Current HDR students, dissertation information and supervisors

Andriyanto

Project Title: Comparing Open and Sealed Bid Auctions: Evidence Frm Public Procurement

Supervisors: Dr Dong-Hyuk Kim, Prof Flavio Menezes

Contact: s4735635@student.uq.edu.au 

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Ramazan Bora 

Project Title: Distributive politics, institutions and political competition 

Supervisors: Professor Alicia RambaldiDr Haishan Yuan 

Contact: s4669631@student.uq.edu.au

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Alicia Bubb

Alicia Bubb

 

Project Title: Essays on the Optimal Taxation of Couples

Supervisors: Dr Andres Bellofatto, Professor Begona Dominguez

Contact: s4407337@student.uq.edu.au

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Salonkara Chaudhuri 

HDR student - Salonkara Chaudhuri

Project title: Essays on natural disaster and labour market

Supervisors: Professor Flavio Menezes, Dr Metin Uyanik, Dr Satoshi Tanaka 

Contact: s4571540@student.uq.edu.au

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Publications

  • Chaudhuri, S., Mahata, S., & Chaudhuri, S. (2021). Covid-19 Disaster and employment generation program in a developing economy. Journal of Social and Economic Development. DOI: 10.1007/s40847-021-00171-z
  • Chaudhuri, S., & Chaudhuri, S. (2019). Foreign direct investment and credit market reform in a developing economy: Could these be alternative policies? International Review of Economics & Finance, 62(C), 321-331. DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2019.03.011
  • Chaudhuri, S., Roychowdhury, S., & Chaudhuri, S. (2019). Gender-based wage inequality and economic liberalism in the presence of endogenous supply of female labour. Indian Economic Review, 54(2019), 239–260. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41775-019-00050-9

Ruyue (April) Deng

Project title: The Estimation of Economic Cost and Social Cost of Language Barrier Faced by Immigrants from Different Linguistic Origin

Supervisors: Professor Alicia Rambaldi, Dr Dong-Hyuk Kim

Contact: ruyue.deng@uqconnect.edu.au 

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Sima Rani Dey

Project title: Digital Finance to reduce gender gap in financial inclusion: Evidence from South Asia

Supervisors: Prof KK Tang, Dr Haishan Yuan, Dr Lizi Yu

Contact: sima.dey@uq.net.au 

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Aarushi Dhingra

Aarushi Dhingra

 

Project title:  Three essays on health economics and health shocks: IVF policy change implications 

Supervisors: Professor Brenda GannonProfessor Luke Connelly & Professor Gita Mishra 

Contact: s4442715@student.uq.edu.au

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Xiaoxue Dou

Project Title: Incorporating the Gains from Healthy Ageing in Health System Planning

Supervisors: Professor Luke Connelly, Emeritus Professor Stephen Birch, Dr Sabrina Lenzen

Contact: s4769297@student.uq.edu.au 

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Patrick Duenow 

Project title: Uncertainty, learning and growth dynamics in export markets

Supervisors: Professor Luke Connelly, Professor KK Tang, Professor Stephen Birch 

Contact: s4339494@student.uq.edu.au

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Kieran Gibson

Kieran Gibson

 

Project title:  Understanding the system of reciprocity

Supervisors:  Dr Vera te Velda,  Dr Priscilla Man

Contact: s4436748@student.uq.edu.au

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Yuancheng (Ryan) Han

Yuancheng (Ryan) Han

 

Project title:  The effects of change in weather on Australian agricultural production 

Supervisors:  Dr Satoshi TanakaDr Jorge Miranda-Pinto, Professor Begona Dominguez 

Contact: s4465413@student.uq.edu.au

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Kim Hoye

Project title: Efficiency analysis of electricity networks 

Supervisors: Professor Christopher O'Donnell

Contact: s4099636@student.uq.edu.au

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Joshua Huisman

Project Title: Voter Behaviour and Polarisation: The Role of Social Preferences

Supervisors: A/Prof Marco Faravelli, Dr Vera Te Velde

Contact: s4767573@student.uq.edu.au

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Ryan Leung 

Project title: Copula models under high dimensionality 

Supervisors: Dr Mohamad Khaled, Professor Alicia Rambaldi 

Contact: ryan.leung@uq.net.au

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Xinyang Li

Project title: Does Social Capital Attenuate Negative Mental Health Shocks?

Supervisors: Professor KK Tang, Dr Jonas Fooken, Dr Fu Ouyang

Contact: s4554319@student.uq.edu.au  

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Zhongyi Liao

Project Title: Data Protection, Platforms and Competition Policy

Supervisors: A/Prof Heiko Gerlach, Prof Claudio Mezzetti

Contact: s4645386@student.uq.edu.au

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Yunlong Liu

Project title: Designing a robust blockchain mechanism in the presence of information asymmetry

Supervisors: Professor Claudio MezzettiDr Shino Takayama

Contact: s4495820@student.uq.edu.au

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Yuqing Liu 

Yuqing Liu - HDR student on campus at St Lucia UQ

Project title: Essays on financial crises and market manipulation

Supervisors: Dr Shino Takayama, Dr Jorge Miranda Pinto, Emeritus Professor Andrew McLennan 

Contact: s4520846@student.uq.edu.au

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Abigail Lloyd 

Project title: Exploring the complex relationships between pre-existing conditions and cancer diagnosis in an ageing population 

Supervisors: Professor Stephen Birch, Professor Anne Spencer 

Contact: s4650913@student.uq.edu.au

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Joshua Look

Project Title: Is Popularism Economic? Exploring a Demand and Supply Relationship for Extreme Policies

Supervisors: Dr Shino Takayama, Dr Haishan Yuan

Contact: s4231253@student.uq.edu.au

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Daniel Maggacis 

Project title: A game theoretic analysis of the OECD's use of competition in the international tax domain 

Supervisors: Associate Professor Jeffrey Kline 

Contact: s4233634@student.uq.edu.au

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Kopal Mathur 

Project title: Talent allocation in the Indian economy: measurement and policy implications 

Supervisors: Dr Antonio Bellofatto, Dr Sourabh Paul, Dr Jorge Miranda Pinto 

Contacts4624666@student.uq.edu.au

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Keshini Muthukuda 

Project title: Use of e-health devices, privacy and the risk of personal health data breaches

Supervisors: Professor Claudio Mezzetti, Dr Haishan Yuan

Contacts4675433@student.uq.edu.au

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Dinh Dao Nguyen

Dao Nguyen Dinh

 

Project title:  The economics of child health: Determinants of child physical and mental health and their long-term consequences.

Supervisors:   Professor Luke ConnellyProfessor Stephen Birch

Contacts4675115@student.uq.edu.au

Research Areas of Interest:

Publications:

  • Nguyen, D.D., Zhang, X. and Nguyen, T.H. (2021), "The gender wage gap and the presence of foreign firms in Vietnam: evidence from unconditional quantile regression decomposition", Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JES-10-2020-0506
  • Dao, N. D. (2020). Does the microcredit intervention change the life of the low- and middle-income households in rural Vietnam? Evidence from panel data. World Development Perspectives, 20(August), 100259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2020.100259
  • Dao, N. D. (2020). Determinants of Vietnam’s rice and coffee exports: using stochastic frontier gravity model. Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies, https://doi.org/10.1108/JABES-05-2020-0054

 

Matthew Oancea

Project title: Investing in health as a pathway to improved economic performance

Supervisors: Professor Stephen Birch, Dr Przemyslaw Sowa 

Contacts4584570@student.uq.edu.au

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Kuangyu Sang

Project Title: Redistributional Effect of Monetary Shock Under the Perspective of Liquidity Friction

Supervisors: Prof Rodney Strachan, A/Prof Eric Eisenstat

Contact: s4510961@student.uq.edu.au

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Arijit Sarkar

Project Title: Electricity Market Design with Renewable Energy

Supervisors: Dr Metin Uyanik, A/Prof Saptarshi Mukherjee

Contact: s4836447@student.uq.edu.au

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Charity Shadforth 

Project title: How do we make decisions with probabilistic information?: Negotiating environmental impacts & resource development 

Supervisors: Professor Daniel Zizzo, Associate Professor Lana Friesen, Dr Luk Peeters 

Contacts4273500@student.uq.edu.au

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Nesanthan Srianandarajah

Project title: Market design of electricity markets as they transition to high shares of renewables

Supervisors: Professor Flavio MenezesDr. Archie Chapman 

Contacts4534618@student.uq.edu.au

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Publications:

Srianandarajah, N., Wilson, S. J., & Chapman, A. C. (2022). From green to amber: is Australia's National Electricity Market signalling a financial warning for wind and solar power?. Energy Policy167, 113052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113052

Yumeng Tong

Project title: Developing an integrated model to evaluate economic and social change in rural Queensland

Supervisors: Emeritus Professor John Mangan, Professor Christopher O'Donnell 

Contact: s4475349@student.uq.edu.au

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Nicholas Umashev

Nicholas Umashev

 

Project title: The causes and consequences of antisocial behaviour

Supervisors: Professor Daniel Zizzo, Dr Carlos Oyarzun, Dr Alexandros Karakostas

Contact: s4357529@student.uq.edu.au

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Han Wang 

Project title: Socioeconomic status and purchase of soda in the United States: the role of consumers preference and in-store promotion

Supervisor: Professor KK Tang, Dr Dong-Hyuk Kim 

Contact: s4520323@student.uq.edu.au

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Songnan Wang

Project Title: Managing Carbon Offsets to Improve Australian Climate Policy

Supervisors: A/Prof Lana Friesen, Prof Ian MacKenzie

Contact: s4635400@student.uq.edu.au

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Zhichao Wang

Zhichao Wang

 

Project title:  Improving productivity: theory and application to Australian hospitals.

Supervisors:  Professor Valentin Zelenyuk, Emeritus Professor Prasada Rao

Contacts4598711@student.uq.edu.au

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Xinghao Yao

Project Title: Information Provision and Decision Making in Financial Markets

Supervisors: Dr Kenan Kalayci, Prof Lionel Page

Contact: s4512592@student.uq.edu.au

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Chunsheng Zhang

Project title:  Accounting for endogeneity and measurement issues in econometric models of peer effects

Supervisors: Dr Christiern Rose, Dr Antonio Peyrache, Dr Mohamad Khaled

Contact: s4501316@student.uq.edu.au 

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