Dixon, Peter B

LC control no.	n 80063962
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Dixon, Peter B. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Dixon, Peter Bishop
Other standard no.	57821180 0000000110644502 7201937846 36930509800
Associated country	Australia
Located	Melbourne (Vic.)
Birth date	1946
Field of activity	Economics Equilibrium (Economics) Macroeconomics Forecasting Australia--Economic policy Technological forecasting
Affiliation	Victoria University (Melbourne, Vic.)
Profession or occupation	College teachers College department heads Economists
Found in	His Structural adaptation in an ailing macroeconomy, 1979: t.p. (Peter B. Dixon) Handbook of computable general equilibrium modeling, 2013: t.p. (Peter B. Dixon, editor) Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Professor Peter Dixon AO, viewed September 17, 2015: (Professor Peter Dixon; Specialisation: economic modelling, forecasting, technological change, policy analysis, general equilibrium; is Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor in the Centre of Policy Studies, Monash University, Clayton Campus; his best known work is in economy-wide modelling; other areas of interest are: macroeconomic policy and the general outlook, technological change, the measurement of adjustment costs associated with microeconomic reform; [this webpage dated 2013]) <http://www.assa.edu.au/fellowship/fellow/79> Victoria University, Professor Peter B. Dixon, viewed September 17, 2015: (Peter B. Dixon; Professor, Centre of Policy Studies; Ph.D. (Harvard), A.M. (Harvard), B. Ec. Hons (Monash); after working at the IMF and the Reserve Bank of Australia, Dixon joined the Australian government's IMPACT Project in 1975; at IMPACT he led the team that created the ORANI model; this was the world's first detailed (100+ industries) computable general equilibrium model regularly used in policy analysis; in the 1990s with colleagues at Monash University he created the MONASH model, the dynamic successor to ORANI; these two models have been prominent in the Australian economic debate for 35 years and have been used as templates for other models throughout the world; in recent years Dixon developed the USAGE model of the U.S. which is used by the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, Transportation and Homeland Security; in 2006 he was appointed Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor at Monash University; took up his present position as Professor in the Centre of Policy Studies at Victoria University in 2014; Areas of expertise: Economic modelling, Economic policy analysis; co-authored five books, and numerous articles for peer-reviewed journals) <http://www.vu.edu.au/contact-us/peter-b-dixon> ISNI author search, viewed September 17, 2015: (Peter Bishop Dixon; information on full name contributed by Economics Society of Australia) <http://www.isni.org/search> VIAF author search, viewed Sepetmber 17, 2015: (Peter B. Dixon; DOB 1946) <http://viaf.org/viaf/57821180/#Dixon,_Peter_B.>
Associated language	eng
Invalid LCCN	n 79111515