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People
The Department of Economics has high quality research active staff, many of whom have won awards for research and/or teaching thereby demonstrating our excellence. Our staff have a broad range of skills and research interests, as summarised in the staff profiles below.
Key staff contacts (convenors and administrative staff) can also be found on our Key Contacts page.
Our doctoral students come from a variety of backgrounds and undertake research in a wide range of research areas. You can view their research areas on the Research Students page. If you are interested in the doctoral programme in economics at the University of Waikato, we invite you to read the Doctoral Programme page.
Staff Quick Contacts
See below table for more detail and links to staff profiles.
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Dr. Dan Marsh
Chairperson, Senior Lecturer |
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Dan Marsh was awarded his MA from Oxford University, MSc from the University of Reading and PhD (Factors affecting innovation in biotechnology) from the University of Waikato. He worked for UKs Overseas Development Administration on aid projects in Nepal and Botswana from 1980-1988. From 1988-1991 he worked for an international firm of Consulting Engineers on assignments in UK, Ghana, Pakistan, Oman and Bangladesh. Since moving to New Zealand in 1991 he has worked as an independent consultant on projects in New Zealand, Nepal, Pakistan and Cambodia, India and Kazakhstan and Bosnia. He started teaching at the University of Waikato in 1995 and has taught courses in environmental, natural resource, international and development economics. His major interests are in: environmental and natural resource economics, economic aspects of R&D and innovation and the implementation of aid, especially in the fields of water resources, impact evaluation, project appraisal and data collection and analysis.
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Professor John Gibson |
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John Gibson is Professor of Economics at the Waikato Management School. A graduate of Lincoln University, John has a doctorate from Stanford University in the United States. His teaching and research interests are in microeconomics and in the micro econometric aspects of development, labour and the international economy. John is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Trust. His other research interests include poverty measurement, where he is a member of an expert group advising the United Nations Statistical Division, the design and analysis of household survey data, and economic development, especially in China and other Asian and Pacific economies.
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Professor Mark Holmes
Graduate Convenor |
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Mark Holmes joined the Management School as Professor of Economics in 2004 having arrived from Loughborough University, UK. Mark studied Economics as an undergraduate and postgraduate at the Universities of Essex and London, he obtained his Ph.D. on the Scottish financial sector from the University of Dundee. Following his employment as a Research Fellow funded by RTZ (researching into commodity substitution) and then the Halifax Bank (researching into the UK mortgage market), Mark then remained at Loughborough to pursue research interests largely concerned with applied macroeconomics, international finance and the economics of less developed countries. Recent studies have included the sustainability of current account deficits, nonlinearities in real exchange rate behavior, international real interest parity, and macroeconomic volatility.
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Professor Les Oxley |
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Professor Les Oxley joins the Department of Economics in February 2012, from the University of Canterbury. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia's School of Economics and School of Mathematics and Statistics, and Adjunct Professor at Chiang Mai University, Thailand. His current research includes: defining and measuring the size, scale and effects of the 'knowledge economy' in New Zealand; the effects of land ownership and sales on the New Zealand economy in the late 19th and early 20th century; measuring and effects of innovation on the New Zealand economy; non-parametric methods applied to forecasting electricity prices; and non-linear cointegration. Some of this work is funded with support from the Royal Society of New Zealand's Marsden Fund and the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology.
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Professor Jacques Poot |
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Jacques Poot is Professor of Population Economics at the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis (NIDEA) at the University of Waikato. Jacques was born in The Netherlands, has a Masters degree in econometrics from VU University in Amsterdam and a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and an adjunct professor in the Department of Spatial Economics at VU University Amsterdam. He is an Affiliate of Motu Economic and Public Policy Research in Wellington, an Associate of the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) at University College London; and a Research Fellow, at IZA – Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn. His teaching and research interests include all aspects of the economics of population, particularly: international and internal migration, local labour markets, regional development, housing markets, and forecasting. He is also known for his work in meta-analysis: the systematic and quantitative synthesis of previous empirical research findings. Jacques currently co-leads two large four-year collaborative research projects, on the economic integration of immigrants in New Zealand, and on migrant diversity and regional disparity in Europe respectively.
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Professor Riccardo Scarpa
PhD Convenor |
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Riccardo Scarpa is an applied economist. He has a Laurea in Agricultural Sciences from Univ. of Tuscia-Viterbo (Italy); an MSc in Environmental Sciences from the Univ. College of Wales-Aberystwyth (UK); an M.A. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) where he also got his Ph.D. in Forest Economics. Before Waikato he was employed in the faculty of Univ. of Tuscia-Viterbo (Italy); Univ. of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) and Univ. of York (UK).
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Professor Frank Scrimgeour
Professor of Environmental Economics, Dean of Waikato Management School |
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Professor Frank Scrimgeour is Dean of the University of Waikato Management School. A leading environmental economist, he has contributed to regional, Maori and national policymaking on issues ranging from carbon taxes to resource valuation. He is immediate past president of the New Zealand Association of Economists, and a former president of the New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
Frank has participated in World Bank panels on agriculture and natural resources, and is currently working with New Zealand's kiwifruit and dairy industries on determinants of future success. He is also on the board of Katolyst, the Waikato regional development agency.
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Dr. Sayeeda Bano
Senior Lecturer |
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Sayeeda Bano, a senior lecturer in economics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, received her BA (Hons) and MA in Economics from Patna University and M.Phil from Jawaharlal Nehru University, an MA at the University of Alberta, a PhD from Simon Fraser University in Canada. She has lectured at the University of Dar Es Salaam and the Centre for Foreign Relations in Tanzania and was an economist at the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) prior to taking up her appointment at Waikato in 1987. She was a visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa during 1991/92, a visiting scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1999 and a visiting scholar at CHUO University in Tokyo,in 2002, a Visiting Scholar at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal-Nehru University, New Delhi, India, a Visiting Research Fellow, University of Philippines, Diliman, Manila, Philippines and a visiting Scholar at James Cook University, (Business School) Townsville, Australia during january-June period in 2006.
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Dr. Michael Cameron
Undergraduate Convenor, Senior Lecturer |
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Michael Cameron is a senior lecturer in economics. He gained his PhD from University of Waikato in 2007, with a thesis titled "The Relationship between Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Rural Thailand". His current research interests include population, health and development issues (including the social impacts of liquor outlet density, the economics of communicable diseases especially HIV/AIDS, health applications of non-market valuation, and health and development project monitoring and evaluation), population modelling and stochastic modelling, and economics education.
Dr. Cameron received an Outstanding Teaching Award from the Waikato Management School in 2009, along with a Staff Award for Teaching from the University of Waikato.
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Bridget Daldy
Undergraduate Convenor, 499 Convenor, Lecturer |
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Bridget gained her BSc, DipEcon and MSocSc from the University of Waikato. Bridget's research interests are in the areas of earnings inequalities within New Zealand, and funding and provision of health services.
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Dr. Graeme Doole
Senior Lecturer |
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Graeme's research involves the use of analytical and empirical methods to investigate how best to manage agricultural and natural systems. A significant proportion of this work involves the formulation of appropriate policy instruments to achieve economic,environmental, and social outcomes from the regulation of agricultural andmining activity.
Graeme has received a number of important awards for this work. These include Prize for the Best Article in the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2005, 2008), Winner of the Agricultural Economics Society (United Kingdom) Prize Essay competition (2010), Australian Society of Agronomy Young Agronomist of the Year (2010), and University of Western Australia Publication Excellence Award for highest quantity and quality of peer-reviewed publications by an early career researcher (2010).
I am employed as an Associate Professor (Research) at the Centre of Environmental Economics and Policy at the University of Western Australia and as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato. My formal training included obtaining a Bachelor of Applied Science at Massey University, Masters of Applied Economics (First ClassHonours) at Massey University, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Distinction) at the University of Western Australia. My Doctorate was awarded in April 2008.
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Dr. Gazi Hassan
Lecturer |
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Gazi is an applied macroeconomist. He completed his Ph.D. from University of Western Sydney, Australia in July 2011. Prior to this he did a Masters in Economics at University of Kent in the U.K. He also obtained a second Masters in Economics from York University in Canada. In September 2011, he joined the University of Waikato's Management School as a Lecturer of Economics. Before joining Waikato he was an Adjunct Lecturer at University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in Australia. He has taught courses in economics, finance and applied regression analysis to undergrad students at UTS in Australia, Schulich School of Business of York University in Canada and at the School of Business of North South University in Bangladesh.
His research is in the field of empirical growth economics, particularly focusing on the econometric issues arising in estimating growth models to measure the impact of external capital flows, macroeconomic volatility and real exchange rate overvaluation. His current research is empirical analysis of the impact of sovereign country rating on macroeconomic volatility and how this relationship changes on the face of financial crises.
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Dr. Steven Lim
Senior Lecturer |
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Steven Lim is a senior lecturer in economics at Waikato University, New Zealand, and a private consultant. He gained his PhD from the University of Adelaide in 1996, analysing the optimality of China's development strategies and its economic reforms. Since then his research interests have broadened to include the relationship between HIV/AIDS and poverty, the social and community health impacts of trade liberalisation, the economics of landmine clearing, economic growth and the environment, the evolution of Asia?s economies, and the role of business in sustainable economic development. His teaching includes principles of economics, research methods and development economics. Steven has taught economics for almost 20 years, has published extensively on the methodology of teaching, and was awarded an inaugural excellence in teaching award at the Waikato Management School. He won a national teaching award in 2006.
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Associate Professor Anna StruttGraduate Convenor |
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Anna Strutt holds a BSocSci(Hons) from Waikato University and a PhD from the University of Adelaide. She has been a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Waikato since 1996. In addition to her permanent position at the University of Waikato, she is currently a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Economics, University of Adelaide. Anna's primary area of research expertise is in international trade policy analysis, including modeling impacts on developing countries and on the environment.
Anna teaches in a range of areas, including: international trade and policy modelling; economics of business; and law and economics. She has extensive experience capacity building in Asia, particularly in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), where she has served as a Core Faculty Member for the Asian Development Bank's Phnom Penh Plan for Development Management. She also regularly contributes as an instructor at the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) Annual Short Course in Global Trade Analysis and the Short Course in Dynamic Global Trade Analysis, offered by Purdue University.
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Associate Professor John TresslerAssociate Dean Academic |
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John Tressler gained his BEc(Hons) from the James Cook University of North Queensland in 1973 and his PhD from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1980. He taught at Massey University and the University of Missouri-Columbia before coming to Waikato in 1980. His major teaching and research interests are in microeconomics. He is particularly interested in economic theory that deals with the impact of uncertainty and risk on economic decisions and has published research papers in this area in leading international economics journal.
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Adjunct Professors
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Associate and Visiting Staff
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Geua Boe-GibsonResearch Officer |
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Matthew RoskrugeDoctoral Assistant |
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Matthew Roskruge is a candidate for a PhD, with the Population Studies Centre and Waikato Management School. His thesis entitled "Understanding the Role of Social Capital in the Growth of New Zealand's Economy" will examine the foundations and economic implications of social capital in New Zealand, particularly focusing on Auckland city. Matthew also works as a research assistant for his co-supervisor Professor Jacques Poot, and is heavily involved in several projects within the Populations Studies Centre and Economics Department. He has a wide range of interests which include economic growth; urban planning and infrastructure; social and human capital; the psychology of behaviour and economics and aspects of sustainability.
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Brian SilverstoneResearch Associate |
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Brian Silverstone joined the University of Waikato in 1969 and retired in 2010. He is now a Research Associate in Economics. His current research interests include business surveys and labour market behaviour. He has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of York, Bristol, Durham and New South Wales, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, NZIER and NIESR (London). He is a Life Member of the New Zealand Association of Economists and a former Editor of the New Zealand Economic Papers and President of the Association of Economists.
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