Tim Hazledine

Tim Hazledine is a professor of economics in the University of Auckland Business School. His special interests include impacts of NZ's economic liberalisation policy alternatives for NZ, Trade and growth.

Professor Hazledine was educated at Otago and Canterbury before enrolling at Warwick in 1972 to study industrial organisation. He has taught at Otago, Warwick, Balliol College Oxford, Queen's University in Ontario and at the University of British Columbia where he was in the department of Agricultural Economics from 1983 to 1992. Professor Hazledine also has experience in government and consulting.

Over the 1991-2 academic year he held the T.D.MacDonald Chair in Industrial Economics at the Bureau of Competition Policy, in Ottawa. His research agenda is focused on problems of competitiveness and unemployment in small trading economies and competition and competition policy, most recently in the context of passenger air travel markets. His specialist teaching interests are Industrial Organisation, Public Economics, and Economic Reform in developed and transition economies.