David Merrett

Managing the marketplace: Reinventing shopping centres in post-war Australia

David Merrett

Journal article  |  2021  |  BUSINESS HISTORY

Underpricing in a developing capital market: Australian equity issuances, 1920-39(dagger)

Grant Fleming, Zhangxin Frank Liu, David Merrett, Simon Ville

Journal article  |  2021  |  ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW

Developing capital markets generally lack the regulatory safeguards and rich informational sources that assist investors in judgin..

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

DT Merrett

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australian Economic History Review: an Asia-Pacific journal of economic, business and social history

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

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

Simon Ville, David Tolmie Merrett

Journal article  |  2020  |  Business History Review

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

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..

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: an Asia-Pacific journal of economic, business and social history

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

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..

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..

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

Why do some firms last longer than others? This question has attracted considerable interest among scholars from business history,..

Australia Settler capitalism sans doctrines

Simon Ville, David Merrett

Book Chapter  |  2017