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2581
National Ranking
66

Overview

D.S. Prasada Rao is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and conducts research primarily in the field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their work spans multiple subfields including General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Neurology, and Social Psychology.

Their research focuses on several key topics such as Income, Poverty, and Inequality, Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, Economic Theories and Models, Economic Theory and Policy, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Agricultural Risk and Resilience, and Global Trade and Economics.

Among recent publications by D.S. Prasada Rao are:

  • "Welfare-based income insecurity in the US and Germany: Evidence from harmonized panel data," 2020, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • "MACRO-ECONOMIC MEASURES FOR A GLOBALIZED WORLD: GLOBAL GROWTH AND INFLATION," 2020, Macroeconomic Dynamics
  • "The fixed basket multilateral Walsh index for international price and real expenditure comparisons," 2022, Economics Letters
  • "Commensurability and Characterization of Normalization Conditions for Cost-of-Living Comparisons under Time-Varying CES Preferences," 2024, Economics Letters
  • "Cognitive and non-cognitive traits and the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic inequality," 2023, Journal of Economic Psychology

D.S. Prasada Rao has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Naohito Abe, Nicholas Rohde, Kam Ki Tang, Conchita D'Ambrosio, and Lars Osberg.

Common publication venues for their research include Economics Letters, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and Journal of Economic Psychology.

Best Publications

  • An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

    Tim Coelli;D. S. Prasada Rao;George E. Battese

  • An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

    Timothy J. Coelli;D.S. Prasada Rao;Christopher J. O’Donnell;George E. Battese

  • Metafrontier frameworks for the study of firm-level efficiencies and technology ratios

    Christopher J. O’Donnell;D. S. Prasada Rao;George E. Battese

  • A metafrontier production function for estimation of technical efficiencies and technology gaps for firms operating under different technologies

    George E. Battese;D. S. Prasada Rao;Christopher J. O'Donnell

  • The price competitiveness of travel and tourism: a comparison of 19 destinations

    Larry Dwyer;Peter J Forsyth;Prasada Rao

  • Total Factor Productivity Growth in Agriculture: A Malmquist Index Analysis of 93 Countries, 1980-2000 *

    Tim J. Coelli;D. S. Prasada Rao

  • Technology Gap, Efficiency, and a Stochastic Metafrontier Function

    George E. Battese;D. S. Prasada Rao

  • Explaining agricultural productivity growth: an international perspective

    Derek Headey;Mohammad Alauddin;D.S. Prasada Rao

  • Index Numbers: A Stochastic Approach

    E. Antony Selvanathan;D. S. Prasada Rao

  • The effect of economic insecurity on mental health: Recent evidence from Australian panel data.

    Nicholas Rohde;K.K. Tang;Lars Osberg;Prasada Rao

  • THE PERFORMANCE OF AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS

    Roger Carrington;Tim Coelli;D. S. Prasada Rao

  • Global and Regional Inequality in the Distribution of Income: Estimation with Limited and Incomplete Data

    Duangkamon Chotikapanich;Rebecca Valenzuela;D. S. Prasada Rao

  • Exploring the Links Between Corruption and Growth

    Andrew Hodge;Sriram Shankar;D. S. Prasada Rao;Alan Duhs

  • Estimating Income Inequality in China Using Grouped Data and the Generalized Beta Distribution

    Duangkamon Chotikapanich;D. S. Prasada Rao;Kam Ki Tang

  • Metafrontier Functions for the Study of Inter-regional Productivity Differences

    D.S. Prasada Rao;Christopher J. O'Donnell;George E. Battese

  • Destination Price Competitiveness: Exchange Rate Changes versus Domestic Inflation

    Larry M Dwyer;Peter J Forsyth;Prasada Rao

  • Poverty–Food Security Nexus: Evidence from a Survey of Urban Slum Dwellers in Kolkata

    Chandana Maitra;D.S. Prasada Rao

  • On the equivalence of weighted Country-Product-Dummy (CPD) Method and the Rao-System for multilateral price comparisons

    D. S. Prasada Rao

  • Measuring and decomposing sustainable efficiency in agricultural production: A cumulative exergy balance approach

    Viet-Ngu Hoang;D.S. Prasada Rao

  • Intercountry Comparisons of Agricultural Output and Productivity

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  • The efficiency of microfinance in Vietnam: Evidence from NGO schemes in the north and the central regions

    Hong Son Nghiem;Tim Coelli;Prasada Rao

  • Who Shrunk China? Puzzles in the Measurement of Real GDP

    Robert C. Feenstra;Hong Ma;J. Peter Neary;D.S. Prasada Rao

  • Estimating and combining national income distributions using limited data

    Duangkamon Chotikapanich;William E Griffiths;D. S. Prasada Rao

  • GLOBAL INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS AND INEQUALITY, 1993 AND 2000: INCORPORATING COUNTRY-LEVEL INEQUALITY MODELED WITH BETA DISTRIBUTIONS

    Duangkamon Chotikapanich;William Edward Griffiths;D S Prasada Rao;Vicar Valencia

  • Cross-country income levels over time: did the developing world suddenly become much richer?

    Robert Inklaar;D.S. Prasada Rao

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy Coelli
Timothy Coelli University of Queensland
Marcel P. Timmer
Marcel P. Timmer University of Groningen
Angus Maddison
Angus Maddison University of Groningen
Robert C. Feenstra
Robert C. Feenstra University of California, Davis
Lars Osberg
Lars Osberg Dalhousie University
Bart van Ark
Bart van Ark University of Manchester
J. Peter Neary
J. Peter Neary University of Oxford
Derek Headey
Derek Headey International Food Policy Research Institute
Larry Dwyer
Larry Dwyer University of Technology Sydney
Peter Forsyth
Peter Forsyth University of Oxford

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