The University of Western Australia

Dr Andrew David Williams

Lecturer
Economics

Contact details

Address

Economics
The University of Western Australia (M251)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 3859

Email

Andrew.Williams@uwa.edu.au

Personal homepage

http://web.biz.uwa.edu.au/staff/awilliam/default.htm

Qualifications

BEc PhD W.Aust.

Key research

Economic growth, governance, transparency

Publications

Recent Publications

Journal Articles (Schol Refereed Journal)

Williams, A (2011) Shining a Light on the Resource Curse: An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between Natural Resources, Transparency, and Economic Growth, World Development 39:4 (490-505).

Williams, A., (2009) On the release of information by governments: Causes and consequences, Journal of Development Economics 89 (1): 124-138.

Williams, A, Siddique, A. (2008) The use (and abuse) of governance indicators in economics: a review, Economics of Governance 9: 131-175

Refereed Conference Papers

Discussion / Working Papers:
Williams, A. (2006) ‘A New Cross-National Time Series Indicator of Bureaucratic Quality’ UWA Discussion Paper 06.31.
*Williams, A., E. Birch and P. Hancock (2011) ‘The Impact of On-Line Lecture Recordings on Student Performance’, UWA Discussion Paper 11.09.

Refereed Conference Papers:
Birch, E. and Williams, A. (2011), “The impact of supplementary on-line resources on university academic performance: A study of first-year economics students”, paper presented at the First Year Higher Education Conference, Fremantle, June 2011.

Birch, E. and Williams, A. (2010), ‘The importance of prior knowledge of the subject studied in explaining the academic outcomes of first-year commerce students’, paper presented at the Quantitative Analysis of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Forum, Melbourne, Australia, February 2010.

Birch, E. and Williams, A. (2009), ‘Do PASS programs improve the academic performance of poor-performing first year university students?’ paper presented at the 12th Pacific Rim First Year in Higher Education Conference 2009, Townsville, Australia, July 2009.

Birch, E. and Williams, A. (2009), ‘The determinants of academic performance in first-year university economics: the importance of prior knowledge of economics?’, paper presented at the 14th Australasian Teaching Economics Conference, Queensland University of Technology, July 2009.

Birch, E. and Williams, A. (2009), ‘Do peer-to-peer learning programs improve the academic performance of poor-performing first year university students?’, paper presented at the Teaching and Learning Colloquium, University of Western Australia, May 2009.

Williams, A. (2005) ‘On the causality between economic growth and institutional quality, 1960-2001’, paper presented at the 4th Global Conference of Business and Economics, Oxford University, June 2005.



Other Public Output

Williams, A (2005) “Towards a new measure of institutional quality, 1960-2000”, presented at PhD Conference in Economics and Business, UWA, November 2005

Funding received

UWA Business School Research and Development Scheme (2009) for $9,613.00: ‘Understanding the factors that influence students’ first-year experience at university’ (with E. Birch and P. Hancock).

UWA Research Development Award (2009) for $14,370: ‘Does foreign aid make governments less transparent?’

School Travel Grant (2005) for $2,700 to attend Global Conference of Business and Economics at Oxford University in June.

School Research Grant (2005) for $9,450 to assist in completion of PhD thesis and publication of journal articles arising from thesis.

Honours and awards

UWA Business School Excellence in Teaching Award (2008) - Undergraduate courses

UWA Best Published Article by an Early Career Researcher (2011) in the Business and Economics category.

UWA Business School Best Paper Prize (2010), awarded to the best refereed paper(s) authored or co-authored by an established academic staff member in the Business School published in 2009, for the paper ‘On the release of information by governments: Causes and consequences’, which appeared in the Journal of Development Economics.

Teaching

Microeconomics, Prices and Markets 1101
Modern British Economic Development 2207

Research profile

Research profile and publications