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Dr John Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the School of Economics, College of Business and Law, Adelaide University. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Adelaide, where his doctoral research focused on public choice and corruption, examining how special interest groups influence and evade policy as well as interactions between different forms of corruption and political competition. After completing his PhD, he joined the University of South Australia in 2004. His research specializations include public economics, applied microeconomics, modelling special interest group behaviour, microeconomic models of corruption, economic history, and sports economics. Wilson has authored three books on sports economics, contributed an invited chapter to the Cambridge Economic History of Australia in 2014, and currently holds two ARC Linkage Grants totaling $1.44 million investigating long-run outcomes in colonial Tasmania and South Australia through longitudinal datasets.

Wilson has an extensive publication record in journals including Journal of Policy Modeling, Australian Economic Papers, Journal of Sports Economics, Economic Record, Australian Economic History Review, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Key works include 'The global healthy ageing agenda: the impact of education, gender, childhood conditions and social engagement in rural South Africa' (2023), 'Predicting long-run risk factors of stock returns: Evidence from Australia' (2023), 'Reconstructing a longitudinal dataset for Tasmania' (2021), 'Who sits in Australia's grandstands?' (2018), 'Roles of Education in Productivity Growth in Australia, 1860-1939' (2016), 'Corruption, central bank (in)dependence and optimal monetary policy in a simple model' (2015), 'Did good institutions produce good tariffs? Evidence from tariff protection in colonial Victoria' (2012), and 'Corruption, political competition and environmental policy' (2005). He has conducted funded research for the Victorian Department of Justice and local governments. Wilson serves as Honorary Treasurer of the Economic Society of Australia (SA), was formerly Secretary and Executive member of the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, acts as Associate Director of the Centre for Markets, Values and Inclusion at the University of South Australia, and is a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic History at the Australian National University. His work has received 388 citations on ResearchGate.