Biography
Dr Aaron Nicholas is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics in Deakin Business School. Aaron is a behavioural and experimental economist. He is specifically interested in how the ‘rules of the market’ (e.g. competition, prices, profit-seeking) and the ‘rules of the family’ (e.g. altruism, reciprocal exchange, fairness) interact, and is broadly interested in issues of how to measure and define unobservable within the revealed preference paradigm. He has also worked in the areas of poverty measurement, and the economics of education.
Read more on Aaron's profileResearch interests
- Markets and Morality
- Social Preferences
- Experimental Economics
- Measurement and Revealed Preference
Affiliations
- Member, Economic Science Association.
- Associate, Behavioural Business Laboratory, RMIT.
Teaching interests
- Behavioural, Political and Development Economics
- Applied Microeconomics
Units taught
- MAE101 - Economic Principles
- MAE307 - Economic Policy and Practice
- MPE781 - Economics for Managers
Professional activities
Awards
- Excellence in Teaching (2018, 2019, 2020)
- Pro Vice-Chancellor's Research Rocket Award, Deakin University, 2012.
Projects
- Fairness and Information in Market Equilibrium
- Efficienct Power Disparities: the role of Consent
- Altruism in Exchange
Publications
Invisible Hand, invisible morals: An experiment
A Nicholas
(2022), Vol. 197, pp. 395-418, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, C1
A Islam, W Lee, A Nicholas
(2021), Vol. 150, pp. 1-18, Journal of development economics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
A Nicholas, R Ray, K Sinha
(2019), Vol. 65, pp. 48-74, Review of income and wealth, Chichester, Eng., C1
Testing the single-peakedness of other-regarding preferences
V Levati, A Nicholas, B Rai
(2014), Vol. 67, pp. 197-209, European economic review, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
Incentives for relocating to regional Australia: estimates using a choice experiment
A Nicholas, C Shah
(2014), Adelaide, S. A., A6
Tournament outcomes and prosocial behaviour
M Kidd, A Nicholas, B Rai
(2013), Vol. 39, pp. 387-401, Journal of economic psychology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
A primer on mathematical modelling in economics
B Rai, C So, A Nicholas
(2012), Vol. 26, pp. 594-615, Journal of economic surveys, Oxford, England, C1-1
Fairness as a constraint on reciprocity : playing simultaneously as dictator and trustee
A Nicholas
(2012), Vol. 41, pp. 211-221, Journal of socio-economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands, C1
Duration and persistence in multidimensional deprivation : methodology and Australian application
A Nicholas, R Ray
(2012), Vol. 88, pp. 106-126, Economic record, Richmond, Vic., C1
Therapeutic equivalence and the generic competition paradox
M Nabin, V Mohan, A Nicholas, P Sgro
(2012), Vol. 12, pp. 1-26, B.E. journal of economic analysis and policy, Berlin, Germany, C1
A Nicholas, R Ray, M Valenzuela
(2010), Vol. 86, pp. 352-366, Economic record, Richmond, Vic., C1-1
P Blacklow, A Nicholas, R Ray
(2010), Vol. 49, pp. 161-179, Australian economic papers, Carlton, Vic., C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Willingness to move: measuring the monetary value of causes of geographical immobility for VET graduates' project, in Research Program: The role of training in social inclusion: geographic ....
Dr Chandra Shah, Dr Aaron Nicholas
NCVER Grant - Research - National Centre for Vocational Education Research
- 2012: $54,150
Other Public Sector Funding
Non-market volume estimates of the university education sector.
Dr Aaron Nicholas
- 2020: $26,000
Supervisions
Regev Bar
Thesis entitled: Information, Transparency and Efficiency in Markets
Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Economics
Surjasama Lahiri
Thesis entitled: Three essays on spatial competition
Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Economics