Dr Abbas Valadkhani was born in Tehran. He received his BEc in Economics at The University of Allameh Tabatabaee (Tehran), his MEc from The University of Tehran and his PhD in Economics at The University of Queensland. Currently, Dr Valadkhani is an A/professor of Economics at The University of Wollongong. Previously, he was head of the Macroeconometric Modelling Group of the Management and Planning Organisation of Iran. He has also been a Lecturer of Econometrics at the Department of Statistics at The National University of Iran a Lecturer of Economics at the Queensland University of Technology and The University of Newcastle. Dr Valadkhani was also one of the Vice-Presidents of the Economic Society of Australia (ESA) Inc, Queensland Branch in 2003-2004. He is a member the editorial board of Briefing Notes in Economics; Australasian Journal of Economics Education; Applied Econometrics and International Development; and Global Business & Economics Review. He has over 50 publications in leading scientific journals in the areas of applied econometrics, macroeconometric model building, international financial and monetary economics, development economics, and input-output analysis. Research Interests include applied econometrics, macroeconometric model-building, international financial and monetary economics, development economics, and input-output analysis. My current research interests include productivity and growth, Australian macroeconomic policy issues, the pre- and post-GST effects on inflation, and multi-dimensional ranking of Australian universities.
Articles
Analysing Productivity Changes Using the Bootstrapped Malmquist Approach: The Case of the Iranian Banking Industry (with Amir Arjomandi and Charles Harvie), Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal (2011)
This study employs various bootstrapped Malmquist indices and efficiency scores to investigate the effects of...
Causes and Implications of Declining Economics Major: (with Mohammad Alauddin), Journal of Economic and Social Policy (2010)
This paper analyses the causes and implications of declining economics major in Australia. Based on...
Modelling the Price of Unleaded Petrol in Australia’s Capital Cities, Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal (2010)
This paper examines the long-run and short-run determinants of unleaded petrol price in Australia’s capital...
An Analysis of Productivity Changes in the Iranian Banking Industry: a Bootstrapped Malmquist Approach (with Amir Arjomandi and Charles Harvie), Faculty of Commerce - Economics Working Papers (2010)
This study employs various bootstrapped Malmquist indices and efficiency scores to investigate the effects of...
An empirical analysis of international stock market volatility transmission (with Indika Karunanayake and Martin O’Brien), Faculty of Commerce - Economics Working Papers (2010)
This paper examines the interplay between stock market returns and their volatility, focusing on the...
Presentations
How many jobs were lost with the collapse of Ansett?, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2003)
The objective of this paper is to determine the adverse impact of the collapse of...