Mohamad Khaled

Dr. Mohamad Khaled is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland. He earned his Doctorate in Econometrics from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His research centers on econometrics, with particular emphasis on dependence modelling via copulas, nonparametric statistics, statistical learning, and health economics, including socioeconomic health inequality comparisons and health concentration curves. As an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS), he develops flexible copula-based methods suitable for discrete or mixed marginal distributions. He is also a member of the Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (CEPA) in the School of Economics and contributes to the econometrics research group there. Dr. Khaled supervises PhD students on advanced topics such as copula models under high dimensionality (principal advisor with Professor Alicia Rambaldi), endogeneity and measurement issues in peer effects models (associate advisor with Dr. Antonio Peyrache and Dr. Christiern Rose), and climate-related financial risks in banking (associate advisor with Associate Professor Dong-Hyuk Kim and Professor Flavio Menezes).

Dr. Khaled's scholarly output includes publications in leading journals. Key works feature 'Estimation of copula models with discrete margins via Bayesian data augmentation' (Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2012, with Michael S. Smith), which advances Bayesian estimation techniques for copulas; 'Mixed Marginal Copula Modeling' (Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2020, with David Gunawan and Robert Kohn); 'Income-related health transfers principles and orderings of joint distributions of income and health' (Journal of Health Economics, 2018, with Paul Makdissi and Myra Yazbeck); 'A framework for testing the equality between the health concentration curve and the 45-degree line' (Health Economics, 2018, with Paul Makdissi, Rami V. Tabri, and Myra Yazbeck); and 'On absolute socioeconomic health inequality comparisons' (European Journal of Health Economics, 2023, with Paul Makdissi and Myra Yazbeck). He has also authored book chapters: 'Teaching statistical learning in econometrics' (2026, with Alicia N. Rambaldi and Christiern Rose) in Teaching Econometrics: A Tribute to R. Carter Hill (Springer) and 'Child malnutrition' (2023, with Paul Makdissi and Myra Yazbeck) in Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation (Edward Elgar Publishing). His contributions influence econometric modeling and health policy analysis.

Professional Email: m.khaled@uq.edu.au