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Dr Anurag Sharma

Sharma

Position: Research Fellow

Email: anurag.sharma@buseco.monash.edu.au

Profile:Dr Anurag Sharma joined the Centre for Health Economics as a Research Fellow in December 2005. Anurag has a PhD in Economics (ANU), MPhil in Development Studies (IGIDR, Mumbai) and MA in Economics (University of Rajasthan, Jaipur). He is also an external affiliate to Health Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG), University of York and Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), ANU.

His previous appointments were at the Australian National University , Canberra and University of New South Wales @ ADFA, Canberra . Anurag has worked on several projects, most prominent being “ Poverty Traps, Nutrition, Health Status and Anti-Poverty Interventions in Rural India ” funded by DFID, UK and “ International exchanges of knowledge, temporary skilled labour movements, and Australia 's economic growth ” funded by Australia Research Council.

Anurag's main research interests include CGE modelling and parametric and related parametric and non-parametric econometric analysis to investigate relevant policy issues. At CHE, he is working on the project titled “Modelling the economics of the Australian health care system for policy analysis ” funded by NHMRC. Currently he is focusing on the impact of Victorian Case Mix funding regime on  allocation of resources across hospitals, waiting time management and travel time quality trade-offs.

Recent Publications:

Inter-DRG Resource Dynamics in a Prospective Payment System: A Stochastic Kernel Approach, ForthcomingHealth Care Management Science (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10729-008-9078-3)

On Modelling Variety in Consumption Expenditure on Food (with R. Jha and R. Gaiha), Forthcoming International Review of Applied Economics

Market Integration in Wholesale Rice Markets in India, (2005)Economic and Political Weekly 40(53) (with R. Jha and K.V. Bhanu Murthy)

Structural Breaks, Unit Roots and Cointegration: A Further Test of the Sustainability of the Indian Fiscal Deficit (2004)Public Finance Review 32(2) (with R. Jha)

“The Spatial Distribution of Rural Poverty in the Last Three Quinquennial Rounds of NSS” (2003)Economic and Political Weekly 38(47) (with R. Jha)

The Fiscal Constraint of India’s Economic Growth (2003), inIndian Economic Reforms, R. Jha (ed.), Hampshire, UK and New Delhi, India: Palgrave Macmillan (with R. Jha and S. Chand)

Manuscripts under Review/Revision:

Does disaggregation affect the relationship between health care expenditure and GDP? An analysis using regime shifts (with P Ramful)

Does Exercise Reduce Obesity: Evidence from Australia (with Puskar Maitra)

Use of Elective Surgery in Public Hospitals: Modelling Access-Cost Quality Trade-offs in a Spatial Framework (with A. Harris and Jeff Richardson)

Calorie and Micronutrient Deprivation and Poverty Nutrition Traps in Rural India (with R. Jha and R. Gaiha)