Wine Economics Research Centre

The Wine Economics Research Centre (WERC) was established in 2010 by the Wine2030 Network and the School of Economics of the University of Adelaide. Its purpose is to promote and foster its growing research strength in the area of wine economics, and to complement the university's long-established strength in viticulture and oenology research.

The Wine Economics Research Centre is  has close links with the Center for Wine Economics at the Robert Mondavi Institute at the University of California, Davis, and with the Journal of Wine Economics.

The key objectives for the Wine Economics Research Centre are to:

• publish wine economics research outputs and disseminate them to academia, industry and government
• contribute to economics journals, wine industry journals and related publications
• promote collaboration and sharing of information, data and analyses between industry, government agencies as well as research institutions
• sponsor wine economics seminars, workshops and conferences and contribute to other grape and wine meetings

The founding Executive Director of the Wine Economics Research Centre is Professor Kym Anderson, the George Gollin Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide.