Rate My Professor Keiran Sharpe

Dr. Keiran Sharpe is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business at UNSW Canberra, University of New South Wales. He completed his Bachelor's and Master's Honours degrees in Economics at the University of Sydney. Sharpe then pursued his PhD at the University of Cambridge, where he held a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship and was a member of Jesus College. His academic career began as an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Sydney. At Cambridge, he tutored for the Economics Tripos and lectured for the MPhil in Economics. He later served as a Lecturer in Economics at The Queen's College, Oxford, teaching undergraduates in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and Economics and Management. Sharpe joined UNSW Canberra as Senior Lecturer in the School of Business starting from the second semester of 2002.

Sharpe's research centers on decision-making processes, examining how individuals and institutions act purposefully amid incomplete information. His interdisciplinary approach incorporates Anthropology, Artificial Intelligence, Economics, Management, Mathematics, Military History, Philosophy, and Sociology. He also studies the motivations and consequences of adhering to ethical norms. Key publications include Sun, T., Chand, S., & Sharpe, K. (2024), 'Effect of ageing on housing prices: A perspective from an overlapping generation model', Research in Economics, 78; Sharpe, K. (2023), 'On the Ellsberg and Machina paradoxes', Theory and Decision, 95, pp. 539-573; Valentine, A., Tani, M., & Sharpe, K. (2022), 'Conditional Information Asymmetries and Board/CEO Ties in Outsider CEO Successions', Academy of Management Proceedings; Asadabadi, M.R., Chang, E., & Sharpe, K. (2020), 'Requirement ambiguity and fuzziness in large-scale projects: The problem and potential solutions', Applied Soft Computing Journal, 90, 106148; Sharpe, K. (2019), 'Updating Beliefs Under Risk and Uncertainty', Economic Record, 95, pp. 39-64; Sharpe, K. (2018), 'On Risk and Uncertainty, and Objective versus Subjective Probability', Economic Record, 94, pp. 49-72; Chotewattanakul, P., Sharpe, K., & Chand, S. (2019), 'The drivers of household indebtedness: Evidence from Thailand', Southeast Asian Journal of Economics, 7, pp. 1-40; and Sharpe, K.A. (2006), 'Effective demand in a stylised Keynesian model of growth', Review of Political Economy, 18, pp. 173-192. He teaches ZBUS8101 Strategic Management.