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School of Economics PhD student Winner of the University Doctoral Research Medal
The School of Economics takes great pleasure in congratulating our PhD student Chaohua Dong who has won a University Doctoral Research Medal for 2012. These prestigious medals have been awarded to students in recognition of outstanding thesis outcomes. Congratulations Chaohua!
Economics achieves a 4 in ERA rankings
University of Adelaide ranks equal second in Australia for Quality of Research in Applied Economics On December 6 the Australian Research Council released the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) 2012 results, which assess research excellence across the nation’s higher education sector by assigning research fields a ranking between 1 and 5. An ERA score [...]
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How to feed the planet?
Prof Kym Anderson presented his research at the ‘Circle of Economists’ session 13 at the 2012 ‘Les Rencountres Economiques’ in Aix-en-Provence, France. Watch Prof Anderson’s talk and read his paper on What roles for farm technology and trade policies in feeding the planet?
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Economic History Book Published by HUP
Professor Richard Pomfret’s most recent book has recently been published by Harvard University Press: The Age of Equality: The Twentieth Century in Economic Perspective. The book follows the story of the development of free-wheeling capitalism in the 20th Century, and the threats it faced from the competing systems of planned economic development unfolding within the [...]
ARC Discovery Grant Success
Congratulations to Associate Professor Ralph Bayer, who has been successful in the current round of ARC Discovery grants. His proposal is entitled "Effective and efficient corporate tax enforcement" and he will be working with partner investigators, Professor Frank Cowell (London School of Economics) and Associate Professor Rupert Sausgruber (University of Innsbruck). The funding is for [...]
What is Economics? High School Competition
In 2011 the School of Economics ran a competition open to High School students asking them to creatively display ‘what is Economics’? We are pleased to announce we have a winner- Nicole Wedding, from Marryatville High School. Nicole has won $1000 cash prize for her fantastic video entry. Nicole talks about what she loves about [...]
ARC Grant Success
Professor Mark Weder and Dr Jacob Wong – Understanding the Effects of News Shocks on Macroeconomic Fluctuations. $186K over 3 years. The aim of this project is to construct and analyze models of economic fluctuations in which arrival of news concerning future innovations in economic fundamentals can have substantial effects on current economic activity. The [...]
New Resource – Agricultural Distortions Database Reporter
Prof. Kym Anderson led from 2006 to 2009 a ground-breaking World Bank study to measure distortions to agricultural incentives in 75 countries over the past 50 years. One great public benefit of this project is that it provides, for the first time, comprehensive, estimates of policy indicators, as well as their underlying data on prices, [...]
Reserve Bank of Australia 2011 Economics Competition
The competition is for Australian university students and each year challenges them to examine important and topical economic issues affecting Australia. The essay topic for this year is The Economics of Natural Disasters. There have been a number of major natural disasters domestically and abroad in 2011. In addition to the significant human and social [...]
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Economics Alumni Dean Parham Discusses Productivity with Amanda Vanstone on ABC National Radio – Hear the Interview