Our courses
Our curriculum is informed by cutting-edge research and practice. You'll enjoy hands-on experience, including industry-focused problem-solving – making it easier to transition into the workforce.
Our undergraduate courses are developed with industry, plus you’ll enjoy practical experience and networking opportunities. Or take your economics skills to the next level with a postgraduate degree.
Research specialisations
The areas where we are developing our research strengths include:
- sustainable economies
- economic growth and development
- industrial organisation
- economic theory
- international trade
- labour economics and industrial relations
- health economics
- political economy and public choice.
Join our PhD program
The Department of Economics is seeking intellectually curious doctoral applicants with a strong academic track record who are interested in undertaking rigorous, theory-advancing research.
Department of Economics staff
Our staff strive to embed our strategic employability focus in our teaching and learning, and produce innovative, high-quality research that is frequently published in leading journals.
Key contacts
Professor Mehmet Ulubasoglu, Head of Department
Dr Xuan Nguyen, Director of Teaching
Associate Professor Francesco Carli, Director, HDR
Associate Professor Ching-Jen Sun, Director, Researcher Development
Academic contacts
Dr Acelya Altuntas, Lecturer
Professor Nejat Anbarci, Professorial Research Fellow
Associate Professor Daniel Avdic
Dr Omar Bashar, Senior Lecturer
Dr Prasad Bhattacharya, Senior Lecturer
Associate Professor Francesco Carli
Emeritus Professor Chris Doucouliagos
Dr Romain Gauriot, Senior Lecturer
Dr Umair Khalil, Senior Lecturer
Associate Professor Andrea La Nauze
Dr Yan Liang, Senior Lecturer
Associate Professor Debdulal Mallick
Professor Marco Mariotti, Professorial Research Fellow
Professor Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Professorial Research Fellow
Dr Munirul Nabin, Senior Lecturer
Dr Xuan Nguyen, Senior Lecturer
Dr Aaron Nicholas, Senior Lecturer
Dr Cong Pham, Senior Lecturer
Dr Hemant Pullabhotla, Lecturer
Dr Shuddha Rafiq, Senior Lecturer
Emeritus Professor Pasquale Sgro
Dr Pallavi Shukla, Lecturer
Dr Francisco Silva, Senior Lecturer
Professor Tom Stanley, Honorary Professor
Associate Professor Ching-Jen Sun
Dr Xueli Tang, Senior Lecturer
Dr Lan Tong, Research Fellow
Associate Professor Aydogan Ulker
Professor Mehmet Ulubasoglu, Head of Department
Professor Utku Unver, Professorial Research Fellow
Dr Samarth Vaidya, Senior Lecturer
Dr Ha Vu, Senior Lecturer
Professor Joakim Westerlund, Chair in Economics
Research contacts
Centres
Centre for Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Business
Professor Hind Benbya, Director
Centre for Disaster Resilience and Recovery
Professor Mehmet Ulubasoglu, Director
Centre for Refugee Employment, Advocacy, Training and Education (CREATE)
Dr Karen Dunwoodie, Director
Deakin Sustainable Business Centre
Dr Eka Tan, Acting Executive Director
IPA-Deakin SME Research Centre
Professor George Tanewski, Director
Units
Arts & Creative Industries Research and Engagement (ACiRE)
Professor Hilary Glow, Director
Better Consumption Lab
Professor Josh Newton, Director
Deakin MarTech Clinic
Associate Professor Ali Tamaddoni, Director
Deakin MarTech Clinic
Professor Andre Bonfrer, Director
Impact Finance Hub
Dr Emma Li, Director
Leadership Futures Hub
Dr Fannie Wu, Director
Women's Entrepreneurship Research Alliance
Associate Professor Dhara Shah, Director
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Journal publications
Economics staff have published in many of the leading journals in the discipline, including:
- AEJ: Macroeconomics
- American Economic Review
- Econometrica
- Journal of Economic Theory
- Review of Economics and Statistics
- The Economic Journal.
Seminars
We have a range of speakers and research partners who regularly visit Deakin to share insights and encourage debate on topics of particular interest to the department’s students.
Upcoming seminars
2025 seminars will be scheduled in the new year.
| Date | Time | Presenter |
|---|
Past seminars
Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2 December | Dr Tsung-Hsien Li | The Payday Loan Puzzle: A Credit Scoring Explanation |
| 2 December | Prof Tony Fang | Examining the Determinants and Effects of Remote Work Arrangements under the Technology-Organization- Environment (TOE) Framework: Evidence from a Representative Employer Survey |
| 25 November | Christian Aleman Pericon | Stage-Based Identification of Policy Effects |
| 20 November | Professor Thomas Lemieux | |
| 13 November | Jakob Wedemeyer | Climate summits and protests have a strong impact on climate change media coverage in Germany |
| 1 November | Dr Paul Schaudt | Insuring peace: Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict |
| 30 October | Professor Tim Moore | Importing the Opioid Crisis? International Trade and Fentanyl Overdoses |
| 16 October | Professor Yves Zenou | Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment and a Structural Model |
| 9 October | Dr Andres Bellofatto | Wealth Taxation and Annuity Markups |
| 7 October | Professor Joel Watson | Coalitions and Recurrent Negotiation in Multilateral Relational Contracts |
| 2 October | Dr Jingni Yang | Giving According to Agreement |
| 30 September | Jacob Coreno | Some Characterisations of TTC in Multiple-Object Reallocation Problems |
| 18 September | Dr Gordon Leslie | Use now or save for later? Estimating opportunity costs of hydroelectric facilities from bid-based electricity data |
| 16 September | Associate Professor Daniel Avdic | Does telemedicine affect prescribing quality in primary care? |
| 11 September | Michele Garagnani | Identifying Nontransitive Preferences |
| 9 September | Associate Professor Firman Kartaadipoetra | Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration |
| 4 September | Dr Matthew Olckers | Accelerating the Adoption of Mobile Money |
| 28 August | Prof Paul Burke | Fuel prices and ambient air pollution: A study of Sydney |
| 21 August | Dr Allan Hernandez-Chanto University of Queensland | Optimal Scaling Auctions: A Consumer Theory Deconstruction |
| 19 August | Prof Takayuki Oishi | Stability of coexistence of private and public job placement services in labour markets with potential unemployment |
| 7 August | Associate Professor Selçuk Özyurt | Mediating Conflict Negotiations: An Information Design Approach |
| 5 August | Nabeel Maqsood | Efficiency without Efficacy: Do Efficient Courts Hinder Formal Employment Growth in India? |
| 31 July | Yasin Kursat Onder | Consumer Debt Moratoria |
| 29 July | Professor Bettina Klaus | Characterising the top trading cycles rule for housing markets with lexicographic preferences when externalities are limited |
| 24 July | Professor Maroš Servátka | Promotions and Group Identity |
| 22 July | Associate Professor Andrea La Nauze | Can Electric Vehicles Aid the Renewable Transition? Evidence From A Field Experiment |
| 17 July | Dan Yu | The Value of Certification: Evidence from the U.S. Organic Food Market |
| 8 July | Lucius Cassim | On Fiscal Policy Regimes in Least Developed Countries |
| 12 June | Nick Garvin | The effects of housing transaction taxes on purchases, mobility and prices |
| 5 June | Derek Mikola | Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope |
| 3 June | Bishal Chalise | Does democracy correct the misallocation of public resources? |
27 May | Professor Florian Scheuer | Putting the 'Finance' into 'Public Finance |
22 May | Nicolas Werquin | Consumption, Wealth, and Income Inequality: A Tale of Tails |
20 May | Dr Umair Khalil | The Intergenerational Health Effects of Forced Displacement: Japanese American Incarceration during WWII |
15 May | Nawaaz Khalfan | Sequential Information Acquisition and Optimal Search |
8 May | Zhong Ling | Decomposing Trends in the Gender Gap for Highly Educated Workers |
6 May | Dr Francisco Alves Da Silva | On the design of impartial peer-review mechanisms under positive correlation |
1 May | Professor James Morley | Unemployment in a Commodity-Rich Economy: How Relevant Is Dutch Disease? |
24 April | Professor Lionel Page | Strategic Self-deception |
22 April | Associate Professor Szilvia Pápai | Maximum Matching Under Dichotomous Preferences |
17 April | Dr Michelle Escobar | Can Psychological Interventions Provide Resilience to Negative Shocks? Evidence from an RCT and the COVID-19 Pandemic |
10 April | Dr Claudio Labanca | Campaign Connections |
8 April | Prof Yves Sprumont | Two time-consistent Paretian solutions to the intertemporal resource allocation problem |
27 March | Professor James Kung | The Rise of the Chinese Communist Party |
20 March | Dan McGee | Exploitation Through Racialization |
18 March | Dr Xueli Tang | Fertility-Boosting Pensions for Developed Countries Such As Japan: A Modest Policy Proposal |
13 March | Pelin Akyol | Effects of Informal Caring on Labour Market Outcomes of Carers: Evidence from HILDA. |
6 March | Professor Dmitry Ryvkin | Choosing Your Own Luck: Strategic Risk Taking and Effort in Contests |
4 March | Associate Professor Ching-Jen Sun | Fair and efficient queueing |
28 Feb | Associate Professor Liu Haoming |
Contact us
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