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A/PROF JOE HIRSCHBERG



Contact Details

Organization: Economics
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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Homepage: http://www.economics.unimelb.edu.au/who/profile.cfm?sid=7
Work: 8344 5273
Fax: 8344 6899
Room: 626
Level: 06
Building: Economics And Commerce
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Measuring Productivity Data Envelopment Analysis United States of America, Australia
Measuring Anti-Competitive Behaviour Cartel Activity, Price Fixing, Measurement of Economic Losses Australia
Economic Applications of Cluster Analysis Quality of Life Indicators, Construction of Distance Metrics United States of America, Australia
Applied Econometrics Techniques Regression, Tests of Hypothesis, Computational Techniques Australia, United States of America
Quantitative Analysis of Tertiary Education Quality of Teaching Surveys, CEQ, Education Outcomes Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States Southern Methodist University Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts University of Miami 06-Jun-1970
Master of Arts University of California - Riverside 09-Jun-1973
Doctor of Philosophy University of Southern California 31-Dec-1984

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member American Economic Association Member 01-Jan-1984
Member American Statistical Association Member 01-Jan-1984
Member The Economics Society of Australia Member 01-Jan-2004

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 STUDENT EXPERIENCE: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TEACHING QUALITY INSTRUMENTS (TQI) AND COURSE EXPERIENCE QUESTIONNAIRE (CEQ) Chief Investigator AUST LEARNING AND TEACHING COUNCIL LTD Competitive Grants Program (CARRICK INST) 30/06/2007

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

Journal Articles

  • Inferential Methods for Elasticity Estimates
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Econometrics
    Volume: 147
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 299 - 315
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Reports

  • A Systematic Analysis of Quality of Teaching Surveys
    Year: 2008
    Report No:: 1050
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Confidence Intervals for Estimates of Elasticities
    Year: 2008
    Report No:: 1053
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
    Authors:

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Systematic Influences on Teaching Evaluations: The Case for Caution
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Economic Papers
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 18-38
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • An Analysis of the Questions on University Teaching Surveys and the Universities that Use Them: The Australian Experience
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 36th Australian Conference of Economists
    Conference Publication: Australian Conference of Economists Proceedings
    Page numbers: 1-27
    Publisher: Economic Society of Australia
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  • Quality of Teaching Surveys and the CEQ: Is there method in the Madness
    Year: 2007
    Event name: The Quantitative Analysis of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in Business, Economics and Commerce
    Conference Publication: The Quantitative Analysis of Teaching and Learning in High Education in Business, Economics and Commerce
    Page numbers: 43-72
    Publisher: Centre for Higher Education (CSHE), The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Reports

  • A Reinterpretation of Interactions in Regressions
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 1015
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • An Analysis of the Questions on University Teaching Surveys and the Universities that Use Them: The Australian Experience
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 994
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Providing Intuition to the Fieller Method with Two Geometric Representations using STATA and Eviews
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 992
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
    Authors:

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • What influences teaching evaluations? Evidence from a major Australian university
    Year: 2006
    Journal: The Business Review, Cambridge
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 146-152
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Descriptive methods for cross-section data
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Economic Review
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 333-350
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Asia
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Systematic influences on teaching evaluations: the case for caution
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Australian conference of economists 2005
    Conference Publication: Australian conference of economists
    Page numbers: 1-28
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Reports

  • Alternative forms for restrictive regressions
    Year: 2005
    Report No:: 954
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
    Authors:
    URL - open access http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001740/
  • Has investment in start-up firms driven incumbent innovative strategy? Evidence from semiconductor and biotechnology venture capital funded firms
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Melbourne Business School(Melbourne)
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  • Interactions in regressions
    Year: 2005
    Report No:: 952
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
    Authors:
    URL - open access http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001736/

Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Bounding estimates of wage discrimination
    Year: 2004
    Book: Research in labor economics Volume 23
    Publisher: Elsevier(Amsterdam)
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Journal Articles

  • Alcohol consumption, smoking and wages
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Applied Economics
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 16
    Page numbers: 1807-1817
    Publisher: Routledge(Hants)
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  • Computer knowledge and earnings: evidence for Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Applied Economics
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 17
    Page numbers: 1979-1993
    Publisher: Routledge(Hants)
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Reports

Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Antitrust issues in international comparisons of market structure
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Econometrics
    Volume: 113
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 129-158
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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  • The use of multivariate generated regressors in the presence of heteroskedasticity
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Communications In Statistics - Theory and Methods
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 1607-1629
    Publisher: Marcel Dekker(New York)
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Reports

  • Bounding estimates of wage discrimination
    Year: 2003
    Report No:: 879
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2002

Reports

  • Antitrust issues in international comparisons of market structure
    Year: 2002
    Customer:
    Report No:: 836
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Bounding estimates of wage discrimination
    Year: 2002
    Customer:
    Report No:: 854
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Tests of inference for dummy variables in regressions with logarithmic transformed dependent variables
    Year: 2002
    Customer:
    Report No:: 852
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Does the technology of foreign-invested enterprises spill over to other enterprises in China? An application of post-DEA bootstrap regression analysis.
    Year: 2001
    Book: Models of the Chinese Economy.
    Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing(Cheltenham)
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Journal Articles

  • Clusters of attributes and well-being in the USA
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Applied Econometrics
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 445-460
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(West Sussex)
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  • Data reduction of discrete responses: an application of cluster analysis
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Applied Economic Letters
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 149-153
    Publisher: Routledge
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  • The environment and the quality of life in the United States over time.
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Environmental Modelling and Software
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 525-532
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • The influence of smoking on the labour market consequences of drinking
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Health Promotion Journal of Australia
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 144-147
    Publisher: Australian Health Promotion Association
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  • The interpretation of multiple dummy variable coefficients: an application to industry effects in wage equations
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Applied Economic Letters
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 701-707
    Publisher: Routledge
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Reports

  • Clustering in a data envelopment analysis using bootstrapped efficiency scores.
    Year: 2001
    Customer: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
    Report No:: 800
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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