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Albert Assaf
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Education:Ph.D., University of Western Sydney M.S., University of Western Sydney GCQM, GCMS, University of Technology Sydney |
Research/Teaching Interests:Tourism/Transport Economics Applied Economics/Statistics Productivity and Efficiency Modeling Revenue Management |
Selected Publications:
Assaf, A, Barros, C.P, Alana, L (2010). Persistence in the short and long terms tourist arrivals to Australia, Journal of Travel Research, in press.
Assaf, A, Barros, C.P, Matousek, R (2010). Productivity Growth and Efficiency of Shinkin Banks: Evidence from Bootstrap and Bayesian Approaches, Journal of Banking and Finance, in press.
Assaf, A, Barros, CP, Sellers, R (2010). Efficiency Determinants in Retail Stores: A Bayesian Framework, Omega: The International Journal of Management Science, in press.
Assaf, A, Josiassen, A (2010). Time-varying Production Efficiency in the Health Care Foodservice Industry: A Bayesian Method?, Journal of Business Research, in press.
C.P. Barros, Milton Nektarios, Assaf, A (2010). Efficiency in the Greek Insurance Industry, European Journal of Operational Research, in press.
Matawie, K, Assaf, A (2010). Bayesian and DEA efficiency modelling of health care foodservice operations, Journal of Applied Statistics, 37(6), 945-953.
Barros, C.P., Botti, L, Peypoch, N, Robinot, E , Solonandrasana, B, and Assaf, A (2010). Performance of French destinations: Tourism Attraction Perspectives. Tourism Management, in press.
Assaf, A, Ljubica Knežević Cvelbar (2010). Privatization, Market Competition, International Attractiveness, Management Tenure and Hotel Performance: Evidence from Slovenia, International Journal of Hospitality Management, in press.
Assaf, A, Barros, C.P, Machado, L.P. (2010). Covariates of Repeat Tourism: An Endogenous Switching Poisson Model, Tourism Economics, in press.
Assaf, A, Barros, C. P, Josiassen, A (2010). Hotel Efficiency: A Bootstrapped Metafrontier Approach?. International Journal of Hospitality Management, in press.
Assaf, A, Barros, C.P (2010). The Future outlook of Portuguese Travel agents. Tourism Economics, in press.
Barros, C.P , Assaf, A , Sá-Earp, F (2010) . Brazilian Football League Technical Performance: A Simar and Wilson Approach, Journal of Sports Economics, in press.
Assaf, A, Ljubica Knežević Cvelbar (2010). The performance of the Slovenian hotel industry: evaluation post-privatization, International Journal of Tourism Research, in press.
Assaf, A, Deery, M and Jago, L (2010). Evaluating the Performance and Scale Characteristics of the Australian Restaurant Industry, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, in press.
Josiassen, A, Assaf, A (2010). Country of origin contingencies: Their joint influence on consumer behavior. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, in press.
Assaf, A (2009). A Fresh Look at the Productivity and Efficiency Changes of UK Airlines, Applied Economics, in press.
Assaf, A (2009). Bootstrapped Scale Efficiency Measures of UK Airports, Journal of Air Transport Management, in press.
Assaf, A (2009). Are US airlines really in crisis? Tourism Management, 30(6), 916-921.
Assaf, A (2009). Cost Efficiency Modelling of Australian Airports post privatization: A Bayesian Approach, Tourism Management, 31(2), 267-273.
Assaf, A, Matawie, K (2009). Statistical Inferences of DEA efficiency Scores: A Bootstrapping Approach, Applied Economics, in press.
Assaf, A, Matawie, K (2008). A bootstrapped Metafrontier Model, Applied Economics Letters, Accepted, in press.
Assaf, A, Matawie, K (2008). A DEA Approach to the Estimation of Technical and Allocative Efficiency of Health Care Foodservice Operations: An Australian Application. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, in press
Assaf, A (2008). Accounting for Size in the Efficiency Comparison of Airports. Journal of Air Transport Management, 15 (5), 256-258.
Assaf, A, Matawie, K (2008). Cost Efficiency Modelling in Health Care Foodservice Operations, International Journal of Hospitality Management, 27 (4), 604-613.
Research Grants:
Evaluating the Productivity of the Australian Restaurant Industry, $22,960, Victoria University Early Career Research Grant
The Effect of Interventions on the environmental behaviour of motel guests, $25,000, Victoria University & Tourism Victoria
Academic and Professional Activities:
Ad hoc reviewer for: Tourism Management, Economic Modeling, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Economics Studies, International Journal of Business and Economics, European Journal of Operational Research, Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, Tourism Culture and Communication, Tourism Economics, Journal of Foodservice Research, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management.
Member, Air Transport Research Society
Member, Council for Australian Tourism and Hospitality Education, Inc. (CAUTHE)
