Research and Funding

Research Papers

Extrapolation and Construction of Consistent Panels of PPPs

Measurement of Regional Growth and Inflation

Fitting Income Distributions Using Grouped Data and Measures of Inequality

  • D.S. Prasada Rao, A. N. Rambaldi, G. Hajargasht, W. E. Griffiths (2022). "The University of Queensland International Comparison Database, UQICD V3.0: User Guide" Module 2 and 4. CEPA Working Papers Series WP092022, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

  • Hajargasht G., Griffiths, W. , Brice, J., Rao, D.S. and Chotikapanich, D. (2012). "Inference for Income Distributions using Grouped Data", Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 30, 563-75.

  • Hajargasht G. and Griffiths, W. (2013). "Pareto-Lognormal Distributions: Inequality, Poverty, and Estimation from Grouped Income Data", Economic Modelling, 33, 593-604.

  • Hajargasht G. and W. Griffiths (2013). "GMM Estimation of Mixtures from Grouped Data, Department of Economics" - Working Papers Series 1148, The University of Melbourne.

  • Chotikapanich, D., Griffiths, W. E., Hajargasht, G., Karunarathne, W., & Rao, D. S. (2018). Using the GB2 Income Distribution. Econometrics, 6(2), 21.

ARC Funding

Purchasing Power Parities and Extrapolation

  • ARC Discovery Project DP 170103559 - , "How reliable are Purchasing Power Parities from the World Bank?" (D.S. Prasada Rao, Alicia Rambaldi and Gholamreza Hajargasht), 2017-2019.

  • ARC Discovery Project DP 0985813 - $580,000, "Construction of Consistent Panels of Real Gross Domestic Product and its Components at Current and Constant Prices" (D.S. Prasada Rao, A. Rambaldi and H.E. Doran), 2009-2013

  • ARC Discovery DP 0557606 - $225,000, "Consistent Space-Time Real Comparisons of Real Income" (D.S. Prasada Rao, A. Rambaldi and H.E. Doran), 2005-2007

Fitting Income Distributions with Grouped Data

  • ARC Discovery Project DP 140100673, "Modelling income distributions over space and time" (W.E. Griffiths, D. Chotikapanich and D.S. Prasada Rao), 2014-2016

  • ARC Discovery Project DP 1094632, "Econometric estimation and analysis of country, regional and global income distributions" (D.S. Prasada Rao, W.E. Griffiths and D. Chotikapanich), 2010-2012