Professor Chris Doucouliagos

Present position: Professor in Economics

Campus: Melbourne Campus at Burwood
Tel: +61 3 9244 6531
Email: douc@deakin.edu.au

Academic Qualifications

PhD MEc BEc(Hons) Monash

Commenced at Deakin: 1985

Books/publications/monographs
Reported in the Deakin University Annual Research Reports since 1995

Research interests
Applications of meta-analysis; development of new meta-analysis techniques; efficiency in higher education institutions; performance of the Australian dairy industry; the impact of development aid on growth; the determinants of aid allocation; the impact of democracy and economic freedom on economic performance.

Publication Highlights

Doucouliagos, C. and Ulubasoglu, M. (2008) Democracy and Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis, American Journal of Political Science, Vol 52, No 1, pp. 61-83.
Doucouliagos, C. and Paldam, M. (2008) Aid effectiveness on growth: A Meta study, European Journal of Political Economy, Volume 24, pp. 1-24.
Balcombe, K., Doucouliagos, C. and Fraser, I. (2007) Input usage, output mix and industry deregulation: an analysis of the Australian dairy manufacturing industry, The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource
Economics, Vol 51, pp. 137-156.
Doucouliagos, C. and Laroche, P. (2003) What Do unions Do to Productivity? A Meta-Analysis, Industrial Relations: a journal of economy and society, Vol 42, No 4, pp. 650-691.
Doucouliagos, C. (1995) Worker Participation and Productivity in Labour-Managed and Participatory Capitalist Firms: A Meta-Anaylsis, Industrial and Labour Relations Review, Vol 49, No 1. pp. 58-77.

Forthcoming

2009. "Realized Volatility and Correlation in Grain Futures Markets: Testing for Spill-Over Effects", Review of Futures Markets, with Jae Kim (Monash University).
2009. "The Aid Effectiveness Literature: The sad results of 40 years of research", Journal of Economic Surveys, with Martin Paldam (Aarhus University)
2008 "Competition and efficiency: Overseas students and technical efficiency in Australian and New Zealand universities", Education Economics, with Malcolm Abbott (KPMG).

Current research projects

Primary Data Analysis

"Do New Donors Have Old Motives?"; with Elizabeth Manning.
"Profitability and Unionization in Australian Industry";, with Mokhtarul Wadud.
"Price Exhaustion in Asian Financial Markets";, with Chee-Jin Yap.
"Remuneration and Performance in Australian Top 100 corporations", with Michael Graham and Janto Haman
"Institutions and Efficiency", with Mehmet Ulubasoglu
"Institutions and Economic Growth: How the Middle East differs from the rest of the world", with Mehmet Ulubasoglu
"Covariance Matrix Correction of a Two-Stage Estimator in a Simultaneous Probit-Ordered Probit Model", with Mehmet Ulubasoglu and Randy Silvers

Meta-Analysis

"Theory Competition and Selectivity", with T.D. Stanley
"Publication Bias in Minimum Wage Research?" with T.D. Stanley
"Alcohol price, income, advertising, and regulation elasticities", with T.D. Stanley
"Unions and R&D", with Patrice Laroche
"Bureaucracy and the allocation of aid", with Martin Paldam
"Human Rights and the allocation of aid", with Martin Paldam
"The Market Efficiency Hypothesis", with Jae Kim
"Executive Compensation and Performance in the US", with Janto Haman

Higher Degree by Research supervision: current and completed
Current

The Contributions of Human Capital to Chinese Economic Growth. Expected completion 2008.
The Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth. Expected completion 2008.
Measuring Service Productivity: Malaysian Public Higher Education. Expected completion 2011.

Completed

Claudia Burgio-Ficca (2008). Master of Economics, Thesis entitled: Existence of Externalities from Investment in Higher Education.
Claudio Calero (2005). Master of Economics, Thesis entitled: The Structure of Unemployment in Country Victoria.
Mark Buchanek (2003). Master of Economics, Thesis entitled: Testing the Weak-Form Version of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis.
Glennis Hanley (1999). Doctor of Philosophy, Thesis entitled: The Determinants of Member-Union Satisfaction in Australian Amalgamated Unions.

Affiliations: Professional/Academic

Royal Economic Society
Economics Society of Australia

Teaching Interests/units taught at Deakin

MAE305 Business and Financial Forecasting
MAE101 Economic Principles
MAE304 Labour Economics