Rate My Professor Reza Hajargasht

Dr. Reza Hajargasht serves as Senior Lecturer in Energy Economics within the Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics at Griffith Business School, Griffith University. A broad econometrician, his research spans income and wealth inequality, energy economics, index numbers, and productivity measurement. As a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Applied Energy Economics and Policy Research (CAEEPR), he specializes in efficiency and productivity analysis, with publications in leading economics journals including the Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and Journal of Productivity Analysis. In energy economics, Hajargasht's interests include econometric modelling of energy markets, measuring the efficiency of energy firms, price gouging behaviour in fuel markets, and cross-country studies comparing renewable and non-renewable energy sources. His collaborative research has advanced methodologies in international price comparisons, such as spatial chaining approaches for prices and real incomes, and multilateral index number systems. Notable publications include 'Spatial Chaining in International Comparisons of Prices and Real Incomes' (2018, with Robert J. Hill, D.S. Prasada Rao, and Sriram Shankar), 'Approximation Properties of Variational Bayes for Vector Autoregressions' (2019), and contributions to distributional analysis in income inequality studies.