Conference Presentations
2023:
“Does supplementary private health insurance improve health and wellbeing?”. (2023) University of Manchester - Health Organisation, Policy and Economics (HOPE) Research group seminar series, Manchester, 30 August (with Anthony Scott, Matt Sutton).
“Does supplementary private health insurance improve health and wellbeing?”. (2023) 21st International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) Annual Conference, Rotterdam, 21-25 August (with Anthony Scott, Matt Sutton).
“Does supplementary private health insurance improve health and wellbeing?”. (2023) 15th International Health Economic Association (IHEA) World Congress, Cape Town, 8-12 July (with Anthony Scott, Matt Sutton).
“Can we persuade policy makers to focus on the life satisfaction of the people?”. (2023) Pacific Update Conference, Suva, 13-15 June.
2022:
“Does supplementary private health insurance improve health and wellbeing? Evidence from two policy reform and a demand shock”. (2022) 43rd Australian Health Economics Society (AHES) Conference, Brisbane, 20-21 September (with Anthony Scott, Matt Sutton).
“Does supplementary private health insurance improve health and wellbeing? Evidence from two policy reform and a demand shock”. (2022) 13th Annual Workshop of The University of Melbourne Health Economics Group, Flash Talk, 31 May (with Anthony Scott, Matt Sutton).
“Does supplementary private health insurance improve health and wellbeing? Evidence from two policy reform and a demand shock”. (2022) 11th Australasian workshop: Econometrics & Health Economics, Sydney, 20-23 April (with Anthony Scott, Matt Sutton).
“Petrol prices and Obesity”. (2022) Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre Research Development Series, Online, 6 April (with Russell Smyth, Sefa Awaworyi Churchill).
2021:
“Petrol prices and Obesity”. (2021) Australian Health Economics Society Online Conference, Melbourne, 21-22 September (with Russell Smyth, Sefa Awaworyi Churchill).
“Petrol prices and Obesity”. (2021) 12th Workshop on the Economics of Health and Wellbeing, Monash University, Melbourne, 21-23 April (with Russell Smyth, Sefa Awaworyi Churchill).
2020:
“Petrol prices and Obesity”. (2020) Melbourne Institute Seminar Series, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 27 October (with Russell Smyth, Sefa Awaworyi Churchill).
2019:
“Petrol prices and Subjective wellbeing”. (2019) Monash Business School 2nd Doctoral Colloquium, Monash University, Melbourne, 14 November (with Russell Smyth, Sefa Awaworyi Churchill).
Awarded "Best Paper" prize in the Monash Business School's 2nd Doctoral Colloquium
“Housing wealth inequality and happiness in urban China”. (2019) 12th Doctoral Research Colloquium, Monash University Malaysia, 17-20 July, Malacca, Malaysia (with Russell Smyth, Zhiming Cheng, Haining Wang).
“All homeowners are equal, but some homeowners are more equal than others”: Housing wealth inequality and happiness in urban China. (2019) Monash Business School Workshop on Sustainable Development, Monash University Prato Centre, 26-27 June, Prato, Italy (with Russell Smyth, Zhiming Cheng, Haining Wang).
2016:
“Does devaluation improve bilateral trade relations of small island economies with its major and emerging trade partners? The case of Fiji” (2016) 11th Annual Winter School, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, 13-15 December, New Delhi, India (with Dibyendu Maiti).
2014:
“The J-curve disparity in the goods and services sector in the Pacific region: evidence from devaluation in Fiji” (2014) 55th New Zealand Association of Economists Conference, 2-4 July, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand (with Dibyendu Maiti).
2013:
“Oil price shocks and effectiveness of devaluation in Fiji” (2013) 12th Pacific Science Inter-Congress, 8-12 July, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji (with Dibyendu Maiti).
“Inclusive Growth, Poverty and Inequality in Pacific Island Countries” (2013) 14th Global Development Annual Conference, 19-21 June, Manilla, Philippines.
Conference Session Chair
2019:
“15th Australasian Development Economics Workshop” - Session 3B: Altruism and Wellbeing (2019), 6-7 June, UWA, Perth, Australia.
Refereeing for Scholarly Journal(s)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO), Health Economics, Energy Economics, Economic Modelling, Social Indicators Research, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Current Issues in Tourism