I am a Professor of Economics in the UNSW Business School and Director of the Centre for Applied Economic Research. I have PhD from the University of British Columbia, did my undergraduate studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and have a diploma in Japanese language from JMLI Tokyo. I work primarily in the field of economic measurement, with a focus on productivity and prices.
I am a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement, and of the NBER-affiliated Conference on Research on Income and Wealth. Editorial responsibilities include being an Associate Editor of the Journal of Productivity Analysis and editorial board member of the Review of Income & Wealth. I have a continuing career-long commitment to research-led public policy engagement.
Current engagements include the following:
President, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW),
Chair, Panel B of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA). (Panel B represents Fellows of the Academy from Accounting, Economics, Economic History, Statistics and Marketing).
Advisor to the Australian Treasury,
Member of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Methodology Advisory Committee and Productivity Measurement Reference Group and
Academic Representative for the Economic Data and Analysis Network Governance Committee, Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science.
Economic Measurement
Productivity Analysis
Econometrics
Environmental Economics
ECON4309 / ECON6309 Economic Measurement
This course covers the theory and practice of economic measurement, including the measurement of key economic indicators such as the Consumer Price Index, Gross Domestic Product and productivity growth. Approaches employed by international statistical agencies will be highlighted, along with the possibility that policy implications are often reliant on the choice of measurement techniques. The course will be technically rigorous, particularly in the use of microeconomic theory and econometric analysis and will draw on the latest international research developments.