Economics
Research and Supervision Interests
The following list contains the names of the staff within the Department of Economics who are available to supervise MPhil and PhD students, and the areas in which they offer supervision.
Dr Sayeeda Bano's main teaching areas are international trade and finance. Her research interests are intra-industry trade including trade in services, balance of payments issues, and economic integration.
Dr Michael Cameron's main research areas include population, health and development issues (including the social impacts of liquor outlet density, the economics of communicable diseases especially HIV/AIDS, health applications of non-market valuation, and health and development project monitoring and evaluation), population modelling and stochastic modelling, and economics education.
Dr Graeme Doole's research involves the use of mathematical modelling to improve insight of how best to manage agricultural and natural systems.
Professor John Gibson's teaching and research interests are in microeconomics and in the microeconometric aspects of development, labour and the international economy, poverty analysis and panel econometrics.
Dr Gazi Hassan's research is in the field of empirical growth economics, particularly focusing on the econometric issues arising in estimating growth models to measure the impact of external capital flows, macroeconomic volatility and real exchange rate overvaluation.
Professor Mark Holmes' main research areas are applied macroeconomics and international finance, time series econometrics and economics of real estate.
Dr Steven Lim's research interests include transitional economies and East Asian economies, in particular China's economic reforms. He currently has graduate students working on sustainable livelihoods, HIV/AIDS and the political economy of reform. Steven is also currently researching the valuation of IT start-ups.
Dr Dan Marsh's main research interests are in environmental and natural resource economics, environmental decision making, especially with regard to water quality and non-market valuation.
Dr Susan Olivia's research interests include development economics, spatial econometrics and geographic information systems (GIS).
Professor Les Oxley's main interests are in applied macroeconometrics, economic growth, economic history, cliometrics, innovation, intellectual property and energy economics.
Professor Jacques Poot's research interests include all aspects of the economics of population (such as migration, fertility, labour force, and ageing) and especially the geographical dimension of these topics.
Professor Ric Scarpa's research interests are in the general area of public economics; specifically environmental economics, natural resource economics and food economics. Professor Scarpa welcomes the opportunity to supervise research students working on issues related to these areas and particularly on the development of methods for nonmarket valuation; experimental economics (to resolve differences between real and hypothetical economics value statements); discrete choice modelling; demand for outdoor recreation and environmental food quality. He is practiced in quantitative economic analysis.
Professor Frank Scrimgeour's current research focuses on environmental and natural resource economics.
Associate Professor Anna Strutt's research is primarily in the area of international policy analysis, including international trade agreements and impacts on poverty and the natural environment. She has particular expertise in global computable general equilibrium (GCE) modelling.
Associate Professor John Tressler's major teaching and research interests are in microeconomics. In particular he is interested in industrial economics and economic theory that deals with the impact of uncertainty and risk in economic decisions.
Dr Steven Tucker uses experimental economic methods to study research questions in the fields of industrial organisation, financial economics, and macroeconomics. His research deals with topics such as: asset market bubble formation; public goods through voluntary contributions; debt relief for developing countries and ways of allocating foreign aid.