Postgraduate Research Studies

Members of the Discipline of Operations Management and Econometrics have expertise in the quantitative modelling, analysis and testing of various problems and issues arising in the contexts of economics, business, finance and the social sciences. Research is undertaken at both the theoretical and the empirical levels, the latter using a wide range of micro- and macro-data sources. The general areas of active research in the Discipline of Operations Management and Econometrics are:

  • Applied econometrics and business statistics
  • Bayesian econometrics and statistics
  • Computational econometrics and statistics
  • Econometric theory
  • International trade
  • Life-cycle decisions of households and retirement
  • Management decision sciences

The Discipline has a vigorous postgraduate research program and offers the following research degrees:

The Discipline of Operations Management and Econometrics Postgraduate Research Coordinator is Dr Richard Gerlach.