Rate My Professor Peter Gibbard

Peter Gibbard is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics within the Otago Business School at the University of Otago, where he joined in 2020 and currently serves as Director of the Business Analytics Programme. He holds an MPhil from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Economics from the Australian National University. Prior to his academic appointment at Otago, Gibbard worked as an economist at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, focusing on competition policy issues, and earlier as an economist at the Bank of England. His professional experience in these institutions informs his research and teaching in economic policy and analysis.

Gibbard's research specializations encompass industrial organization, competition economics, the economics of search, behavioural economics, discrete-choice econometrics, and energy economics. His recent publications include 'Journalism in the Digital Age: Falls in Newspaper Quality and Policy Responses' (Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2025), 'Cost Pass-Through in the Retail Electricity Market: Vertically Integrated versus Independent Retailers' with Cameron Grubb and Dennis Wesselbaum (Energy Economics, 2025), 'Optimal Adaptive Bayesian Design in Choice Experiments: Performance for the Population versus Individuals' with Kelson Sadlier (Marketing Letters, 2025), 'The Economics of Platforms: Ad Platforms, Zero Prices and Network Effects' commissioned by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (2024), and 'Retail Electricity Prices in New Zealand: Recent Trends and the Relationship to Market Shares' with Cameron Grubb (New Zealand Economic Papers, 2024). Other notable works are 'Sequential Search with Acquisition Uncertainty' (Management Science, 2024) and 'A Model of Search with Two Stages of Information Acquisition and Additive Learning' (Management Science, 2021). In 2024, he received the NZ Economic Policy Prize at the 64th New Zealand Association of Economists Annual Conference. Gibbard teaches courses such as ECON 308 Public Economics and ECON 371 Microeconomic Theory.