law. (2005) 26 (8) European Competition Law Review. 468-73.
Torre, A and A. Clifford. Is the treatment of economic loss by the Australian courts in torts cases anomalous? (2005). European Journal of Law and Economics. 145-164.
Torre, A Socially Optimal Criminal Court Waiting Times: A Partial Investigation (2008) 27(1) Australian Economic Papers. 115-28.
Torre, A. Measuring Offender Discount Rates: An Overview of the Issues and a Suggested Methodology (2008) 10(3) Flinders Journal of Law Reform.

Current research projects

Measuring the Disutility of Imprisonment to Offenders. Torre, A & Wraith, D. Queensland University of Technology.
The Impact of Statutory Law on Takeover Activity, Torre, A & Zarebski, P. Deakin University.
Defining Social Welfare for Merger Analysis in a Distorted World.

Higher Degrees by Research supervisions-current and completed

Teaching Awards

Teaching Interests/units taught at Deakin