Abebe Hailemariam
PhD Economics
MA Economics
BA Economics
Energy economics, health economics, housing, gender and inequality
Biography
Abebe Hailemariam is a Research Fellow at the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre. He obtained his PhD in Economics from Monash University and received the Mollie Holman Medal Award for Best doctoral thesis in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University.
Abebe works in many research areas, including energy economics, health economics, housing, gender and inequality. Abebe has published articles in leading academic journals including the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Energy Economics, Regional Studies and European Journal of Political Economy among others. He has received the Lawrence R. Klein Award for outstanding paper in the field of Empirical Economics in 2020.
Projects
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Family and Domestic Violence Leave Review
As part of its submission to the Fair Work Commission’s review of family and domestic violence leave provisions commencing in June 2021, the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) commissioned the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, along with the Centre for... Read article
Publications
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Australia’s trade and economic relationship with China: Benefits to Australian households
Commissioned by the Australia China Business Council, this report establishes a firm evidence base on the economic impact of trade with China on Australian households. The report’s findings demonstrate that Australia-China trade offers measurable benefits to the average Australian household... Read article
Presentation: The Benefits of Australia’s Trade and Economic Relationship with China
Commissioned by the Australia China Business Council (ACBC), BCEC has released preliminary findings from an upcoming report on the Benefits of Australia’s Trade and Economic Relationship with China. Presented at an ACBC event at Parliament House on the 18th October,... Read article
Temperature, health and wellbeing in Australia
We examine the effects of temperature on general health and subjective wellbeing. We combine daily temperature data with 19 waves of panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. We find evidence of an inverted U-shaped... Read article
Trading Up: International trade futures and the Western Australian economy
The eighth report in the BCEC Focus on Industry report series, Trading Up: International trade futures and the Western Australian economy, examines the benefits, opportunities and challenges that exist for the WA economy in relation to trade and investment. The... Read article
Climate Change and Gender Equality
Climate change is having a significant negative impact on the lives of individuals around the globe. But this impact is not distributed equally. A growing body of research suggests that women are more vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate... Read article
Forecasting the stock-cryptocurrency relationship: Evidence from a dynamic GAS model
The impact of cryptocurrency on other assets has become a subject of intense research, given the rise of digital currency over the last decade. However, unlike traditional assets, cryptocurrency has been subject to extreme movements in price and volatility. As... Read article
The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre team acknowledges the Wadjuk Nyungar people as the traditional owners of the land on which the Centre is situated.