It is not surprising that Ken Clements won a UWA award for excellence in supervision. His postgraduate students often cause a stir with their research.
Winthrop Professor Ken Clements is Director of UWA's Centre for Economic Research and he and his students carry out wide-ranging work that has international ramifications.
"I am an economist with expertise in international finance, demand analysis and index numbers," he says. "Examples of research undertaken by my group include purchasing power, parity and equilibrium exchange rates; the income and price sensitivity of the consumption of alcohol and drugs; cross-country consumption comparisons; and the stochastic approach to index numbers.
"I have supervised many PhD students and in addition to books based on their theses, they have published single-authored papers in some of the top journals in the world including the Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and Journal of International Money and Finance.
"I am interested in supervising further research on cross-country comparisons of prices, incomes and consumption, and their relationship to exchange rates. Capabilities in applied mathematics and statistics, the ability to work hard, and creativity would be useful for these topics."
