Faculty Research Interests

The areas of research interest of current faculty members are as follows:

• Kym Anderson - PhD (Stanford), Professor
  International economics; development economics; agricultural economics; trade and the environment
• Raul Barretto - PhD (Colorado), Lecturer
  Public sector corruption and its effects on economic development; theoretical implications of corruption on optimal taxation and growth
• Ralph Bayer - PhD (LSE), Lecturer
  Game theory; behavioral economics; experimental economics; psychological incidence of taxation
• Brian Bentick - PhD (Yale), Senior Lecturer
  International economics; open-economy macroeconomics; public finance; urban economics
• Eran Binenbaum - PhD (Berkeley), Lecturer
  Economics of innovation, industrial organisation, economic methodology
• Seungmoon Choi - PhD (Wisconsin), Lecturer
  Econometrics, Time series
• Richard Damania - PhD (Glasgow), Senior Lecturer
  Environmental and public economics; applied game theory; influence of lobby groups on environmental policy outcomes; corruption and environmental compliance
• John Hatch - PhD (Cambridge), Senior Lecturer
  Microeconomics and environmental issues; the theory of economic efficiency, in particular x-efficiency theory
• Ian McLean - PhD (ANU), Associate Professor
  Economic history, especially of Australia and the United States
• Tin Nguyen - MScEcon (LSE), Senior Lecturer
  Economic growth and international trade; market efficiency and Chinese agriculture
• Richard Pomfret - PhD (Simon Fraser), Professor
  Economic development; international economics; the economies of Central Asia; international trade theory and policy
• Colin Rogers - DCom (USAfrica), Associate Professor
  Macroeconomics and monetary theory and policy
• Pataporn Sukontamarn - PhD (LSE), Lecturer
  Economic development, Applied econometrics
• Mark Weder - PhD (Humboldt), Associate Professor
  Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Monetary Economics

The School also has several adjunct professors in addition to some visiting faculty in most years.
(Note that in Australian universities the rank of lecturer is approximately equivalent to that of assistant professor in U.S. colleges and universities, a senior lecturer to an associate professor, and an associate professor or professor to a full professor.)