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.

Prior to Griffith University, Hajargasht held the position of Senior Lecturer in accounting, economics, and finance at Swinburne University of Technology from 2017 to 2021. He was a Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne and had affiliations with the University of Queensland School of Economics. At Griffith, he convenes courses such as Micro Foundations of Markets and Behaviour (3314AFE) and Predictive Analytics (3030AFE), contributing to education in economics and data analysis. His work influences discussions on sustainability, reliability, and affordability in electricity generation, as presented in seminars like CAEEPR's Higher Degree Research Seminar in February 2025. Hajargasht's research outputs demonstrate significant impact in econometrics and applied energy policy.