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Welcome to the Matching website for Economics Honours students 2011. 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

Honours Students: please put your name and topic of interest under the following headings (or create a new heading if you think you must). See MonashU/HonoursEconomics/Matching2010 for how it is done.

Behavioural/Experimental

• Rachel Neumann: The true price of 'free' goods

Computational

• Andrew Newnham

Development

• Marcelo Munoz Flores: institutions and economic development

Economic History

• Marcelo Munoz Flores: political economy / economic history / growth

Environmental

Growth: Education, Health

Law

• Andrew Johnson: law and economics

Macro/Financial

• Chris Judde: macro (broadly)
• Liam Ratcliffe: Economic relationship between Australia and China
• Andrew Sirianos: Financial/Monetary
• Shankul Agrawal: Chinese reserve bank policy and its effects on dependent economies

Micro

• Trent Tolra: Public Transport Pricing, Network Effects

Sport

• Chris Judde: sports econ (broadly)
• Shankul Agrawal: The AFL: Is further expansion economically beneficial/sustainable?

Trade

• Liam Ratcliffe: Economic relationship between Australia and China
• Shankul Agrawal: Protectionist policies against commodity trade

Honours topics in Supply

NOTE: these topics and supervisors are subject to review/updating for 2011. If you have a supervisor in mind who is not listed, then feel free to contact them directly.

Philip Adams (Clayton)

• Email: Philip.Adams@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. All areas of CGE and general applied policy analysis.

Simon Angus (Clayton)

• Email: Simon.Angus@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Any integrated economic modelling problem with important feed-backs, non-linearities and complexity

     • Consider extensions/additions to the projects listed here: http://tinyurl.com/MonIEMProjectGallery2010

  2. Modelling economic networks: think economics of friends on Facebook, tweets on twitter etc.

  3. Explaining and generating economic outcomes with the the long-tail

Mita Bhattacharya (Caulfield)

• Email: Mita.Bhattacharya@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Automotive Industry in Recent Global Crisis

  2. R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Australia's Position amongst OECD Countries

  3. Is Australia a Knowledge/Information technology economy? Why or Why not?
  4. Enabling Green Growth: Eco-innovation in Industry
• ALSO industry related topics.

Ross Booth

• Email: Ross.Booth@monash.edu (Clayton)

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

Wenli Cheng (Caulfield)

• Email: Wenli.Cheng@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Inflation in China: causes and effects

Maylene Damoense-Azevedo (South Africa)

• Email: Maylene.Damoense@monash.edu

• Topics
  1. Applied International Trade
  2. Empirical analysis of Intra-industry trade

  3. Trade & Economic relationships

  4. Trade & Industrial Policy Analysis

  5. Applied Macro-economics

Lata Gangadharan (Clayton)

• Email: lata.gangadharan@monash.edu

• Topics
  1. Experimental Economics
  2. Behavioural Economics

Joel Hinaunye Eita (South Africa)

• Email: joel.eita@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. The impact of financial development and economic growth in developing countries,
  2. Exchange rate dynamics in developing countries,
  3. Trade and growth;
  4. Determinants of stock market development; stock market development and growth;
  5. Testing for long memory in stock markets;
  6. The Cobb-Douglass production function: A macroeconometric model;
  7. Growth accounting;
  8. Testing the Ricardian Equivalence in Developing countries;
  9. Debt sustainability in developing countries;
  10. Modelling the Investment behaviour in developing countries;
  11. Empirical test of the theory of Optimum Currency Areas in Asia and Africa;
  12. Impact of telecommunication liberalisation on sector's performance;
  13. Public sector macroeconometric model

Peter Forsyth (Clayton)

• Email: Peter.Forsyth@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Should Australia permit Singapore Airlines to operate between Australia and the US?
  2. Can international and domestic aviation be covered by an ETS?
  3. Should Australian airports be regulated?
  4. Can, and should, the tourism industry respond to the mining boom and the high Australian dollar?

Gary Magee (Caulfield)

• Email: Gary.Magee@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Any aspect of Economic History

Stephen Miller (Clayton)

• Email: Stephen.Miller@monash.edu

• Topics:

  1. Financial Economics (especially Heavy-Tails, Extreme Events & Crises, but other areas too)

  2. Monetary History & Institutions (Free-Banking vs. Central Banking, Currency Boards and Dollarization)

  3. Development as Economic History

Vinod Mishra (Berwick)

• Email: vinod.mishra@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Financial Markets (Stock market efficiency, Structural breaks, Co-integration)
  2. Applied Industrial organisation
  3. Survey data analysis

Yew-Kwang Ng (Clayton)

• Email: Kwang.Ng@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Is the public sector under or over-expanded? Relevant evidence and conceptual issues.

Jaai Parasnis (Berwick)

• Email: jaai.parasnis@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Labour Economics
  2. Education and migration

Anmar Pretorius (South Africa)

• Email: anmar.pretorius@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Capital flows to emerging markets
  2. Capital market integration
  3. Exchange rate volatility
  4. Local Economic Development in South Africa

Laura Puzzello (Caulfield)

• Email: laura.puzzello@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Empirical international trade
  2. Outsourcing in the global economy

Birendra Rai (Clayton)

• Email: Birendra.Rai@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Irrationality and unawareness
  2. Economics of language

Paul Raschky (Caulfield)

• Email: Paul. Raschky@monash.edu

• Topics:
  • Empirical (applied econometric) analysis of topics in:
    • Political economy
    • Environmental economics
    • Economics of natural disasters
    • Economics of the media

Russell Smyth (Clayton)

• Email: Russell.Smyth@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Economics of judicial behaviour
  2. Economics of Crime
  3. Chinese economic reforms
  4. Economics of happiness

Rebecca Valenzuela (Caulfield)

• Email: Rebecca.Valenzuela@monash.edu

• Topics:

  1. Homelessness in Australia: an extension to Sydney/Australia of work by Ravi Dutta (2010) (.pdf)

Ian Wills (Clayton)

• Email: Ian.Wills@monash.edu

• Topics:
  • Environmental topics, in particular:
    • Sustainability;
    • Economics of pollution; and
    • Economics of climate change.

Siew Ling Yew (Clayton)

• Email: Siew.Yew@monash.edu

• Topics:
  • Economic growth
  • Macroeconomics and public finance

Potential supervisors, but not supervising in 2011 for various reasons

• JingFeng Lu

• Somaz Moslehi
• Christis Tombazos