Peter Bishop Dixon AO

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(born 23 July 1946) is an Australian

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known for his work in

general equilibrium theory In economics, general equilibrium theory attempts to explain the behavior of supply, demand, and prices in a whole economy with several or many interacting markets, by seeking to prove that the interaction of demand and supply will result in an ov ...

and

computable general equilibrium Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are a class of economic models that use actual economic data to estimate how an economy might react to changes in policy, technology or other external factors. CGE models are also referred to as AGE (appl ...

models. He has published several books and more than two hundred

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ling and

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Career

Born in Melbourne to Herbert Bishop Dixon and Margaret Vera Laybourne-Smith, Dixon attended

Melbourne Grammar School (Pray and Work) , established = 1849 (on present site since 1858 - the celebrated date of foundation) , type = Independent, co-educational primary, single-sex boys secondary, day and boarding , denomination ...

and

Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university h ...

( BEc, 1967), Harvard ( AM,

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1972) where he worked as teaching assistant from 1970 to 1972. Dixon then worked from 1972 until 1974 for the

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in Washington and for the

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in Sydney in 1974/75. In 1974 he returned to Monash University. As a senior lecturer in the economics department and consultant to the Australian government's IMPACT project under Alan Powell until 1978, he started work on general equilibrium theory. Powell and Dixon were the joint recipients of the 1983 Research Medal of the

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. Dixon then worked as professor of economics at

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until 1984, with a visiting professorship at Harvard University in 1983. From 1984 until 1991, Dixon was professor of economics at the

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and director of the

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. From 1991 until 2014 he served as director, later principal researcher, of the Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS) at Monash University. CoPS and Dixon then moved to Victoria University. Dixon is mainly known for developing, with his collaborators, computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. A further development of

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's multi-sectoral model, Dixon's ORANI model (1977, 1982), named after his wife, built on work by

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"Johansen's contribution to CGE modelling: originator and guiding light for 50 years"
by Peter B. Dixon and Maureen T. Rimmer, Centre of Policy Studies, Monash University, May 2010, , its dynamic further development, the MONASH/VU-National model, and the US Applied General Equilibrium (USAGE) model which is widely used by the US government and the Global Trade Analysis Project. These models are available in CoPS's

Gempack GEMPACK (General Equilibrium Modelling PACKage) is a modeling system for CGE economic models, used at the Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS) in Melbourne, Australia, and sold to other CGE modellers. Some of the more well-known CGE models solved usin ...

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software implementation. Dixon and his wife, Orani, have been married since 1968, and they have two daughters, including the academic Prof. Dr. Janine Margaret Dixon. Dixon is member of the

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Awards

*1982: Fellow of the

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*1983: Dixon and Alan Powell were joint recipients of the Research Medal of the

*1990:

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lecturer at the 59th

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congress *2001:

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*2003: Distinguished Fellowship of the

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*2006: Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor at Monash University *2015: Elected to the Hall of Fame in the Global Trade Analysis Project *2014: Appointed

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(AO) in the

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"Professor Peter Bishop Dixon – Officer of the Order of Australia"
9 June 2014: "For distinguished service to education in the field of applied economics as an academic, researcher and author, through significant contributions to policy analysis and modelling."

Publications

Dixon has published more than 200 working papers and contributed to several journals and books. His major books include: * based on * * * * * * * * *

References

External links

"Profile: Peter Dixon"

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Citations

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Citation profile
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