Professor Louisa Coglan

Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Economics & Finance
Biography
Background Dr. Louisa Coglan is a Professor in the School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology and Program Lead for Behaviours and Decisions in Agriculture and Natural Resources in the Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology (BEST) a national and international leader in applied behavioural insights and behavioural economics research. Louisa is also Vice President of the Queensland branch of the Women in Economics Network. Prior to joining QUT in 2006, Louisa worked at the University of Portsmouth, UK, where she was Principal Lecturer in the Department of Economics and Associate Dean of the Business School.Research Louisa's research areas include:
- Applied policy research
- Theoretical and technical applications
- Quantitative and qualitative analysis
- Baseline performance measurement in health care and fisheries.
- mental health services restructuring
- demand characteristics of GP out-of-hours services
- cost-effectiveness of speech language therapy for very young children cost-effectiveness and safety of epidural steroids in the management of sciatica
- a decision analytic model was used to compare the monetary cost of offering each of the four alternative health interventions against their success measures, to directly inform best practice in promoting healthy lifestyles to Queenslanders
- appropriate measures of economic performance in small scale, multi species, multi gear fisheries
- factors that contribute to a vessel's level of efficiency
- implications of heterogeneity in fisher performance for fisheries management.
Personal details
Positions
- Professor
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Economics & Finance
Keywords
Fisheries economics, Environmental economics, Fisheries management, Resource management, Marine policy
Discipline
Applied Economics
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy by Publication (University of Portsmouth)
Professional memberships and associations
Member of:
- The Economic Society of Australia
- Women in Economics Network
Teaching
Teaching interests
- Project analysis including investment analysis, cost benefits analysis and developmental project appraisal
- Corporate investment policy
- Microeconomics
- Teaching economics to non-economists.
Selected publications
- Coglan L, Pascoe S, Scheufele G, (2021) Availability of non-market values to inform decision-making in Australian fisheries and aquaculture: An audit and gap analysis, Sustainability (Switzerland), 13 (2).
- Paredes S, Pascoe S, Coglan L, Richards C, (2021) Increasing Local Fish Consumption: A Bayesian Belief Network Analysis, Journal of International Food and Agribusiness Marketing, 33 (1), pp. 104-121.
- Van Nguyen Q, Pascoe S, Coglan L, Nghiem S, (2021) The sensitivity of efficiency scores to input and other choices in stochastic frontier analysis: an empirical investigation, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 55 (1), pp. 31-40.
- Mohd Aripin M, Coglan L, Pascoe S, Hoang V, (2020) Productive efficiency and capacity utilization of sea bass grow-out culture in peninsular Malaysia, Aquaculture, Economics and Management, 24 (1), pp. 102-121.
- Russell-Bennett R, Whittaker L, Brumpton M, Hudson R, Hamilton G, Coglan L, Letheren K, (2020) Behaviours that Threaten Australia's Biosecurity: Desktop Review and Behavioural Prioritisation - Final Project Report.
- Pascoe S, Giles N, Coglan L, (2019) Extracting fishery economic performance information from quota trading data, Marine Policy, 102, pp. 61-67.
- Nguyen V, Pascoe S, Coglan L, (2019) Implications of regional economic conditions on the distribution of technical efficiency: Examples from coastal trawl vessels in Vietnam, Marine Policy, 102, pp. 51-60.
- Pascoe S, Hutton T, Nguyen V, Coglan L, (2018) Implications of efficiency and productivity change over the season for setting MEY-based trigger targets, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 62 (2), pp. 199-216.
- Schrobback P, Pascoe S, Coglan L, (2018) Quantifying the economic impact of climate change and market dynamics: The case of Australia's Sydney rock oyster industry, Marine Resource Economics, 33 (2), pp. 155-175.
- Paredes S, Pascoe S, Coglan L, Jennings S, Yamazaki S, Innes J, (2017) At-sea dumping of dredge spoil: an overview of the Australian policy and legislative framework, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 24 (2), pp. 184-199.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Louisa, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Research projects
- Title
- Non-Market Values to Inform Decision-Making and Reporting in Fisheries and Aquaculture - An Audit and Gap Analysis
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- 2018-068
- Start year
- 2019
- Keywords
- Title
- Building Economic Capacity to Improve the Management of Australian Marine Resources
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- 2008/306-J0016763
- Start year
- 2009
- Keywords
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Computing optimal and viable harvesting strategies for Queensland's East Coast Otter Trawl Fishery
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Adjunct Professor Sean Pascoe
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- An Economic Study of Sea Bass Production in Peninsular Malaysia (2020)
- The Value of Fisheries for Tourism and the Local Coastal Community (2020)
- Impacts of Fisheries Management Objective on Technical Efficiency: Case Studies in Fisheries (2019)
- Economic Analyses of Microalgae Biofuels and Policy Implications in Australia (2017)
- Economic Analyses of Australia's Sydney Rock Oyster Industry (2015)
- Asymmetric information between buyers and sellers in the residential property market: a hedonic property valuation approach (2014)
- Quantifying Economic Values of Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Services and Assessing Their Use in Decision-Making: Applications in New Caledonia and Australia (2014)