Economics

 

Dr Robert J Ackland
Poverty analysis; new methods (and associated software) for quantitative analysis of social and economic phenomena on the Internet; application of index number theory to global comparisons of income and poverty.

Professor Jon Altman
Sustainable economic development and associated policy issues for Indigenous Australia; the economic engagement of Indigenous people with the Australian and global economies (especially in mining, tourism, arts industries and emerging industries); sustainable commercial utilisation of wildlife and fisheries; the Indigenoous customary economy and its articulations with the market; land rights, native title and Indigenous land management; and theoretical issues in economic and development anthropology.

Professor Alison L Booth
applied labour economics: the micro-economics analysis of trade unions; the impact of unions on wealth and welfare; the impact of firing costs on employment; unemployment; the economics of training and education, and personnel economics (including promotion, performance-related pay and career development).

Dr Robert V Breunig
U.S. Food Stamp program and welfare programs; poverty and Inequality; nonparametric Econometrics; survey design and sampling

Professor Bruce Chapman
Labour economics, the economics of education, applied econometrics, industrial relations and economic policy issues.

Dr Deborah A Cobb-Clark
Role of public policy in influencing labour market outcomes; immigration policy; role of US health care policy; role of gender in the promotion process.

Mr John Gage
International Trade and Trade Policy; especially Australian Trade and Trade Policy, Regional Trade Groupings and the European Union.

Dr Jakob Tue Gorgens
Non- and semiparametric methods in econometrics; Labor econometrics

Professor Robert G Gregory
Australian Labour Markets, international comparisons of labour markets and economic policy; economic and social implications of growing income and employment inequality and welfare reform.

Dr Boyd Hunter
Labour market analysis, social economics and poverty research.

Dr Andrew K Leigh
Public Finance, Labour Economics, and Political Economy

Dr Deborah A Mitchell
microdata analyses and their application to a range of social, economic and political questions.

Professor Adrian R Pagan
Macroeconomics and Econometrics

Dr Christopher A Ryan
Education and Labour Economics

Dr Facundo Sepulveda
Macroeconomics

Professor Graeme D Snooks
Global Dynamic Systems - Theory and History

Dr Prem J Thapa
Development and Regional Economics

Aydogan Ulker
Public Finance, Applied Microconomics