Phil Leslie

Phillip is a leading expert on ticket pricing, having published a number of empirical papers that explore venue tiering, season ticket bundling and ticket reselling. A theme throughout this work is how simple pricing strategies can perform very well compared to more sophisticated (and often impractical) alternatives.

Phillip has also written a series of papers on information disclosure as a policy tool. For example, in one study he shows that restaurant hygiene grade cards caused a 20% decrease in the number of people admitted to hospital with food-related illnesses. Another study shows that consumers at Starbucks reduced calorie purchases by 6% due to calorie posting on the menus.

In other research, Phillip has written about managerial incentives in private equity, consumer boycotts and the returns to education. His research is published in the American Economic Journal, American Economic Review, Journal of Labor Economics, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics and the RAND Journal of Economics. Phillip is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Phillip teaches strategic management at Anderson and he is an experienced executive education teacher. He has also participated in business study trips to Australia, China, India, Japan and Russia. Phillip is originally from Australia. He received his Ph. D in Economics from Yale University.

Education

• Masters of Commerce University of Melbourne (1991 — 1993)
• Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) University of Melbourne (1988 — 1991)
• Melbourne High School (1984 — 1987)