Position/Role: Professor (currently on leave)

Schools/Unit: Economics

Contact Details:

• Australian School of Business Building, Room 469
• Phone: +61 2 9385 3076
• Fax: +61 2 9313 6337
• Email: R.Hill@unsw.edu.au
• URL: www.economics.unsw.edu.au/RobertHill
• Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications:

• PhD and Master of Arts, University of British Columbia
• Bachelor of Arts, University of York

Research Areas:

• Index number theory
• Comparisons of living standards across countries
• Inflation measurement
• Stock market indices
• The design of performance benchmarks for mutual and pension funds
• Hedonic regression methods particularly with application to housing
• Environmental and national accounting

Academic Profile:

Robert Hill has been at the University of New South Wales since 1995. His research interests include the measurement of inflation, comparisons of living standards across countries, index number theory, stock market indices, the design of performance benchmarks for mutual funds, and the construction of house price indices using hedonic methods. He has published widely in leading international journals. He also currently has two ARC Discovery Grants on the construction of house price indices and stock market indices.

Publications:

Selected Publications