| Staff
The core staff members in the Centre are Professors Prasada Rao, Tim Coelli and Chris O’Donnell.
In addition, the Centre is supported by a number of
academic staff members of the School of Economics whose
research and teaching interests include productivity
and efficiency measurement.
Core Staff Members
Director
Prof. Tim Coelli
Phone: (+61 7) 336 56470
Fax: (+61 7) 336 57299
email: t.coelli@economics.uq.edu.au
Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), data envelopment
analysis (DEA) and analysis of performance in agriculture,
developing economies, government services and regulated
utilities; Software development
Prof. D.S. Prasada Rao (on sabbatical leave/SSP in 2008)
Phone: (+61 7) 336 56424
Fax: (+61 7) 336 57299
email: p.rao@economics.uq.edu.au
Index Numbers; International Comparisons of output and
productivity in agriculture and manufacturing; Purchasing
power parities (PPPs); Measurement of inequality and
poverty
Professor Chris O'Donnell
Phone: (+61 7) 334 69256
Fax: (+61 7) 336 57299
email: c.o'donnell@economics.uq.edu.au
Stochastic Frontiers; Data Envelopment Analysis; Bayesian
methods; Productivity in agriculture
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Lifen Wu
Data envelopment analysis methods, non-radial efficiency measures
Centre Associates
Dr
Mohammad Allauddin
Productivity growth in agriculture and industry.
Dr
Necmi K Avkiran
Productivity analysis in the banking sector using data
envelopment analysis (DEA)
Associate Professor
Phil Bodman
Application of frontier methods in labour economics
Professor Knox Lovell
Professor George Docwra
Impacts of regulation, regulatory change and competition
policy on the economic performance (pricing, investment
strategies, productivity, innovation and technical change)
of the network industries - e.g. electricity (including
regulation of greenhouse gas emissions), telecommunications
and transport.
Dr
Renuka Mahadevan
Productivity Growth in Selected Asia-Pacific Economies
Professor
John Quiggin
International comparisons of welfare and Index number
theory
Dr
Alicia Rambaldi
Methodologies for Consistent Time-Space Comparisons
of Real Gross Domestic Product Across Countries, Dynamic
Growth Models, Measures of Convergence
Mr
Leopoldo Yanes
Effect of technological innovation linked to product
quality (vertical product differentiation) on total
factor productivity, Dynamic Panel Data methods.
Professor
John Foster
Analysis of linkages between innovation and productivity
Professor
Harry Campbell
Application of frontier methods to analysis of productivity
in commercial fisheries.
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