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Welcome to the Matching website for Economics Honours students 2013. 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 Research Unit Coordinator, Choon Wang ( mailto:liang.c.wang@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 or MonashU/HonoursEconomics/Matching2012 for how it is done.

Applied Micro

• Mike Kitt (Email: mjkitt@live.com)

  1. Religious observance and the benefits to physical and emotional health
  2. Religious observance and educational performance
  3. Extractive industry (gas) investment in regional/indigenous communities and benefits to income, more specifically health.

• Frida Komesaroff (Email: fmkom1@student.monash.edu)

  1. Does speaking a second language make you more employable?

Health Economics

• Mike Kitt (Email: mjkitt@live.com)

  1. Religious observance and the benefits to physical and emotional health
  2. Extractive industry (gas) investment in regional/indigenous communities and benefits to income, more specifically health.

Environmental Economics

• Kuo Li (Email: kli25@student.monash.edu)

  1. Energy economics
  2. Internet communication technology and renewable energies - the third industrial revolution

Labour Economics

• Frida Komesaroff (Email: fmkom1@student.monash.edu)

  1. Does speaking a second language make you more employable?

Honours topics in Supply

NOTE: these topics and supervisors are subject to review/updating for 2013. 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

• NB: For 2013, I will be on Outside Studies Leave during Semester 2. This means I'll be off-campus from July 1 to the end of semester (and beyond). So .. I think I 'can' supervise in 2013, but I'm warning you that the S2 period will be done almost exclusively by email/skype/evernote etc. If you are OK with that, then read on.
• Topics:

  1. Economics of innovations & technology:

     • [Computer Modelling] Extending the 'BitEconomy' (as me for a working paper)

     • [Data mining/Empirical/Networks] History of economic innovations around the industrial revolution from a very large dataset on technology publications (ask me for some slides)
  2. Large, new, interesting Data
     • [Data mining/Empirical/Networks] What fraction of culture is determined by our ancestry? -- evidence from Google Trends (ask me to explain more)
  3. 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

  4. Modelling economic networks: strategic interactions on networks, dynamic economic networks
  5. Evolutionary economics

Monash Injury Research Institute (Clayton)

• Website: http://monash.edu/miri/students/future-students/honours-research.html

• You may also contact Dr Janneke Berecki-Gisolf (Email: janneke.berecki-gisolf@monash.edu) for topics related to motor accident injury

• 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.

Mita Bhattacharya (Caulfield)

• Email: Mita.Bhattacharya@monash.edu

• Topics:

  • 1.R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Australia's Position amongst OECD Countries 2.Is Australia a Knowledge/Information technology economy? Why or Why not?

  • Enabling Green Growth: Eco-innovation in Industry
  • Competitiveness of Australian Heavy Mining Industries (steel, coal, gold , Iron ore) in world market
• ALSO industry related topics.

Ross Booth

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

• Topics:
  1. Any aspect of the economics of a sport, or a sports league? For example:
  2. Are player drafts and salary caps likely to be successful in increasing competitive balance?
  3. What methods of revenue sharing should be used by a sports league to increase competitive balance?
  4. Some recent topics have been - The effect of limited free agency in the AFL; The effect of free agency in US professional sports; Competitive balance in F1 Grand Prix racing; and Uncertainty of match outcome and TV ratings
  5. Tennis Australia need research into 'How to create a viable professional tennis industry in Australia, including the Asia-Pacific Tennis League'

Wenli Cheng (Caulfield)

• Email: Wenli.Cheng@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Austrian theory of the business cycle
  2. The role of the dollar standard on global imbalances
  3. Optimal tax-subsidy policy for clean technology adoption

Qingyuan Du (Caulfield)

• Email: qingyuan.du@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Global imbalance, especially large current account surpluses and high savings rates in eastern asian countries
  2. Exchange rate, what determines the equilibrium level of a country's real exchange rate. What should be the optimal nominal exchange regime for a country?
  3. Chinese economy

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

Gaurav Datt (Clayton)

• Email: gaurav.datt@monash.edu

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

Nick Feltovich (Clayton)

• Email: nicholas.feltovich@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Experimental economics
  2. Bargaining
  3. Game theory

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

Asad Islam (Caulfield)

• Email: asadul.islam@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Commercial sex work in Bangladesh
  2. Corruption
  3. Program/policy evaluation
  4. Other topics in development economics

Stephen King (Caulfield)

• Email: Stephen.King@monash.edu

• Topics (please note - all in theory):
  1. Bargaining and posted prices (e.g. how does the possibility that a consumer bargains change a posted price?)
  2. Public versus private ownership for utilities that are 'too important to fail'
  3. Are agricultural cooperatives efficient (and if so, why are they disappearing?)

Elias Khalil (Clayton)

• Email: elias.khalil@monash.edu

• Topics (please note - all in theory):
  1. Behavioral economics (the role of context in decision making; regret; myside-bias; temptations; identity)
  2. Ethics and Economics
  3. Happiness and income

Andreas Leibbrandt(Clayton)

• Email: andreas.leibbrandt@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. Determinants for cooperation
  2. Determinants for competitiveness

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)

Jaai Parasnis (Berwick)

• Email: jaai.parasnis@monash.edu

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

* Some specific suggestions:

1. education choices of migrants
2. Youth unemployment

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:
    • Economic valuation study as part of the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities
    • 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

Christis Tombazos (Clayton)

• Email: christis.tombazos@monash.edu

• Topics:
  1. International economics
  2. Unforeseen outcomes of policies and frameworks that ignore the role of incentives

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

• To learn more about my research, go to https://sites.google.com/site/liangchoonwang/research

• Some specific research topics:
  1. The effects of single-sex schooling versus coeducational schooling on student outcomes
  2. The effects of class size on educational outcomes
  3. The gender effects of teachers on student outcomes
  4. The werewolf effect on violent crime
  5. Pills + abortion legalization = sex - crime?

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

Pedro Gomis Porqueras (Caulfield)

• Email: Pedro.Gomis@monash.edu

• Theoretical analysis of topics in:
  • Monetary Economics
  • Macroeconomics

Faculty members in South Africa

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

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

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

Not Supervising in 2013

• Dyuti Banerjee
• Steph Miller
• Siang Ng
• Yew-Kwang Ng
• Russell Smyth