Past topics and supervisors - School of Economics - University of Queensland

2024

Author	Supervisor	Topic
Samuel Buckland	David Smerdon & Haishan Yuan	The Ramadan Gambit: The impact of Ramadan fasting on cognitive performance
Mony Therayu Choun Nary	Andres Bellofatto & Beonga Dominguez	Business Barriers in Australia: The Role of Tobin’s Q, Returns to Scale and Regulation in Entry Dynamics
Eugene Clark	Carlos Oyarzun & Metin Uyanik	Strategic Sequencing in Multilateral Bargaining under Payoff Uncertainty with Majority and Unanimity rules
Thomas Gargan	Alicia Rambaldi & Mohamad Khaled	Counterfactual or Counterfictional: Comparing Counterfactual Distribution Estimators
Laura Ketter	Todd Morris	The COVID Shock: Heterogeneity in the rise of working from home
Kyle Montgomery	Andres Bellofatto & Begona Dominguez	Stamp Duty Reforms and Their Impact on Housing Transactions: A case Study in Queensland
Emma Searle	Julie Moschion & Lizi Yu	Shifting the Balance: Impact of Female Breadwinning on Household Responsibilities and Satisfaction Around Childbirth
Casper Wise	Alicia Rambaldi & Mohamad Khaled	Interstate Migaration: Trends within recent years in Australia

2023

Author	Supervisor	Topic
Jason Adams	Flavio Menezes & Andrea La Nauze	Price Dispersion after a Price Cap: Evidence from the Australian Electricity Retail Market
Gabriel Beaumont	Ian MacKenzie & Lana Friesen	Examining Supply Structures in Cap and Trade Schemes
Joshua Grice	KK Tang, David Smerdon & Kieran Gibson	Anything you can do, I can do maybe: The subliminal effects of presentation style and social presence on student learning in multimedia contexts
Mengfan Long	Mohamad Khaled	High-dimensional mixture-based discriminant analysis for binary data
Patrick Mead	Metin Uyanik	Non-Ordered Preferences, Payoff-Based Externalities, and Nash Equilibria
Oscar Pollack	Suzanne Bonner & Lizi Yu	Community sports participation and crime prevention: Evidence from Queensland
Joel Rabenhorst	Allan Hernandez-Chanto & Jose A. Carrasco	The simple Economics of Sellers' Dynamic search under continuous demands
Benjamin Stephens	Andres Bellofatto, Begona Dominguez & Youngsoo Jang	Legal Form of Organisation Choice in Australia: Taxation and Productivity
Theo Gibbons	Alicia Rambaldi & Andres Bellofatto	Spatial misallocation: evidence from Australian labour markets
Guan-Jia Huang	Shino Takayama & Lana Friesen	Information Cascades: The Effects of incorporating an informed or uninformed agent in Endogenous Time

2022

Author	Supervisor	Topic
Patrick Elkington	Andrés Bellofatto, Begona Dominguez & Alicia Rambaldi	Markups and Misallocation: Firm-Level Evidence from Australia
Kate Green	Vera te Velde & Zachary Breig	Norm Enforcement in Coordination Games
Raul Leon Petersen	Rigissa Megalokonomou	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Highschool: Measuring superstar effects in public schools in Greece
Gregory Levy	Lionel Page	Sparking a revolution: the role of salience and higher-order beliefs in coordination games of protest
Sheryl Siew Quin Lim	Lionel Page	Optimal Relay Strategy (determining whether order matters)
Charlotte Newton	Allan Hernandez-Chanto & Zachary Breig	Costly State Verification
Kuangyu Sang	Rodney Strachan	Liquidity Friction and Heterogeneous Responses to Monetary Policy at Household Level
Hao Wan	Lionel Page	The Psychological Weight of Missed Opportunities: Regret In Dynamic Contests
Elliot Hiller	Allan Hernandez-Chanto & Zachary Breig	Competing Sellers in Security-bid Auctions: An Experimental Approach
Austin Smidt	Andrés Bellofatto & Begona Dominguez	Welfare Benefits of Age Dependent Unemployment Insurance in Australia

2021

Author	Supervisor	Topic
Man Hin (Iris) Chio	Begona Dominguez & Andres Bellofatto	Entrepreneurs, Start-ups and Employment Growth in Australia: The Case of COVID-19
Robert Coulter	Andrea La Nauze	The Effect of Power Supply Interruptions on the Adoption of Household Solar Batteries: Evidence from California
Peter Limerick	John Quiggin	Welfare system targeting and basic income: the implications of alternative basic income scheme designs for household incomes
Ashan Piyaratne	David Smerdon	Investigating cognitive mechanisms affecting how and why individuals exhibit dishonest behaviour
Harry Profke	David Smerdon	The effects of immigration detention on refugees’ trust towards Australians
Taiga Saito	Christiern Rose & David Smerdon	The Role of Economics, Cultural and Institutional Factors in Explaining the Gender Equality Paradox
Justin Strong	Antonio Peyrache & Suzanne Bonner	The Role of Parent-Child Interactions in Developing the Socio-emotional Skills of Children
Callen Van Den Elst	Andres Bellofatto & Begona Dominguez	Australia's Payroll Tax and its Effect on Local Firms
Matisse Clark	Daniel Zizzo, Alexandros & Carlos Oyarzun	An Experiment on Task Sequencing
Declan Curran	Eric Eisenstat	Optimal Variable Ordering in Multivariat Stochastic Volatility Models and an Application: have the Basel Regulations Worked in Reducing Financial Risk?
Elyse Dwyer	Andres Bellofatto & Begona Dominguez	The Australian Urban Advantage : Competitive Selection or Agglomerative Externality?
Liam Falconer	Andrea La Nauze	Effects of air quality shocks on the demand for air quality information
James Ghusn	Jorge Miranda-Pinto	Estimating Dynamic Government Spending Multipliers in Australia
Zachary Hayward	Brenda Gannon, Christiern Rose & Danusha	Correcting for Misreporting in the Effect of Drinking during Pregnancy on Child Behavioural Health Outcomes
Declan Hunt	Zachary Breig & Allan Hernandez-Chanto	Bidder and Seller Behaviour in Informal Security-bid Auctions: An experimental approach
Kai O'Neill	KK Tang & Jonas Fooken	Creating personalised life expectancy estimates for better economic decisions
William McCarthy	Lana Friesen & Vera te Velde	Reference-dependent explanations of the break-even and house money effects

2020

Author	Supervisor	Topic
Lucas Carter	Chris O'Donnell	Measuring and explaining changes in productivity: An application to the market sectors of the Australian economy
Kieran Gibson	Priscilla Man & Vera te Velde	Altruism and Guile: Do intentions behind prosocial behaviour affect reciprocity?
Jiachen Han	Vera te Velde	To be yourself or follow the trend: How personal and social injunctive norms triggers influence individual behavior
Liam Hickey	Flavio Menezes	An Economic Assessment of Queensland’s Land Restoration Fund
Nguyen Bang Chau(Victoria) Hoang	Alicia Rambaldi	The Application of Skewed Filtering to Decomposing Property Prices
Bing Xian	Metin Uyanik & Claudio Mezzetti	To Renew or Sell: A Decision-Theoretic Analysis of the Singapore Vehicle Quota System
Jeremy Lwin	Jorge Miranda-Pinto	Do the High Wealth Hand to Mouth Matter in Australia?
Nicholas Markovitch	Begona Dominguez & Andres Bellofatto	Sources of Firm Heterogeneity in Australia: New Evidence From Microdata
Minh Thang Pham	Begona Dominguez & Andres Bellofatto	Small Businesses and Employment Growth in Australia
Sally Rafter	Ian MacKenzie & Lana Friesen	An Experimental Analysis of Price Preferences in Reverse Auctions

2019

Author	Supervisor	Topic
Josephine Auer	Lana Friesen Ian MacKenzie	An Experiemental Analysis of Reverse Auction Mechanisms
Elizabeth Baldwin	Jonas Fooken David Rowell	Private health insurance and health status in Australia
Laurence Bristow	Tina Rampino Stephen Birch	Are seniors aging without becoming older? A cohort effect analysis of health in the Australian population
Steve Charlton-Henderson	Lana Friesen Ian MacKenzie	Self-reporting firms and their preferences over penalty structures
Sally Duncan	Marcin Sowa	The Effect of Nephrologist Intervention in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients on Queensland Public Hospital Separations and Expenditure
Jessica Dunphy	Haishan Yuan	Minimum Wage and Eviction rates: Evidence from Contiguous Counties
Bernardo Gonzalea Arechiga Mart	Kenan Kalayci Rigissa Megalokonomou	The effects of digital technology learning methods on academic outcomes and student experience
Benedict Gordon	Vera te Velde Marco Faravelli	Why Vote? The Role of Collectivism & Non-Belief in the Law of Large Numbers on Voting Turnout
Giles Morgan	Daniel Zizzio Alexandros Karakostas	Social Embedded Risk Taking
Elena Ryan	Alicia Rambaldi	Impact of Community Voice on Supply Constraints and House Prices: Case Study of Melbourne
Dominic Stevens-Robert	Satoshi Tanaka Jorge Miranda-Pinto	Assessment of Canadian Provincial Structural Change
Hoang Phuong Linh Tran	Christiern Rose Rigissa Megalokonomou	Applied Causal Inference using Identification Robust Confidence Sets Under Sparsity
Nicholas Umashev	Daniel Zizzo Alexandros Karakostas	Conflict and Cooperation: an experimental analysis of intergroup and intragroup aggression