Frank has research interests in macroeconomics, economic policy, economic growth and drug policy.
Articles
Attendance and performance in a large economics class (with Yumiko Meloche), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2008)
In this paper we investigate whether lecture attendance is related to student performance in the...
Social Capital Renewal and the Academic Performance of International Students in Australia (with Simon Ville), Journal of Socio-Economics (2008)
Many believe that social capital fosters the accumulation of human capital. Yet international university students...
Research Productivity of Australian Academic Economists: Human-Capital and Fixed Effects (with J. R. Rodgers), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)
This study investigates why some economics departments in Australian universities are more research productive than...
Research Productivity of Australian Academic Economists: Human-Capital and Fixed Effects (with Joan R. Rodgers), Australian Economic Papers (2007)
This study investigates why some economics departments in Australian universities are more research productive than...
Trade reforms and breakpoints in Australia's manufactured trade: an application of the Zivot and Andrews model (with Kankesu Jayanthakumaran and Mosayeb Pahlavani), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)
Trade liberalization is expected to increase imports but also exports via reduced input costs and...
Presentations
Human capital externalities, departmental co-authorship and research productivity (with Joan Rodgers), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2012)
Lucas (1988) hypothesised that human capital externalities explain persistent productivity growth and become manifest via...