The University of Western Australia

Assoc/Prof Atakelty Hailu

Associate Professor
School of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Contact details

Address

School of Agricultural and Resource Economics
The University of Western Australia (M089)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2538

Fax

6488 1098

Email

atakelty.hailu@uwa.edu.au

Personal homepage

http://ahailu.are.uwa.edu.au/

Location

Room G030, Agriculture North West Wing, Crawley campus

Qualifications

BSc Alemaya PhD Alta.

Key research

My primary research interests include:

Valuation of marine based recreation:

Site choice econometric modelling of recreational choices (fishing and non-fishing) and computer based simulation of management strategies.

Environmental policy design through integrated economic and biophysical modelling:

Incorporating the dynamic interdependence of resource conditions and economic behaviour in the design of spatially differentiated and flexible combination of regulatory and incentive-based policy instruments for point and non-point source pollution control and sustainable resource management. Currently developing an integrated agent-based economic and hydrologic model to provide a platform for the simulation of policy instruments aimed at water quality and dryland salinity management.

Environmentally sensitive analysis of productivity:

Efficiency, technical change and productivity measurement in Agriculture and other resource-based industries; Incorporation

of environmental effects in productivity measurement to provide a balanced evaluation of the benefits of R&D activities and the sustainability change of production technologies (including new crop verities, new production practices, etc.).

Soil quality indicator development:

Using production-theoretic approaches to guide the development of quality indicators for the assessment of soil health and the effects of alternative production technologies.

Agent-based modelling of economic behaviour and learning:

Relaxing the standard assumptions of rational (and hyper-rational) economic agents to allow for bounded rationality, local interaction, heterogeneity and learning in the study of responses to policy measures.

Publications

http://ahailu.are.uwa.edu.au/

Languages

English, Tigriyna (Tigrigna) and Amharic

Memberships

American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA),

Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics (AARES),

Society for Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (ESHIA)

Honours and awards

- Going North Award, AARES, 2005
- Best Doctoral Thesis Award for 1996-1998, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, July 1999
- Chancellor's Gold Medal, Alemaya University, July 1990
- Several fellowships: Dissertation Fellowship, University of Alberta, Sep.1996-Aug.1997; University of Alberta Ph.D. Scholarship, Sep.1994-Aug.1996; University of Alberta/CIDA Scholarship, Sep.1992-Aug.1994
- Many prizes and honors for outstanding academic achievements

Previous positions

Invited Professor, ENSAM/INRA, France, 2005

Teaching

Undergraduate teaching:

- Environmental Economics 2 (ECON2224)
- Data Use in the Natural Sciences (SCIE4401)
- Applied Demand and Production Analysis (ECON5510)
- Climate, Energy and Water Economics (ECON5511)
- Honors Theses

Useful links

http://ahailu.are.uwa.edu.au/

New and noteworthy

Postgraduate Coordinator

Current projects

Valuation of marine based recreation (CSIRO Cluster)

Integrated economic-hydrologic modelling of land use change(Katanning, Salinity management study)

Multiunit and combinatorial auction design

Quality Indicators

Productivity analysis of broadacre agriculture at the state level

Research profile

Research profile and publications