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PROF NILSS OLEKALNS



Contact Details

Organization: Economics
Position: HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
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Homepage: http://www.economics.unimelb.edu.au/who/profile.cfm?sid=50
Work: 8344 5342
Fax: 8344 6899
Room: 505
Level: 05
Building: Economics And Commerce
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Applied Macroeconomics Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom University of Leicester Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Economics Adelaide University 31-Dec-1981
Master of Arts University of Western Ontario 30-Jun-1986
Master of Economics The Australian National University 31-Dec-1984
Doctor of Philosophy La Trobe University 31-Dec-1994

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Carrick Foundation Carrick Award for Australian University Teaching for Programs that Enhance Learning, Assessment and Feedback 01-Dec-2006
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Dean's Certificate for Good Undergraduate Teaching 01-Dec-2005
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Dean's Certificate for Good Undergraduate Teaching 01-Dec-2004
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Edward Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching 01-Dec-2003
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Universitas 21 Teaching Fellowship 01-Dec-2003
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Dean's Outstanding Teacher Award 01-Dec-2003
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Dean's Individual Award for Innovation in Teaching 01-Dec-2003
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Dean's Certificate for Good Undergraduate Teaching 01-Dec-2003
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Nominated by the University of Melbourne for the Australian Universities Teaching Committee's Australian Awards for University Teaching 2000-2001 01-Jan-2000
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Dean's Group Award for Good Teaching and Teaching Innovation 01-Dec-1999
Other (Award) Economic Record Best Paper Published in the Economic Record 30-Sep-1999
Other (Award) Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics Best Paper Published in the Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics 01-Apr-1996

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Measuring the Effects of Interest Rate Volatility Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
Australian Real Time Data: Construction, Analysis and Implications for Real Time Policy Making Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Books

  • Principles of Macroeconomics
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education(Sydney)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Student and Tutor Perceptions of Feedback
    Year: 2008
    Event name: Does Teaching & Learning Translate? Learning Across the U21 Network. Universitas 21 Inaugural Teaching and Learning Conference
    Conference Publication: Does Teaching & Learning Translate? Learning Across the U21 Network. Universitas 21 Inaugural Teaching and Learning Conference
    Page numbers: 1-26
    Author(s):

Reports

  • Economic Activity and the Stock Market: the Asymmetric Impact of Fundamental and Non-Fundamental News
    Year: 2008
    Report No:: 1039
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Nowcasting, Business Cycle Dating and the Interpretation of New Information when RealTime Data are Available
    Year: 2008
    Report No:: 1040
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
    Authors:

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Identifying Interdependencies between South-East Asian Stock Markets: A Non-linear Approach
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Economic Papers
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 122-135
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  • Skill Mismatch and Training in Australia: Some Implications for Policy
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Economic Review
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 300-306
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  • Testing for rate dependence and asymmetry in inflation uncertainty: Evidence from the G7 economies
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Economics Letters
    Volume: 94
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 383-388
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Reports

  • Skills Mismatch and Returns to Training in Australia: Some New Evidence
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 997
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Deviations from uncovered interest rate parity in Malaysia
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Applied Financial Economics
    Volume: 16
    Page numbers: 745-759
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  • The Fed with a New Chairman at the Helm
    Year: 2006
    Journal: The Melbourne Review
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 12-18
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Reports

  • Testing for rate-dependence and asymmetry in inflation uncertainty: evidence from the G7 economies
    Year: 2006
    Report No:: 959
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • Principles of macroeconomics
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    Publisher: McGraw Hill Australia(Sydney)

Journal Articles

  • Measuring the response of macroeconomic uncertainty to shocks
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
    Volume: 87
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 362-370
    Publisher: MIT Press(Cambridge)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Equity return and short-term interest rate volatility: level effects and asymmetric dynamics
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Australian conference of economists 05
    Conference Publication: Australian conference of economists
    Page numbers: 1-45
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Do stock market returns predict changes to output? Evidence from a nonlinear panel data model
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Empirical Economics
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 527-540
    Publisher: Physica-Verlag
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  • The asymmetric effects of uncertainty on inflation and output growth
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Applied Econometrics
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 551-565
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(West Sussex)
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Reports

Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • New evidence on financial openness in Malaysia
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Asian Economics
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 311-325
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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  • Recent Developments in Australian Fiscal Policy
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Econochat
    Volume: 20
    Issue: July
    Page numbers: 2-5
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  • Recent developments in Australian fiscal policy: the 2003/2004 commonwealth budget
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Econochat
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 3-5
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Tax smoothing, tax tilting and fiscal sustainability in Pakistan
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Economic Modelling
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 47-67
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Reports

  • Do stock market returns predict changes to output? Evidence from a nonlinear panel data model
    Year: 2003
    Report No:: 868
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Measuring the response of macroeconomic uncertainty to shocks
    Year: 2003
    Report No:: 870
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Does the Australian dollar real exchange rate display mean reversion?
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of International Money and Finance
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 651-666
    Publisher: Pergamon
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  • Enriching the learning experience: a CALM approach
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Studies in Higher Education
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 103-119
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing
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  • Rational habit modification in consumption
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Economic Modelling
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 665-678
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Tax smoothing, tax tilting and fiscal sustainability in Pakistan
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Economic Modelling
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 47-67
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • The effect of recessions on the relationship between output variability and growth
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Southern Economic Journal
    Volume: 68
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 683-692
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Reports

  • Non-linear co-movements in output growth: Evidence from the United States and Australia
    Year: 2002
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    Report No:: 857
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • The teaching of first year economics in Australian universities
    Year: 2002
    Report No:: 848
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Tax smoothing, financial repression, and fiscal deficits in India.
    Year: 2001
    Book: India at the crossroads: sustaining growth and reducing poverty.
    Publisher: IMF(Washington DC)
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Journal Articles

  • Are private sector consumption decisions affected by public sector consumption?
    Year: 2001
    Journal: The Economic Record
    Volume: 77
    Issue: 239
    Page numbers: 361-373
    Publisher: Economic Society of Australia(Burwood)
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  • Cyclical asymmetries in Australian macroeconomic data.
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Applied Economic Letters
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 145-148
    Publisher: Routledge
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  • Exchange rate instability: a threshold autoregressive approach.
    Year: 2001
    Journal: The Economic Record
    Volume: 77
    Issue: 237
    Page numbers: 160-166
    Publisher: Economic Society of Australia(Burwood)
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Reports

  • An empirical investigation of structural breaks in the ex ante Fisher effect.
    Year: 2001
    Customer: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
    Report No:: 786
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • The effects of uncertainty on macroeconomic performance: the importance of the conditional covariance model.
    Year: 2001
    Customer: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
    Report No:: 818
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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