DrPrasad Bhattacharya

* Economic growth and development issues involving land reforms and their impact on long-run growth, credit availability and mitigation of civil war
* Empirical analysis of conflict and civil war focusing on credit constraint and ethnic distance
* Empirical analysis of gambling loss from pokies and their impact on family incidents of violence in rural Victorian local government areas
* Time Series Econometrics and Forecasting using dynamic panel estimators

Knowledge Areas
Development topics like facets of land reform, conflict and civil war,
gambling issues in rural Victoria. Forecasting topics like forecasting using
dynamic panel estimators.

Projects
* Analysis of domestic conflict (civil war) focusing on credit constraint and inequality in income and wealth both at the cross-country and sub-national perspective
* The evolution of land reform across the world in the twentieth century and its political as well as ideological determinants
* Gambling loss from pokies and its impact on family incidents of violence in rural Victorian local government areas.
* Using panel dynamic estimators for improving point and interval forecasting performance