Jordi McKenzie
- Position: Senior Lecturer - Department of Economics
Contact Details
- Ph: (+61-2) 9850 8494
- Email: jordi.mckenzie@mq.edu.au
- Room: 408, building: E4A
Education
- PhD Economics: Economics (University of Sydney)
- Master of Economics: (Hons II/I) (University of Sydney)
- Bachelor of Economics: (Hons I) (University of Tasmania)
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
"Two Information Aggregation Mechanisms for Predicting the Opening Weekend Box Office Revenues of Films: Boxoffice Prophecy and Guess of Guesses" (with David Court, Benjamin Gillen and Charles R. Plott), Economic Theory, forthcoming (2017)
"Graduated Responses to Digital Piracy: Do they Increase Box Office Revenues of Movies?", Information Economics and Policy, forthcoming (2017)
"Rivalry Effects and Unbalanced Schedule Optimisation in the Australia Football League" (with Stephan Lenor and Liam Lenten),Review of Industrial Organization, 49(1) (August 2016), 43-69
"File Sharing and Film Revenues: Estimates of Sales Displacement at the Box Office" (with W. David Walls), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 16(1) (January 2016), 25-57
"Cheap Tuesdays and the Demand for Cinema" (with Nicolas de Roos), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 33 (March 2014), 93-109
"Predicting Box Office with and without Markets: Do Internet Users Know Anything?", Information Economics and Policy, 25(2) (June 2013), 70-80
"Australian Films at the Australian Box Office: Performance, Distribution and Subsidies" (with W. David Walls), Journal of Cultural Economics, 37(2) (April 2013), 247-269
"The Changing Role of Hollywood in the Global Movie Market" (with W. David Walls), Journal of Media Economics, 25(4) (December 2012), 198-219
"The Economics of Movies: A Literature Survey", Journal of Economic Surveys, 26(1) (February 2012), 42-70
"Mean Absolute Percentage Error and Bias in Economic Forecasting", Economics Letters, 113(3) (December 2011), 259-262
"Movie Producers and the Statistical Distribution of Achievement", Applied Economics Letters, 17(7) (October 2010), 1657-1661
"Do African American Films Perform Better or Worse at the Box Office? An Empirical Analysis of Motion Picture Revenues and Profits", Applied Economics Letters, 17(6) (October 2010), 1559-1564
"Pari-mutuel Information Aggregation Mechanisms with Public Knowledge" (with Jared Bullen), Journal of Prediction Markets, 4(2) (September 2010), 23-43
"How Do Theatrical Box Office Revenues Affect DVD Retail Sales? Australian Empirical Evidence", Journal of Cultural Economics, 34(3) (July 2010), 159-179
"Illegal Music Downloading and its Impact on Legitimate Sales: Australian Empirical Evidence", Australian Economic Papers, 48(4) (December 2009), 296-307
"Revealed Word-of-Mouth and Adaptive Supply: Survival of Motion Pictures at the Australian Box Office", Journal of Cultural Economics, 33(4) (November 2009), 279-299
"Bayesian Information Transmission and Stable Distributions: Motion Picture Revenues at the Australian Box Office", Economic Record, 84(266) (September 2008), 338-353
Book Chapters
"Film Funding in Australia: Recent History and Empirical Analysis" (with Craig Rossiter) in Public Funding for Film: Industries – Governance – International Cases (eds. Paul Murschetz, Roland Teichmann, Matthias Karmasin), Springer, forthcoming (2016)
"P2P File-Sharing: How Does Music File-Sharing Affect Recorded Music Sales In Australia?" in Music Business and the Experience Economy: The Australasian Case (eds. Peter Tschmuck, Philip Pearce, Steven Campbell), Springer, (May 2013)
Non-Refereed Publications
"Music sales are waning but don't blame the pirates", The Conversation, October 8, 2013
Rational Decisions by Ken Binmore (book review), Economic Record, 86(274) (September 2010), 453-454
"Filmonomics – An Introduction to the Economics of the Box Office" Metro (magazine), 153 (August 2007), 106-110
Conferences and Presentations
18th Mallen Economics of Filmed Entertainment Conference, New York, November 2016
19th International Conference on Cultural Economics, Valladolid, June 2016
85th Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, November 2015
17th Mallen Economics of Filmed Entertainment Conference, New York, November 2015
90th Western Economic Association International Annual Conference, Honolulu, July 2015
Yale/Bruce Mallen Scholars and Practitioners Workshop in Motion Picture Industry Studies, New Haven, November 2014
International Conference on Cultural Economics, Montreal, June 2014
Econometric Society Australasian Meeting 2013, Sydney, July 2013
42nd Australian Conference of Economists, Perth, July 2013
Yeshiva/Bruce Mallen Scholars and Practitioners Workshop in Motion Picture Industry Studies, Los Angeles, November 2012
17th International Conference on Cultural Economics, Kyoto, June 2012
UCLA/Bruce Mallen Scholars and Practitioners Workshop in Motion Picture Industry Studies, Los Angeles, November 2011
Econometric Society Australasian Meeting 2011, Adelaide, July 2011
UCLA/Bruce Mallen Scholars and Practitioners Workshop in Motion Picture Industry Studies, Los Angeles, November 2010
39th Australian Conference of Economists, Sydney, September 2010
16th International Conference on Cultural Economics, Copenhagen, June 2010
38th Australian Conference of Economists, Adelaide, September 2009
37th Australian Conference of Economists, Gold Coast, September 2008
15th International Conference on Cultural Economics, Boston, June 2008
36th Australian Conference of Economists, Hobart, September 2007
