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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., 2009, Accounting for Technological Differences in Modeling the Efficiency of Airports, Applied Economics, 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 Measures of UK Airports, Journal of Air Transport Management, in press.
Assaf, A., 2009, Are US airlines Really in Crisis? Tourism Management, in press.
Assaf, A., 2009, Cost Efficiency Modeling of Australian Airports Post Privatisation: A Bayesian Approach, Tourism Management, in press.
Assaf, A. and Matawie, K., 2009, Improving the Accuracy of DEA Efficiency Scores: A Bootstrap Approach, Applied Economics, in press.
Assaf, A. and Matawie, K., 2008, A Bootstrapped Metafrontier Model, Applied Economics Letters, in press.
Matawie, K. and Assaf, A., 2009, Bayesian and DEA Efficiency Modeling: An Application to Hospital Foodservice Operations, Journal of Applied Statistics, Accepted, in press.
Assaf, A., 2009, Accounting for Size in Efficiency Comparison of Airports. Journal of Air Transport Management, Accepted, in press.
Assaf, A. and Agbola, F., 2009, The Performance of Australian Hotels: A DEA Double Bootstrap Approach, Tourism Economics, in press
Assaf, A. and Matawie, K., 2008, Cost Efficiency Modeling in Health Care Foodservice Operations, International Journal of Hospitality Management, 27 (4), 604-613.
Assaf, A. and Matawie, K., 2008, A Two-stage Approach to Efficiency modeling: An Application to the Australian Hospital Food Production Industry, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, in press.
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)
