Dr Yogi Vidyattama is an Associate Professor in Economics and received his PhD from the Australian National University (ANU). 

Yogi Vidyattama focuses his work in spatial - geographical economic analysis and regional development including urban planning. He is highly experienced in conducting analysis using microsimulation modelling at individual, household or area level and panel data econometrics especially on economic growth, income and wealth distribution and inequality. Yogi has received research excellent awards at the university level and planning awards for Innovation and cutting-edge research from ACT and Australian planning institute, respectively.
Specific areas of expertise:

• Spatial analysis
• Economic growth
• Regional and Urban Development
• Fiscal Policy including Decentralisation
• Microsimulation

Yogi has been involved in range of research activities for government and non-for-profit clients as part of National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM). This allowed Yogi’s research to have impact beyond academic world. This includes the work on estimating distributional impact of increasing the aged pension and Family Tax Benefit as well as the work on the gender wage gap in Australia in 2009, advocacy for disadvantage groups and public health access as well as housing tax and fuel excise policies in the late 2010s. Yogi was previously affiliated for five years with the Institute of Economic and Social Research (LPEM), University of Indonesia (1999-2005), where his works include fiscal decentralisation (for the Ministry of Finance); the tax system for non-oil and gas mining in the Indonesia economy (for the Department of Mineral and Energy Resources); funding for human development progress (for UNDP), and initial estimation of the impact of the Tsunami at Aceh (for World Bank and National Planning Agency).

Engagement and service roles

Yogi is currently the High Degree by Research (HDR) Director as well as research seminar and workshop convenor in the faculty. Yogi is also the current president of the Australia-New Zealand branch of Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and an executive council for its Pacific Conference. He is an associate editor for "Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science" and "Economics and Finance in Indonesia".

Not accepting new HDR students

Due to the role as HDR Director, Yogi is focusing on the success of all the current HDR students in the faculty and refrains himself from taking a NEW HDR student. Yogi has supervised students in economic growth and regional development, environment and fiscal policy, decentralization issue as well as microsimulation/agent-based modelling.

Teaching expertise

Yogi has teaching expertise on the topics of economics both microeconomics and macroeconomics, statistics and modelling as well as public policy.  At the University of Canberra, he teaches in the following units:

• Introduction to Economics
• Contemporary Policy Issues
• Economic Development
• Applied Policy Report
• Policy Analysis and Evaluation