Joe Hirschberg

Estimating risk premiums for regulated firms when accounting for reference-day variation and high-order moments of return volatility

J Hirschberg, J Lye

Journal article  |  2021  |  Environment Systems and Decisions

In many jurisdictions, the determination of the acceptable rate of return for the assets of a regulated utility is based partially..

GRADING JOURNALS IN ECONOMICS: THE ABCS OF THE ABDC

JG Hirschberg, JN Lye

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Economic Surveys

Many institutions and governments grade academic journals for the evaluation of research. In this paper, we implement a multi-bibl..

Visualising Time: A Compendium of Time Series Plots

Joe Hirschberg, Jenny Lye

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Australian Economic Review

Graphs are important for highlighting relationships within a data series or across several series. Modern computer software has pr..

Impacts of graduated driver licensing regulations

J Hirschberg, J Lye

Journal article  |  2020  |  Accident Analysis and Prevention

We evaluate the impact of the Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) system introduced in Victoria, Australia as they influence both inj..

Measuring the quality of life across countries: A multidimensional analysis

DJ Slottje, GW Scully, JG Hirschberg, KJ Hayes

Book  |  2019

This book discusses the methods used to create quality of the life indexes. It suggests that economic liberty gives a considerably..

Ratios of Parameters: Some Econometric Examples

Jenny Lye, Joe Hirschberg

Journal article  |  2018  |  AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC REVIEW

Ratios of parameter estimates are often used in econometric applications. However, constructing confidence intervals (CIs) for the..

Secondary school fee inflation: an analysis of private high schools in Victoria, Australia

Jenny Lye, Joe Hirschberg

Journal article  |  2017  |  EDUCATION ECONOMICS

The recent growth in privately administered secondary education in many developed countries has been a widely observed phenomenon...

Inverting the indirect-The ellipse and the boomerang: Visualizing the confidence intervals of the structural coefficient from two-stage least squares

J Hirschberg, J Lye

Journal article  |  2017  |  Journal of Econometrics

In the just-identified model,the exact distribution of the two-stage least squares (2SLS) estimator of the coefficient of the endo..

The influence of student experiences on post-graduation surveys

Joe Hirschberg, Jenny Lye

Journal article  |  2016  |  ASSESSMENT & EVALUATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION

This study attempts to establish the extent to which in-class teaching quality instruments can be used to predict post-graduation ..

Gambling with Stimulus Payments: Feeding Gaming Machines with Federal Dollars

Jenny Lye, Joe Hirschberg

Journal article  |  2014  |  JOURNAL OF GAMBLING STUDIES

In late 2008 and early 2009 the Australian Federal Government introduced a series of economic stimulus packages designed to mainta..