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''Welcome to the Matching website for Economics Honours students 2010. The aim is to share information from prospective Honours students such that prospective supervisors can supply topics that are in demand. For any questions or inquiries, please contact the Honours Coordinator, Simon Angus ( mailto:simon.angus@buseco.monash.edu.au ).''

= Honours topics in Demand =
'''Behavioural'''

 * John Afendulis: ''questioning the rationality assumption''
 * Nikhil Dhar: ''Speculators in trading markets -- explaining fat tails, bubbles and other financial stylized facts''

'''Computational'''

 * Nikhil Dhar: ''Speculators in trading markets -- explaining fat tails, bubbles and other financial stylized facts''
 * Chris McMullin: ''Cloud-computing -- economics of internet technology, distributed risk''

'''Development'''

 * Ben Hirons: ''The impact of growth on AIDs -- endogeneity issues''
 * Jonathan Rochwerger: ''Indigenous health and development''
 * Cheryl Seow: ''International development and foreign aid''
 * Chris McMullin: ''Recovering from natural disasters -- foreign aid and prospects for Haiti''
 * Rachel Bui: ''The impact of financial crisis on developing economies''

'''Environmental'''

 * Darcy Hughes: ''Climate change economics''
 * Robert Leith: ''Environmental topics, including agricultural/water economics''
 * Chris McMullin: ''Recovering from natural disasters -- foreign aid and prospects for Haiti''
 * Chris McMullin: ''US Electricity generation and distribution -- impact of smart metering on the efficiency of the electricity sector''

'''Growth: Education, Health'''

 * Ben Hirons: ''The impact of growth on AIDs -- endogeneity issues''
 * Archana Anathuni: ''Growth, education and development''
 * Jonathan Rochwerger: ''Indigenous health and development''
 * Cheryl Seow: ''International development and foreign aid''
 * Chris McMullin: ''Recovering from natural disasters -- foreign aid and prospects for Haiti''

'''Law'''

 * Patrick Campbell-Dunn: ''How big is the informal sector in China?'', ''Missing tax receipts in China: the impact of corruption on growth and government services''
 * Patrick Campbell-Dunn: ''Spillover or theft: Can IP be controlled in China?''

'''Macro/Financial'''

 * Matthew Barbanti: ''International monetary system -- regional currencies and their impacts''
 * Alvin Beh: ''Japan -- inflation and the naughties, another 'lost decade'? ''
 * Nikhil Dhar: ''Speculators in trading markets -- explaining fat tails, bubbles and other financial stylized facts''
 * Leigh Krafchek: ''Various macro topics including the determinants and outworkings of the GFC''
 * Cheryl Seow: ''International development and foreign aid''
 * Jonathan Shafir: ''Consequences for pensions and superannuation of the baby-boomers''
 * Chris McMullin: ''US Electricity generation and distribution -- impact of smart metering on the efficiency of the electricity sector''
 * Patrick Campbell-Dunn: ''How big is the informal sector in China?'', ''Missing tax receipts in China: the impact of corruption on growth and government services''
 * Rachel Bui: ''The impact of financial crisis on developing economies''
 * Adam Taylor'': The effects of allowing ECNs to operate in Australia and the agents that determine the decision''' <<BR>>'''''''' '''

'''Micro'''''' '''

 * Michael Hui: ''Game-theoretic study of some aspect of pricing behaviour''
 * John Afendulis: ''questioning the rationality assumption''
 * Chris McMullin: ''Gaming tennis -- predictors of match-fixing in professional tennis''
 * Rachel Bui: ''Game theory study of the public education sector''

'''Sport'''''' '''

 * Chris McMullin: ''Gaming tennis -- predictors of match-fixing in professional tennis''

'''Trade'''''' '''

 * Abraam Gregoriou: ''Exploring international trade (what are the long term effects of trade liberalisation)  and the Laffer Curve (fact or fiction?)''
 * Cheryl Seow: ''International development and foreign aid''
 * Rachel Bui: ''The impact of financial crisis on developing economies (globalisation and developing countries)''

= Honours topics in Supply =
'''Phillip Adams'''

 * Email: Philip.Adams@buseco.monash.edu.au
 * Topics:
  1. All areas of CGE and general applied policy analysis.

'''Simon Angus'''''' '''

 * Email: Simon.Angus@buseco.monash.edu.au
 * Topics:
  1. Artificial adaptive agents: incorporating realistic behaviour into bidding models (download Net-Logo, and Le-Baron's 'Simple Artificial agent model [[http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~rockmore/sficssdistfin.nlogo|here]] for starters)
  1. Health first? What investments explain growth success stories in sub-Saharan Africa?
  1. Modeling economic networks using artificial adaptive agents

'''Rebecca Valenzuela'''
 * Email: Rebecca.Valenzuela@buseco.monash.edu.au
 * Topics:
  1. '''[NEW!]''' Homelessness in Melbourne: assessing the effectiveness of service providers
   * (joint with Simon Angus)

'''Mita Bhattacharya'''

 * Email: Mita.Bhattacharya@buseco.monash.edu.au
 * Topics:
  1. Automotive Industry in Recent Global Crisis
  1. R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Australia's Position amongst OECD Countries
  1. Is Australia a Knowledge/Information technology economy? Why or Why not?
  1. Enabling Green Growth: Eco-innovation in Industry

ALSO industry related topics.

'''Ross Booth'''

 * Email: Ross.Booth@buseco.monash.edu.au
 * Topics:
  1. Is competitive balance important to a team sports league, and if so how can it be increased?
  1. The A-League: The right model for long term economic success?
  1. Limited Free Agency in the Australian Football League: What Impact on Competitive Balance?
  1. The Changing Financial Face of the Australian Football League: An Analysis of Club and League Finances
  1. The Influence of Governance and Management on the Capacity for Revenue-raising by Sporting Organizations in Australia
  1. The Economic Effects of Changes to Gate-Sharing Arrangements in the Australian Football League

'''Wenli Cheng'''

 * Email: Wenli.Cheng@buseco.monash.edu.au
 * Topics:
  1. Is foreign aid an effective means to assist developing countries to achieve self-sustaining growth?

'''Stephen Miller'''

 * Email: Stephen.Miller@buseco.monash.edu.au
 * Topics:
  1. Financial Economics (especially Heavy-Tails, Extreme Events & Crises, but other areas too)
  1. Monetary History & Institutions (Free-Banking vs. Central Banking, Currency Boards and Dollarization)
  1. Development as Economic History

'''Yew-Kwang Ng'''

 * Email: Kwang.Ng@buseco.monash.edu.au
 * Topics:
  1. Is the public sector under or over-expanded? Relevant evidence and conceptual issues.

'''Birendra Rai'''

 * Email: Birendra.Rai@buseco.monash.edu.au
 * Topics:
  1. Irrationality and unawareness
  1. Economics of language

'''Neelu Seetaram'''

 * Email: Neelu.Seetaram@buseco.monash.edu.au
 * Topics:
  1. Tourism Economics and Aviation Economics.

'''Russell Smyth'''

 * Email: Russell.Smyth@buseco.monash.edu.au
 * Topics:
  1. Economics of judicial behaviour
  1. Economics of Crime
  1. Chinese economic reforms
  1. Economics of happiness

'''Christis Tombazos'''

 * Email: Christis.Tombazos@buseco.monash.edu.au
 * Topics:
  1. Anything sufficiently interesting in the area of international trade (e.g., the national disgrace of Australian tariffs, the questionable intellectual premise of the anti-globalisation movement, and so on)
  1. Gaming the system (Any sufficiently interesting and adequately sexy topic that explores how incentives drive outcomes - this is, after all, what economics is about. For inspiration see Steven Levitt's "Freakonomics", "Superfreakonomics", or his New York Times blog at http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/

NOTE: Though 1 is closer to my heart than 2, it does not lend itself to exceptionally interesting honours projects. Hence, I would be much more interested to supervise a project along the lines of "Gaming the system" than "Trade".

'''Vinod Mishra'''

 * Email: vinod.mishra@buseco.monash.edu.au
 * Topics:
  1. Financial Markets (Stock market efficiency, Structural breaks, Co-integration)
  1. Applied Industrial organisation
  1. Survey data analysis

'''Aaron Nicholas*'''

 * Note: currently a PhD student, but happy to help a student with the following topics
 * Email: Aaron.Nicholas@buseco.monash.edu.au
 * Topics:
  1. Social preference models of trust, reciprocity, altruism and inequality/inequity aversion
  1. Microeconomic models of the family (particularly Becker and parent-child decisions)

'''Ian Wills'''

 * Email: Ian.Wills@buseco.monash.edu.au
 * Topics:
  * Environmental topics, in particular:
   * Sustainability;
   * Economics of pollution; and
   * Economics of climate change.