Regular biography
Professor Ian MacKenzie is a Professor in the School of Economics at The University of Queensland. His research interests include environmental economics, environmental policy design, and political economics. He joined the University of Queensland in September 2012, following more than five years at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. His work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and the Journal of Public Economics. He has also contributed to discussions on the allocation of pollution permits and the design of cap-and-trade systems. Professor MacKenzie has been involved in various research projects, including studies on the effects of rent seeking over tradable pollution permits and the optimal initial allocation of pollution permits. He has also published working papers and discussion papers on topics such as the efficiency of environmental rights and the design of permit market auctions.
Scholar-generated biography
Ian A. MacKenzie is a Professor specializing in Environmental Economics and Political Economics. His research explores the intersection of economic policy and environmental governance, focusing on mechanisms for pollution control, market-based instruments, and institutional design. Key areas include the allocation of pollution permits, auction design, and the role of rent-seeking behavior in environmental policy. His work examines how economic incentives can address market failures in environmental regulation, with a particular emphasis on tradable permits, Coasean bargaining, and the challenges of ensuring permanence in carbon sequestration. MacKenzie's research also investigates the political economy of environmental policy, including the distributional impacts of pollution taxation and the strategic behavior of market participants.