Dr Alfons Palangkaraya

Tel. +61 3 8344 2119
Fax. +61 3 8344 2111
Email. alfonsp[@at@]unimelb[.dot.]edu[.dot.]au

Alfons joined the institute in November 2003 as a Research Fellow for the Applied Microeconomics Research Programs. He graduated from the University of Missouri and obtained his doctoral degree in economics from Oregon State University. In his doctoral dissertation, he studied the theoretical effects of firm competition in advertising on prices under a vertical product differentiation setting, the empirical effects of firm location on knowledge spillovers, and the empirical relationship between comparative advantage and the inflows of foreign direct investment. Currently, his research focuses on micro-econometric studies of productivity and knowledge spillovers using establishment-level Australian manufacturing data. He is also a research associate for the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA) for which he was the editor and co-editor of two past IPRIA publications: R&D; and Intellectual Property Scoreboard 2004 and Australian Patent Applications Scoreboard 2004.

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Recent Publications

Journal Articles

Palangkaraya, A., Webster, E and Jensen, P. H. (forthcoming), “Misclassification between Patent Offices: Evidence from a Matched Sample of Patent Applications”, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Acceptance date: 25-Mar-2010.

Palangkaraya, A. and Yong, J. (forthcoming), “Trade Liberalisation, Exit, and Output and Employment Adjustments of Australian Manufacturing Establishments”, The World Economy, Acceptance date: 14 Jan 2010.

Chua, C. L., Palangkaraya, A., and Yong, J. (forthcoming), “A Two-Stage Estimation of Hospital Quality Using Mortality Outcome Measures: An Application Using Hospital Administrative Data”, Health Economics, Acceptance date 16-Sep-2009.

Palangkaraya, A. and Yong, J. (forthcoming), “Population Ageing and its Implications on Aggregate Health Care Demand: Empirical Evidence from 22 OECD Countries”, International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, Acceptance date: 06-Mar-2009.

Leahy, A., Palangkaraya, A. and Yong, J. (2010), “Geographical Agglomeration in Australian Manufacturing”, Regional Studies, 44(3), 299-314.

Palangkaraya, A. (2010), “Patent Application Databases”,The Australian Economic Review, 43(1), 77-87.

Palangkaraya, A., Stierwald, A., and Yong, J. (2009), “Is Firm Productivity Related to Size and Age? The Case of Large Australian Firms”, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 9(2), 167-195.

Palangkaraya, A. and Yong, J. (2009), “Parallel Imports, Market Size and Investment Incentive”, Singapore Economic Review, 54(2), 167-181.

Palangkaraya, A., Yong, J., Webster, E., and Dawkins, P. (2009), “The Income Distributive Implications of Recent Private Health Insurance Policies in Australia”, The European Journal of Health Economics, 10(2), 135-148.

Jensen P. H., Palangkaraya, A. and Webster, E. (2008), “Applicant behaviour in patent examination request lags”, Economics Letters, 101, 243-245.

Jensen P. H., Palangkaraya, A. and Webster, E. (2008), “Application outcomes and pendency times across four patent offices”, Australian Intellectual Property Journal, 19(3), 178-190.

Palangkaraya, A. and Waldkirch, A. (2008), “Relative Factor Abundance and FDI Factor Intensity in Developed Countries”, International Economic Journal, 22(4), 489-508.

Jensen, P., Palangkaraya, A., and Webster, E. (2007) ‘Characteristics of International Patent Application Outcomes’, Economics Letters, 95, 362-368.

Palangkaraya, A. and J. Yong. (2007). “How Effective is "Lifetime Health Cover" in Raising Private Health Insurance Coverage in Australia? An Assessment Using Regression Discontinuity”, Applied Economics , 39 (11), 1361-1374.

Books/Reports

Jensen, P. H. and A. Palangkaraya (2008). (Eds.) Australian Patent Applications Scoreboard 2008, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, The University of Melbourne, ISSN 1832-1070, 34pp, forthcoming.

Op-ed Articles

Palangkaraya, A. (2008), “The 'valley of death' - barrier to innovation”, The Jakarta Post, 22-August-2008.

Palangkaraya, A. (2008), “Trade liberalisation for economic growth ” (in Bahasa Indonesia), Kompas, 10-September-2008.

Free software

Axel - Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with Bootstrapping

I developed this software when I was working on my PhD degree. In its help file, this is how I describe it:

Axel™ is an easy to use software to estimate efficiency scores using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). It is designed to provide the power and functionality of existing DEA software with added benefits of automatic bootstrapping and bootstrap statistics of the computed scores. This 32-bit software is based on dynamic memory allocation so that it can process data of size up to the limits of virtual memory. The computation engine which is based on double precision numerical procedures ensures numerical accuracy.

Axel™ will work with MS Windows™ 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP and has been implemented according to the Microsoft Windows Guidelines for Accessible Software Design. In particular, great attention has been paid to making it easy for both beginners and experienced users. In-context help is available for all essential commands, and in-context menus pop-up with the right mouse button. In addition, the use of the standard Multiple Document Interface (MDI) allows many data files to be accessed and used for estimation simultaneously.

For the benefits of users, Axel™ recognizes different data formats such as Excel™ .xls files, and other delimited text files (.csv, .txt, and .prn). In addition, users can print and export data tables directly to .html format.

While I am no longer developing the software, it is useable (with some limits since the description above refers to the full completed version 1.0 which I never get to finishing it) and available for download. However, I will not provide any technical support nor any guarantee for its accuracy.

Yet, please feel free to email me with your suggestions for improvement or questions about installations. Also, if you find it useful and do use it in your research (academic or commercial), please acknowledge such use by citing the software as follows:

Palangkaraya, A. (2003), Axel - Data Envelopment Analysis with Bootstrapping, downloaded from http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/people/alfonsp/home.html.

Downloading instructions:

1. Download all these three files:

• Axel 0.5 installation setup file (Axel0.5 Setup.exe~1.7MB)
• Axel 0.7 executable update (Axel.exe~3.1MB)
• Axel help file (axel.hlp~0.3MB)

2. Scan these files for any virus (just in case).

3. Run the installation setup file (Axel0.5 Setup.exe) and install the software to your choice of installation folder.

4. Copy the updated executable file (Axel.exe) into your installation folder, overwriting the old Axel.exe.

5. Copy the help file (Axel.hlp) into your installation folder.

6. Read the help file (double click it) and the Readme.txt in your installation folder.