Introductory Econometrics: Asia-Pacific Edition, 2nd Edition | AU/NZ

Jeffrey M. Wooldridge is University Distinguished Professor of Economics at Michigan State University, where he has taught since 1991. From 1986 to 1991, he was an assistant professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his bachelor of arts, with majors in computer science and economics, from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1982, and received his doctorate in economics in 1986 from the University of California, San Diego. He has published more than 60 articles in internationally recognized journals, as well as several book chapters. He is also the author of Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data, second edition. His awards include an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the Plura Scripsit award from Econometric Theory, the Sir Richard Stone prize from the Journal of Applied Econometrics, and three graduate teacher-of-the-year awards from MIT. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and of the Journal of Econometrics. He is past editor of the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and past econometrics coeditor of Economics Letters. He has served on the editorial boards of Econometric Theory, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of Econometrics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Stata Journal. He has also acted as an occasional econometrics consultant for Arthur Andersen, Charles River Associates, the Washington State Institute for Public Policy, Stratus Consulting, and Industrial Economics, Incorporated.

Dr Mokhtarul Wadud is a Senior lecturer, School of Accounting and Finance at Deakin University, Geelong. He has many years’ teaching experience with previous full-time academic positions at Monash University and University of Rajshahi (Bangladesh), and is widely published in various international journals in the areas of productivity, efficiency and empirical econometric modelling.Mokhtarul’s PhD was awarded by Uni of Wollongong in 2001; in 2005 he attained a Grad Cert of Higher Education from Deakin. His teaching interests include Business and Financial Forecasting, Analytical Methods in Economics, Finance Microeconomics and Public Finance and Economics.Research interests include Productivity and Efficiency Analysis, Energy and Resource Economics, International Trade Empirics, Time Series Econometric Modelling and Forecasting, and Poverty and Social Development.

Associate Professor Jenny Lye holds the rank of Reader/Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne. She has an extensive international publication record in the areas of theoretical and applied econometrics and statistics. Her recent research also includes publications in the statistical analysis of issues in tertiary education. Jenny’s current teaching includes Introductory Econometrics and the Economics Research report. Jenny’s qualifications are Doctor of Philosophy, University of Canterbury, (1991) Master of Arts, University of Canterbury (1986), Bachelor of Arts, University of Canterbury (1985). Research interests include Applied Econometrics (Range of Equilibria), Applied Econometrics (Quantitative analysis of teaching and learning in higher education in economics and commerce), Theoretical Econometrics (Fieller, Nonlinearities), Applied Econometrics (health, wages, economics of happiness). Jenny is a member of The Economic Society of Australia.

Roselyne Joyeux is a Professor in Economics in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She has held positions at Cornell University, the University of Auckland, and the Centre for Operations Research and Econometrics at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve. She researches in areas that are highly relevant to the Australian society, economy, industry and our diverse student cohort: energy economics, carbon emission trading, house prices, Chinese stock markets and housing markets.