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Prof

David Merrett

Honorary
Management and Marketing
social sciences
business & economics
social sciences - other topics
history of social sciences
business
economics
australia
business and management
market
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Prof

David Merrett

 
Division
Business and Economics
 
Primary Interest
Financial History
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Projects

Displaying the 4 most recent projects by David Merrett.

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A HISTORY OF FOREIGN MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES IN AUSTRALIA FROM FEDERATION

2020 - 2022
Active
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Regulating Australia's retail grocery sector - goals, actors and techniques

The major supermarket chains have a substantial economic and social impact on consumers, businesses and communities and are crucial to Austr..

2015 - 2019
Completed
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REASSESSING THE ROLE OF INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS THROUGH AN EXAMINATION OF AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND WOOL MARKETING, 1890-1960

This is a study of organisational innovation in an internationally-important industry. Wool industry associations built and maintained a mar..

2010 - 2012
Completed
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BUSINESS PROFITABILITY AND LONG TERM INDUSTRIAL CHANGE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AUSTRALIA

This project will establish Australia as a pioneer in longitudinal research into business profitability in terms of assembling new data and ..

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Research Grant

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by David Merrett.

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The Making of Australia's Supermarket Duopoly, 1958–2000

DT Merrett

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australian Economic History Review

Australian supermarkets had one of the highest levels of concentration among developed economies by 2000. This paper explores the ..

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Investing in a Wealthy Resource-Based Colonial Economy: International Business in Australia before World War I

Simon Ville, David Tolmie Merrett

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Business History Review

The article is a rare investigation into multinational activity in a wealthy resource-based colonial economy toward the end of the..

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Counting the cost: the reserve price scheme for wool 1970‐2001

Malcolm Abbott, David Merrett

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

This paper provides a policy commentary on the collapse in 1991 of the Australian Reserve Price Scheme for wool. A key cause of th..

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Was It Possible to Stabilise the Price of Wool? Organised Wool Marketing 1916 to 1970

Malcolm Abbott, David Merrett

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian Economic History Review

Wool is the only Australian commodity for which there has been an attempt to organise price stability through a buffer stock schem..

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Quotidian Routines: The Cooperative Practices of a Business Elite

CLAIRE WRIGHT, SIMON VILLE, DAVID MERRETT

Journal article  |  2019  |  Enterprise & Society

Cooperative corporate behavior has often been explained through the social anatomy of business leaders and structural ties among f..

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Hidden in Plain Sight: Correspondent Banking in the 1930s

L Panza, D Merrett

Journal article  |  2019  |  Business History

We present novel quantitative evidence on the number and location of correspondent banking relationships in the 1930s, a neglected..

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The drivers of firm longevity: Age, size, profitability and survivorship of Australian corporations, 1901-1930

Laura Panza, Simon Ville, David Merrett

Journal article  |  2018  |  Business History

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Australia Settler capitalism sans doctrines

Simon Ville, David Merrett

Book Chapter  |  2017

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Too Big to Fail: Explaining the Timing and Nature of Intervention in the Australian Wool Market, 1916-1991

Simon Ville, David Merrett

Journal article  |  2016  |  Australian Journal of Politics and History

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From Protection to Competition: The Politics of Trade Practices Reform in Australia

David Merrett

Journal article  |  2015  |  Australian Economic History Review

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Applied Economics
Business and Management
Economic History and History of Economic Thought
Microeconomic Issues
Microeconomics
International Trade Issues
Macroeconomic Issues
Banking, Finance and Investment
Management and Productivity
Historical Studies

Credentials

Positions

Honorary

Management and Marketing

Judging Panel For Bruce Mccomish Prize In Economic History

Australian Dictionary of Biography, Victorian Working Party

Office Bearer

Australian and New Zealand International Business Academy

Member

Academy of International Business

Education

Master of Economics

Monash University