Rate My Professor Paul Crosby

Dr Paul Crosby is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University. He earned his PhD in Economics from Macquarie University in 2018 and a BEc with First Class Honours from the same institution in 2014. His career at Macquarie began as a Lecturer from November 2017 to December 2021, advancing to Senior Lecturer in January 2022. Crosby has held visiting appointments, including Invited Lecturer at the University of Melbourne in September 2025, Visiting Scholar at New York University in April 2024, and Visiting Scholar at the University of Melbourne in November 2023. He has served as Learning and Teaching Coordinator for the Department of Economics from January 2019 to December 2021, an elected member of Macquarie University’s Academic Senate since January 2021, and a member of the Academic Senate Education Committee since the same date. Additionally, he is the Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Association for Cultural Economics International since January 2024 and a Research Fellow at the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre since February 2026.

As an applied microeconomist, Crosby’s research focuses on how digital technologies reshape cultural and creative industries, with publications in leading journals such as the Journal of Cultural Economics, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Economic Modelling, Poetics, and Strategy Science. Key works include 'The unsung: examining how contracts affect session musicians’ remuneration in Australia' (International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2026), 'Air travellers’ attitudes towards carbon emissions: evidence from the Google Flights interface' (Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2025), 'Cultural affinity and international trade in motion pictures' (Economic Modelling, 2024), and 'Don’t look back? Backward compatibility in the video gaming industry' (Strategy Science, 2023). His research has informed Australian Government’s National Cultural Policy, secured digital lending rights for authors, and garnered media coverage in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Guardian, and others. Crosby’s teaching excellence is recognized with the 2025 Australian Awards for University Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, the 2024 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Education, and multiple Macquarie University awards. He has designed and delivered units in economics principles, econometrics, and business decision-making across undergraduate and postgraduate levels.