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''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
  1. Modelling economic networks: strategic interactions on networks, dynamic economic networks
  1. Evolutionary economics
  1. 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
  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@monash.edu (Clayton)
 * 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''' (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
  1. Experimental Economics: Protocols, Procedures, Unidentified influences, External Validity
  1. Reading course: Students bring their topics of interest in above, present and discuss their work to wider audience and develop a research problem
  1. 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
  1. Empirical analysis of Intra-industry trade
  1. Trade & Economic relationships
  1. Trade & Industrial Policy Analysis
  1. 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?
  1. Can international and domestic aviation be covered by an ETS?
  1. Should Australian airports be regulated?
  1. 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
  1. Behavioural Economics

'''Phil Grossman''' (Clayton)

 * Email: philip.grossman@monash.edu
 * Topics
  1. Experimental economics
  1. Behavioural economics
  1. Charitable giving

'''Youjin Hahn''' (Clayton)

 * Email: youjin.hahn@monash.edu
 * Topics:
  1. Health Economics
  1. Economics of Education
  1. Other general labour and public economics

'''Edwyna Harris '''(Clayton)
 * Email: edwyna.harris@monash.edu
 * Topics:
  1. Environmental Economics
  1. Economic History
  1. Institutional Economics
  1. 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,
  1. Exchange rate dynamics in developing countries,
  1. Trade and growth;
  1. Determinants of stock market development; stock market development and growth;
  1. Testing for long memory in stock markets;
  1. The Cobb-Douglass production function: A macroeconometric model;
  1. Growth accounting;
  1. Testing the Ricardian Equivalence in Developing countries;
  1. Debt sustainability in developing countries;
  1. Modelling the Investment behaviour in developing countries;
  1. Empirical test of the theory of Optimum Currency Areas in Asia and Africa;
  1. Impact of telecommunication liberalisation on sector's performance;
  1. Public sector macroeconometric model

'''Stephen King''' (Caulfield)

 * Email: Stephen.King@monash.edu
 * Topics:
  1. Industrial Organization (theory)
  1. Microeconomic Theory
  1. Competition Law and Economics

'''Anke Leroux'''(Caulfield)

 * Email: anke.leroux@monash.edu
 * Topics:
  1. Environmental and natural resource economics (theory)
  1. Real option theory
  1. 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)
  1. Applied Industrial organisation
  1. Survey data analysis

'''Solmaz Moslehi''' (Caulfield)

 * Email: Solmaz.Moslehi@monash.edu
 * Topics:
  1. Macroeconomics and Growth (theory)
  1. 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
  1. Education and migration

'''Anmar Pretorius''' (South Africa)

 * Email: anmar.pretorius@monash.edu
 * Topics:
  1. Capital flows to emerging markets
  1. Capital market integration
  1. Exchange rate volatility
  1. Local Economic Development in South Africa

'''Laura Puzzello''' (Caulfield)

 * Email: laura.puzzello@monash.edu
 * Topics:
  1. Empirical international trade
  1. Outsourcing in the global economy

'''Birendra Rai''' (Clayton)

 * Email: Birendra.Rai@monash.edu
 * Topics:
  1. Irrationality and unawareness
  1. 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
  1. Land titling, women empowerment and marriage dissolution
  1. Willingness to pay for livelihood insurance using happiness data
  1. Job insecurity and intra-family transfers in a developing country
  1. Economic aspects of climate change adaptation in Aboriginal communities in the Kimberley, WA (TBC)
  1. Subjective expectations of returns to education among Aboriginal Australians

'''Russell Smyth''' (Clayton)

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

'''Christis Tombazos''' (Clayton)

 * Email: christis.tombazos@monash.edu
 * Topics:
  1. International economics
  1. 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
  1. Household Welfare/Living Standards measurement
  1. 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
  1. Labour Economics
  1. 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

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= Not Supervising in 2012 =
 * Steph Miller