The University of Western Australia

W/Prof Rod Tyers

Winthrop Professor
Economics

Contact details

Address

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

Phone

6488 5632

Email

rod.tyers@uwa.edu.au

Qualifications

BE MEngSc MSc PhD Harv

Biography

B.Eng (Hon) M.Eng.Sci Melb., MS PhD Harv.

Dr Rod Tyers is a Winthrop Professor at the University of Western Australia Business School. Trained originally in engineering at the University of Melbourne, W/Prof. Tyers made the transition to economics and completed his doctorate at Harvard University in 1978. His research in international economics has emphasised economy-wide analysis and he has addressed issues including commodity market stability, technical change, demography, trade policy reform and macroeconomic policy as it affects exchange rates.

Key research

International trade

International finance

Economy-wide modelling

Applied macroeconomics

Publications

Career 10 best

Tyers, R., J. Golley, Y. Bu and I. Bain (2008), “China’s economic growth and its real exchange rate”, China Economic Journal, 1(2): 123 - 145.

Tyers, R., and W. Coleman (2008). “Beyond Brigden: Australia’s Pre-War Manufacturing Tariffs, Real Wages and Economic Size.” Economic Record, 84(264): 50-67, March.

Tyers, R., and Y. Yang (2004). “The Asian Recession and Northern Labour Markets.” Economic Record, 80(248): 57-74, March.

Rees, L., and R. Tyers (2004). “Trade Reform in the Short Run: China’s WTO Accession.” Journal of Asian Economics 15(1): 1-31, January-February.

Tyers, R., and Y. Yang (1997). “Trade with Asia and Skill Upgrading: Effects on Labour Markets in the Older Industrial Countries.” Review of World Economics, 133(3): 383-418, September. Republished with permission as Chapter 15 in Volume I of the two-volume set Greenaway, D., and D. R. Nelson, Globalisation and Labour Markets, UK: Edward Elgar, 2001: 412-448.

Tyers, R., and Y. Yang (2000). “Capital-Skill Complementarity and Wage Outcomes Following Technical Change in a Global Model.” Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 16(3): 23-41.

Tyers, R., and K. Anderson (1992). Disarray in World Food Markets: A Quantitative Assessment, Cambridge University Press, 434pp.

Tyers, R. (1990). “Implicit Policy Preferences and the Assessment of Negotiable Trade Policy Reforms.” European Economic Review, 34(7): 1399-1426.

Gunasekera, H. D. B., and R. Tyers (1990). “Imperfect Competition and Returns to Scale in a Newly Industrialising Economy: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Korean Trade Policy.” Journal of Development Economics, 34: 223-247.

Tyers, R., and R. E. Falvey (1989). “Border Price Changes and Domestic Welfare in the Presence of Subsidised Exports.” Oxford Economic Papers, 41(2): 434-451.

Tyers, R., and K. Anderson (1988). “Liberalising OECD Agricultural Policies in the Uruguay Round: Effects on Trade and Welfare.” Journal of Agricultural Economics, 30(2): 197-216, May. Also published as Ch.8 in H.W. Singer, N. Hatti and R. Tandon (eds) Trade Liberalisation in the 1990s, New World Order Series Vol. VIII, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Co., 1990; as a chapter in Peters, G.H. (ed.) Agricultural Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1994, and in C. Milner (Ed.) Developing and Newly Industrialising Countries (two-volume set from the series The Globalization of the World Economy, M. Casson Series Ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, UK, August 1998; and as a chapter in Anderson, K. and T. Josling, Critical Perspectives on the Global Trading System and the WTO, Edward Elgar, November 2004.


Recent Publications

Books

Golley, J. and R. Tyers (forthcoming), Demographic Change and Economic Performance in China, Princeton University Press. Full advance contract for final draft December 2009.

Tyers, R., Q. Shi and M.M. Chan, “Global demographic change and economic performance: implications for the food sector”; Final Project Report to the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Canberra, June 2006.

Duncan, R., Q. Shi and R. Tyers (2005), Global Demographic Change and Demand for Food in Australia, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation Report No 05/014, RIRDC, Canberra.

Tyers, R., Economic Reform in Greater Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Implications for International Food Markets, Research Report No.99, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C., October 1994, 84pp (excluding statistical supplement, available separately).

Tyers, R. and K. Anderson, Disarray in World Food Markets: A Quantitative Assessment, Cambridge University Press, July 1992, 434pp.

Anderson, K. and R. Tyers, Global Effects of Liberalising Trade in Farm Products, Thames Essay: Trade Policy Research Centre: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991, 160pp.

Chisholm, A.H. and R. Tyers (eds.), Food Security: Theory Policy and Perspectives from Asia and the Pacific, D.C. Heath, Lexington Books, 1982, 359pp.

Book Chapters

Tyers, R. and Q. Shi (2011), “Global demographic change, labour force growth and economic performance”, in Ianchovichina, E. and T. Walmsley, Dynamic Modeling and Applications in Global Economic Analysis, Cambridge University Press.

Golley, J. and R. Tyers (2011), “Contrasting giants: demographic change and economic performance in China and India”, Selected Papers of the Beijing Forum 2010 (non-exclusive copyright web publication by Peking University Press and Reed-Elsevier, Beijing), June.

Tyers, R. and Y. Zhang (2010), “The real exchange rate and the renminbi”, in R. Garnaut, J. Golley and L. Song, eds, China: The Next 20 Years of Reform and Development (Canberra: ANU E Press; Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press; Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press), July, pp 163-192.

Tyers, R., J. Golley and I. Bain (2009), “Projected economic growth in China and India: the role of demographic change”, Chapter 8 in Fan Zhai (ed.) From Growth to Convergence: Asia’s Next Two Decades, Palgrave MacMillan (ISBN-13: 978-0-230-22176-5, ISBN-10: 0-230-22176-9), pp 243-283.

Tyers, R., “Comments on Maurizio Bussolo and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe: ‘The World Economy in 2030: Structural Change and Income Distribution”, From Growth to Convergence: Asia’s Next Two Decades, Palgrave MacMillan (ISBN-13: 978-0-230-22176-5, ISBN-10: 0-230-22176-9), pp 243-283.

Tyers, R. and I. Bain (2008), “American and European financial shocks: implications for China’s economic performance”, Chapter 4 in Song. L. and W.T. Woo (eds.), China’s Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change, Asia Pacific Press, the Brookings Institution Press, and Social Sciences Academic Press, Beijing, July 2008, pp 59-89, ISBN 9780731538195.

Rees, L. and R. Tyers (2008), “Trade reform in the short run: China’s WTO accession”, Chapter 8 in C. Chen and R. Duncan (eds.), The Impact of WTO Accession and Regional Trade Arrangements on China’s Agricultural Sector and Food Security, Canberra: Asia Pacific Press, February: 229-267. Originally published in the Journal of Asian Economics 15(1): 1-31, January-February, 2004.

Chang, J. and R. Tyers (2008), “Trade reform, macroeconomic policy and sectoral labour movement in China”, Chapter 9 in C. Chen and R. Duncan (eds.), The Impact of WTO Accession and Regional Trade Arrangements on China’s Agricultural Sector and Food Security, Canberra: Asia Pacific Press, February: 268-304. Originally published as Chapter 14 in Garnaut, R. and L. Song (eds.) China 2003: New Engine for Growth, Asia Pacific Press, September 2003: 231-275.

Duncan, R., L. Rees and R. Tyers (2008), “Revisiting the economic costs of food self-sufficiency in China”, Chapter 7 in C. Chen and R. Duncan (eds.), The Impact of WTO Accession and Regional Trade Arrangements on China’s Agricultural Sector and Food Security, Canberra: Asia Pacific Press, February: 203-228. Originally published in the Journal of Management Research, IV(1): 48-61, January 2005.

Golley, J. and R. Tyers (2007), “China’s real exchange rate”, Chapter 16 in R. Garnaut and L. Song (eds.) China: Linking Markets for Growth, Asia-Pacific Press, July: 316-343, ISBN: 9780731538133.

Golley, J. and R. Tyers (2006), “China's Growth to 2030: Demographic Change and the Labour Supply Constraint”, Chapter 8 in Garnaut, R. and L. Song (eds.), The Turning Point in China’s Economic Development, Asia-Pacific Press, September.

Tyers, R. and K. Anderson, "Liberalising OECD Agricultural Policies in the Uruguay Round: Effects on Trade and Welfare", chapter in Anderson, K. and T. Josling, Critical Perspectives on the Global Trading System and the WTO, Edward Elgar (November 2004), reprinted from Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol.30, No. 2, pp. 197-216, May, 1988.

Book Reviews

The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions, edited by Pranab Bardhan (Oxford University Press, 1989), The Economic Record, Vol.69, No.205, Pp 220-222, 1993.

World Agriculture in Disarray, by D. Gale Johnson (Macmillan, Second Edition, 1991), Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 37(2):133-136, 1993.

"A Slow Uruguay Round but a Revitalised GATT", Review of Oxley, A., The Challenge of Free Trade (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990), Policy, Winter 1991, Pp 34-35.

Dynamic Programming: Applications to Agriculture and Natural Resources, by J.O.S. Kennedy, (North Holland 1987), Economic Record, 64(185): 140-141 (June 1988).

Refereed Journal Articles

V. Arora and R. Tyers (2011), “Asset arbitrage and the price of oil”, forthcoming in Economic Modelling.

Golley, J. and R. Tyers (2011), “Contrasting giants: demographic change and economic performance in China and India”, SSRN Labor: Demographics and Economics of the Family e-Journal, 3(67), May, selected from ANU-CAMA Working Papers (10/2011).

Tyers, R. and Y. Zhang (2011), “Appreciating the renminbi”, The World Economy, 34(2): 265-297, February.

Tyers, R. and J. Golley (2010), “China's Growth to 2030: The Roles of Demographic Change and Investment Premia”, Review of Development Economics. 14(3): 592-610. Earlier version in Chinese China Labour Economics, 4(1): 6-30, 2007.

Tyers, R. and J. Golley (2008), “China’s real exchange rate puzzle”, Journal of Economic Integration, 23(3): 547-574, September.

Pennings, S. and R. Tyers (2008), “Increasing returns, financial capital mobility and real exchange rate dynamics”, The Economic Record, 84: S141-S158, September.

Tyers, R., J. Golley, Y. Bu and I. Bain (2008), “China’s economic growth and its real exchange rate”, China Economic Journal, 1(2): 123 - 145, July (ISSN: 1753-8963).

Tyers, R. and W. Coleman (2008), “Beyond Brigden: Australia’s Pre-War Manufacturing Tariffs, Real Wages and Economic Size”; Economic Record, 84(264): 50-67, March.

Tyers, R., Y. Bu and I. Bain (2008), “China’s equilibrium real exchange rate: a counterfactual analysis”, Pacific Economic Review, 13(1): 17-39, March. SSRN Global Top 10 Download List, announced 7 June 2008. SSRN Top 10 Download List, June 2008.

Menezes, F., M. Pracz and R. Tyers (2007), “Strategic interaction amongst Australia’s East Coast ports”, Australian Economic Review 40(3): 267-278.

Tyers, R. and Q. Shi, “Global demographic change, policy responses and their economic implications”; The World Economy 30(4): 537-566, April 2007.

Tyers, R., “Trade reform and manufacturing pricing behaviour in four archetype Asia-Pacific Economies”, Asian Economic Journal 19(2): 181-203, 2005.

Duncan, R., L. Rees and R. Tyers (2005), “Revisiting the economic cost of food self-sufficiency in China”, Journal of Management Research, IV(1): 48-61, January; republished with permission as Chapter 7 in C. Chen and R. Duncan (eds.), The Impact of WTO Accession and Regional Trade Arrangements on China’s Agricultural Sector and Food Security, Canberra: Asia Pacific Press, October, 2007.

Rees, L. and R. Tyers (2004), “Trade reform in the short run: China’s WTO accession”, Journal of Asian Economics 15(1): 1-31, January-February; republished with permission as Chapter 8 in C. Chen and R. Duncan (eds.), The Impact of WTO Accession and Regional Trade Arrangements on China’s Agricultural Sector and Food Security, Canberra: Asia Pacific Press, October 2007.

Tyers, R. and Y. Yang (2004), “The Asian recession and northern labour markets”, The Economic Record, 80(248): 58-75, March.

Full Refereed Conference Publications

R. Tyers and L. Huang (2011), “Looking inward for growth”, paper under revision, UWA Business School and Research School of Economics, Australian National University, July.

R. Tyers and J. Corbett (2011), “Japanese economic performance: a survey of quantitative analyses and implications for Australia”, draft working paper, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University, April.

Tyers, R. (2011), “Global implications of Japan’s economic stagnation”, presented at the Australian Conference of Economists, Australian National University, July 2011, CAMA Working Paper No. 20-2011, Australian National University, June (under consideration by The Economic Record).

Tyers, R. and Y. Zhang (2011), “Japan’s Economic Recovery: Insights from Multi-Region Dynamics”, presented at the conference commemorating 30 years of the Australia-Japan Research Centre, 28-29 March, Australian National University, CAMA Working Paper No. 18-2011, Australian National University and Working Papers in Economics No. 2011-13, UWA Business School, Perth, June (under consideration by the JJIE); SSRN Top 10 Global Downloads September 2011.

Tyers, R. (2011), “An elemental macroeconomic model for applied analysis at the undergraduate level”, Working Papers in Economics 2011-11, UWA Business School, May.

Golley, J. and R. Tyers (2011), “Contrasting giants: demographic change and economic performance in China and India”, Working Papers in Economics 11-4, Business School, University of Western Australia, March and Working Paper 10-2011, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Australian National University, earlier draft presented at the Beijing Forum, November 2010 (under consideration by The World Economy).

Tyers, R. and L. Huang (2009), “Combating China’s export contraction: fiscal expansion or accelerated industrial reform?”, Economics Discussion Paper 09.15, Business School, University of Western Australia; ANU Working Papers in Economics and Econometrics No. 501; and ANU Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis Working Paper 2/2009, February, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University (resubmitted to the China Economic Review).

Tyers, R. and F. Lu (2008), “Competition policy, corporate saving and China’s current account surplus”, Working Papers in Economics and Econometrics No. 496, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University, July (under consideration by the Review of International Economics).

Tyers, R. and L. Rees (2008), “Service Oligopolies and Australia’s Economy-Wide Performance”, Working Papers in Economics and Econometrics No.490 (ISBN 086831 490 0), and Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis Working Paper 5/2008, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University, Canberra, March; under consideration by The Economic Record.

Tyers, R. and I. Bain (2006), “The global economic implications of freer skilled migration”, Working Papers in Economics and Econometrics No 468, Australian National University, Canberra, June (ISBN: 086831 468 4); revised September 2007.

Chan, M.M. and R. Tyers, “Global demographic change and labour force growth: projections to 2030”, Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper, Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS), Australian National University, May 2006, under revision.

Tyers, R., “Ageing and slower population growth: effects on global economic performance”; Presented at the Experts’ Meeting on Long Term Scenarios for Asia’s Growth and Trade, Asian Development Bank, Manila, November 2005.

Shi, Q. and R. Tyers, “Global demographic change and economic performance: applications of an augmented GTAP-Dynamic”, Working Papers in Economics and Econometrics No. 450, Australian National University, Canberra, May 2005.

Tyers, R., “Implicit Policy Preferences and Trade Reform by Tariff Aggregates”, Working Papers in Economics and Econometrics No.445, Australian National University, Canberra, November 2004 (ISBN: 086831 445 5).

Falvey, R. and R. Tyers, “Sectoral similarity and Stolper-Samuelson effects in the H-O-S model”, draft forthcoming as GEP Working Paper, Centre for Globalisation and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham, July 2004.

Tyers, R. and L.Rees, “On the robustness of short run gains from trade liberalisation”, Discussion Paper DP 474, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University; presented at the National Macroeconomics Workshop, Australian National University, 15-16 April 2004, under consideration by the Review of International Economics.

Tyers, R., P. Gibbard, M. Austria and C.S. Suh, 'Manufacturing oligopoly and economic reform in four archetype Western Pacific economies: model construction and analysis', Working Papers in Economics and Econometrics No. 437, Australian National University, Canberra, January 2004.

Tyers, R., “Economy-wide analysis of regulatory and competition policy: a prototype general equilibrium model”, Working Papers in Economics and Econometrics No. 435, Australian National University, Canberra, January 2004.

Funding received

2010 Australia-Japan Foundation Grant, “Modelling Japanese economic performance – implications for Australia”, joint Chief Investigator with Professor Jenny Corbett, Crawford School, Australian National University, $40,000.

2010-2012 ARC Discovery Grant DP 1094835, “Commodity Booms and Busts: Implications for the Australian Economy”, second Chief Investigator, with Ken Clements, UWA, $270,000, granted over three years.

2008-2010 ARC Discovery Grant DP0879094 “Economic Growth and Real Exchange Rates”, first investigator, joint with Professors Steve Dowrick and Heather Anderson, ANU, $314,000 granted over three years.

2005-2007 ARC Discovery Grant DP0557885 “Economic consequences for Australia of global demographic change”, first investigator, joint with Professor Tim Hatton, Dr Siew-Ean Khoo, Em/Professor Ron Duncan, Dr Max Tani, Dr Qun Shi, ANU, $260,000 granted over three years, carried forward into 2008.

2005-2007 ARC Discovery Grant DP0557885 “Economy-wide consequences of regulation and privatisation in Australia”, first investigator, joint with Professor Flavio Menezes, Director of the Australian Centre for Regulatory Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, ANU, $380,000 granted over three years.

2004 Faculty of Economics and Commerce, ANU, Internal Research Grant: “Sectoral similarity trends and the damping of Stolper-Samuelson effects”, $6,000 for one year.

2001-2005 Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC). Large Grant ANU-51A: “Global demographic and income trends: their implications for food consumption”, joint with Emeritus Professor Ron Duncan, ANU, A$176,679 over three years.

1999-2004 Australian Council for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Project No. ADP/1998/128, Project leader Emeritus Professor (Economics and Commerce ANU) Ron Duncan, associate investigator Professor Rod Tyers, $930,746, "Achieving food security in China: implications of WTO accession".

1999-2002 Australian Research Council. Large Grant A00000201, “Growth and recession in Asia: impacts on wages and employment in Australia and other high wage countries”, sole Chief Investigator, A$80,000 over three years.

1995 Australian Research Council. Large grant A79532636 to study rises in wage inequality and unemployment in Australia and other industrial countries and determine the contributions of developing country trade and domestic technical change. A$47,000. First investigator, with Rod Falvey and Robert McDougall.

World Bank, International Economics Department (IECIT), grant to extend research on wage inequality in industrial countries and its links to trade with developing countries. US$30,000. First investigator, with Rod Falvey and Ron Duncan.

1993 Australian Research Council. Small grant 92FIGI096 (S6600417)to study changes in Australia’s trade patterns and their implications for unemployment and income distribution. A$13,000. First investigator, with Rod Falvey and Peter Forsyth.

1992 Australian Research council. Large grant AF9130595 to study the implications of trade reform for investment and innovation in Australia and East Asia. A$60,000. First investigator, with Neil Vousden and Ngo Van Long. Neil took over coordination and most of the research in 1993 as I became overcommitted elsewhere.

1988 Australian Research Council. Large grant A78931961 to study imperfect competition and trade policy in four archetypal economies of the Western Pacific. A$17,500.

1984 World Bank, International Economic Analysis and Projections Department, grant to support research toward a background paper for the World Development Report 1995. US$70,000. Joint with Kym Anderson.

1979 Economic Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, grant to fund cooperative research on US-Asia trade in agricultural products, US$25,000.

Memberships

Economic Society of Australia
American Economic Association

Honours and awards

2010 Beijing Forum – fully funded invitation to speak at this policy forum, held at Peking University but launched by Beijing Municipality, 7-9 November 2010.
Nomination for UWA Prize for Teaching, not pursued for lack of time.

2009 Nomination for UWA Prize for Research Supervision, not pursued for lack of time.

2007 Australian National University – Chinese University Exchange Fellowship, to cover all local costs associated with a one-month visit to the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University, Beijing.

2006 Asian Development Bank: sponsored invitation to present at the experts’ seminar on: Shaping the Future: Prospects for Asia’s Long-term Development over the Next Two Decades, 11 – 12 December, 2006: Tyers, R., J. Golley and I. Bain, “Projected economic growth in China and India: the role of demographic change”.

2005 Asian Development Bank: sponsored invitation to present at the Experts’ Meeting on Long Term Scenarios for Asia’s Growth and Trade, 2-4 November.

2000 Fully funded invitation to deliver a paper at the International Economic Association conference on Globalisation and Labour Markets, University of Nottingham, July.

1999 Fully funded invitation to visit the University of Birmingham to deliver the Jean Monnet Lecture at the annual conference of the International Economics Study Group, September.

1996 GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project, Purdue University) Honorary Research Fellowship. Awarded for contributions to the extension of the GTAP database and its applications.

1991 Australian Agricultural Economics Society travel award to attend the biennial conference of the International Agricultural Economics Association in Tokyo, August, A$2,000.

1989 Winner, international food and agricultural policy article competition, Centre for International Food and Agricultural Policy, University of Minnesota (award included a price of US$2,000 and a funded invitation to give a lecture at the University of Minnesota) for Tyers, R. and K. Anderson "Liberalising OECD Agricultural Policies in the Uruguay Round: Effects on Trade and Welfare", Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1988.

1988 Inaugural J.G. Crawford Award for published article on Japan and its relations with Australia (award included a prize of A$2,000), for Anderson, K. and R. Tyers "Japan's Agricultural Policy in International Perspective", Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 1987.

1972 CSIRO Postgraduate Study Award to Harvard University.

1970 Institution of Engineers Australia Prize for Undergraduate Studies in Engineering.

Previous positions

1990-2010,1982-1987 Australian National University, Canberra.
2001-2010 Professor of Economics, College of Business and Economics
1993-2001 Reader, Department of Economics
1990-1993 Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics
1984-1987 Research Fellow in Economics, National Centre for Development Studies
1982-1984 Research Fellow, Department of Economics, Research School of Pacific Studies
1987-1990 University of Adelaide, South Australia, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics
1978-1981 Resource Systems Institute, East West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
1980-1981 Research Associate
1978-1979 Research Fellow

University Administration

Australian National University

Deputy Dean/ Acting Dean, College of Business and Economics (2003-4,2006)
Convener, National Institute of Economics and Business (2002-4)
Other roles in ANU(1990-2007, 1982-87), included Convenor, Program Coordinator, Faculty Board Member, Chair of Committees.

University of Adelaide (1987-1990)

Board of Research Studies (1988)
Chairman, Faculty Higher Degrees Committee (1988-1990)
Postgraduate Studies Coordinator, (1988-1990)
Course Convenor: Graduate Diploma in Economics (1989-1990), Master of Economics by Coursework (1988-1990).

External Honorary Appointments

Research Associate of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), ANU, continuing.
External Fellow of the Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University, reappointed July 2009 for a further three-year term
External Fellow of the Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, School of Economics, University of Nottingham

Visiting Appointments

2007 Visiting External Fellow, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University
Research Associate, Center for International Economics, University of California at Santa Cruz
Visiting Professor, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University
2004 Visiting Fellowship, Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU
Visiting Fellowship, Centre for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University
Visiting Fellowship, Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham
1999 Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU
Visitor, School of Economics, Globalisation and Labour Markets Project, University of Nottingham
1995 Visitor, Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU
Visiting Research Fellow, AGRAP, World Bank, Washington DC
1992-1993 Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, U.K.
1992 Visiting Fellow, Trade and Macroeconomics Division, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC

Editor

Founding co-editor (with Deborah Peterson) of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1996-1998.

Teaching

Macroeconomic Theory (advanced undergraduate)
Money, Banking and Financial Markets
Graduate/Honours Macroeconomics

Current projects

Chinese macroeconomic policy and economic performance
Japanese oligopolies and economic performance
The determinants of commodity price volatility – implications for Australia
Demographic change in China: implications for the world economy
Economic growth, macroeconomic shocks and real exchange rate realignment

Industrial Relevance

China and Japan are amongst Australia’s largest trading partners. The research on their economies bears directly on the demand for mineral ores and energy products and so is of direct interest to the state’s mining and energy industries. The work on real exchange rate realignment is also of interest to state industries since it links export prices and domestic production costs. It is also of interest in the formulation of national economic policy.

Collaborations with Other Institutions

Collaborating institutions include the Australian National University and the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University. There is also liaison with the Australian Treasury.

Research profile

Research profile and publications