Research by Radhika Lahiri. Her CV (Word) here.
Research by Clevo Wilson. His CV (Word) here.
OLD Research Homepage of Tony Cavoli
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Email: t.cavoli@qut.edu.au
Phone: 61 7 3138 4252
Fax: 61 7 3138 1500
Brief bio
Tony received his PhD in Economics for the University of Adelaide in 2005. His main research interests are in the areas of Open Economy Macroeconomics and International Finance with an emphasis on exchange rate regimes and monetary policies in emerging markets generally and Asia in particular. Tony has authored and co-authored several papers on optimal monetary policies, exchange rate regime classification and the policy response to capital flows.
Prior to this, Tony worked at the National Australia Bank in a variety of analysis and risk management roles. Tony teaching interests have centred around the following: International Finance, Economic Principles, Financial and Monetary Economics and Macroeconomics. He has taught at undergraduate, postgraduate and honours levels. He has also taught in Australia and in Singapore.
Publications
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“Inflation Targeting Arrangements in Asia: Exploring the Role of the Exchange Rate”, (with Ramkishen Rajan). Forthcoming in Briefing Notes in Economics.
“Monetary Policy Rules for Small and Open Developing Economies: A Counterfactual Policy Analysis”. (with Ramkishen Rajan). Journal of Economic Development, 31:1 June 2006.
“Inflation Targeting Frameworks in Asia” in R. Rajan, Contemporary International Economic Policy Issues Facing Asia, (with Ramkishen Rajan). Singapore: World Scientific Press, Chapter 5 (Forthcoming).
“Exchange Rate Arrangements for East Asia Post-Crisis: Examining the Case for Open Economy Inflation Targeting.”, (With Ramkishen Rajan), in Columbus, F. (ed), Asian Economic and Political Issues Vol 5, Commack NY, Nova Science Publishers. (Forthcoming).
“Capital Mobility”, “Inflation Targeting” and “Monetary Policy Rules”. Separate entries in Rajan, R and K Reinert (eds), Princeton Dictionary of the World Economy, Princeton University Press. (Forthcoming, 2007).
“Basket Case” (with Ramkishen Rajan). Op-Ed on Singapore’s Exchange Rate Regime published in the Wall Street Journal Asia (March 27, 2006).
Selected Working Papers (Word)
“The Capital Inflows Problem in Selected Asian Economies in the 1990s Revisited” (with Ramkishen Rajan), July 2006.
“The Exchange Rate, Optimal Monetary Policy Rules in Open and Developing Economies: Simple Analytics”, July 2006.
“Managing in the Middle: Characterizing Singapore’s Exchange Rate Policy”, February 2006, (with Ramkishen Rajan).
“Capital Mobility, Sterilisation and Interest Rate Determination in East Asia”, February 2006.
“Have Exchange Rate Regimes in Asia Become More Flexible Post Crisis? Re-visiting the Evidence” (with Ramkishen Rajan).
Research Homepage of Radhika Lahiri
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Email: r.lahiri@qut.edu.au
Phone: (07) 3138 2753
Education
Ph.D. in Economics (1997), Southern Methodist university, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.
M.A. in Economics (1996), Southern Methodist university, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.
M.A. in Economics (1996), Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi, India.
B.A. (Honours) in Economics, (1988), Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University, New Delhi, India.
Publications and Papers Under Review
“Liquidity Effects, Variable Time Preference, and Optimal Monetary Policy,” accepted for publication in Topics in Macroeconomics, Berkeley Electronic Press, 2006.
“The Inflation Tax, Variable Time Preference, and the Business Cycle”, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Volume 6, September 2002, pp 496-522.
"Income Tax Compliance in India: An Empirical Analysis," (with Arindam Das-Gupta and Dilip Mookherjee), World Development, 1995, 23(12), pp. 2051-2064.
“On Skill Heterogeneity, Human Capital, and Inflation”, 2006, under revision for submission to Journal of Economic Growth.
Refereed Conference Papers
“On Skill Heterogeneity and Inflation,” 2004, (co-authored with Elisabetta Magnani) proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of Economists, Sydney, Australia.
“On Inequality and the Allocation of Public Spending”, (co-authored with Elisabetta Magnani), forthcoming in the proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of Economists, Perth, Australia.
Discussion Papers
Lahiri, R., and Elisabetta Magnani, “ On Skill Heterogeneity, Human Capital, and Inflation”, QUT, School of Economics and Finance, Discussion Paper No. 205, December 2005.
Lahiri, R., and Elisabetta Magnani, “ On Skill Heterogeneity and Inflation”, QUT, School of Economics and Finance, Discussion Paper No. 181, June 2004.
Lahiri, R., “Cooperation versus Non Cooperation in R&D Competition with Spillovers”, QUT, School of Economics and Finance, Discussion Paper No. 166, November 2003.
Lahiri, R., “Tax Distortions in a Neoclassical Monetary Economy in the Presence of Administration Costs”, QUT, School of Economics and Finance, Discussion Paper No. 151, September 2003.
Lahiri, R., “Cooperation versus Non Cooperation in R&D Competition with Spillovers”, QUT, School of Economics and Finance, Discussion Paper No. 166, November 2003.
Lahiri, R., “A Further Exploration of Some Computational Issues in Equilibrium Business Cycle Theory”, QUT, School of Economics and Finance, Discussion Paper No. 136, February 2003.
Lahiri, R., “On Optimal Monetary Policy in a Liquidity Effect Model”, QUT, School of Economics and Finance, Discussion Paper No. 118, October 2002.
Lahiri, R., “The Inflation Tax, Variable Time Preference, and the Business Cycle”, Discussion Paper 98-04, University of Western Australia.
"Income Tax Compliance in India: An Empirical Analysis," (with Arindam Das-Gupta and Dilip Mookherjee), Boston University, Institute for Economic Development Working Paper 57, 1995.
Work in Progress
“On Inequality and the Allocation of Public Spending”, joint work with Dr. Elisabetta Magnani of the University of New South Wales.
“Inequality and Growth in the Presence of Tax Evasion”, work in progress.
“Inflation, Inequality, and Tax Evasion”, work in progress.
OLD Research Homepage of Stefan Trueck
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Email: s.trueck@qut.edu.au
Phone: (07) 3138 4262
His current research interests are: Research in Financial Economics, Risk Management (Credit and Operational Risk), Resource Economics, Energy Markets, Real Estate Economics, Econometrics of Financial Markets.
Some recent papers:
- (with others) Implied correlations in CDO branches (PDF).
- (with others) Quantifying risk in the electricity business: a RAROC-based approach (PDF).
- Forecasting credit migration matrices with buisiness cycle effects - a model comparison (PDF).
- (with others) Spot and derivative pricing in the EEX power market (PDF).
- (with others) Estimation of operational value-at-risk in the presence of minimum collection thresholds (PDF).
Research Homepage of Clevo Wilson
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His current research interests and activities are:
Clevo Wilson is currently a lecturer in the School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology. He obtained his Phd from the University of St Andrews, UK. He has a M.Phil from the University of Cambridge in environment and development and a MSc from the University of Glasgow in economic theory. Clevo’s research interests are in environmental, ecological, agricultural, development and tourism economics.
Clevo has published extensively in a wide range of journals, some of which are interdisciplinary in nature, nevertheless focusing on economic issues, mostly relating to the environment. In 2005 and 2006 the following refereed journals have published or have accepted papers: Contemporary Economic Policy (2) Ecological Economics, International Journal of Social Economics, Environmental Management, Environment, Development and Sustainability, Maritime Studies, Journal of Social Sciences, Anthrozoos, Bird Conservation International, Biological Conservation, Economic Analysis and Policy, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Nature Conservation, and Journal of Global Environmental Issues.
Clevo was a chief investigator of a large joint ARC (Discovery) grant in 2003 entitled Economics of Conserving Australian Tropical Wildlife: An Analysis of the Role of Economic Valuation, Property Rights and Commercialisation. Clevo is also a chief investigator for an ARC linkage grant entitled Managing the Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts of High Density Living within Inner Urban Sub Tropical Environments (2006-2009).
Some recent papers:
- (with Clem Tisdell, 2006) Information, wildlife valuation, conservation: experiments and policy (PDF).
- (with Clem Tisdell, 2001) Why farmers continue to use pesticides despite environmental, health, and sustainability costs (PDF) .
- (2003) Empirical evidence showing the relationships between three approaches for pollution control (PDF).
- (with Clem Tisdell, 2005) Do open-cycle hatcheries relying on tourism conserve sea turtles? (PDF)