Research > Competitive Grants

Current Grants

Construction of Consistent Panels of Real Gross Domestic Product and its Components at Current and Constant Prices - Rao, Rambaldi, Doran - ARC Discovery Project and Award of ARC Professorial Fellowship - 2009-2013

Capacity Grant on “Economic Evaluation in Health” - Coelli and other researchers from the School of Public Health – NHMRC - 2007-2012

State-contingent analysis of productivity, efficiency and innovation -  O’Donnell, Quiggin, Chambers  - ARC (Discovery)  - 2008-2010

The Sustainability of Agricultural Productivity Growth in a Changing Environment: An International Perspective  - Alauddin, Rao, Coelli  - ARC - 2006-2009

 

Recently completed projects

Benchmarking MAF Policy's sector productivity measures - Rae, Iyer, Rambaldi and Tang - MAF Policy/Bio-security New Zealand - 2006- 2007

Measurement and Analysis of Service Sector Efficiency and productivity in Taiwan -  Rao and Coelli – Taiwan Takechi Foundation - 2005-2007

Estimating the Characteristics of Stochastic Production Technologies - O'Donnell  - Generalitat de Catalonia (Spain)  - 2008

The Sustainability of Agricultural Productivity Growth in a Changing Environment: An International Perspective – Alauddin, Rao and Coelli – ARC Discovery Project – 2006-2008

Consistent Space-Time Real Comparisons of Real Income – Rao, Rambaldi and Doran ARC Discovery Project –2005-2007

Measurement and Analysis of Service Sector Efficiency and productivity in Taiwan – Rao and Coelli – Taiwan Takechi Foundation Grant – 2005-2007

Comparative productivity performance of China and India – Wu, Rao and Lee – Hong Kong Research Grants Council Grant –2005-2007

Robust Productivity Measurement: An Econometric Distance Function Approach – Tim Coelli and Knox Lovell – ARC Discovery Project – 2004-2006

Improved International Comparisons of Prices and Real Gross Domestic Product – Feenstra, Heston, Rao, Timmer and Bart van Ark – NSF Project – 2003-2006
 
The Importance of Price and Perceived Quality to the Demand for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables – O’Donnell, Griffith, Moxon and Harris – ARC Linkage Project – 2002-2004
 
Productivity Measurement using Micro and Macro level Data: Aggregation Issues and Properties of Parametric and Non-Parametric methods – Rao and Coelli – ARC Linkage Project – 2001-2004
 
Food Retailer/Processor Market Power in Input Markets– O’Donnell, Griffith, Piggott and Nightingale – RIRDC Project – 2001-2003

Explaining Economic Growth and Productivity in a Global Context: Cross-Country Analysis using Growth Accounting and a New Econometric Approach – Rao, Coelli, Shepherd and Maddison – ARC Large Research Grant – 2001-2003