Staff listing - Department of Economics | Deakin

Executive

Department Head
Professor Mehmet Ulubasoglu

Director of Research
Associate Professor Ching-Jen Sun

Director of HDR/PhD program
Dr Francesco Carli

Director of Teaching
Dr Samarth Vaidya

Director of International
Dr Munirul Nabin

Professors

Name
Professor Chris Doucouliagos
Professor Pasquale Sgro
Professor Pedro Gomis Porqueras
Professor Yves Sprumont
Professor Mehmet Ulubasoglu

Associate Professors

Name
Associate Professor Luca Colombo
Associate Professor Debdulal Mallick
Associate Professor Helen Scarborough
Associate Professor Ching-Jen Sun
Associate Professor Aydogan Ulker

Senior Lecturers

Name
Dr Omar Bashar
Dr Prasad Bhattacharya
Dr Francesco Carli
Dr Cahit Guven
Dr Jinhu Li
Dr Munirul Nabin
Dr Xuan Nguyen
Dr Aaron Nicholas
Dr Risti Permani
Dr Cong Pham
Dr Shuddha Rafiq
Dr Xueli Tang
Dr Samarth Vaidya
Dr Wenying Yao

Lecturers

Name
Dr Acelya Altuntas
Dr Yan Liang
Dr Ha Vu

Professorial Fellows

Name
Professor Nejat Anbarci
Professor Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Professor Utku Unver
Professor Joakim Westerlund

Research Fellow

Name
Dr Xuan Zhou

Administrative staff

Name
Rebekah Weaver

PhD Students

P = Principal
A = Associate
E = External

Name	PhD topic	Supervisor
Regev Bar	Three essays on anonymity and efficiency	Prof Chris Doucouliagos (P) Dr Aaron Nicholas (A) Dr Saikat Sovan Deb (A)
Michael Dominic D'Rosario	Three essays on telecommunications economics	Dr Prasad Bhattacharya (P) Dr Abdul Hayat Muhammad (A)
Chakrawarthige Fernando	Heterogeneous commercial bank decisions and monetary policy transmission	A/Prof Debdulal Mallick (P) Prof Pedro Gomis Porqueras (A) Dr Wenying Yao (A)
Meghna Ghosh	Growth and poverty in post reform India	Prof Mehmet Ulubasoglu (P) A/Prof Debdulal Mallick (A)
Islam Mohamed Mohmoud Kamal	Essays about structural change in Egyptian economy (1990-2010)	A/Prof Debdulal Mallick (P) Dr Yan Liang (A)
Douglas Kazibwe	Violent Conflicts and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Uganda	A/Prof Aydogan Ulker (P) Prof Chris Doucouliagos (A) Dr Jinhu Li (A)
Merve Kucuk	Splitting the cost of climate change	Prof Mehmet Ulubasoglu (P) Dr Aydogan Ulker (A)
Surjasama Lahiri	The effect of competition on fine print in contracts	Dr Munirul Nabin (P) Dr Aaron Nicholas (A) A/Prof Ching-Jen Sun (A)
Nabeel Maqsood	Quantifying Productivity and Resource Misallocation: A Cross-Country Analysis with CES Production Function	A/Prof Debdulal Mallick (P) Prof Pedro Gomis Porqueras (A)
Thi Hoa Nguyen	Bribery and Environmental Behavior: An Empirical Study Using Vietnamese Firm-level Panel Data	Dr Shuddha Rafiq ( (P) Prof Mehmet Ulubasoglu (A) Dr Aaron Nicholas (A)
Ripon Roy	The changing socio-economic balance from incoming foreign remittances: Bangladesh perspective	Dr Prasad Bhattacharya (P) A/Prof Debdulal Mallick (A)
Panagiotis Sotirakopoulos	The impact of economic and social shocks on individual socioeconomic behaviour	Dr Cahit Guven (P) A/Prof Aydogan Ulker (A)
Mukti Subedi	Essays on household energy consumption behaviour	Dr Shuddha Rafiq (P) Prof Mehmet Ulubasoglu (A)
Xing Xu	Exports of low-carbon goods to achieve INDCs: China's export potential and constraints	Prof Pasquale Sgro (P) Dr Xuan Nguyen (A)
Bo Yu	How do environmental mandates impact internal migration in Chinese cities?	Dr Shuddha Rafiq (P)