Qualifications Doctor of Philosophy - National University of Singapore Master of Social Science - National University of Singapore Master of Statistics - Indian Statistical Institute Bachelor of Science - Madurai Kamaraj University, India Gulasekaran Rajaguru (Sekar) obtained his PhD in Economics from National University of Singapore. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Madurai Kamaraj University (India), Master of Statistics from Indian Statistical Institute and Master of Social Sciences (Economics) from National University of Singapore. Prior to joining Bond University, he taught Statistical Data Analysis, Introductory Statistics, Mathematical Economics and Macro and International economics at National University of Singapore. Sekar worked as an Analysis Executive at the Market Research Organisation in India. He also worked as an Economic Analyst at Union Oil Company of California.
Articles
The Long-run Determinants of Australian Income Inequality (with Noel Gaston), Globalisation and Development Centre (2009)
Recent interest has been stimulated by the growth of income inequality in most developed countries...
Modelling the glitter in gold (with Kuldeep Kumar and Samir Shrivastava), Advances and applications in statistics (2009)
Academics have found it particularly challenging to develop parsimonious models that can accurately model and...
The chicken or the egg? The trade-off between bank non interest income and net interest margins (with Barry Williams), Business papers (2009)
This study considers the time series relationship between bank non interest income and bank net...
Temporal aggregation, cointegration and causality inference (with Tilak Abeysinghe), Business papers (2008)
Temporal aggregation creates contemporaneous correlations, alters dynamic links and may distort causality inference. Since cointegration...
The rise (and fall) of labour market programmes: Domestic vs. global factors (with Noel Gaston), Business papers (2008)
We provide a simple model to illustrate that tax and redistributive considerations as well as...
Book Chapters
Has globalization increased Australian inequality? (with Noel Gaston), Laggards and leaders in labour market reform: Comparing Japan and Australia (2009)
Conference Papers
Investable market neutral hedge fund indices: An examination of whether these indice eliminate market risk? (with Simone Kelly and Anthony White), 2009 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) conference (2009)
Market neutral hedge funds are attractive portfolio constituents when they eliminate market risk. Is this...