Staff listing - Department of Economics | Deakin

Executive

Department Head
Professor Pasquale Sgro

Director of Research
Associate Professor Debdulal Mallick

Director of HDR/PhD program
Dr Aaron Nicholas

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 Mehmet Ulubasoglu

Associate Professors

Name
Associate Professor Chi-Chur Chao
Associate Professor Luca Colombo
Associate Professor Wang-Sheng Lee
Associate Professor Debdulal Mallick
Associate Professor Helen Scarborough
Associate Professor Ching-Jen Sun

Senior Lecturers

Name
Dr Omar Bashar
Dr Prasad Bhattacharya
Dr Cahit Guven
Dr Ben Li
Dr Jinhu Li
Dr Elizabeth Manning
Dr Munirul Nabin
Dr Xuan Nguyen
Dr Aaron Nicholas
Dr Risti Permani
Dr Cong Pham
Dr Shuddha Rafiq
Dr Xueli Tang
Dr Andrew Torre
Dr Aydogan Ulker
Dr Samarth Vaidya
Dr Ikm Mokhtarul Wadud
Dr Wenying Yao

Lecturers

Name
Acelya Altuntas
Dr Francesco Carli
Dr Hao Jia
Dr Yan Liang
Dr Ha Vu

Professorial Fellows

Name
Professor Nejat Anbarci
Professor Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Professor Utku Unver
Dr Christopher J. Waller
Professor Joakim Westerlund

Research Fellow

Name
Xuan Zhou

Administrative staff

Name
Carolyn Mead
Angeline Yip

Students

P = Principal
A = Associate
E = External

Name	PhD topic	Supervisor
Franziska Wolf	Optimal Hedging Policy and Capital Structure: Is there and optimal mix?	Prof Pasquale Sgro (P) Dr. Sukanto Bhattacharya (A) Dr. Terry Boulter (E)
Mohammad Shihab Khan	Swing voters' behaviour in Bangladesh	Prof Chris Doucouliagos (P) Dr Samarth Vaidya (A) Dr Hao Jia (A)
Mostafa Kamal	Inflation Dynamics, Monetary Policy Framework and Productivity Response to shocks in Emerging National Economies	Dr Mokhtarul Wadud (P) Prof Pedro Gomis Porqueras (A)
Moumita Deb	The interplay of traditional media and social media	Prof Pasquale Sgro (P) Dr Samarth Vaidya (A) Dr Ching-Jen Sun (A)
Meghna Ghosh	Distributional Consequences of the Implementation of Value Added Tax (VAT) in India	Prof Mehmet Ulubasoglu (P) A/Prof Debdulal Mallick (A)
Surjasama Lahiri	Reading Fine Print	Dr Aaron Nicholas (P) Dr Ching-Jen Sun (A)
My Trang Tran	Exporting behaviour and market power of forms in vietname	Prof Pasquale Sgro (P) Dr Xuan Nguyen (A)
Chakrawarthige Atonette Shana Fernando	Heterogeneous commercial bank decisions and monetary policy transmission	Prof Pedro Gomis Porqueras (P) Dr Omar Bashar (A) Dr Wenying Yao (A)
Merve Kucuk	Splitting the cost of climate change	Prof Mehmet Ulubasoglu (P) Dr Mokhtarul Wadud (A)
Panagiotis Sotirakopoulos	Connection between child care availability maternal employment and children's development	Dr Cahit Guven (P) Dr Ha Vu (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	Military expenditure and economic growth	Dr Prasad Bhattacharya (P) Dr Samarth Vaidya (A)