Welcome to the Matching website for Economics Honours students 2012. 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@monash.edu ).

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 or MonashU/HonoursEconomics/Matching2011 for how it is done.

Behavioural/Experimental

Computational

Development

Economic History

Environmental

Growth

International

Incentives

Law

Macro/Financial

Jane Cheatley: Australia and the 'Resource Curse'/ 'Dutch Disease' - are we too reliant on mining?

• - Can we use tax revenue from the mining industry to set up a SWF to make our economy more flexible?

Micro Theory

Micro Applied

Sport

Trade

Honours topics in Supply

NOTE: these topics and supervisors are subject to review/updating for 2012. 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 science

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

  2. Modelling economic networks: strategic interactions on networks, dynamic economic networks
  3. Evolutionary economics

  4. Economics of innovations: the 'BitEconomy', history of economic innovations around the industrial revolution

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

Anmol Ratan (Clayton)

• Email: anmol.ratan@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Behavioral Economics; models of individual decision making in risk/uncertainty
  2. Experimental Economics: Protocols, Procedures, Unidentified influences, External Validity
  3. Reading course: Students bring their topics of interest in above, present and discuss their work to wider audience and develop a research problem
  4. Developing experiments for economic analysis

Horag Choi (Caulfield)

• Email: horag.choi@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. International Macroeconomics

Miranda Cornelissen (Monash Injury Research Institute, Clayton)

• Email: Miranda.Cornelissen@monash.edu

• Topics:
  • Economics of injury(prevention), students can propose a project related to
    • intentional injury,
    • transport,
    • home,
    • sport and leisure,
    • workplace,
    • patient safety,
    • injury outcomes and
    • disaster resilience.

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

Gaurav Datt (Clayton)

• Email: gaurav.datt@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Development economics, especially poverty and inequality analysis

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?

Lata Gangadharan (Clayton)

• Email: lata.gangadharan@monash.edu

• Topics
  1. Experimental Economics
  2. Behavioural Economics

Phil Grossman (Clayton)

• Email: philip.grossman@monash.edu

• Topics
  1. Experimental economics
  2. Behavioural economics
  3. Charitable giving

Youjin Hahn (Clayton)

• Email: youjin.hahn@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Health Economics
  2. Economics of Education
  3. Other general labour and public economics

Edwyna Harris (Clayton)

• Email: edwyna.harris@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Environmental Economics
  2. Economic History
  3. Institutional Economics
  4. Law and 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

Stephen King (Caulfield)

• Email: Stephen.King@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Industrial Organization (theory)
  2. Microeconomic Theory
  3. Competition Law and Economics

Anke Leroux(Caulfield)

• Email: anke.leroux@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Environmental and natural resource economics (theory)
  2. Real option theory
  3. Economics of climate change, biodiversity conservation, invasive species and water resources

Gary Magee (Caulfield)

• Email: Gary.Magee@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Any aspect of 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

Solmaz Moslehi (Caulfield)

• Email: Solmaz.Moslehi@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Macroeconomics and Growth (theory)
  2. Public and political economics (theory)

Vai-Lam Mui (Clayton)

• Email: Vai-Lam.Mui@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Political Economy (Theory)

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

Paulo Santos (Clayton)

• Email: Paulo.Santos@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Property rigths and investment in land conservation: the case of pastoral leases in WA
  2. Land titling, women empowerment and marriage dissolution
  3. Willingness to pay for livelihood insurance using happiness data
  4. Job insecurity and intra-family transfers in a developing country
  5. Economic aspects of climate change adaptation in Aboriginal communities in the Kimberley, WA (TBC)
  6. Subjective expectations of returns to education among Aboriginal Australians

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

Christis Tombazos (Clayton)

• Email: christis.tombazos@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. International economics
  2. Any topic on badly motivated, badly designed, overly expensive, self serving, and self defeating government policies (This should cover about 80% of all government policies: e.g. immigration, tariffs, speed controls, illicit drugs, excellence in research Australia etc.)

Rebecca Valenzuela (Caulfield)

• Email: Rebecca.Valenzuela@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Homelessness/Food Insecurity in Australia
  2. Household Welfare/Living Standards measurement

  3. Poverty and Inequality Measurement & Evaluation

Choon Wang (Clayton)

• Email: liang.c.wang@monash.edu

• Topics:
  • General topics: labour econ, economics of education, public econ, development econ, and applied econometrics
  • Specific topics: discrimination, minimum wage, immigration, fertility, peer effects, ability grouping, religious sects,
    • cost efficiency, civil conflicts, and free primary education.

Ian Wills (Clayton)

• Email: Ian.Wills@monash.edu

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

Hee-Seung Yang (Clayton)

• Email: heeseung.yang@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Public Finance
  2. Labour Economics
  3. Specific Topics: Social Security, government social insurance programs and health care reforms

Siew Ling Yew (Clayton)

• Email: Siew.Yew@monash.edu

• Topics:
  • Economic growth
  • Macroeconomics and public finance

Not Supervising in 2012

• Steph Miller