Economics Staff Research Interests
Policy
- Determinants of agricultural policy: Simmons
Water allocation policy: Simmons
Determinants of rates of assistance to agriculture: Piggott
Rural land markets: Sinden
Hilmer Reforms: O'Donnell, Coelli
Marketing
- Commodity modelling and forecasting: Piggott, Chang, O'Donnell
Modelling world coffee market: Fleming
Economics of wool production: Hardaker, Piggott,
Promotion of primary products: Chang, Piggott
Farm management
- System simulation: Cacho
Agribusiness: Dillon
Economics of agricultural research: Dillon
Farming systems research: Dillon, Fleming, Hardaker, Cacho
Efficiency Measurement: Coelli, O'Donnell, Rao, Battese
Integrated pest management and biological control: Winters
Resource issues
- Resolution of land-use conflicts: Sinden
Ecological economics: Cacho
Valuation of unpriced benefits and costs: Sinden
On-farm costs of soil erosion: Sinden
Economics of outdoor recreation: Sinden
Economics of aquaculture: Cacho
Sustainable resource use: Sinden, Cacho
Impact of the greenhouse effects: Dillon, Cacho
Bio-economic modelling of resource management: Cacho
Markets for minerals: Chang
Adoption of conservation practices: Winters
Development
- National agricultural research systems in LDCs: Dillon
Development of agricultural marketing systems in developing countries: E. Fleming
Food price-policy analysis in developing countries: Fleming, Piggott
Food security in developing countries: Piggott
Decision making by peasant farmers: Dillon, Hardaker
Productivity and development in Chinese agriculture: Dillon
Effects of cash cropping on human nutrition in developing countries: Hardaker
Agricultural development in the South Pacific: E. Fleming, Hardaker
World tropical commodity markets: E. Fleming
Agricultural productivity growth: Coelli, O'Donnell, Rao
Agriculture in economic development: Winters
Technology adoption by peasant farmers: Winters
Mexico-U.S. migration: Winters
Agribusiness
- Food industry and food chain analysis: Piggott
Structural change and vertical relationships: Piggott
Quality management in food industries: Chang
International marketing and management: Chang
Performance measurement: Coelli, O'Donnell, Rao
Bayesian econometrics
- Imposing inequality constraints: O'Donnell, Coelli
Predictive densities with stochastic regressors: O'Donnell
Model averaging: O'Donnell
Time series analysis
- Causality: P. Fleming
Cointegration: P. Fleming
Applied time series analysis: P. Fleming
Efficiency and productivity measurement
- Stochastic frontier analysis: Battese, Coelli, Rao, O'Donnell
Data envelopment analysis: Coelli, Rao, O'Donnell
TFP and index numbers: Rao, Coelli
Micro-econometrics
- Estimation of profit, cost and production systems: O'Donnell, Coelli
Estimation of demand systems: O'Donnell
Imposing observation-varying constraints: Doran, O'Donnell
Limited and qualitative dependent variable models
- Binary dependent variable models: O'Donnell
Ordered probit and logit models: O'Donnell
Tobit models: O'Donnell, Doran
Survey design and analysis
- Sample survey methods: Battese, Rao, P. Fleming
Panel data models
- Error-components models: Battese, O'Donnell
Panel data stochastic frontier models: Battese, Coelli
Index numbers
- Stochastic index numbers: Rao
International comparisons using PPPs: Rao
Productivity measurement: Rao, Coelli
Poverty and inequality measurement
- Income distributions and inequality: Rao
Economic History of Australia
- Australian charitable institutions: Cage
Charitable institutions and poor relief in Colonial Queensland: Cage
Public utility and food processing industries: Falkus
Accounting history: Falkus
Business history: Falkus, Henning
Transport history: Henning
Australian maritime industries in the nineteenth century: Henning
Lumber trade of the Pacific Northwest 1890-1914 : Henning
History of Australia's economic institutions: Lloyd
Economic History of Asia
- Economic and financial history of colonial Indonesia: Diehl
Economic development of Thailand: Falkus
Maritime history, with reference to 19th century Asia: Falkus
Economic history of Southeast Asia: Kaur
Wage labour and social change in Southeast Asia since 1800: Kaur
Economic change in East Malaysia since 1850: Kaur
The political economy of rainforest exploitation in East Malaysia: Kaur
Asian industrialisation: Kaur
Economy and business in modern Asia: Kaur
The Bali War 1846-49: origins, course and sequel: van der Kraan
The textile industry of Southeast Asia: van der Kraan
Other economic history topics
- Social history of disease: Cage
Women's studies: Kaur
Environmental history: Kaur
History and evolution in economic explanation: Lloyd
The origins of agricultural economies: Lloyd
Long-run history of environmental-economic interactions: Lloyd
Economic history of Eastern Europe: van der Kraan
Sociology of technology: van der Kraan
Effectiveness public health programs with respect to STD's: Cage