Dr John Fountain
Position
Senior Lecturer
Qualifications
B.A. (UBC)
M.A. (Stanford)
Ph.D. (Stanford)
Room
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364
2849
Internal Phone: 6849
Email:
john.fountain@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
Department of Economics and Finance
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
Undergraduate Courses
Econ
223-S2 Introduction to Game Theory for Business, Science and Politics
Econ
337-S2 Economic Evaluation in Health
Research Interests
- Microeconomic Theory; Public Choice
- Experimental Economics
- Health and Pharmaceutical Economics
- Operational Subjective Bayesian Statistics
Current Projects
- Scoring Rules in Experimental Economics
- Applying De Finetti's Fundamental Theorem of Prevision in Game Theory
- Decision Theory & Health Economics
Recent Publications
"Consumer Surplus When Preferences are Intransitive: Analysis and Interpretation", Econometrica , March 1981, 49(2): 379-94.
"A Production Theory Perspective on Collective Choice Theory", Quarterly Journal of Economics , 1984, 98:673-91.
Money and Medicines: An Economic Analysis of Reference Pricing and Related Public-sector Cost-containment Systems for Pharmaceuticals with Special Reference to New Zealand , Christchurch: Orca Publishing Services for Merck, Sharp & Dohme (NZ) Ltd, 1997 (with A. Woodfield and P. Borren