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Dr Le Ma

STAFF PROFILE

Position

Casual Sessional Academic

Faculty

Faculty of Business and Law

Department

Deakin Business School

Campus

Melbourne Burwood Campus

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, Deakin University, 2011
Master of Finance, Royal Melb Inst. of Technology, 2007

Contact

le.ma1@deakin.edu.au
+61 3 522 78348

Biography

Dr. Le Ma got a Bachelor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics in Qing Dao University in China. He was awarded a Master of Finance in RMIT University in 2007 and a PhD in Deakin University in 2011. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Australian National University, before he joined in the School as a Research Fellow in 2014.

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Research interests

Construction economics, construction productivity, econometric modelling, spatial analysis

Teaching interests

Building Economics

Awards

2011 CIOB Australasia Excellent Building Postgraduate (Research)

Publications

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2021

Predicting production-output performance within a complex business environment: from singular to multi-dimensional observations in evaluation

H Liu, P Love, L Ma, M Sing

(2021), Vol. 59, pp. 7390-7399, International Journal of Production Research, C1

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Housing price dynamics on residential construction: A case study of the Australian property sector

L Ma, H Liu, D Edwards, M Sing

(2021), Vol. 59, pp. 525-532, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1

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2020

Responsiveness of residential construction-production progress to house price dynamics

L Ma, H Liu, M Sing

(2020), Vol. 14, pp. 796-814, International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, C1

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2019

Separating owner-occupier and investor demands for housing in the Australian states

L Ma, R Reed, J Liang

(2019), Vol. 37, pp. 215-232, Journal of property investment and finance, Bingley, Eng., C1

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Foreign Direct Investment in Infrastructure Projects: Taxonomy of Political Risk Profiles in Developing Countries

W Jiang, I Martek, M Hosseini, C Chen, L Ma

(2019), Vol. 25, Journal of Infrastructure Systems, C1

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2018

Decomposition of temporal changes in construction labour productivity

L Ma, Chunlu Liu

(2018), Vol. 18, pp. 65-77, International journal of construction management, London, Eng., C1

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Identify the equilibrium of residential construction output: a vector error correction model approach

L Ma, R Reed, X Jin

(2018), Vol. 25, pp. 21-38, Engineering, construction and architectural management, Bingley, Eng., C1

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A market-oriented model for the independent-living retirement village industry

L Ma, R Reed

(2018), Vol. 36, pp. 122-134, Facilities, Bingley, Eng., C1

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Energy productivity convergence within the Australian construction industry: a panel data study

L Ma, M Hosseini, W Jiang, I Martek, A Mills

(2018), Vol. 72, pp. 313-320, Energy economics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1

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2017

The impacts of residential construction and property prices on residential construction outputs: an inter-market equilibrium approach

L Ma, Chunlu Liu, R Reed

(2017), Vol. 21, pp. 296-306, International journal of strategic property management, Abingdon, Eng., C1

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2016

Construction labor productivity convergence: A conditional frontier approach

L Ma, Chunlu Liu, A Mills

(2016), Vol. 23, pp. 283-301, Engineering, construction and architectural management, Bingley, Eng., C1

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Student participation in professional organisations: the need for innovation

L Tivendale, L Ma

(2016), pp. 292-301, AUBEA 2016 : Proceedings of the 40th Australasian Universities Building Education Association Annual Conference, Cairns, Queensland, E1

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Understanding senior community residents for better construction of retirement villages

S Liu, L Ma, Chunlu Liu

(2016), pp. 525-534, AUBEA 2016: Proceedings of the 40th Australasian Universities Building Education Association Annual Conference: Radical Innovation in the Built Environment, Cairns, Qld., E1

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2015

Is there long-run equilibrium in the house prices of Australian capital cities?

L Ma, Chunlu Liu

(2015), Vol. 18, pp. 503-521, International real estate review, Rockville, Md., C1

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2014

Did the late-2000s financial crisis influence construction labour productivity?

L Ma, Chunlu Liu

(2014), Vol. 32, pp. 1030-1047, Construction .anagement and economics, Abingdon, Eng., C1

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Do spatial effects drive house prices away from the long-run equilibrium?

L Ma, Chunlu Liu

(2014), Vol. 20, pp. 13-29, Pacific Rim Property Research Journal, Sydney, NSW, C1

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A spatial decomposition approach for investigating house price convergences

Le Ma, Chunlu Liu

(2014), Vol. 20, pp. 487-511, Australasian journal of regional studies, Armidale, N.S.W., C1

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2013

Ripple effects of house prices : considering spatial correlations in geography and demography

L Ma, Chunlu Liu

(2013), Vol. 6, pp. 284-299, International journal of housing markets and analysis, Bingley, England, C1

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A panel error correction approach to explore spatial correlation patterns of the dominant housing market in Australian capital cities

L Ma, Chunlu Liu

(2013), Vol. 6, pp. 405-421, International journal of housing markets and analysis, Bingley, England, C1

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Spatio-temporal analysis of house price convergence based on a demographical distance

L Ma, Chunlu Liu

(2013), Vol. 17, pp. 263-277, International journal of strategic property management, Vilnius, Lithuania, C1

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2011

A panel regression method for quantifying the convergence of house prices

L Ma, Chunlu Liu

(2011), pp. 572-579, AUBEA 2011 : Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference for Australasian University Building Educators Association, Gold Coast, Qld., E1

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Reading house prices in Australian capital cities

L Ma, Chunlu Liu

(2011), pp. 1-7, Proceedings of the State of Australian Cities National Conference, Melbourne, Vic., E1

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2010

The decomposition of housing market variations : a panel data approach

L Ma, Chunlu Liu

(2010), Vol. 3, pp. 6-16, International journal of housing markets and analysis, Bingley, England, C1

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Can investors hedge residential price dynamics of Australia's capital cities?

L Ma, Chunlu Liu

(2010), Vol. 13, pp. 30-45, International real estate review, Potomac, Md., C1

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2009

An interdependence analysis of Australian house prices using variance decomposition

Chunlu Liu, L Ma, Z Luo, D Picken

(2009), Vol. 2, pp. 218-232, International journal of housing markets and analysis, Bingley, England, C1

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2008

Identifying house price diffusion patterns among Australian state capital cities

Chunlu Liu, Z Luo, L Ma, D Picken

(2008), Vol. 12, pp. 237-250, International journal of strategic property management, Vilnius, Lithuania, C1

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Estimating impacts of consumer prices on house prices

L Ma, Chunlu Liu

(2008), pp. 1-16, ACE 2008 : Proceedings of the 37th Australian Conference of Economists, Gold Coast, Queensland, E1

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Funded Projects at Deakin

Industry and Other Funding

Socio-economic changes in retirement village development in rural areas

Dr Le Ma, Prof Richard Reed, Prof Anthony Mills

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

  • 2022: $5,018
  • 2020: $8,266
  • 2018: $2,855
  • 2017: $3,096

Supervisions

No completed student supervisions to report