Current Research Interests
Associate Professor Melanie Beresford
- Vietnam's transition from central planning to a market economy
- Gender and development
- Poverty and inequality
- East Asian economies
- Development economics
- Economics of technological change
- The interface between moral and political philosophy and economics, especially in the context of theories of distributive justice.
Associate Professor Tony Bryant
- General equilibrium theory
- Controversies in macroeconomics
- Economic education
- Socio-economic and political issues in developing economies, particularly Southeast Asia
- Social learning and interaction, knowledge diffusion networks and human capital theory
- Theoretical and applied aspects of development economics, game theory and behavioural economics
- Labour market economics
- Macroeconomics
- Applied Econometrics
- Financial Economics
- Mathematical economics
Associate Professor Craig Freedman
- Industry policy and inflation policy
- The Japanese economy
- History of economic thought
- Contract theory
Associate Professor Kim Hawtrey
- Banking industry performance
- Wealth management funds
- Capital markets
- Financial securities
- Economics and religion
- Psychology of economic behaviour
- Housing policy
- Economics education
- Time series analysis
- Dynamic factor analysis
- High dimensional time series
- Latent variable in time series
- Economics of education
- Modelling of tax reform
- Labour supply modelling
- Analysis of inequality
- Econometric research on time series analysis and its implications in macroeconomics
- The politics and economics of the European Union
- International macroeconomic policy
- Unemployment
- Contentious issues in world trade
- Macroeconomics
- Development, culture, and labour economics
- Financial development and economic growth
- Investment at the enterprise level
- Microeconometrics
- Applied game theory
- Labour economics
- Economics of immigration
- Microeconomics
- Factors affecting technological acquisition in small economies
- Applied Econometrics
- Time Series Analysis
- Interdependencies across financial markets
- Income inequality and measurement aspects
- Decomposition of inequality indices and application
- Policies related to development, poverty, welfare and inequality
- Human capital development
- Linkages between education and inequality
- Trade-offs between equity and efficiency
- Measurement of social welfare
- Environmental policy modelling with a consideration of changing pattern of distribution of income
- Distributive justice and concepts of fairness
- Index numbers
- Aggregation, duality, productivity and efficiency
- Emerging financial markets
- Applied econometrics
- Applied and theoretical Industrial economics
- Australian manufacturing industry
- Monetary Economics
- Applied Macroeconomics
- Time Series Econometrics
- International Economics
- Growth and Development
Associate Professor Ronald Ripple
- Asian commodity futures markets
- Energy economics
- Foreign exchange markets
- International economics
- Macroeconomics
- Labour
- International finance
- Migration
- Knowledge labour flows
- Education and student learning.
- Economics of the arts and culture
- Theory of public goods
- Valuation of nonmarket goods
- Economics of sustainable development
- Economics of education
- Macroeconomic options for achieving full employment and a current account surplus
- The steady-state properties of economy-wide macroeconomics
- Models of the Australian economy
- Research in financial economics
- Risk management (credit and operational risk)
- Asset pricing
- Energy markets
- Real estate economics
- Econometrics of financial markets
Associate Professor Sean Turnell
- Burma and its economy
- Financial sector reform in developing countries
- History of Australian economic thought
- Australia's interaction with the global trading and monetary system
- The role of currency boards in transition and emerging market economies
- Non-profit theory and foreign aid agencies
