Economics Honours Research Essays

2013 Honours students and Essay topics

Bubonya Melisa, Poker machine duopoly in Victoria: a symmetrical Cournot model
Supervisor(s): David Byrne

Butterworth Drew, Demand determinants for residential solar PV installations in Australia
Supervisor(s): Leslie Martin

Campbell Caitlin, Connectedness of the interest rate
Supervisor(s): Matthew Greenwood-Nimmo

Cen Wenyan, Identification of monetary policy in a SVAR model: Australian data
Supervisor(s): Tomasz Wozniak

Choy Michelle, Impact of debt on wellbeing in Australia: HILDA data
Supervisor(s): Guy Mayraz

Crick Elizabeth, Environmental sustainability of optimal contracts: an application to timber harvesting
Supervisor(s): Jun Xiao

Devrnja Dejan, Educational funding and outcomes: a directed search model approach
Supervisor(s): Ian King

Duong Ling, Framing and willingness to pay: climate-change perceptions
Supervisor(s): Guy Mayraz

Hargreaves John, Australian manufacturing employment relationships
Supervisor(s): Rhonda Smith

Hu Hang, Tax incidence and tax efficiency : Stackelberg models
Supervisor(s): Simon Loertscher

Ikeda Tomoya, Theory of tax evasion with  multi-period income, evasion and penalties
Supervisor(s): Georgy Artemov

Lai Sharon, Impact of immigration on occupation-specific labour-force outcomes in Australia
Supervisor(s): Mick Coelli

Ledda Daniel, Asymmetric pass-through of interest rates in the Australian economy
Supervisor(s): Tomasz Wozniak

Lee Da-Song, Revisiting the Linder Hypothesis (trade) using PPML
Supervisor(s): Phil McCalman

Lesh Ethan, Gambling behaviour and policy: theory
Supervisor(s): Guy Mayraz

Liu Miao, Environmental impact of China's Top-1000 enterprise energy reduction program
Supervisor(s): Leslie Martin

Mckenna Nicholas, Determinants of attendances at BBL cricket games
Supervisor(s): Mick Coelli

Maruthiah Christian, Macroeconomic consequences of Malaysia's new economic policy
Supervisor(s): May Li

Mohamad Daud Aiman, Causal effects of venture capital in Asia
Supervisor(s): May Li

Morris Todd, Funding an optimal solution to Melbourne's (traffic) congestion woes
Supervisor(s): John Freebairn

Nah Jia, Outcome-based and intention-based preference models: validity testing
Supervisor(s): Tom Wilkening

Nesbit James, Common-value elections in a global game
Supervisor(s): Kei Kawakami

Ng Wei, Dutch disease effects due to foreign aid inflows
Supervisor(s): Kalvinder Shields

Nithipitigan Voraphol, Labour-market effects  of trade liberalisation: Indonesia 
Supervisor(s): Reshad Ashan

Paas Michael, Property values in Victoria: Black Saturday fires effects
Supervisor(s): Jenny Williams

Park Joon, Convergence between North and South Korea
Supervisor(s): May Li

Qian Bing-Xin, Impact of international immigration on Australian house prices
Supervisor(s): Jenny Williams

Ryan Timothy, Asymmetric price pass-through in the Australian red meat industry
Supervisor(s): David Byrne

Shi Jialu, Reasons for change in income distributions: HILDA
Supervisor(s): Vance Martin

Shu Siu Ian, Financial dollarization, a dynamic approach : Peru
Supervisor(s): Tomasz Wozniak

Snashall-W, Shutting down the upgrade aftergrade market
Supervisor(s): Claudio Mezzetti

Song Yang, Multi-variate dynamic probit model of financial contagion
Supervisor(s): Vance Martin

Southidara Bounxana, Exchange-rate pass-through effects on the CPI: Lao
Supervisor(s): Matthew Greenwood-Nimmo

St John Kathryn, Optimal investment allocation between urban water supply assets
Supervisor(s): Vance Martin

Uden Samuel, Payments for environmental services via reverse auctions - California
Supervisor(s): Leslie Martin

Vass Lachlan, Effects of mining on indigenous Australians: labour-force outcomes
Supervisor(s): Mick Coelli

Vuong Kevin, Compositional effects of fiscal policy on sovereign risk premia
Supervisor(s): Barry Rafferty

Weinberg Christopher, Decision-making over revenue allocation between individuals
Supervisor(s): Tom Wilkening

Wong Clement, Examination of crowd-funding platforms: a mechanism-design approach
Supervisor(s): Georgy ARTEMOV

Zhang Haoqi, All-pay auctions with productive-effort players
Supervisor(s): Jun Xiao