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Senior Research Officer David Adamson
Email: d.adamson@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56782
Location: 553 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: M.Ag.Econ (UQ), B.Ag.Econ (UNE)
Research interests:
- Risk & uncertainty impacts on natural resources
- Water, Biosecurity & trade impacts
- Pest Management
Selected publications:
- Adamson, D 2010, `Quarantine and Food Safety Issues in a TPPA`, in J Kelsey (ed.), No Ordinary Deal: Unmasking Free Trade and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal, Bridget Williams Books Ltd., Wellin
- Quiggin, J, Adamson, D, Chambers, S & Schrobback, P 2010, `Climate change, mitigation and adaptation: the case of the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia`, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics,
- Zalucki, MP, Adamson, D & Furlong, MJ 2009, `The future of IPM: whither or wither?`, The Australian Journal of Entomology, vol. 48, pp. 85-96.
- Adamson, D, Mallawaarachchi, T & Quiggin, J (2009), `Declining inflows and more frequent droughts in the Murray–Darling Basin: climate change, impacts and adaptation`, The Australian Journal of Agricu
- Adamson, D. Mallawaarachchi, T. and Quiggin, J. (2007), Water use and salinity in the Murray-Darling Basin: a state-contingent model, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 51(3),
- Associate Professor -
+61 7 336 56664
Alauddin, Mohammad
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor Mohammad Alauddin
Email: m.alauddin@economics.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56664
Fax: +61 7 336 57299
Location: 640 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: BA (Hons), MA Rajshahi, Bangladesh%3B MEcon Adelaide, PhD (Newcastle, NSW), GradCertEd UQ
Research interests:
- Agricultural Economics
- Development and environmental economics
- Pedagogy and curriculum development
Selected publications:
- Hoang, Viet-Ngu and Alauddin, Mohammad (2010) Analysis of agricultural sustainability: A review of exergy methodolgies and their application in OECD countries. International Journal of Energy Researc
- Headey, Derek, Alauddin, Mohammad and Rao, D. S. Prasada (2010) Explaining agricultural productivity growth: an international perspective. Agricultural Economics, 41 1: 1-14.
- Alauddin, Mohammad and Quiggin, John (2008) Agricultural intensification, irrigation and the environment in South Asia: Issues and policy options. Ecological Economics, 65 1: 111-124.
- Alauddin, M (2004) Environmentalizing economic development: a South Asian perspective. Ecological Economics, 51: 251-270
- Alauddin, Mohammad (2003) Economic Liberalisation and Environmental Concerns: A South Asian Perspective. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 26 3: 439-453
- Associate Professor -
+61 7 336 56539
Asafu-Adjaye, John
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor John Asafu-Adjaye
Email: j.asafuadjaye@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56539
Fax: +61 7 3365 7299
Location: 642 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: BSc (Ghana), MSc (Aston), PhD (Alberta)
Research interests:
- Environment and Resource Economics
- Agricultural Economics
- Energy Economics
Selected publications:
- ASAFU-ADJAYE, J. and Mahadevan, R., Managing Macroeconomic Policies for Sustainable Growth: A Computable General Equilibrium Inquiry, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, U.K., 2012.
- ASAFU-ADJAYE, J., ‘Environment and Climate Change in Africa’, in The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa, (eds.), Ernest Aryeetey, Shantayanan Devarajan, Ravi Kambur and Louis Kasekende, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012, pp.146-154.
- Ofori-Bah, A. and ASAFU-ADJAYE, J. ‘Scope economies and technical efficiency of cocoa agroforestry systems in Ghana’, Ecological Economics, vol. 70, pp. 1508-1518, 2011.
- Wianwiwat, S. and ASAFU-ADJAYE, J. `Modelling the promotion of biomass use: a case study of Thailand`, Energy, vol. 36, pp. 1735-1748, 2011.
- Mahadevan, R. and ASAFU-ADJAYE, J. ‘Lessons from the unfinished agenda of a small developing economy and trade and structural reforms’, Journal of International Development, 2011, doi: 10.1002/jid.1822
PhD candidates
Thuto Botlhole, Sharon Chang
- Associate Dean, Academic BEL Faculty -
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Bodman, Phil
Associate Dean, Academic BEL Faculty
Associate Dean, Academic BEL Faculty
Associate Dean (Academic), BEL Faculty, Phil Bodman
Email: p.bodman@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 69033
Staff only contact: +61 7 336 53320
Location: Room 303, GPN3
Qualifications: Ph.D Economics - Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, April 1997. M.A. Economics - University of Essex, England, September 1988. B.A.(Hons.) Economics - University of Essex, England, July 1987. Unilever Dissertation Prize Winner - Best Undergraduate Thesis 1987.
Research interests:
- Macroeconomics (incl. Monetary and Fiscal Theory)
- Labour Economics, Public Economics
- International Economics and International Finance
Selected publications:
- What Drives Fiscal Decentralisation? Further Assessing the Role of Income“ – with Andrew Hodge, Fiscal Studies, 31, 3, 373–404, 2010
- "Fiscal Decentralisation and Economic Growth in the OECD," Applied Economics, Volume 43, Issue 23, October 2011, pages 3021-3035.
- "Remittances or Technological Diffusion: Which Drives Domestic Gains from Brain Drain?," - with Dr Thanh Le, Applied Economics, Volume 43, Issue 18, July 2011, pages 2277-2285.
- “Output Volatility in Australia,” Applied Economics, 39, 41, 3117-3129. 2009.
- “Phases of the Canadian Business Cycle,” - with Dr Mark Crosby - Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol.33, 3, 618-633, August 2000.
Grants & Prizes:
- 2008-2011 ARC Discovery Grant ($162,426), “How does the Structure of Government, in Particular the Extent of Fiscal Decentralisation, Affect Long Term Economic Performance in Australia?” (with Prof. Harry Campbell, UQ and Prof. Robin Boadway, Queens, Canada).
- 2011 Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
- Lecturer -
+61 7 336 56569
Bracoud, Frédérique
Lecturer
Lecturer
Dr. Frédérique Bracoud
Email: f.bracoud@economics.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56569
Fax: +61 7 336 57299
Location: 548 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: MSC (Université Catholique de Louvain),PhD (Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix)
Research interests:
- Banking Theory
- Finance Economics
Publications:
- Bracoud, F. (2007) Double Bertrand competition among intermediaries when consumers can default, The Economics Bulletin, Vol. 4.
- Bracoud, F. and Hillier, B. (2000) Equity or debt? Contracts in markets with asymmetric information, the Manchester School, Vol. 68, No. 1, pp 1-22.
- Associate Professor -
+61 7 336 56716
Brown, Richard
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor Richard Brown
Email: r.brown@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 366 5 6716
Location: 611 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: B.Com.Hons (Econ), Natal (cum laude), M.Com.(Economics) Natal,MA (Development Economics), East Anglia (cum laude) PhD (Economics), University of Groningen
Research interests:
- Economic Development and Growth
- International Migration and Remittances
- Applied Cost-Benefit Analysis
Selected publications:
- Jimenez-Soto, Eliana and Brown, Richard P. C. (2012) Assessing the poverty impacts of migrants` remittances using Propensity Score Matching: the case of Tonga, Economic Record (in press).
- Jimenez, Eliana and Brown, Richard P. C. (2012) How Responsive are Remittances to Recipients` Welfare? Evidence from Fiji. International Migration (in press)
- Lordan, Grace, Brown, Richard, Jimenez, Eliana and Correa-Valez, Ignacio (2012) Socioeconomic Status and Health Outcomes in a Developing Country, Health Economics, 21: 178-186.
- Brown, Richard P. C. and Jimenez, Eliana (2011) Subjectively-assessed Welfare and International Remittances: Evidence from Tonga. Journal of Development Studies, 47(6): 829-845
- Brown, Richard P. C. and Leeves, Gareth (2010) Comparative Effects of migrants` remittances on composition of recipient household income in two, small island economies. Applied Economics, 43, 3965–397
Grants:
- ARC Discovery Grant, 2009-12 Determinants, Motives and Channels of Pacific Island Workers` remittances from Australia.
- UQCIEF 2011-13 Building Research Capacity for Quantitative Analysis of Indigenous Inequality and Policy Interventions
- Honorary Associate Professor -
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Cage, Robert
Honorary Associate Professor
Honorary Associate Professor
Associate Professor Robert Cage
Email: r.cage@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 69539
Location: 513 [colin clark building]
Publications:
- Cage, R. A. (2007) Notorious murders, black lanterns, & moveable goods: The transformation of Edinburgh`s underworld in the early nineteenth century. Journal of Economic History, 67 3: 814-816
- Cage, Robert A. and Foster, John (2002) Overcrowding and infant mortality: A tale of two cities. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 49 2: 129-149
- Emeritus Professor -
+61 7 336 56570
Campbell, Harry
Emeritus Professor
Emeritus Professor
Emeritus Professor Harry Campbell
Email: h.campbell@economics.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56570
Location: 628 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: MA (St Andrews), PhD (Queens)
Research interests:
- Environment and Resource Economics
- Public Sector Economics
- Economic Development and Growth
Selected publications:
- Benefit-Cost Analysis: financial and economic appraisal using spreadsheets, with R.P.C. Brown, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2003 (www.uq.edu.au/economics/bca)
- "The Shadow-Price of Labour and Employment Benefits in a Developing Economy", Australian Economic Papers Vol. 47, No. 4, December 2008, pp. 311-319.
- “Alternative Futures for Southern Bluefin Tuna” with J.O.S. Kennedy, International Journal of Global Environmental Issues Vol. 7, Nos 2/3, 2007, pp. 240-254.
- "Non-timber Values and the Optimal Forest Rotation: an Application to the Southern Forest of Tasmania", with S.M. Jennings, The Economic Record , Vol. 80, No. 251, December 2004, pp. 387-393.
- “Maximizing Resource Rent in the Western and Central Pacific Tuna Fisheries”, with M. Bertignac, J. Hampton and A.J. Hand, Marine Resource Economics Vol. 15, No. 3, 2000, pp. 151-177.
- ARC Early Career Researcher -
+61 7 336 56577
Carbajal, Juan Carlos
ARC Early Career Researcher
ARC Early Career Researcher
Dr. Juan Carlos Carbajal
Email: jc.carbajal@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56577
Location: 523A [colin clark building]
Qualifications: Ph.D. in Economics, Washington University in St. Louis, 2008.
Research interests:
- Mechanism Design and Information Economics
- Microeconomic Theory
- Industrial Organization
- Lecturer -
+61 7 334 67048
Dr. Juyoung Cheong
Email: j.cheong@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 67048
Location: 522 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: Ph.D (Seattle), MA (Seattle), MA (Seoul), BA (Kyung Hee)
- Lecturer -
+61 7 334 67051
Darnell, Maxine
Lecturer
Lecturer
Dr Maxine Darnell
Email: m.darnell@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 67051
Location: 636 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: PhD, UNE, B.Ec (Hons), UNE
Research interests:
- Australian Economic and Labour History
Selected publications:
- Attaining the Australian Dream: The Starr-Bowkett Way, labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History, Vol. 91, November 2006, pp. 13-30
- Life and labour for indentured Chinese shephers, New South Wales, 1847-1855, Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol. 6, 2004, pp. 137-158.
- "Bulwark of the country and (...) salvation of the colony": class alignments and the importation of indentured Chinese labourers`, in R. Markey (ed) Labour and COmmunity: Historical Essays, Wollongong
- Master and Servant, Squatter and Shepherd: The regulation of indentured Chinese labourers, New South Wales, 1847-1853 in A. Curthoys, H. Chan and Lan-Hung Nora Chiang (eds) The Overseas Chinese in Aus
- Associate Professor -
+61 7 334 67065
Dominguez, Begoña
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Dr. Begoña Dominguez
Email: b.dominguez@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 67065
Location: 507 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: Ph.D. in Economics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 2002
Research interests:
- Macroeconomics
- Public Finance
- Computational Economics
Publications:
- “Public Debt and Optimal Taxes without Commitment”, Journal of Economic Theory, 135, 159-170, July 2007
- “On the Time-Consistency of Optimal Capital Taxes”, Journal of Monetary Economics, 54, 686-705, April 2007
- “Reputation in a Model with a Limited Debt Structure”, Review of Economic Dynamics, 8, 600-622, July 2005
- Honorary Senior Fellow -
+61 7 336 56574
Alan Duhs
Email: a.duhs@economics.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 366 69539
Location: 600 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: B.Econ (Hons) UQ, BA (UQ), MA (Sussex).
Research interests:
- Economic Philosophy
- Economic Development and Growth
- Reforms to Tertiary Education Sector
Selected publications:
- Capabilities, rights and justice in the context of Australian Aboriginal welfare policy (2009) with Laura Davidoff. Forum for Social Economics, 39 1: 23-31
- Keywords in the integration of the Humanities and the Social Sciences. International Journal of the Humanities, 7 3: 11-22.
- Social Science and Religion: Episiemology, Metaphysics and Considerations for the Public Good. Forum on Public Policy, Summer 2008: 1-17
- Teaching Economic Philosophy: Economics, Ethics and the Search for the Righ Maximand. Australian Journal of Economics Education, 3 1+2: 123-150.
- Poeverty Alleviation, Asset Distribution and Equity Goals in Economic Development: The case of Filipino cattle dispersal. Indian Development Review, 4 2: 367-384.
- Associate Professor -
+61 7 336 56598
Earl, Peter
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor Peter Earl
Email: p.earl@economics.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56598
Fax: +61 7 336 57299
Location: 605 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: MA, PhD Cambridge
Research interests:
- Emergent Complexity and Organization
- Industry Economics and Industrial Organisation
- Microeconomic Theory
Publications:
- Earl, Peter E. and Wakeley, Tim (2010) Economic perspectives on the development of complex products for increasingly demanding customers. Research Policy, 39 8: 1122-1132.
- Earl, Peter E. and Wakeley, Tim (2009) Alternative perspectives on connections in economic systems. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 20 2: 163-183.
- Earl, P. E., Peng, T. and Potts, J. (2007) Decision-rule cascades and the dynamics of speculative bubbles. Journal of Economic Psychology, 28 3: 351-364.
- Earl, Peter E. (2006) Review of the Elgar Companion of Post Keynesian economics (ed.) J. E. King, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar (2005). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 60 4: 608-611.
- Earl, Peter E. (2005) Review of The Economics of Sin: Rational choice or no choice at all?, S. Cameron Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2002. Journal of Economic Psychology, 26 1: 147-149.
- Lecturer -
+61 7 336 56287
Faravelli, Marco
Lecturer
Lecturer
Dr. Marco Faravelli
Email: m.faravelli@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56287
Location: 511 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: Ph.D. in Economics, University of Edinburgh, 2007.
Research interests:
- Experimental and Behavioural Economics
- Public Economics
- Political Economics
Selected publications:
- “Single versus Multiple-Prize All-Pay Auctions to Finance Public Goods: An Experimental Analysis” (2012), with L. Stanca, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 81 (2), 677-688.
- "When Less Is More: Rationing and Rent Dissipation in Stochastic Contests" (2012), with L. Stanca, Games and Economic Behavior, 74 (1), 170-183.
- “The Important Thing Is not (Always) Winning but Taking Part: Funding Public Goods with Contests” (2011), Journal of Public Economic Theory, 13 (1), 1–22.
- “A Prize to Give for: An Experiment on Public Good Funding Mechanisms” (2010), with L. Corazzini and L. Stanca, The Economic Journal, 120 (547), 944-967.
- “How Context Matters: A Survey Based Experiment on Distributive Justice” (2007), Journal of Public Economics, 91 (7-8), 1399-1422.
- Professor -
+61 7 336 56780
Foster, John
Professor
Professor
Professor John Foster
Email: j.foster@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56780
Fax: +61 7 336 57299
Location: 639 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: BA(Hons) Coventry, MA(Econ) Manchester, PhD Manchester, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Research interests:
- Complex economic systems: theory and methodology
- The economics of low carbon energy generation and carbon abatement policy
- The statistical properties of time series data in complex economic systems
Selected Publications:
- Foster, John, Hinich, Melvin J. and Wild, Phillip (2008) Randomly modulated periodic signals in Australia`s National Electricity market. The Energy Journal, 29 3: 105-129.
- Metcalfe, JS, Foster, J and Ramiogan, R (2006) Adaptive economic growth. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 30 1: 7-32.
- Foster, John (2011) Evolutionary macroeconomics: a research agenda Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 21, pp. 5-28.
- Wild, Phillip, Foster, John and Hinich, Melvin J. (2010) Identifying nonlinear serial dependence in volatile, high-frequency time series and its implications for volatility modeling. Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 14, Supplement S1, pp. 88-110
- Dopfer, K., Foster, J. and Potts, J. (2004) “Micro-meso-macro” Journal of Evolutionary Economics (A), vol. 14, pp. 263-280
Grants:
- Assessing the impacts of proposed carbon trading and tax schemes on the Australian electricity industry and the overall economy. ARC Linkage Grant (with John Quiggin), $323,986 (July 2008 – June 2011)
- Market and economic modelling of distributed generation and local cooperating agent-based demand side management. CSIRO, iGRID Flagship Grant, $571,000 (July 2008 - June 2011)
PhD candidates
- Senior Lecturer -
+61 7 336 56564
Friesen, Lana
Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Lana Friesen
Email: l.friesen@economics.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56564
Location: 538 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: BCom (Canterbury), MA, PhD (Simon Fraser)
Research interests:
- Environment and Resource Economics
- Experimental Economics
Publications:
- “Overconfidence in Forecasts of Own Performance: An Experimental Study” (with Jeremy Clark), The Economic Journal 119, 229-251 (2009).
- “The Causes of Order Effects in Contingent Valuation Surveys: An Experimental Investigation” (with Jeremy Clark), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 56, 195-206 (2008).
- “The Social Welfare Implications of Industry Self-Auditing”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 51, 280-294 (2006).
- “Will Unit Pricing Reduce Domestic Waste? Lessons from a Contingent Valuation Study” (with Peter Tait and Ross Cullen), New Zealand Economic Papers 39, 83-103 (2005).
- “The Good, the Bad, and the Regulator: An Experimental Test of Two Conditional Audit Schemes” (with Jeremy Clark and Andrew Muller), Economic Inquiry 42, 69-87(2004).
- Professor -
+61 7 334 63483
Frijters, Paul
Professor
Professor
Professor Paul Frijters
Email: p.frijters@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 63483
Fax: +61 7 336 57299
Location: 609 [colin clark building]
Research interests:
- How socio-economic variables affect the human life experience and the `unanswerable` economic mysteries in life.
Selected publications:
- Frijters, P., Shields, M.A., and J.P. Haisken-DeNew (2004), Money does matter! Evidence from increasing real incomes in East Germany following reunification`, American Economic Review, 94 (3), pp. 730
- Ferrer-i-Carbonel, A., Frijters, P. (2004), `The effect of methodology on the determinants of happiness, Economic Journal 114, 641-659. Press Statement.
- Frijters, P, and Van der Klaauw, B. (2006), Job search with nonparticipation, Economic Journal, 239-277. Tinbergen Insitute Discussion Paper. IZA working paper. Press Statement.
- Clark, A., Frijters, P., Shileds, M.A. (2008) A survey of the income happiness gradient, Journal of Economic Literature, 46 (1), March 2008, pp. 95-144. also IZA, NCER, and DELTA Discussion Paper.
- Frijters, P., Shields, M.A., and J.P. Haisken-DeNew (2010), Socio-economic status, health shocks, life satisfaction and mortality: Evidence from an increasingly mixed proportional hazard model, (Forth
- Postdoctoral Fellow -
+61 7 334 67067
Ganegodage, Renuka
Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow
Renuka Ganegodage
Email: k.ganegodage@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 67067
Location:547 [colin clark building]
- Associate Professor -
+61 7 334 60572
Heiko Gerlach
Email: h.gerlach@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 60572
Location: 504 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: PhD in Economics, University of Mannheim and Univesity of Toulouse, 2001.
Research interests:
- Industrial Organization
- Competition Policy
- Regulation, Law and Economics
- Professor -
+61 7 336 56559
Professor Simon Grant
Email: simongrant@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56559
Location: 628 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University, 1991
Research interests:
- Decision making under uncertainty
- Non-expected utility theory
- Applying non-expected utility theory to games and social choice
Selected publications:
- Grant, S., A. Kajii, B. Polak and Z. Safra, 2010, "Generalized Utilitarianism and Harsanyi`s Impartial Observer Theorem," Econometrica, 78(6), 1939-1971.
- Chateauneuf, A., Eichberger, J. and S. Grant, 2007, "Choice under uncertainty with the best and worst in Mind: Neo-additive capacities," Journal of Economic Theory, 137, 538 - 567.
- Grant, S., A. Kajii and B. Polak, 1998, "Instrinsic Preference for Information", Journal of Economic Theory, 83, 233-259.
- Grant, S. and A. Kajii, 1995, "A Cardinal Characterization of the Rubinstein-Safra-Thomson Axiomatic Bargaining Theory", Econometrica, 63, 1241-1249.
- Grant, S., 1995, "Subjective Probability without Eventwise Monotonicity: or How Machina`s Mom May also be Probabilistically Sophisticated", Econometrica, 63, 159-189.
- Adjunct Associate Professor -
+61 7 323 75667
Gray, Mark
Adjunct Associate Professor
Adjunct Associate Professor
Adjunct Associate Professor Mark Gray
Email: mark.gray@bdo.com.au
Phone: +61 7 323 75667
Qualifications: BEcon (First Class Hons), University of Queensland Graduate, Australian Institute of Company Directors Senior Fellow, Financial Services Institute of Australia Fellow, Australian Institute of Management
- Honorary Associate Professor -
+61 7 334 69539
Harrison, Steve
Honorary Associate Professor
Honorary Associate Professor
Stephen Harrison
Email: s.harrison@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 69539
Location: 513 [colin clark building]
Research interests:
- Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
- Statistical Methods and Operations Research
- Economics of Forestry, Recreation, Water Resources and Energy, and Animal Health Economics
Publications:
- Thomas, Sebastioan, Dargusch, Paul, Harrison, Steve and Herbohn, John (2010) Why are there so few afforestation and reforestation Clean Development Mechanism Projects? Land Use Policy, 27 3: 880-887.
- Venn, T. J., Harrison, S. R. and Herbohn, J. L (2008) Enhancing tree seedling supply to smallholders in Leyte province, Philippines: An evaluation of the production system of government nursery sector and support to smallholder tree farmers. Small-Scale Forestry, 7 3-4: 245-261.
- Emtage, Nick, Herbohn, John L. and Harrison, Steve R. (2006) Landholder Typologies Used in the Development of Natural Resource Management Programs in Australia - A Review. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 13 2: 79-94.
- Suh, J. and Harrison, S. R. (2006) Pure Altruism, Consumer Behaviour and Choice Modelling. Asian Economic Journal, 20 2: 173-190.
- Agbola, F. W. and Harrison, S. R. (2005) Empirical investigation of investment behaviour in Australia`s pastoral region. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 49 1: 47-62.
- Senior Lecturer -
+61 7 336 56609
Jackson, Sukhan
Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Sukhan Jackson
Email: s.jackson@economics.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56609
Location: 612 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: BA Hons (Malaya). GradCert Ed (Hull). PhD (Griffith)
Research interests:
- Health Economics
- Economic Development and Growth
Publications:
- Xiaoyun Sun, Adrian C. Sleigh, Gordon Carmichael & Sukhan Jackson (2010) “Health payment-induced poverty under China`s New Cooperative Medical Scheme in rural Shandong” Health Policy and Planning Vol
- Abhaya Kamalakanthan & Sukhan Jackson (2009) “Doctor supply in Australia: rural-urban imbalances and regulated supply” Australian Journal of Primary Health Vol 15: 3-8.
- Xiaoyun Sun, Sukhan Jackson, Gordon Carmichael and Adrian C. Sleigh (2009) Prescribing Behaviour of Village Doctors under China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme, Social Science and Medicine. http://dx
- Xiaoyun Sun, Sukhan Jackson, Gordon Carmichael, Adrian C. Sleigh (2009) “Catastrophic medical payment and financial protection in rural China: evidence from the New Co-operative Medical Scheme in Shan
- Sukhan Jackson, Adrian C. Sleigh, Wang Guo-Jie and Liu Xi-Li (2007) “Migration for work and tuberculosis disease in rural China: case study of Henan Province” in Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth, Marika
- Lecturer -
+61 7 334 67064
Kalayci, Kenan
Lecturer
Lecturer
Dr. Kenan Kalayci
Email: k.kalayci@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 67064
Location: 510 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: PhD in Economics, Tilburg University
Research interests:
- Industrial Organization
- Behavioral Economics
- Experimental Economics
Selected publications:
- “Buyer confusion and market prices” (with Jan Potters), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2011.
Grants:
- UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Grant
- Honorary Research Consultant -
+61 7 334 69539
Karunaratne, Neil
Honorary Research Consultant
Honorary Research Consultant
Neil Karunaratne
Email: n.karunaratne@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 69539
Location: 513 [colin clark building]
Research interests:
- International Economics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics,
- Development Economics, Exchange Rate Economics, Input-output Analysis,
- Project Evaluation
Publications:
- Karunaratne, Neil Dias (2009) The sustainability of Australia`s current account deficits - A reappraisal after the global financial crisis. Journal of Policy Modeling, 32 1: 81-97.
- Karunaratne, N D (2006) Inflation Targeting & Central Bank Independence - new Directions for Sri Lanka`s Monetary Policy? Sri Lanka Economic Journal, 5 2: 65-90.
- Karunaratne, N D (2006) The New Economy and the Dollar Puzzle. Economic Analysis and Policy, 36 1&2: 1-19.
- Hossain, M. A. and Karunaratne, N. D. (2004) Trade liberalisation and technical efficiency: Evidence from Bangladesh manufacturing industries. The Journal of Development Studies, 40 3: 87-114.
- Hossain, M. A. and Karunaratne, N. D. (2004) Exports and Economic Growth in Bangladesh: Has Manufacturing Exports Become the New Engine of Export-Led Growth? The International Trade Journal, xviii 4: 303-334.
- Lecturer -
+61 7 336 56560
Kifle, Temesgen
Lecturer
Lecturer
Dr Temesgen Kifle
Email: t.kifle@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 33656560
Fax: +61 7 33657299
Location: 653 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: PhD and MA (University of Bremen, Germany), BA (University of Asmara, Eritrea)
Research interests:
- Labour Economics
- Economics of Education
- Job and Life Satisfaction
Selected publications:
- Kifle, Temesgen and Desta, H., Isaac (2011, in press), "The relationship between body mass index and socioeconomic and demographic indicators: Evidence from Australia", International Journal of Public Health.
- Kifle, Temesgen (2009), "Far from home but altruistic in nature: Evidence from Eritrean-born People in Australia", The Australasian Review of African Studies, Vol. XXX, No. 2, pp. 86-97.
- Kifle, Temesgen (2009), "The effect of immigration on the earnings of native-born workers: Evidence from Australia", Journal of Socio-Economics, Vol. 38, Issue 2, pp. 350-356.
- Kifle, Temesgen and Kler, Parvinder (2009), "The financial satisfaction of African immigrants in Australia", Australasian Review of African Studies, Vol. XXIX, No. 1& 2, pp. 66-77.
- Kifle, Temesgen (2007), "The Private rate of return to schooling: Evidence from Eritrea", Essays in Education, Vol. 21, pp. 77-99.
Grants:
- 2007-2009 UQ Early Career Researcher Grant ($7,657) " What Determines Remittances? Evidence from Eritrean Migrants in Australia"
- Associate Professor -
+61 7 336 56470
Kline, Jeff
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor Jeffrey Kline
Email: j.kline@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56470
Location: 516 [colin clark building]
Research interests:
- Inductive Game Theory
- Microeconomic Theory
- Industrial Organization
Selected publications:
- A note on the relationship between graphs and information protocols, (with S. Luckraz), forthcoming in Synthese, (2010)
- Partial memories, inductively derived views, and their interactions with behavior, (with M. Kaneko), forthcoming in Economic Theory, (2008)
- Imperfect recall and the relationships between solution concepts in extensive games, Economic Theory 25: 3, pp703-710 (2005)
- Minimum memory for equivalence between ex ante optimality and time-consistency, Games and Economic Behavior, 38:2, pp278-305
- Information structures and decentralizability of equilibria, Economic Theory, 9:1, pp81-96 (1997)
- Lecturer -
+61 7 336 56429
Dr Do Won Kwak
Email: d.kwak@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56429
Fax: +61 7 3365 6666
Location: St Lucia [colin clark building]
Qualifications: Ph.D. in Economics (MSU)
Research interests:
- Econometrics
- Labor Economics
- Applied Microeconomics
- Senior Lecturer -
+61 7 336 56085
Laurenceson, James
Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer
Dr. James Laurenceson
Email: j.laurenceson@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56085
Location: 517 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: BEcon (Hons) UQ; PhD (UQ); GC Ed (UQ)
Research interests:
- Economic Development and Growth
- International Economics and International Finance
Selected publications:
- Laurenceson, J. and Rodgers, D. 2010. China’s macroeconomic volatility – how important is the business cycle? China Economic Review, 22(1), 324-333
- Jiang, B., Laurenceson, J. 2008, Share reform and the performance of China`s listed companies, China Economic Review, 19(3), 489-501
- Laurenceson, J. 2008. Chinese investment in Australia, Economic Papers, 27(1), 87-94.
- Laurenceson, J. 2007. Financial sector regulation, bank franchise values and savings mobilization, Applied Economics, 39(4), 519-525.
- Laurenceson, J., and Chai. J. 2003. Economic development and financial reform in China, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
- Lecturer -
+61 7 334 67053
Le, Thanh Quang
Lecturer
Lecturer
Dr. Thanh Quang Le
Email: t.le2@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 67053
Fax: +61 7 3365 7299
Location: 525 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: Ph.D (ANU), MSc. (Adelaide), BA (Hons.) Foreign Trade University
Research interests:
- Macroeconomics
- Economic Development and Growth
- Time-Series Analysis
Selected publications:
- Le, Thanh (2011), “Remittances for economic development: the investment perspective”, Economic Modelling, forthcoming.
- Le, Thanh (2011), “R&D spillovers through student flows, institutions, and economic growth: What can we learn from African countries?”, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.
- Le, Thanh and Bodman, Philip (2011), “Remittances or technological diffusion: which drives domestic gains from brain drain?”, Applied Economics, Vol. 43(18), pp. 2277-2285.
- Le, Thanh (2010), “Are student flows a significant channel of R&D spillovers from the North to the South?”, Economics Letters, Vol. 107, pp. 315-317.
- Le, Thanh (2008), “A dual economy model of endogenous growth with R&D and market structure”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 18(3), pp. 349-366.
PhD candidates
- Honorary Senior Fellow -
+61 7 336 56579
Leeves, Gareth
Honorary Senior Fellow
Honorary Senior Fellow
Dr. Gareth Leeves
Email: g.leeves@economics.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56579
Location: 608 [colin clark building]
Research interests:
- Labour Economics
- Econometric and Statistical Methods
- Economic Development and Growth
Selected Publications:
- Leeves, Gareth David (2010) Declining US output volatility and its effect on labour flow volatility: An MGARCH analysis. Applied Economics, 42 20: 2553-2561.
- Green, Colin, Kler, Parviinder and Leeves, Gareth (2009) Flexible contract workers in inferior jobs: Reappraising the evidence. British Journal of Industrial Relations,
- Leeves, G (2009) Migration plans and received remittances: Evidence from Fiji and Tonga. International Migration Review, 43 1: 160-177.
- Green, C, Kler, P and Leeves, G (2007) Immigrant overeducation: Evidence from recent arrivals to Australia. Economics of Education Review, 26 4: 420-432.
- Bradley, S., Green, C. and Leeves, G. (2007) Worker absence and shirking: Evidence from matched teacher-school data. Labour Economics, 14 3: 319-334.
- Lecturer -
+61 7 334 67378
Christopher Leong
Email: c.leong@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 67378
Location: 505A [colin clark building]
- Senior Lecturer -
+61 7 336 56573
Littleboy, Bruce
Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Bruce Littleboy
Email: b.littleboy@economics.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56573
Location: 614 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: BEcon (Hons) UQ. PhD UQ
Research interests:
- Macroeconomics (incl. Monetary and Fiscal Theory)
- Political Economy
Publications:
- Littleboy, Bruce (2007) Review of Freakonomics. Economic Analysis and Policy, 37 1: 103-105.
- Littleboy, Bruce (2006) Review of `Economics and its Enemies: centuries of anti-economics` by William Oliver Coleman. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.ISBN 14039 4183 3. Economic Analysis and Policy, 35 1-2: 117-120.
- Littleboy, Bruce (2004) Review of `The Invisible Hand: Economic Thought Yesterday and Today` by Ulrich van Santum. Economic Analysis and Policy, 34 2: 236.
- Littleboy, B. (2003). Review of `Keynes and His Battles`. Economic Analysis and Policy, 37 2: 205-207.
- Littleboy, B. (2003) Teaching Them a Lesson at Ipswich: Reflections. Economic Analysis and Policy, 33 1: 118-125.
- Honorary Professor -
+61 7 334 67057
Lovell, Knox
Honorary Professor
Honorary Professor
Knox Lovell
Email: k.lovell@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 67057
Location: 532 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Political Economy, University of Chicago, PhD, Duke University, Economics
Research interests:
- Productivity & Efficiency Analysis
Selected publications:
- Lovell, C.A. Knox, Rodriguez-Alvarez, ana and Wall, Alan (2009) The effects of stochastic demand and expense preference behaviour on public hospital costs and excess capacity. Health Economics, 18 2:
- Pastor, Jesus, T. and Lovell, C. A. Knox (2007) Circularity of the Malmquist Productivity Index. Economic Theory, 33 3: 591-599.
- Mosheim, Roberto and Lovell, C. A. Knox (2009) Scale economies and inefficiency of US dairy farms. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 91 3: 777-794.
- Cuesta, Rafael A., Lovell, C.A. Knox and Zofio, Jose L. (2009) Environmental efficiency measurement with translog distance functions: A parametric approach. Ecological Economics, 68 8-9: 2232-2242.
- Cherchye, Laurens, Lovell, C. A. Knox, Moesen, Wim and Van Puyenbroeck, Tom (2007) One market, one number? A composite indicator assessment of EU internal market dynammics. European Economic Review,
- Associate Professor -
+61 7 336 56595
Mahadevan, Renuka
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor Renuka Mahadevan
Email: r.mahadevan@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56595
Fax: +61 7 336 57299
Location: 616 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: PhD (ANU), MEc (ANU), Postgrad Dip in Edu (Singapore), BSc (Hons, National University of Singapore)
Research interests:
- Development Economics (Food Security, Poverty, Agricultural Reform)
- International Trade
Selected Publications:
- Asafu-adjaye, J., and Mahadevan, R., (2011) Managing Macroeconomic Policies for Sustainable Growth: A Computable General Equilibrium Inquiry, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. Forthcoming.
- Mahadevan, R and Suardi, S., ‘The Effects of Uncertainty Dynamics on Exports, Imports and Productivity Growth’, Journal of Asian Economics, Forthcoming.
- Mahadevan, R., and Asafu-Adjaye, J., ‘The Implications of EU Sugar Price Cuts, Economic Partnership Agreement and Development Aid for Fiji’, Contemporary Economic Policy, 2010, vol.28, no.1: 52-64.
- Asafu-Adjaye, J., and Mahadevan, R., ‘Regional Trade Agreements Versus Global Trade Liberalisation: Which Way Forward for a Small Island State?’, World Economy, 2009, vol.32, no.3: 509-529.
- Mahadevan, R., ‘The Twin Challenges of Efficiency and Soil Erosion in Fiji’s Sugar Industry’, Ecological Economics, 2008, vol.66: 468-477.
- Principal Research Fellow - RSMG -
+61 7 336 56429
Mallawaarachchi, Thilak
Principal Research Fellow - RSMG
Principal Research Fellow - RSMG
Dr. Thilak Mallawaarachchi
Email: t.mallawaarachchi@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56429
Location: 553 [colin clark building]
- Lecturer -
+61 7 334 67049
Man, Priscilla
Lecturer
Lecturer
- Senior Lecturer -
+61 7 336 56596
Mandeville, Tom
Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Tom Mandeville
Email: t.mandeville@economics.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56596
Location: 509 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: BSc (Ag) U of Alberta, B MEc UNE, B PhD UQ
Research interests:
- Emergent Complexity and Organization
- Information Economics
- Industry Economics and Industrial Organisation
Selected publications:
- Earl, Peter. E and Mandeville, Tom (2009) The competitive process in the age of the internet. Prometheus, 27 3: 195-209.
- Mandeville, Tom and Kardoyo, Hadi (2009) Services, ICTs and the changing nature of economic development processes in teh KBE era. Prometheus, 27 1: 17-25.
- Potts, J. and Mandeville, T. D. (2007) Toward an evolutionary theory of innovation and growth in the service economy. Prometheus, 25 2: 147-159.
- hearn G., Rooney, D. and Mandeville, T. D. (2003) Phenomenological turbulence and innovation in knowledge systems. Prometheus, 21 2: 231-245.
- Hearn, G. and Mandeville, T. D. (2005. How to be productive in the knowledge economy: The case of ICTs. In D. Rooney, G. Hearn and A. Ninan. (Ed.), Handbook on the knowledge economy (pp. 165-177) Che
Grants:
- ARC LIEF, Australian Creative Resources Archive, $740,000, 2003
PhD candidates
- Professor -
+61 7 334 66254
Mangan, John
Professor
Professor
Professor John Mangan
Email: j.mangan@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 66254
Location: 625 [colin clark building]
Research interests:
- Cross-Sectional Analysis
- Labour Economics
- Economics of Social issues
Publications:
- Mangan, John and Trendle, Bernard (2010) Cancellation of Indigenous Australians from the apprenticeship training contract. Education Economics, 18 4: 377-394.
- Borooah, Vani K. and Mangan, John (2009) Home is where the hurt is: An econometric analysis of injuries caused by spousal assault. Applied Economics, 41 21: 2779-2787.
- Borooah, V. K and Mangan, J. (2008) Education, occupational class and unemployment in the regions of the United Kingdom. Education Economics, 16 4: 351-370.
- Borooah, V. K. and Mangan, J. E. (2007) Living here, born there: The economic life of Australia`s immigrants. European Journal of Policitcal Economy, 23 2: 486-511.
- Andrews, D., Green, C. and Mangan, A (2004) Spatial inequality in the Australian youth labour market: The role of neighbourhood composition. Regional Studies, 38 1: 15-25.
- Lecturer -
+61 7 336 56246
McDonald, Stuart
Lecturer
Lecturer
Dr. Stuart McDonald
Email: s.mcdonald@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56246
Location: 505 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: B. Econ (Hons) UQ, B. Arts (Hons) UQ, PhD UQ
Research interests:
- Microeconomic Theory
- Game Theory
- Emergent Complexity and Organization
Publications:
- McDonald, S. and Zhang, J. (2011) Inequality and growth with education externalities and missing markets. Macroeconomic Dynamics (In Press)
- Wagner, L. and McDonald, S. (2010) Finding traitors in secure networks using Byzantine agreements. International Journal of Network Security 10 (1), 11-17.
- J. Zhang, J. Davies, J. Zeng and S. McDonald (2008). Optimal taxation in a growth model with public consumption and home production. Journal of Public Economics 92 (3-4), 885-896.
- Bowden, M. and McDonald, S. (2008) The impact of interaction and social learning on aggregate expectations. Computational Econmics 31 (3), 289-306.
- Beard, R. and McDonald, S. (2006) Dynamic re-contracting of water rights along a river. Annals of Dynamic Games 9.
- Professor/ARC Professorial Fellow -
+61 7 336 56784
McLennan, Andrew
Professor/ARC Professorial Fellow
Professor/ARC Professorial Fellow
Professor Andrew McLennan
Email: a.mclennan@economics.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56784
Location: 520 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: BA (Mathematics) University of Chicago, Ph.D. (Economics) Princeton
Research interests:
- Game Theory
- Microeconomics
Publications:
- McLennan, Andrew and Tourky, Rabee (2010) Imitation games and computation. Games and Economic Behavior, 70 1: 4-11.
- McLennan, Andrew and Tourky Rabee (2010) Simple complexity from imitation games. Games and Economic Behavior, 68 2: 683-688.
- McLennan, A. and Tourky, R. (2008) Using volume to prove Sperner`s Lemma. Economic Theory, 35 3: 593-597.
- McLennan, A. and Berg, J. (2005) Asymptotic expected number of Nash equilibria of two-player normal form games. Games and Economic Behavior, 51 2: 264-295.
- McLennan, A (2005) The expected number of Nash equilibria of a normal form game. Econometrica, 73 1: 141-174.
- Professor & Head of School -
+61 7 336 56340
Menezes, Flavio
Professor & Head of School
Professor & Head of School
Professor & Head of School Flavio Menezes
Email: f.menezes@economics.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 563401
Fax: +61 7 7 336 5729
Location: 600 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: Bachelor of Economics, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, 1985. Master of Economics, Graduate School of Economics, FGV, 1988. Ph.D. in Economics, University of Illinois, 1993.
Research interests:
- Game Theory
Selected publications:
- Menezes, Flavio M. and Quiggin, J (2010) Markets for influence. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 28 3: 307-310.
- Menezes, Flavio M. and Roessler, Christian (2010) Good and bad consistency in regulatory decisions. The Economic Record, 86 (275): 504-516, 2010.
- An Introduction to Auction Theory (with Paulo Monteiro). Oxford University Press, January 2005; http://www.oup.com. Second (paperback) edition published in 2008.
- Agastya, M., Menezes, F. and Sengupta, K. (2007) Cheap talk, efficiency and egalitarian cost sharing in joint projects. Games and Economic Behaviour, 60 1: 1-19.
- Menezes, F. and Pitchford, R. (2006) Binary games with many players. Economic Theory, 28 1: 125-143.
PhD candidates
Fernando Tavares Camacho, Craig Malam, Jorge Montecinos
- Lecturer -
+61 7 336 56467
Mitra, Sinchan
Lecturer
Lecturer
Dr. Sinchan Mitra
Email: s.mitra@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56467
Location: 523B [colin clark building]
Qualifications: Ph.D (Washington University in St Louis), M.A, (JNU, New Delhi), BSc, (Calcutta)
Research interests:
- International Economics
- Macroeconomics
- Applied Econometrics
Selected publications:
- Output Fluctuations in the G-7: An Unobserved Components Approach (joint with Tara Sinclair). Forthcoming, Macroeconomic Dynamics
- Lecturer -
+61 7 334 67052
Morgan, Bryan
Lecturer
Lecturer
Dr Bryan Morgan
Email: b.morgan@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 67052
Fax: +61 7 336 57299
Location: 524 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: PhD (UQ), BEcon (Hons) (UQ)
Research interests:
- Evolutionary Economics
- Financial Economics
Selected Publications:
- 2009 ‘The Information Efficiency of Equity Markets in Australia with regard to Interest Rate and Exchange Rate Shocks’, Journal of Economic Studies vol 36 (5) (with A. Hatemi-J).
- 2007 ‘Liberalized Emerging Markets and the World Economy: Testing for Increased Integration with Time-Varying Volatility’, Applied Financial Economics, vol 17 (15) (with A. Hatemi-J).
- 2000 ‘Modelling Growth in Economic Systems as the Outcome of a Process of Self-Organisational Change: A Fuzzy Regression Approach’, in Economic Evolution, Learning and Complexity: Econometric, Experimental and Simulation Approaches, eds. U. Cantner, H. Hanusch and S. Klepper, Berlin, Springer (with J. Foster).
- ARC Future Fellow -
+61 7 334 69439
Celine Nauges
Email: c.nauges@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 3346 9439
Fax: +61 7 3365 7299
Location: 546 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: Ph.D., Economics, University of Toulouse, 1999.
Research interests:
- Environment and Resource Economics
- Agricultural economics
- Applied econometrics
Selected publications:
- “Uncertainty and technical efficiency in Finnish agriculture: a state-contingent approach” (with Christopher O’Donnell and John Quiggin), European Review of Agricultural Economics (forthcoming).
- “Environmental and production cost impacts of no-till in Finland: Estimates from observed behavior” (with Marita Laukkanen), Land Economics, 2011, 87(3), p. 508-527.
- “Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh: A Household Labor Market Approach” (with Richard Carson and Phoebe Koundouri), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2011, 93(2), p. 407-414.
- “Estimation of Water Demand in Developing Countries: An Overview” (with Dale Whittington), World Bank Research Observer, 2010, 25(2), p. 263-294.
- “Clean Air Regulation and Heterogeneity in US Gasoline Prices” (with Ujjayant Chakravorty and Alban Thomas), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2008, 55(1), p. 106–122.
- Professor & Deputy Head of School -
+61 7 334 69256
O'Donnell, Chris
Professor & Deputy Head of School
Professor & Deputy Head of School
Professor Christopher O`Donnell
Email: c.odonnell@economics.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 69256
Fax: +61 7 336 57299
Location: 620 [colin clark building]
Research interests:
- Agricultural Economics
- Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
- Economic Models and Forecasting
Selected publications:
- O`Donnell, C. J., R. G. Chambers and J. Quiggin (2010). "Efficiency Analysis in the Presence of Uncertainty." Journal of Productivity Analysis 33(1): 1-17.
- Griffiths, W.E., Newton, L.S. and O`Donnell, C.J. (2010) `Predictive Densities for Models with Stochastic Regressors and Inequality Constraints: Forecasting Local-Area Wheat Yield`, International Journal of Forecasting 26(2): 397-412..
- O`Donnell, C. J., D. S. P. Rao and G. E. Battese (2008). "Metafrontier Frameworks for the Study of Firm-level Efficiencies and Technology Ratios." Empirical Economics 34(2): 231-255.
- O`Donnell, C.J. and W.E. Griffiths (2006) "Estimating State-Contingent Production Frontiers" American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88(1):249-266.
- Griffiths, W. E., R. C. Hill and C. J. O`Donnell (2006). "A Comparison of Bayesian and Sampling Theory Inferences in a Probit Model" in Holt, M. and J.-P. Chavas (eds.) Essays in Honor of Stanley R. Johnson: article 12.
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- Lecturer -
+61 7 336 56579
Oyarzun, Carlos
Lecturer
Lecturer
Dr. Carlos Oyarzun
Email: c.oyarzun@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56579
Location: 608 Colin [colin clark building]
Research interests:
- Learning
- Microeconomic Theory
Selected publications:
- "Monotone Imitation" Economic Theory 41.3 (2009): 411-441. (with Johannes Ruf)
- Postdoctoral Fellow -
+61 7 334 67056
Peyrache, Antonio
Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow
Antonio Peyrache
Email: a.peyrache@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 67056
Location: 531 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: PhD, Sapeinza University of Rome, 2008, Bachelor and Master in Statistics, Sapienza University of Rome, 2005
Research interests:
- Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
- Production Theory
- Applied Econometrics, Econometric and Statistical Theory
Publications:
- Peyrache A., Coelli T. J. (2009), "Testing procedures for detection of linear dependencies in efficiency models", European Journal of Operational Research, 2009, 198, 647-654
- Peyrach, A., Daraio C. (2010), "Empirical tools to assess the sensitivity of directional distance functions to direction selection", Applied Economics (accepted for publication).
- Filippetti A., Peyrache A. (2010), "The dyanmic of technological capabilities of countries: A dual approach using composite indicators & data envelopment analysis", World Development (Accepted for publication).
- Postdoctoral Fellow -
+61 7 336 56600
Prayaga, Prabha
Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow
Prabha Prayaga
Email: p.prayaga@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56600
Location: 512 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: Master of Economics (M.Ec.), University of New England, Armidale, NSW
Research interests:
- non-market valuation, environmental and resource economics, recreation economics
Publications:
- Prayaga, P., Rolfe, J. and Stoeckl, N. 2010. ‘The value of recreational fishing in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia: A pooled revealed preference and contingent behavior model’ Marine Policy vol. 34, pp 244–251.
- Rolfe, J. and Prayaga, P. 2007. ‘Estimating Values for Recreational Fishing at Freshwater Dams in Queensland’ Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics vol. 51, pp. 157-174.
- Prayaga, P., Rolfe, J. and Sinden, J. 2006, `A travel cost analysis of the value of special events: Gemfest in Central Queensland.` Tourism Economics vol. 12, pp. 403-420.
- Professor/Federation Fellow -
+61 7 334 69646
Quiggin, John
Professor/Federation Fellow
Professor/Federation Fellow
Professor John Quiggin
Email: j.quiggin@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 69646
Fax: +61 7 336 57299
Location: 551A [colin clark building]
Qualifications: BA(Hons),BEc(Hons),MEc (ANU), PhD (UNE)
- Associate Professor -
+61 7 336 56576
Rambaldi, Alicia
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor Alicia Rambaldi
Email: a.rambaldi@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56576
Fax: +61 7 336 57299
Location: 539 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: B.Rural Sci.(UNCordoba), M.Sc., PhD (LSU)
Research interests:
- Econometric and Statistical Methods
- State Space Models accounting for Cross-Sectional/Spatial Correlation
- Applied Econometrics
Selected publications:
- Rambaldi, A.N. and D.S. Prasada Rao, “Hedonic Predicted House Price Indices Using Time-Varying Hedonic Models with Spatial Autocorrelation,” School of Economics Discussion Paper No. 432 July 2011, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
- Ganegodage, K. Renuka and Alicia N. Rambaldi (2011). The Impact of Education Investment on Sri Lankan Economic Growth. Economics of Education Review, 30, 1491– 1502
- Rao, D. S. Prasada, Rambaldi, Alicia and Doran, Howard (2010) Extrapolation of purchasing power parities using multiple benchmarks and auxiliary information: A new approach. Review of Income and Wealt
- Rambaldi, A.N, D.S.P Rao and K. R. Ganegodage (2010), "Modelling Spatially Correlated Error Structures in the Time-Space Extrapolation of Purchasing Power Parities", in Luigi Biggeri and Guido Ferrari
- Iyer, K.G., A.N. Rambaldi, K.K. Tang (2008), "Efficiency Externalities of Trade and Alternative Forms of Foreign Investment in OECD Countries" Journal of Applied Econometrics, Volume 23, 6, Pages 749-
Grants:
- Current ARC Funded Grants:
- Modelling Housing Prices
- Consistent Panels ... (https://uqicd.economics.uq.edu.au/)
- Professor/ARC Professorial Fellow -
+61 7 336 56424
Rao, Prasada
Professor/ARC Professorial Fellow
Professor/ARC Professorial Fellow
Professor Prasada Rao
Email: p.rao@economics.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56424
Fax: +61 7 336 57299
Location: 540 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: M.A (Economics), Andhra University, India. PhD (Econometrics) Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India)
Research interests:
- Index Number methods for spatial and temporal comparisons.
- Measurement of Efficiency and Productivity.
- Purchasing Power Parities – methods for compilation.
Selected Publications:
- “Global Income Distributions and Inequality, 1993 and 2000: Incorporating country-Level Inequality Modelled with Beta Distributions”, Review of Economics and Statistics (available online 7 October, 2010). (jointly with D. Chotikapanich, Bill Griffiths and Vicar Valencia),
- “Australian Private Health Insurance Productivity Growth: Is There Scope to Limit Premium Increases?“, Economic Record (accepted for publication 20/8/2010) (Jointly with Roger Carrington and Tim Coelli),
- “Explaining agricultural productivity growth: an international perspective”, Agricultural Economics, Vol. 41, 1, pp. 1-14, 2010 (jointly with Derek Headey and Mohammad Alauddin)
- “ Extrapolation of Purchasing Power Parities using Multiple Benchmarks and Auxiliary Information: A New Approach”, Review of Income and Wealth, Special Issue. Series 56, Special Issue 1, June, 2010, pp. S59-S98. (jointly with Alicia Rambaldi and Howard Doran)
- “ Stochastic Approach to Index Numbers for Multilateral Price Comparisons and their Standard Errors”, Review of Income and Wealth, Series 56, Special Issue 1, June, 2010, pp. S32-S58. (jointly with Gholamreza Hajargasht)
- Associate Professor -
+61 7 336 56321
Riethmuller, Paul
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor Paul Riethmuller
Email: p.riethmuller@economics.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56321
Location: 635 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: B Agr Sc UQ, M Econ UQ, PhD Minn, Grad Cert Educ UQ.
Research interests:
- Economic Development and Growth
- Agricultural Economics
Publications:
- Riethmuller, P. C. (2003) The social impact of livestock : A developing country perspective. Animal Science Journal, 74 4: 245-253.
- Reithmuller, P.C. (2003) Australia and Juapan under the World Trading Organisation: How can we harmonize our industries? Journal of Australian Studies, 15 March 2003: 1-14.
- Hoffmann, D., Riethmuller, P. C. and Steane, D. (2003) Some issues associate with the livestock industries of hte developing countries of Asia: Opening Pandora`s Box. Food, Agriculture & Environment, 1 3 & 4: 148-154.
- Koizumi, S, Kobayashi, S, Pan, I-J., Takaku, S, Baba, M, Jussaume, R A, Riethmuller, P.C., Morison, J., Ryoo, J.C., Lin, C W, Lin I. H., Zhou, H., Ratawaraha, A and Nagano, M (2002) Similarities and differences in meat consumption patterns in Asia and Pacific-Rim countries. Animal Science Journal, 73 4: 293-300.
- Stoppiana, Ruth and Riethmuller, Paul (2000) Beef consumption in Japan: What can be learnt from sub-national data. Australian Agribusiness Review, 8 3: 1-11.
- Lecturer -
+61 7 336 56349
Robinson, Jacqueline
Lecturer
Lecturer
Dr. Jacqueline Robinson
Email: robinson@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56349
Fax: +61 7 336 57299
Location: 632 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: B.A 1969 UWA, Dip.Educ 1970 UWA, B.Econ 1989 UQ, M.Econ St 1992 UQ, PhD 1999 UQ
Research interests:
- Environmental and Ecological economics. In particular evaluation, using tools such as CBA, MCA and input-output impact analysis, of projects or programs likely to impact on the environment.
- Environmental management assessment, including assessment of policy instruments.
- Specific environmental areas, water quality, wetland areas and marine parks.
Publications:
- Robinson, J., Clouston, E., Suh, J. and Chaloupka, M. (2008) Are citizens` juries a useful tool for assessing environmental value? Environmental Conservation, 35 4: 351-360.
- Cox, Melanie E., Jonhnstone, Ron and Robinson, Jackie (2006) Relationships between perceived coastal waterway condition and social aspects of quality of life. Ecology and Society, 11 1.
- Robinson, Jackie (200) Does MODSS offer an alternative to traditional approaches to natural resource management decision-making? Australian Journal of Environmental Management, 7 3: 170-180.
- Robinson, Jackie (200) Motivating stakeholders to participate in natural resource management: An assessment of the outcomes from a multiple objective decision support system. Natural Resource Management, 3 2: 25-30.
- Robinson, J. J. (2002) Environmental value transfer: an application for the South East Queensland waterways. Water Science and Technology, 45 11: 91-100.
- Honorary Research Consultant -
+61 7 334 67378
Roy, Kartik
Honorary Research Consultant
Honorary Research Consultant
- Lecturer -
+61 7 336 56563
Sherwood, Carl
Lecturer
Lecturer
Carl Sherwood
Email: c.sherwood@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56563
Location: 641 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: MBA (Exec, UQ), BE (Civil, Hon 1 UQ), MIE (Aust), CP Eng
Research interests:
- First Year Statistics - Learning and Teaching Strategies
- Lecturer -
+61 7 336 56594
Idione Soza
Email: i.soza@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56594
Location: 607 [colin clark building]
Research interests:
- Game theory
- Microeconomics
- Lecturer/ARC Postdoctoral Fellow -
+61 7 334 67379
Dr. Shino Takayama
Email: s.takayama@economics.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 67379
Location: 617 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: PhD (Minnesota)
Research interests:
- Financial Economics
- Game Theory
- Microeconomic Theory
Selected Publications:
- “The Dynamic Strategy of an Informed Trader with Market Manipulation,” Annals of Finance, 6(2), March 2010.
- “Price, Trade Size, and Information Revelation in Multi-Period Securities Markets,” with Han Ozsoylev, Journal of Financial Markets, 13(1), February 2010.
- "Office-Seeking Politicians, Interest Groups and Split Contributions in the Model of Campaign Finance" International Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2007.
Grants:
- ARC Discovery Grant (2010 - 2012)
- Early Career Researcher Grant (2010)
- Associate Professor -
+61 7 336 59796
Tang, KK
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
A/Prof Kam Ki Tang
Email: kk.tang@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 59796
Fax: +61 7 3365 6666
Location: 537 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: BSci (Hons) (HKU)%3B MEcon (ANU)%3B PhD (ANU)
Research interests:
- Health Economics
- Economic Development and Growth
- International Economics and International Finance
Selected publications:
- Carmignani, F., G. Lordan, and K. Tang, (forthcoming), “Does aid for HIV respond to media pressure?” Health Economics, forthcoming.
- Petrie, D., Tang, K., and P. Rao, (2009), “Measuring Health Inequality with Realization of Potential Life Years,” Health Economics, 18: S1, S55-S75.
- Tang, K., J. Chin, and P. Rao, 2008, “Avoidable Mortality Risks and Measurement of Wellbeing and Inequality”, Journal of Health Economics, 27(3): 624-641.
- Tang, K. (2011), “Correcting the size bias in trade openness and globalization measures” Global Economy Journal, 11(3): article 3.
- Iyer, K., A. Rambaldi, K. Tang, (2008), “Efficiency externalities from Trade and Alternative Forms of Foreign Investment in OECD Countries”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 23 (6): 749-766.
Grants:
- ARC Discovery Project 2012-2014 "Income insecurity in Australia: who is feeling the pinch and why?" (with Nick Rohde and Lars Osberg)
- ARC Discovery Project 2008-2010 “Lifelong Education and Health Investment: Implications for Life Expectancy, Economic Growth and Public Policy”, (with Jie Zhang)
- Emeritus Professor -
+61 7 336 56306
Tisdell, Clement
Emeritus Professor
Emeritus Professor
Professor Clement Tisdell
Email: c.tisdell@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56306
Location: 618 [colin clark building]
Research interests:
- Environmental and Resource Economics, Agricultural Economics,
- Economic Development and Growth, Industry Economics and Industrial Organisation,
- Microeconomic Theory
Selected publications:
- 1. Tisdell, C.A. (2011) Core issues in the economics of biodiversity conservation in “Ecological Economics Reviews” Robert Costanza, Karin Limburg & Ida Kubiszewski, Eds. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.1219, 99-112. )
- 2. Tisdell, C.A. (2009) Resource and Environmental Economics – Modern Issues and Applications. World Scientific, Singapore. Vol. 7 in World Scientific Series on Energy and Resource Economics
- 3. Tisdell, C.A. (2009). Economic Reform and Openness in China: China’s Development Policies in the Last 30 Years. Economic Analysis and Policy Vol.39, No. 2, Pp. 271-294.
- 4. Tisdell, C.A. (2011) Biodiversity conservation, loss of natural capital and interest rates. Ecological Economics, 70, 2511-2515.
- 5. Tisdell, C.A. and Swarna Nantha, H. (2011) Comparative costs and conservation of wild species in situ, e.g. orangutans. Ecological Economics 70 2429-2436.
- Professor -
+61 7 334 67071
Tourky, Rabee
Professor
Professor
Professor Rabee Tourky
Email: rabeetourky@gmail.com (preferred) r.tourky@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 67071
Location: 546 [colin clark building]
Research interests:
- Economic Theory
- Econometric Theory
- Computational Economics
Selected publications:
- McLennan, Andrew; Monteiro, Paulo K.; and Tourky, Rabee: Games with Discontinuous Payoffs: a Strengthening of Reny’s Existence Theorem. Forthcoming in Econometrica 2011.
- McLennan, Andrew and Tourky, Rabee (2010) Imitation games and computation. Games and Economic Behavior, 70 1: 4-11.
- McLennan, Andrew and Tourky Rabee (2010) Simple complexity from imitation games. Games and Economic Behavior, 68 2: 683-688.
- Research Fellow, EEMG -
+61 7 336 56601
Wagner, Liam
Research Fellow, EEMG
Research Fellow, EEMG
Dr. Liam Wagner
Email: l.wagner@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56601
Location: 634 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: BA (Hons I), PhD
Research interests:
- Energy Economics
- Electricity Markets
- Oil and Natural Gas
Selected publications:
- Stephens, E., Ross, I.L., Mussgnug, J.H., Wagner, L.D., Borowitzka, M.A., Posten, C., Kruse, O., and Hankamer, B., Future prospects of microalgal biofuel production systems, Trends in Plant Science, V
- Menezes, F., Quiggin, J.C., and Wagner, L.D., Grandfathering and greenhouse: the role of compensation and adjustment assistance in the introduction of a carbon emissions trading scheme for Australia,
- Wagner, L.D., Ross, J.V., and Possingham, H.P., Catastrophe management and inter-reserve distance for marine reserve networks, Ecological Modelling, (2007) Vol. 201, no. 1, pp.82-88
- Molyneaux, L., Wagner, L., Froome, C., and Foster, J., "Resilience and electricity systems: a comparative analysis" Energy Policy (Accepted and to appear)
Grants:
- UQ Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2008-2010 (Aprrox. $220,000)
- Lecturer -
+61 7 336 56574
Dr Yuichiro Waki
Email: y.waki@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 336 56574
Location: 613 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: Ph.D. (Economics), University of Minnesota, 2011
Research interests:
- Macroeconomics
- Public finance
- Monetary economics
Selected publications:
- "Monetary Policy during Japan`s Lost Decade," with R. Anton Braun, 2006, The Japanese Economic Review, Vol. 57. No. 2, pp.324-344.
- Research Fellow - EEMG -
+61 7 334 67058
Wild, Phillip
Research Fellow - EEMG
Research Fellow - EEMG
- Associate Professor -
+61 7 334 67054
Zelenyuk, Valentin
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor Valentin Zelenyuk
Email: v.zelenyuk@uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 67054
Location: 530 [colin clark building]
Qualifications: 1999-2002 Ph.D. Economics, Oregon State University, USA. 1997-1999 M.S., Economics, Oregon State University, USA.
Research interests:
- Econometrics (Parametric and Non-parametric Econometrics),
- Efficiency and Productivity Analysis: Theory and Applications, - Growth and Development: Empirics
- Industrial Organization, Economies in Transition.
Selected publications:
- Zelenyuk, V. (2011) "Aggregation of Economic Growth Rates and of its Sources," European Journal of Operational Research 212, 190–198.
- Park, B., L. Simar and V. Zelenyuk (2008) “Local Likelihood Estimation of Truncated Regression and its Partial Derivatives: Theory and Application” Journal of Econometrics 146, pp.185-198.
- Badunenko, O. Henderson, D. and V. Zelenyuk (2008) “Technological Change and Transition: Relative Contributions to Worldwide Growth During the 1990’s,” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 70:4, pp. 461-492.
- Simar, L. and V. Zelenyuk (2007) “Statistical Inference for Aggregates of Farrell-type Efficiencies” Journal of Applied Econometrics 22:7, pp. 1367-1394.
- Simar, L. and V. Zelenyuk (2006) “On Testing Equality of Two Distribution Functions of Efficiency Score Estimated via DEA” Econometric Reviews 25:4, pp. 497-522.
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