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Associate Professor Lana Friesen

Associate Professor
+61 7 336 56564
Room 512, Level 5, Colin Clark Building (#39)
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Curriculum Vitae

Featured projects Duration
A study of consumers' competence when choosing between complex mobile phone contracts and the regulatory implications of their coping strategies
ARC Discovery Project
 2009–2013

Publications

Journal Articles (17)
Working Papers (5)

Journal Articles

Brent, Daniel A., Friesen, Lana, Gangadharan, Lata and Leibbrandt, Andreas (2017) Behavioral insights from field experiments in environmental econmoics. International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 10 2: 95-143. doi:10.1561/101.00000084
Earl, Peter E. , Friesen, Lana and Shadforth, Christopher (2017) The efficiency of market-assisted choice: an experimental analysis of mobile phone connection service recommendations. Journal of Institutional Economics, . doi:10.1017/S174413741700011X
Cason, Timonthy N., Friesen, Lana and Gangadharan, Lata (2016) Regulatory performance of audit tournaments and compliance observability. European Economic Review, 85 288-306. doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2016.03.009
Tse, Alan, Friesen, Lana and Kalayci, Kenan (2016) Complexity and asset legitimacy in retirement investment. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 60 35-48. doi:10.1016/j.socec.2015.12.001
Friesen, Lana and Earl, Peter E. (2015) Multipart tariffs and bounded rationality: an experimental analysis of mobile phone plan choices. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 116 239-253. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2015.04.016
Faravelli, Marco, Friesen, Lana and Gangadharan, Lata (2014) Selection, tournaments, and dishonesty. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 110 1-16. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2014.10.019
Earnhart, Dietrich and Friesen, Lana (2013) Can punishment generate specific deterrence without updating? Analysis of a stated choice scenario. Environmental and Resource Economics, 56 3: 379-397. doi:10.1007/s10640-013-9652-0
Friesen, Lana and Gangadharan, Lata (2013) Designing self-reporting regimes to encourage truth telling: an experimental study. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 94 90-102. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2013.08.007
Friesen, Lana and Gangadharan, Lata (2013) Environmental markets: what do we learn from the lab?. Journal of Economic Surveys, 27 3: 515-535. doi:10.1111/joes.12021
Friesen, Lana and Gangadharan, Lata (2012) Individual level evidence of dishonesty and the gender effect. Economics Letters, 117 3: 624-626. doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2012.08.005
Friesen, Lana (2012) Certainty of punishment versus severity of punishment: an experimental investigation. Southern Economic Journal, 79 2: 399-421. doi:10.4284/0038-4038-2011.152
Clark, Jeremy and Friesen, Lana (2009) Overconfidence in Forecasts of Own Performance: An Experimental Study. The Economic Journal, 119 534: 229-251. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02211.x
Clark, Jeremy and Friesen, Lana (2008) The causes of order effects in contingent valuation surveys: An experimental investigation. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 56 2: 195-206. doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2007.12.005
Friesen, Lana (2006) The social welfare implications of industry self-auditing. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 51 3: 280-294. doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2005.08.002
Tait, Peter R., Friesen, Lana and Cullen, Ross (2005) Will unit pricing reduce domestic waste? Lessons from a contingent valuation study. New Zealand Economic Papers, 39 83-103.
Clark, Jeremy, Friesen, Lana and Muller, Andrew (2004) The good, the bad, and the regulator: An experimental test of two conditional audit schemes. Economic inquiry, 42 1: 69-87. doi:10.1093/ei/cbh045
Friesen, Lana (2003) Targeting enforcement to improve compliance with environmental regulations. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 46 1: 72-85. doi:10.1016/S0095-0696(02)00033-5

Working Papers

Friesen, Lana and Earnhart, Dietrich (2012). Can Punishment Generate Specific Deterrence without Updating? Analysis of a Stated Choice Scenario. School of Economics Discussion Paper Series 468, School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Friesen, Lana and Earnhart, Dietrich (2012). Environmental Management Responses to Punishment: Specific Deterrence and Certainty versus Severity of Punishment. School of Economics Discussion Paper Series 463, School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Earl, Peter E., Friesen, Lana and Kristin Hatherley (2011). Bounded Rationality and Consumer Research: Lessons From a Study of Choices of Mobile Phone Service Contracts. School of Economics Discussion Paper 449, School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Friesen, Lana and Gangadharan, Lata (2011). Designing Self-Reporting Regimes to Encourage Truth Telling: An Experimental Study. School of Economics Discussion Paper 426, School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Friesen, Lana (2009). Certainty of punishment versus severity of punishment- an experimental investigation. 400, School of Economics, University of Queensland.

Areas of research

Applied Economics
Environment and Resource Economics
Experimental, Behavioural, and Evolutionary Methods