Prof Bill Griffiths
B Ag Ec (Hons) New England, PhD Illinois
Biography
Bill Griffiths holds a B.Ag.Ec.(Hons) from the University of New England (1967) and a PhD from the University of Illinois (1971). Prior to being appointed Professor of Econometrics at the University of Melbourne in 2001, he held positions as Research Associate in Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota (1971), Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of New England (1972-85), and Professor of Econometrics at the University of New England (1986-2001). He was Head of UNE's Department of Econometrics in 1984-88, 1989-93 and 1997-98. At Melbourne he has been Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies) for the Faculty of Economics and Commerce (2005-7), Deputy Head of the Department of Economics (2002-7), and Director of the Centre for Microeconometrics (2004-9). He has held visiting appointments at Louisiana State University and at the Universities of Georgia (Athens), Illinois (Champaign-Urbana), and California (Berkeley). He was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 1995, and has served as a member of the ARC College of Experts (2007-9).
Research Interests
- Statistical Inference for Welfare Measures
- Applied Bayesian Econometrics
Teaching responsibilities
- 316-130 Quantitative Methods 1
- 316-657 Special Topics in Advanced Econometrics