2016 Economics Annual Report

Economics Discipline

ANNUAL REPORT

2016

Economics Discipline

ANNUAL REPORT

2016

Business School The University of Western Australia Mailbag 251 35 Stirling Highway Crawley, Western Australia, 6009 http://www.business.uwa.edu.au/school/economics

This report was prepared by Peter Robertson, Xing Shi and Yanrui Wu with valuable inputs from many colleagues in the Economics Discipline.

CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION ...... 4

2. STAFF MEMBERS ...... 6

3. SEMINAR SERIES ...... 15

4. THE SHANN MEMORIAL LECTURE ...... 20

5. PHD CONFERENCE IN ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ...... 21

6. VISITORS ...... 22

7. FACULTY PRIZES ...... 23

8. RESEARCH GRANTS...... 24

9. TEACHING ...... 25

10. PHD STUDENT TOPICS ...... 27

11. MASTER OF ECONOMICS PROGRAM...... 29

12. HONOURS PROGRAM ...... 30

13. PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS ...... 32

14. PUBLICATIONS ...... 34

15. DISCUSSION PAPERS ...... 38

16. SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS BY STAFF ...... 40

17. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES ...... 47

1. Introduction

Economics was a founding discipline of mentoring. With a number of new staff on the University and has seen a large number board and strong participation the seminar of changes in School and Faculty programme has continued to thrive. As structures. It is an indication of the usual there was also a strong line up of resilience of the discipline and its strong PhD, Masters and Honours presentations, intellectual and policy core that Economics as well as staff internal seminars. has thrived for over 100 hundred years and remains a leading department in Australia The Shann lecture for 2016 was given by with a great international reputation. Professor Mary Morgan from London School of Economics and attracted a large In 2016 Economics faced another audience and gave an extremely engaging challenge, as one of the 4 Discipline of the presentation on how we use ideas and Business School, with the amalgamation models in economics. 2016 was also of university Faculties. Next year UWA’s turn to host the PhD Conference in Economics will be part of a large faculty Economics and Business and Ken of Arts Business, Law and Education and I Clements and Izan, who have been drivers am sure as it has in the past the Economics of this annual event since its inception scholarly research and dedicated teaching delivered another example of why this is will shine through as a centre of academic Australia’s premier event for PhD training. rigor and excellence in the University, but It’s great to see the level of commitment also grounded in policy and real-world from all the experienced discussants and issues that contribute to improving the the real time learning of PhD students. welfare of societies. Another great outcome was the As always the seminar programme has appointment of three outstanding been the key focal point for academic life academics as Adjunct Professors: Prof and 2016 was no exception in offering a Rachel Murphey, Oxford, Professor Billy very strong line up of national and Jack, Georgetown and Professor Xiabo international visitors. I am constantly told Zhang. They have all visited in the past by visiting speakers how much they and we look forward to hosting them in the enjoyed the experience of presenting to future and possible research collaboration. Economics at UWA and the high quality of feedback they received as well as great There were many other exiting hospitality. developments in Economics, such as the development of a new Master of Public As has been the case in recent years, the Policy, teaching into China and welcoming seminar programme was also supported by articulation students. As always there was the BHP Visiting Professor Programme an enormous amount of research generated which supported a number of outstanding in publications and a large pipeline of international scholars to spend some time working papers. at UWA and engage in research and

It was a challenging year in many ways Thanks to everyone for all the efforts and and running a department through change extra hours that go into making a thriving relies on a supportive team. Staff have academic environment. engaged in an enormous amount of external service to the profession and Peter Robertson attended and presented at international Head of Department conferences. Thanks are also due to the Admin Team for their friendly and supportive environment.

2. Staff Members

ACADEMIC STAFF

Staff member Primary research fields

Dr Elisa Birch Labour economics, education economics Dr Simon Chang Labour economics, health economics, demographic economics Dr Ishita Chatterjee Applied microeconomics, game theory, industrial organisation, institutions Dr Shawn Chen Development economics, economic growth, public finance, Chinese economy Prof Ken Clements International finance, monetary economics, applied macroeconomics Dr Paul Crompton Energy and resource economics Dr Luciana Fiorini Microeconomics Prof Nicolaas Groenewold Macroeconomics, regional economics, Chinese economy, financial economics Prof Peter Hartley Energy and resource economics, macroeconomics Dr Michael Jetter Political economy, public economics, behavioural economics, media economics Dr James Key International trade, education economics Dr Ingebjorg Kristoffersen The economics of happiness and satisfaction, Health economics Dr Bei Li Macroeconomics, public finance, economic growth Dr Leandro Magnusson Econometric theory, applied econometrics Prof Michael McLure History of economic thought Dr Chris Parsons Development economics, migration, applied microeconomics Prof Anu Rammohan Health economics, development economics, Asian economies Prof Peter Robertson International trade, economic growth, development economics, Asian economies Assoc/Prof Abu Siddique Trade, Migration & Economic development Dr Sam Tang Macroeconomics, Asian economies, development economics Prof Rod Tyers International trade, applied macroeconomics, international finance, Asian economies Dr Andrew Williams Education economics, development economics Prof Yanrui Wu Chinese economy, development economics, energy economics, economic growth

ADJUNCT PROFESSORS Professor Billy Jack Georgetown University Professor Rachel Murphy University of Oxford Professor Xiaobo Zhang Peking University

OTHER ACADEMIC STAFF

The Economics Discipline has also benefited from the teaching assistance of the following:

Jordan Armstrong Karen Knight Nathan Pitts Raul Bajo Brooke Loneragan Anis Rezae Troy Barry James Ma Daniel Seymour Corey Davies David Marshall Manal Shehabi Samantha Denford Dianne McWilliam Xing Shi Aiden Depiazzi Amanda Meloni Jessica Smith Alex Dixon Jordan Mittasch Dasmesh Sron Aunchisa Foo Scott Montarello Grace Taylor Andrew Gann Kelly Neill Kazuki Tomioka Michael Hey Son Nguyen Jill Trinh Jenny Hughes Brodie Olma Emily Twigger Vanessa Juliana Ben Ong Long Vo Vivek Karia Susan Pen Fiona Kim Sigit Perdana

In addition, the following individuals acted as Research and/or Administration Assistants to members of staff:

Akbar, Riznaldi Simpson, Tom Si, Jiawei Barry, Troy McGrath, Gabrielle Syaifudin, Noor Depiazzi, Aiden Monteleone, Jason Tarvedi Mamaghani, Yashar Jabeen, Fakhra Mudiyanselage, Harsha Taylor, Grace Juliana, Vanessa Neill, Kelly Tomioka, Kazuki Ma, James (Ning) Nguyen, Son Trinh, Jill (Thao) Marshall, David Shi, Xing Twigger, Emily

PROFESSIONAL STAFF

The Economics Discipline has also benefited from the assistance of a small, highly professional administrative group:

Team Manager: Maryann Evetts Administrative Officers: Isabela Banea Jenny Hu Administrative Assistants: Aya Kelly Ha Le Anna Wiechecki Relief Administrative Assistant: Tundi Jeges

ACADEMIC STAFF PROFILES

E.R.Birch Joined: 2007 S. Chang Joined: 2015 Honours Coordinator, Economics BA MA NCCU Taiwan, PhD MSU BCom-Hons Curtin, PhD W. Aust. Prior to joining UWA, Dr Chang Senior Lecturer Birch first joined was Associate Professor at the the Economics Discipline under Central University of Finance and an ARC grant in 2004. Her Economics in Beijing. He is also research has been published in a Research Fellow at the Institute journals including Economic for the Study of Labour (IZA) in Record, Australian Economic Germany. His research areas Papers, Journal of Higher Education Policy and broadly include health economics, labour Management, Australian Journal of Labour economics and demographic economics. His recent Economics and Journal of Economic Studies. Elisa publications have appeared in the Journal of has also co-authored a book published by Palgrave Economic Behavior and Organization, Health MacMillian. Her main research interests are labour Economics, Economic Development and Cultural economics and the economics of education. In 2011 Change, China Economic Review, Population Dr Birch was awarded an Australian Research Research and Policy Review, and others. He is a Council’s Discovery Early Career Researcher recipient of Fulbright-Hays Doctorial Study Grant, Award. This fellowship is to study the determinants Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Doctoral of earnings and labour supply of Indigenous Dissertation Fellowship, and BHP Billiton Australians. Distinguished Research Award.

I. Chatterjee Joined: 2010 S. X. G. Chen Joined: 2015 BSc Calc., MA JNU, MPhil IGIDR, PhD Monash BS MS UESTC, MRes LSE, PhD PKU/LSE

Ishita Chatterjee is an applied Dr Chen specialises in the microeconomist working in the interplay between taxation, areas of industrial organisation, development, and state building. game theory, development and His current research investigates institutions. Her research has been how tax enforcement in China is published in journals such as affected by the fiscal regime and Journal of Development Studies, Economic political institutions; and how Modelling, Economics Letters, and Applied discretionary tax enforcement leads to enormous Economics. At UWA she teaches the second year aggregate production efficiency loss in the Chinese undergraduate Microeconomics unit (ECON2233) manufacturing sector. He has published in Journal and the postgraduate unit Economics for Business, of Public Economics, Economic Letters, and five Applications and Policy (ECON5541). papers in top Chinese journals. He was the recipient of the Gregory Chow Best Paper Award of the Chinese Economics Society in 2005, and the Best Paper Award of the Annual Conference of Public Finance in China in 2015.

K.W. Clements Joined: 1981 P. Crompton Joined: 1996 BEc-Hons MEc Monash, PhD Chic., FASSA BBus-Hons Curtin, PhD W. Aust.

Ken Clements (Fellow of the Associate Professor Crompton Academy of Social Sciences in has published in Energy Australia since 1998) has Economics, Journal of consistently published research in Environmental Economics and A* journals, most recently in the Management, Agricultural and American Journal of Agricultural Resources Quarterly, Resources Economics and Health Economics. His research has Policy, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business been supported by a series of ARC grants and BHP Statistics, and Applied Economics Letters. Dr (as BHP Research Fellow). Clements has supervised Crompton has edited a book on the Shann Memorial 18 PhD students to completion and is currently Lectures; Australian Macroeconomic Policy supervising another 3. He founded the annual PhD Debates: Contributions from the Shann Memorial Conference in Economics and Business (now in its Lectures 1991-2000 (UWA Press). 30th year), a joint venture between ANU, Monash, Melbourne, UQ and UWA, that has involved more than 750 students from universities in Australia, the US, the UK and elsewhere. Clements teaches international finance to more than 40 honours and master students.

.C. Fiorini Joined: 2011 N. Groenewold Joined: 1997 BA Minas Gerais, MA Sao Paulo, MA PhD Brown BEc MEc Tas., MA PhD W. Ont.

Lecturer Fiorini’s research in Professor Groenewold teaches in economic theory includes international finance. He has modelling market imperfections published in a number of journals and asymmetry of information including Journal of Banking and using a general equilibrium Finance, Journal of approach. She is also interested in Macroeconomics, China applications of Game Theory. Fiorini’s main Economic Review, Pacific Economic Review, publications are in Journal of Mathematical Journal of Empirical Finance, Economics Letters, Economics, International Economic Review and Economic Inquiry, Regional Studies, and Australian Mathematical Social Sciences. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. He is currently working on applications of regional models to issues in China with a long-time collaborator at Jinan University in China, on the relationship between industrial policy and growth in China with collaborators at Zhejiang University, as well as on the likely effects on the Australian growth rate of the Chinese growth slowdown since the Global Financial Crisis.

P. R. Hartley Joined: 2013 M. Jetter Joined: 2015 BA-Hons MEc ANU, PhD Chic. BA PhD Memphis BHP Billiton Chair in the Business of Resources

Winthrop Professor Hartley is an Originally from Germany, applied economist currently Michael received both his BA working in the area of energy (2007) and PhD (2011) in economics, although he has also economics from the University of published research in a number of Memphis, Tennessee. From 2011 fields. His research has appeared to 2015, he worked at the in journals such as The Energy Journal, Energy Universidad EAFIT in Medellin, Colombia, before Economics, Empirical Economics, Journal of joining UWA in 2015. Michael primarily works in Political Economy, International Economic Review, topics related to political economy, public The Economic Journal, Journal of Economic economics, behaviour economics and media Dynamics and Control, Journal of Money, Credit economics. His current research focuses on and Banking and Economica. He obtained his PhD terrorism, conflicts, and gender differences in in economics from the University of Chicago in behaviour. In particular, Michael is interested in the 1980 and has also taught at Princeton, Rice, drivers of terrorism and civil conflict, in addition to Monash, Melbourne universities and the ANU. the intimate relationship between the media and terrorism.

J. Key Joined: 2013 I. Kristoffersen Joined: 2005 BSc BCA-Hons VUW, PhD Penn. State BBus-Hons MBus E. Cowan

Assistant Professor James Key Dr Kristoffersen teaches first-year works in the areas of international, mathematics and development and education microeconomics. She recently economics. He joined UWA in completed her PhD, with a thesis July 2013, and teaches second on the microeconomic analysis of year undergraduate econometrics happiness and satisfaction. Her and third year international trade. papers have been published in International Journal of Business Studies; Australian Accounting Review; Accounting, Accountability and Performance; the Economic Record; and Social Indicators Research.

B. Li Joined: 2011 L.M. Magnusson Joined: 2011 BA Nankai, PhD NU Singapore BA MA Sao Paulo, PhD Brown

Assistant Professor Li joined the Senior Lecturer Magnusson’s Economics Discipline in research interests are September 2011 after graduating econometrics and applied from the PhD program in econometrics. His current Economics at the National research is focused on hypothesis University of Singapore. Her testing for models with research interests include public policy analysis in instabilities. His research has been published in the endogenous growth model and in deterministic Econometrics Journal, Journal of Money, Credit endogenous cycle models. One of her working and Banking, and Econometrica. Senior Lecturer papers explores the optimal size of government debt Magnusson teaches third year undergraduate in a tractable intergenerational model with econometrics, and honours-level advanced applied endogenous fertility, leisure and human capital econometrics. externalities. She is currently working on the application of taxes, subsidies and other public finance instruments to the deterministic endogenous cycle model and examining the subsequent welfare implications.

M.T. McLure Joined: 2002 C. Parsons Joined: 2015 BA Murd., Grad DipEd WAIT, MEc W. Aust., BSc Econ Cardiff, MSc PhD Nottingham PhD Curtin

Professor McLure is a historian of Dr Parsons is a development economic thought. His research economist specialising in the has been published in journals links between migration and such as the Cambridge Journal of development. His current research Economics, the Economic Record, interests include the determinants History of Political Economy, and and consequences of international the European Journal of the History of Economic (refugee and high-skilled) migration. Prior to Thought. He was co-editor of History of Economics joining UWA, Chris worked as a Research Officer Review between 2007 and 2011. Michael is also the at the International Migration Institute at the author of Pareto, Economics and Society (2001, University of Oxford, where he also held a William Routledge) and The Paretian School and Italian Golding Fellowship at Brasenose College. Chris Fiscal Sociology (2007, Palgrave MacMillan); and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of co-editor of the ‘critical and variorum’ edition of Nottingham, during which time he held a Royal Vilfredo Pareto’s Manual of Political Economy Economic Society Junior Fellowship, before which (2014, Oxford University Press). he worked at the World Bank having previously held an ODI Fellowship in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Dr Parsons is also a Research Fellow at IZA, a Research Fellow at the GLO and a member of the senior common room at Brasenose College, Oxford.

A. Rammohan Joined: 2009 P.E. Robertson Joined: 2009 BA B’lore, MA S. Fraser, PhD La Trobe BA-Hons Otago, MEc UNE, PhD S. raser Head of Discipline, Economics

Professor Rammohan’s research Professor Robertson was educated focuses on development issues in at the University of Otago, the India and China. This research has University of New England and been funded by competitive grants Simon Fraser University. He was from the Australian Research formerly at the University of New Council and AusAID. She also has collaborative research links with international South Wales and the Productivity organisations such as IFPRI (USA), ICASEPS Commission. Professor Robertson assumed the role (Indonesia), Indian Statistical Institute and TISS of Head of the Economics Discipline in January (India). Her research on Australian policy issues, 2014 and is a member of the Australian Research child care and female employment choices, has been Council, College of Experts. cited in the media and in the Commonwealth Treasury and OECD report on childcare. Papers from her research have been published both in Australian policy journals such as Australian Economic Papers and Australian Journal of Labour Economics, as well as in international journals such as Health Economics, Education Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Research in Labour Economics and Oxford Development Studies.

M.A.B. Siddique Joined: 1987 S.H.K. Tang Joined: 2005 BA-Hons MA MPhil Rajsh., DipResMeth Dhaka, BA Leth., MA S. Fraser, PhD Tas. DipResRurDev Hawaii, PhD W. Aust. Postgraduate Coordinator, Economics Sam’s recent research has been focusing on: 1) the long-lasting Abu Siddique’s research activities effects of historical variables on centre around some of the critical countries’ current economic areas in contemporary outcomes, and 2) the effects of development economics such as unskilled migration on education trade, migration, sustainable and development of both the source and destination development, corruption, and countries. He is keen to answer questions such as: good governance with special focus on the Asia- “Which aspect of history is most important for a Pacific region. He has published in international country’s current economic outcomes and why?” or journals such as Journal of Policy Modeling; “Do migrant domestic workers affect educational Applied Economics; Journal of Development achievement and language ability of children under Studies; Environment International; International their care?” or “Does unskilled migration lower the Journal of Social Economics, South Asia; and incentive for human capital accumulation for source Empirical Economics Letters. He has also authored, countries?” edited and co-edited numerous books including Handbook of Sustainable Development Planning: Studies in Modelling and Decision Support (2nd edition, Edward Elgar); Globalisation, Agriculture and Development: Perspectives from the Asia- Pacific (Edward Elgar); and Regionalism, Trade and Economic Development in the Asia-Pacific Region (Edward Elgar).

R. Tyers Joined: 2009 A. Williams Joined: 2000 BEng MEngSci Melb., MS PhD Harv. BEc-Hons PhD W. Aust.

Winthrop Professor Tyers Dr Williams’ teaching is focused specialises in applied international in the core first-year economics and has contributed in microeconomic theory course. In areas of commodity trade policy, 2007 he completed his PhD thesis the labour market effects of trade on the links of the long-run relationship between governance reform, the economic effects of and economic growth, and has global demographic change, open economy had papers published in World Development, the macroeconomics as applied to Chinese economic Journal of Comparative Economics, Economics of policy and its international implications, and the Governance, and Journal of Development effects of automation on inequality in OECD Economics. He was a visiting scholar at the Oxford countries. He has published four books, 88 refereed Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich journal articles and 56 chapters in edited books, Economies (OXCARRE) in 2014, and is currently including articles in the European Economic Deputy Head of Economics. Review, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, the World Economy, Economic Modelling, the Economic Record and the Chinese Economic Review. His research grants have been from the Australian Research Council, the Australia-Japan Foundation, the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, the Australian Council for International Agricultural Research, the World Bank and the USDA Economic Research Service.

Y. Wu Joined: 1996 BS Anhui, MA Nankai, MA ANU, PhD Adel.

Professor Wu is an economist specializing in development economics, international trade and applied econometrics. His research interests include the Asian economies (particularly, China India and Indonesia), productivity analysis, economic growth, resource and environmental economics. He has published extensively in these fields including six authored books. Professor Wu is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies (Routledge, UK), China Agricultural Economic Review (Emerald, UK) and East Asian Policy (National University of Singapore). His teaching interests include international economics, business econometrics and development economics.

HONORARY RESEARCH FELLOWS

M.J. Davies Joined: 1976 R. Gabbay Joined: 1968 Honorary Research Fellow BSc MA Tel Aviv, DrPolSc Geneva BA Kent, MA Adel., OAM Senior Honorary Research Fellow

Mel Davies has been the Secretary Dr Gabbay specialises in of the Australasian Mining contemporary Middle Eastern History Association since 1994 issues, energy and oil, and also serves as Secretary of the development economics, and the International Mining History role of culture in international Congress. He has published widely on mining in a marketing. He has published 19 number of journals, including the Australian books and 78 articles and monographs. Dr Gabbay Economic History Review, Australian Historical is now working on condensing his six volumes on Studies, and in 2014, in the South American journal, Australia and the Middle East 1945-2100: A socio- REVISTA. He has chapters in a number of books and economic and political study. Volume 3 is being has compiled a bibliography of the Mining History revised and updated following referees’ of Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. recommendations (pending publication). Dr For the past 14 years he has been editor of the Gabbay was awarded the Business School Journal of Australasian Mining History. Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009.

R.N. Ghosh Joined: 1968 E.J. Weber Joined: 1989 MA Delhi, PhD Birmingham Lic oec publ Zurich, MA PhD Roch. Senior Honorary Research Fellow Senior Honorary Research Fellow

Dr Weber has published articles Dr Ghosh retired from the on monetary policy, central Economics Discipline in 1994 and banking, monetary standards, was appointed as a Senior and economic growth, and his Honorary Research Fellow. In research on insurance deals with recent years he has published on multi-peril crop insurance in topics relating to a wide range of drought-affected areas. Since his retirement as development issues, such as good governance, Associate Professor in 2015. Dr Weber has been corruption, gender issues, the environment, and the associated with the Business School as Senior role of tourism in initiating development in LDCs. Honorary Research Fellow and he has continued to Dr Ghosh is the current chairman of the teach courses in financial economics and International Institute of Development Studies mathematical economics. He also gives a course in Australia. He has recently published with Atlantic insurance economics at the African Institute for Publishers and Distributors, a South Asian edition of Mathematical Sciences in Cape Town, South Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. Africa. Before joining UWA and during sabbaticals, Dr Weber taught economics at the University of Zurich; University of Rochester, NY; California State University, Northridge; and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Dr Weber is a team member at the Centre of Integrative Bee Research, Plant Energy Biology, UWA; and has served as Honorary Consul for Switzerland in Western Australia.

3. Seminar Series

There are two seminar series that are presented throughout the teaching year. The first series features visitors from other universities and UWA staff with presentations delivered on papers and their research. The second series involves UWA PhD students and staff presenting their current research. Both series provide constructive ways of communicating research results and for speakers to obtain valuable criticism and comments on their work.

Research Seminar Series

Date Speaker (institution) Title

Assoc Prof Antoinette Baujard 4th March Sen is not a Capability Theorist (Universite Jean Monnet) Dr Kerry Papps 9th March Spillovers and Team Incentives (University of Bath) China’s Institutional Impediments to Dr Harry Wu 11th March Sustainable Growth – A Productivity (Hitotsubashi University) Approach Inputs, Incentives, and Complementarities in Assist Prof Isaac Mbiti 18th March Primary Education: Experimental Evidence (University of Virginia) from Tanzania Prof Markus Brueckner 1st April Rent Extraction by Capitalists (ANU) Children Living in Multi-Local Families in Prof Rachel Murphy 8th April Rural China: Preliminary Reflections on (Oxford) Gender Differences 15th April HONOURS PRESENTATIONS Dr Kenan Kalayci 6th May Chasing Market Share in Platform Markets (University of Queensland) Prof Jeff Bennett 13th May Protecting the Environment: Privately (ANU) Dr Taya Dumrongrittikul The Effects of Productivity Gains in Asian 13th May (University of Queensland) Emerging Economies: A Global Perspective Prof Wayne Grove The Economics of Winner-Take-All Markets: 20th May (LeMoyne College) Evidence from Youth and Professional Tennis 27th May Dr Yuji Tamura (La Trobe) Game-theoretic Analysis of Asylum Provision Assoc Prof Paul Raschky 3rd June The Role of Media in Asymmetric Warfare (Monash) 29th July Prof Hanming Fang (University of Mothers' Employment, Parental Absence and

Pennsylvania visiting UNSW, Children's Educational Gender Gap Shawn) Prof Garry Barrett (U Sydney, Anu Pension Incentives and the Retirement 12th August dinner) Decisions of Couples Prof Deborah Cobb-Clark (Uni Parenting Style as an Investment in Human 19th August Sydney) Development Edward G. Keating (friend Phil Air attack against wildfires: Understanding 26th August Dolan) (senior economist at the the U.S. forest service requirements for large RAND) aircraft Prof David Stern (ANU, joint with From Wood to Coal: Directed Technical 9th September Curtin, talk there on Sep 8) Change and the British Industrial Revolution 16th September HONOURS PRESENTATIONS 23rd How do Interest Group Affiliations Affect the Prof David Stadelmann (Bayreuth) September Behavior of Politicians? The effect of smileys as motivational 7th October Wencke Gwozdz (Denmark) incentives on children’s food choice: A field experiment among European primary schools. Aid on Demand: African Leaders and the 14th October Prof Axel Dreher (Heidelberg) Geography of China’s Foreign Assistance Behavioral reactions to pricing: Experimental Assoc/Prof Andreas Leibbrandt 21th October evidence on price discrimination and customer (Monash) antagonism. Prof Richard Holden (UNSW, Anu 28th October Network Capital dinner)

Work-in-Progress Seminars

Date Speaker / Institution Topic Title

Mark Agerton The Market for Privately Owned Mineral Rights in 2nd March Rice University US Shale: A Dynamic Approach

Dr Kerry Papps 9th March Spillovers and Team Incentives University of Bath

Engel’s Law, Diet Diversity and the Quality of 16th March Prof Kenneth Clements Food Consumption

Migration, Capital Accumulation and Growth in 23rd March Longfeng Ye China

Raul Bajo Buenestado Welfare Implications of Capacity Payments in a 30th March Price-Capped Electricity Sector: A Case Study of Rice University the Texas Market (ERCOT)

th 6 Apr Does University-Industry Collaboration Improve Xing Shi (UWA) Chinese Firms’ Innovation Efficiency?

th 13 Apr Assoc Prof Rachel Labour Migration & Urbanisation, Education, Murphy (Oxford) Culture, Gender Imbalances

th The Gender Gap in Competitive Performance and 27 Apr Dr Michael Jetter Risk-Taking: The Importance of Competing (UWA) Against Males

th 4 May Japan’s Oligopolies: Potential Gains from Third Prof Rod Tyers (UWA) Arrow Reforms

Production Network and Its Impact on International Trade: A Comparison between East 11th May Son Nguyen (UWA) / Asia and European Union / James Ma (UWA) Environmental Efficiency and Its Distribution Dynamics in Chinese Cities

th 18 May Prof Peter Robertson Was there Really a Malthusian Era? Growth and (UWA) Convergence before 1800

The Invisible Wall: Sex Ratio and 3th August Simon Chang (UWA) Decriminalization of Homosexuality

Medium-Term Macroeconomic Volatility and 10th August Sam Tang (UWA) Economic Development: A New Technique

State-Sponsored Migration and Inequality: 17th August Graham Brown (UWA) Evidence from New Order Indonesia

Australian Broadband: Two Decades of Troy Barry (UWA) / 24th August Competition and Regulation/ Tom Simpson (UWA) Art Auctions & the Price of Failure

A Critical Assessment of Post-Keynesian to Jill Thao Trinh (UWA Thomas Piketty's Approach to Distribution and 31th August PhD) / Qing Li (UWA Growth/ PhD) Intangible Capital Measurement in Chinese Regions

Bettina Klaus Object Allocation via Immediate-Acceptance: 7th September Characterizations and an Affirmative Action University of Lausanne Application

Do Indigenous University Graduates Actually Fare 14th September Elisa Birch (UWA) Better in the Labour Market? Evidence from the 2011-2014 Australian Graduate Destination Survey

M.Ec dissertation 21th September presentations

Xiaobo Zhang E-Commerce Expands the Bandwidth of 5th October Peking University Entrepreneurship

Wilfredo Maldonado Cointegrated Periodically Collapsing Bubbles in 12th October (University of Brasilia) the Exchange Rate of 'BRICS

The Time-Varying Risk Perception: Analyzing the Kazuki Tomioka Behavioral Link to Investment / 19th October (UWA) / Do Spouses Influence Each Other's Stated Son Ishita Chatterjee (UWA) Preference?

26th October Luciana Fiorini (UWA) Expectational Stability in Aggregative Games

Inga Kristoffersen Great Expectations: Education and Subjective 2nd November (UWA) Wellbeing

4. The Shann Memorial Lecture

The annual Shann Memorial Lecture is held Economic Society of Australia and is widely in memory of the Foundation Professor of regarded as a premier public economics Economics at the University of Western lecture in Australia. Australia, Edward Owen Giblin Shann. Edward Shann has been regarded as the It has earned an enviable reputation for a pioneer of the academic development of high standard of scholarship and it has made economics and traditional Australian a substantial contribution to economic economic history and he was a strong debate in Australia. advocate of individual intellectual freedom and developing a sense of social The 55th Shann Memorial Lecture was responsibilities. He penned several books delivered at the UWA Business School on and essays on the economic history of 27th April 2016 by Professor Mary S. Australia and was a major influence in Morgan. Mary S. Morgan is Professor of formulating financial and fiscal policies in History and Philosophy of Economics at the Australia. Edward Shann was born in 1884 London School of Economics and Vice and graduated with first-class honours in President (Publications) at the British history and political economics from Academy. She also holds a professorial Queens’ College, University of Melbourne. appointment at the University of Amsterdam He won several scholarships and went on and is a visiting fellow at the University of for higher studies at the London School of Pennsylvania. Mary’s major area of Economics. He returned to Australia from scholarship is the history of economic and England in 1910 and was lecturer-in-charge econometric ideas. Her recent award of history and economics at the University winning book, The World in the Model of Queensland from June 1911 to December (Cambridge University Press, 2012), 1912. He joined the University of Western considers modelling as a method of enquiry, Australia in its inaugural year of 1913 as the the imagining and imaging of economic Foundation Professor of history and ideas (to consider the way that images economics. He then went on to work at the emerge and are developed over time to give University for a total of 22 years and was form, and greater clarity, to economic Vice-Chancellor from 1921 to 1923. thinking), model experiments, the uses of Edward Shann’s life was cut tragically short simulations and a range of other issues. when he died at the age of 51, in 1935. This Shann Memorial Lecture is presented The Shann Memorial Lecture is organised as part of the Economic Society of jointly by the UWA Business School and Australia’s 2016 Eminent Speaker Series. the West Australian Branch of the

5. PhD Conference in Economics and Business

The PhD Conference in Economics and The 29th PhD Conference was held at the Business is an annual event that brings UWA Business School in November 2016 together students and academics from most (http://www.business.uwa.edu.au/__data/ass Australian universities, as well as some ets/pdf_file/0010/2938177/UWA-phd-conf- overseas institutions. It was first initiated in program-171016.pdf) and involved 32 1987 by the Business School of the students from a number of Australian and NZ University of Western Australia. The universities and 32 discussants The conference is currently co-organised by the conference was opened by Robyn Owens, Australian National University, Monash Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at UWA. University, University of Queensland and A number of extremely interesting papers University of Western Australia. The location were presented, and it was clear from the of the conference has alternated between quality of the students and discussants that these four universities. the future of research in economics and finance is indeed exciting. The basic objective of the conference is to help with the training of promising doctoral Four prizes were determined by a secret students by giving them the opportunity to ballot of all participants and the winners gain feedback on and exposure for their were: research. It also enables PhD students to meet · Best Presenters - David Delacrétaz, with their peers and to make contact with University of Melbourne (Economics) and senior academics and researchers with similar Emma Zhang, University of New South interests, as well as acting as an informal job Wales (Finance) market whereby students can demonstrate ·Best Discussants, - Paul Frijters, University their abilities and attract attention to their of Queensland (Economics) and Terry prospects. Walter, University of Sydney, and Mardi Dungey, University of Tasmania (Finance) The format of the conference has remained true to the original concept whereby each Two special prizes were awarded to the student is assigned a discussant to comment student with the most potential, chosen by on their research paper. The discussants, who Martin Richardson (ANU) and Izan are specially chosen to match the subject (University of Western Australia). The matter of the papers, include an impressive winners were: list of senior researchers with extensive ·Student with Most Potential, Economics -- experience in supervision. This highlights an David Delacrétaz, University of Melbourne important feature of the conference which is · Student with Most Potential, Finance -- the outstanding quality of the feedback given Jianlei Han, University of Queensland to the students by the discussants and other

participants. Additionally, the conference is a The 30th Conference will be held at the productive combination of research in both University of Melbourne in 2017. economics and finance, something that is rare in Australia.

6. Visitors

The Economics Discipline was pleased to different fields. Her work has greatly welcome several official visitors during contributed to advances in matching theory, 2016. During their visits, they presented which is applied to a diverse range of seminars and collaborated with members of problems like house allocation, students’ the Discipline on research. Guests included: placement and roommates matching. During her visit to UWA from October 2nd to Professor Axel Dreher visited UWA for 2 October 17th 2017 Professor Klaus offered weeks in early October, both to work on a a mini course on Market Design and gave a research project with Michael Jetter, and to talk at the Economics Research seminar. give a seminar presentation about Chinese foreign aid in Africa. A number of Dr Siew Ling Yew is a senior lecturer of colleagues exchanged quite a few research the department of Economics at Monash ideas with Axel and his only complaint was University. Her research areas include the disappointing weather performance Macroeconomics, Public Finance, Economic (rightfully so). We are hoping he’ll give the Growth and Development, and Population Perth climate another chance at some point Economics. She has published articles in in the future. international journals, including Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Professor Xiuyan Liu is Associate Dynamics and Control, Canadian Journal of Professor and Head of Economics in the Economics, Economic Record, Economic School of Economics and Management, Modelling and Empirical Economics. Southeast University in China. His research During his visit to UWA from November areas include Economic Geography, Urban 14th to November 20th 2016, Dr Yew Economics and the Chinese Economy. His collaborated with Dr Bei Li on a joint work appeared in major economics journals project to investigate the welfare effect of in China. Dr Liu visited UWA Economics the social security policy reform in during August-October and conducted developing countries. collaborative research with Professor Yanrui Wu. He also held informal meetings with Professor David Stadelmann is the Chair several economics PhD candidates who are of Development Economics at the writing their theses on Chinese economic University of Bayreuth (Germany). He development. visited UWA for 2 weeks in September. During his stay, David gave a presentation Professor Bettina Klaus is a Full Professor about how interest groups affect politicians’ at the Department of Economics of the behaviour and he very much enjoyed his University of Lausanne, in Switzerland. She time here. His stay at UWA was productive, is a renowned economist with valuable as he finished 2 joint papers with Michael contributions to the advancements of Market Jetter, in addition to getting new research Design and Game Theory. Her list of projects on the way. publications is extensive and impressive, with a vast number of co-authors from

7. Faculty Prizes

The following is information on Faculty prizes won by staff in Economics.

Recipient Name of Awards Total Grant Value

S. Chang BHP Billiton Grants for Visiting Professors $7,997 Shawn Chen Business School Research Development Awards $9,860 The Campbell Watkins Award for the Best Paper published in P.R. Hartley $US1,000 The Energy Journal in 2015 IAEE Award in Recognition of Leadership and Service as P.R. Hartley President in 2015 M. Jetter Ahern Family Early Career Researcher Portfolio Prize $2,500 M. Jetter BHP Billiton Distinguished Researcher Award $25,000 L.M. Dean’s Best Paper Prize $ 2,500 Magnusson C. Parsons Ahern Family Early Career Researcher Portfolio Prize $2,500 C. Parsons BHP Billiton Grants for Visiting Professors $6,460 C. Parsons BHP Billiton Grants for Visiting Professors $7,265 C. Parsons Visiting Early Career Researcher award $,7,727

8. Research Grants

The following is information on research grants won by staff in Economics.

Recipient Project Title Total Grant Value

Woodside Petroleum R. Tyers, P. Hartley The economic implications of Australia’s natural gas $130,000 & K. Neill reservation policies

Miscellaneous (Emerald Publishing and Perth Convention Bureau) Y. Wu China’s New Normal Growth $5,300

G Milne-Research Launch Expectational Stability in Aggregative Games, L. C. Fiorini Wilfredo L. Maldonado

BHP Distinguished Research Award C. Parsons The labour Market Impact of Immigrants: Redux $16,000

Other Grants Coordinating CI on an establishment grant from the R. Tyers $10,000 US-Asia Centre

9. Teaching

A list of units offered by the Discipline in 2016, together with course coordinators and enrolments follows.

Unit Code Unit Name Semester Coordinator(s) Enrolments

A. Williams ECON1101 Microeconomics: Prices and Markets 1, 2 1384 I. Kristoffersen E. Birch ECON1102 Macroeconomics: Money and Finance 1, 2 623 B. Li Quantitative Methods for Business and L. Fiorini ECON1111 1, 2 98 Economics I. Kristoffersen ECON2105 Rise of the Global Economy 1 P. Crompton 183 ECON2016 Asia in the World Economy 2 S. Tang 66 Microeconomics: Policy and I. Chatterjee ECON2233 1,2 414 Applications B. Li Macroeconomics: Policy and ECON2234 2 S. Tang 300 Applications ECON2245 Business Economics 2 E. Birch 129 ECON2271 Business Econometrics 1, 2 J. Key 126 ECON3205 Health Economics 1 S. Chang 55 ECON3210 Monetary Economics 1 M. McLure 100 ECON3220 Development Economics 2 C. Parsons 56 ECON3235 International Trade 2 J. Key 144 ECON3236 International Finance 1 N. Groenewold 340 Intermediate Mathematics for ECON3272 2 S. Chen 43 Economists ECON3301 Game Theory and Strategic Thinking 1 L. Fiorini 80 ECON3302 Applied Microeconomics 1 C. Parsons 99 ECON3303 Applied Macroeconomics 2 S. Chen 56 ECON3310 History of Economic Ideas 1 M. McLure 33 ECON3350 Money, Banking and Financial Markets 2 E. J. Weber 62 ECON3371 Econometrics 2 L. Magnusson 20 ECON3395 Economic Policy 2 M. Jetter 105 Applied Econometrics and Research ECON4401 1 Y. Wu 19 Methods ECON4402 Microeconomic Theory 1 L. Fiorini 14 ECON4405 Public Economics 2 M. Jetter 23 ECON4408 Advanced Development Economics 1 A. Rammohan 25 ECON4413 Applied Advanced Econometrics 1 L. Magnusson 8

ECON4418 Macroeconomic Theory 2 R. Tyers 7 ECON4450 Advanced International Trade 2 P. Robertson 19 ECON4503 Advanced Economic Analysis 2 S. Chang 29 ECON4507 History of Economic Thought 1 M. McLure 17 ECON5506 The Economics of Financial Markets 1 R. Tyers 39 ECON5508 Advanced Macroeconomic Theory 2 R. Tyers 12 ECON5509 Advanced Microeconomic Theory 1 L. Fiorini 7 ECON5513 Applied Advanced Econometrics 1 L. Magnusson 6 Economics for Business: Applications I. Chatterjee ECON5541 1,2 159 and Policy S. Tang

10. PhD Student Topics

During 2016, the Economics Discipline had 23 students enrolled in the PhD program. Details on the students, their topics and arrangements for supervision are as follows.

Student Supervisor(s) Thesis title

Y. Wu Early Warning Systems for Debt Crises: A Case Study Akbar, Riznaldi B. Li of Indonesia

R. Tyers External Shocks and Indonesian Macroeconomic Azwar, Prayudhi P.E. Robertson Policy

A. Rammohan Cao, Junran Essays in Health and Labour Economics L.M. Magnusson

P.R. Hartley Real Options Approach to Evaluate Business Chandra, Atul* G. Nair Investment Decisions in Practice P. Guj

B. Baer The Evolution of Time Preference and its Impact on Collins, Jason* E.J. Weber Economic Growth

Donovan, P.R. Hartley The Effectiveness of Early Stage Mining Project Jaimie* P. Lilly Evaluations in Guiding Investment Decisions

R. Tyers Relative Prices of the Metal Ores in the Long Run and Jefferys, Philip P.E. Robertson the Implications for Australian Economic Policy

M.T. McLure Knight, Karen A. C. Pigou and the Marshallian Thought Style R.N. Ghosh

D. Butler Kristoffersen, P. Gerrans Happiness and Economics Ingebjorg* P.E. Robertson

Y. Wu China’s Intangible Capital and Productivity Growth by Li, Qing R. Tyers Region and Sector

K.W. Clements Liu, Hai Yan* Understanding World Food Consumption Patterns Y. Lan

Y. Wu Understanding Productivity Growth in the Chinese Ma, Ning A. Rammohan Industrial Sector

Manihuruk, M.A.B. Siddique Taxation Determinants of Corruption: A Cross Judiana A. Williams Country Analysis with Special Reference to Indonesia

Y. Wu Production Network in East Asia and Opportunities for Nguyen, Thanh A. Rammohan Vietnam

M.A.B. Siddique The Impact of Taxes and Social Safety Nets on Okatch, Zelda A. Rammohan Poverty and Inequality in Botswana 27

Student Supervisor(s) Thesis title

Paranavithana, R. Tyers Monetary policy in small open economies: the Harsha L. Magnusson transition to inflation targeting

R. Tyers Modelling Indonesian Carbon Taxation: Effects on Perdana, Sigit P.E. Robertson Long Term Economic Growth

P.E. Robertson Demand for Palm Oil and Indonesian Forestry and Priyati, Rini R. Tyers Poverty

Rumayya, A. Rammohan Decentralisation and Quality of Governance in Rumayya S.H.K. Tang Indonesia

R. Tyers Out of the Black Hole: Petrostate Economic Policy in Shehabi, Manal R. Gabbay Kuwait after the Gulf War P.R. Hartley

Y. Wu Indigenous Innovation, Foreign Technology Spillover Shi, Xing R. Tyers and Productivity Growth in China

Y. Wu The Economics of Sustainable Development: An Syaifudin, Noor M.A.B. Siddique Indonesian Perspective

M.T. McLure The Relationship between Three Diverse Approaches Trinh, Jill* Paul Plummer to Distribution and Growth: Piketty, Kaldor and Pareto *Joint supervision between the Economics Discipline and another UWA discipline and/or external institution.

11. Master of Economics Program

The Economics Discipline had 21 students enrolled in the Master of Economics (MEc) program in 2016:

Byrnes, Thomas John Douval , Douval Cai,,Bingjie Ho, Si Chek Fan, Jiaxin Chaney, Jonathon Havovita Pathiranage, Amali Wise, Joseph Priyashanthi Ranpati Dewage, Thilini Kannangara Koralalage, Chathuri O'Donnell, Simon George Sineth Kannangara Adhiaksono Putri, Ines Konara Mudiyanselage, Harsha Loreck, Michael Kaushalya Dasanayake Jenkins, Jamie Donald Perera Ekanayake, Pannilage Lapworth, Stuart Douglas Niluka Suranji Mai, Lien Thi Prasanna, Withanage Sudath McMurray, Clinton Wade Trevenen, Luke William

Of these, the following six students completed their MEc dissertation in 2016. Details on the students, their topics and arrangements for supervision are as follows.

Student Supervisor(s) Thesis title

Influence of foreign Bank Presence on Thomas Byrnes Sam Tang Macroeconomic Fluctuations Andrew Williams, Education and Human Capital in Vietnam: A Rebecca White Abu Siddique Policy Analysis The effect of class size and school size on students’ Andrew Williams, Sean Jelinek mean NAPLAN scale scores and achievement gain Elisa Birch in Western Australian schools 'Evidence and Solutions for Underinvestment in the Casey Lickfold Paul Crompton Global Space Sector' The Current Relevance of Keynesian Economics Natasha Ninkov Michael McLure with respect to Economic Crises Trends and Linkages in Energy Consumption and Kway Tan Yanrui Wu Economic Activity

12. Honours Program

The Economics Discipline had 29 students “The Effect of Macroeconomic enrolled in the Honours program in 2016. Announcements on the Australian Dollar” Details on the students, their dissertation titles and arrangements for supervision are Corey Davies – supervised by Elisa Birch below. and Andrew Williams “The Labour Market Outcomes of Recent Jordan Armstrong – supervised by Elisa University Graduates: The Employment and Birch Earnings Premium of an Honours Degree” “The Male Marriage-Wage Premium: Revisiting the Specialisation Hypothesis” Alex Dixon – supervised by Rod Tyers “Examining the Distributional Implications Michael Arthur – supervised by Anu of Automation and Robotics in a Closed Rammohan Economy Model” “Food Security in Tanzania” Jonathan Fiore – supervised by Simon Jessica Bilson – supervised by Michael Chang Jetter and Inga Kristoffersen “The Natural Resources Boom and the “Gender Differences in the Effect of Income Returns of Education Within Australia” on Trust” Andrew Gann – supervised by Paul Miles Blair – supervised by James Key Crompton “The Market for Rare Earth Elements: An “Western Australia’s Renewable Energy Equilibrium Analysis” Future: A Cost Assessment of Solar Photovoltaics and Onshore Wind” Delaney Bruce – supervised by Yanrui Wu “Regional Growth and Convergence: A Vivek Karia – supervised by Elisa Birch Comparison between the United States and “How Has Strong Wage Growth from the China” Mining Boom Contributed to the Gender Wage Gap in Western Australia?” Alexandra Colalillo – supervised by Shawn Chen and Peter Hartley Fiona Kim – supervised by Peter Robertson “What Causes Fluctuations in the Price of “The Necessity of Defence: An Examination Crude Oil? An Investigation of the Sources of the Determinants of Military Expenditure of Variation in Demand and Supply Over Time” Influencing the Oil Market in the 2014-2016 Oil Price Decline” Brooke Loneragan – supervised by Chris Parsons Tomas Cokis – supervised by Leandro “The Determinants of Migration Surges” Magnusson

Dianne McWilliam – supervised by Michael Jetter Jessica Smith – supervised by Ken “Explaining Inequality Between Countries: Clements The Declining Power of Political “Are Currency and Commodity Markets Institutions” Linked? International Evidence”

Jason Menteleone – supervised by Anu Dasmesh Sron – supervised by Andrew Rammohan Williams “Inefficiency in Public Hospital Operating “An Investigation into the Effects of Theatres: An Economic Analysis of Western Economic Transparency on the Bilateral Australian Theatres and the Impact of Pre- Levels of Trade in Services between Operative Briefings” Countries”

Michael Nelmes – supervised by Ishita Thomas Stanway – supervised by Andrew Chatterjee Williams “Analysis of the Determinants of Sport “Transparency and Growth” Participation and Frequency in Australia” Grace Taylor – supervised by Ken James Panarettos – supervised by Anu Clements and Shawn Chen Rammohan and Simon Chang “The Theory and Measurement of Potential “The Effect of the Hukou System on Output” Children’s Height in China” Duc Tran –supervised by Ken Clements Teleah Parker – supervised by Leandro “Economic Forecasts: Why, How and Magnusson When” “The Dynamic Relationship Between Monetary Policy, Business Confidence and Mollie Urquhart – supervised by Nic Business Investment” Groenewold “An Empirical Assessment of the Role of the Stefan Raovic – supervised by Leandro Australian Housing Market in the Magnusson Transmission of Monetary Policy” “What Happens When Instruments are Invalid?” Jordan Valentine –supervised by Peter Hartley and Leandro Magnusson Anis Rezae – supervised by Sam Tang “Macroeconomic Significance of “Identifying and Analysing Trend-Growth Temporary and Permanent Oil Price Reversals: A Structural Break Approach” Shocks”

13. Prizes and Scholarships

There are a number of prizes awarded to students in Economics and the Discipline is very grateful to the donors. The following is a list of prizes awarded in 2016.

Prize Awarded to

Chamber of Commerce and Industry Western Australia Katerina Yunli Chua Prize Student who achieves highest mark in ECON2233 Microeconomics: Policy and Applications

Dr Andrew M Houston Memorial Prize Adam Hanting Zhao Student who achieves highest average mark in ECON1101 and ECON1102 in the same year

Mitsubishi Development Prize Jonathan Louis Serfaty Student who achieves highest mark in ECON5503 Economic Management and Strategy

Productivity Commission Prize Shannon Truong Student who achieves highest mark in ECON3302 Applied Microeconomics

Professor Edward Shann Memorial Prize Adam Hanting Zhao Student who achieves highest mark in ECON1102 Macroeconomics: Money and Finance

Ron and Jenny Manners Prize Ana Filipa Mateus Calado Student who achieves highest mark in ECON2105 Rise of the Global Economy

W.E.G. Salter Memorial Prize in Economics Thomas Joseph Hunt Student who achieves highest average mark in their final year of BCom (Economics)

Western Australian Treasury Corporation Prize Student Thomas Joseph Hunt who achieves highest mark ECON3210 Monetary Economics

Vargovic Memorial Fund

Mr Christopher A. Vargovic left a generous bequest to the University to support research students in economics when he died in 1987. The interest earnings from the estate have been used over much of the past decade to financially assist honours, masters and PhD students to complete their research by providing them with bursaries ranging from $2,000 to $8,000. The Economics Discipline, as well as the students involved, greatly values the generosity and foresight shown by Mr Vargovic in establishing this fund, which has had the effect of substantially boosting the Discipline’s ability to attract and nurture promising young researchers in economics.

The Vargovic Fund financed bursaries to the following students from 2014 to 2016:

2016 2015 2014 Cokis Tomas Matthew Bunny David Ho Loneragan Brooke Nikola Risteski Simon Lang Jessica Bilson Benjamin Mifflin Jiamin Lim Smith Jessica Kenny Ng McWilliam Dianne

Samaritan: Field evidence of other- 14. Publications regarding preferences in China. China Economic Review, 41, 23-33. During 2016 the staff of the Economics Discipline published work in a substantial Chatterjee, I., & Saha, B. (2017). Bilateral number of books, journals, and other media. Delegation in Duopoly Wage and A list of these publications is presented Employment Bargaining. Managerial and below. Decision Economics, 38(4), 607-621.

JOURNAL ARTICLES Cheong, T. S., Wu, Y., & Wu, J. (2016). Evolution of carbon dioxide emissions in Arthmar, R., & McLure, M. (2016). On Chinese cities: trends and transitional Britain's Return to the Gold Standard: Was dynamics. Journal of the Asia Pacific there a ‘Pigou–McKenna Economy, 21(3), 357-377. School’?. Economic Record, 92(S1), 1-14. Clements, K. W., & Si, J. (2016). Price Arthmar, R., & McLure, M. (2016). AC Elasticities of Food Demand: Compensated Pigou and the ‘Real Purpose’ of the 1924-25 vs Uncompensated. Health economics, Committee on the Currency and Bank of 25(11), 1403-1408. England Note Issues. History of Economic Thought and Policy. 66, (1). p: 2., Clements, K. W., Si, J., & Simpson, T. DOI:10.1080/10370196.2016.1270159 (2016). Understanding new resource projects. Review of Income and Birch, E., & Marshall, D. (2016). The Wealth, 62(3), 584-600. association between indigenous Australians' labour force participation rates and access to Collins, J., Baer, B., & Weber, E. J. (2016). transport. Australian Journal of Labour Evolutionary Biology in Economics: A Economics, 19(2), 91. Review. Economic Record, 92(297), 291- 312. Cao, J., & Rammohan, A. (2016). Social capital and healthy ageing in Correa, E. A., Jetter, M., & Agudelo, A. M. Indonesia. BMC public health, 16(1), 631. (2016). Corruption: Transcending Borders. Kyklos, 69(2), 183-207. Chang, S., Connelly, R., & Ma, P. (2016). What Will You Do If I Say ‘I Do’?: The Fan, J., He, H., & Wu, Y. (2016). Personal Effect of the Sex Ratio on Time Use within carbon trading and subsidies for hybrid Taiwanese Married Couples. Population electric vehicles. Economic Modelling, 59, Research and Policy Review, 35(4), 471- 164-173. 500. Fan, J., Li, Y., Wu, Y., Wang, S., & Zhao, Chang, S., Dee, T. S., Tse, C. W., & Yu, L. D. (2016). Allowance trading and energy (2016). Be a Good Samaritan to a Good consumption under a personal carbon

trading scheme: a dynamic programming Hong, J., Feng, B., Wu, Y., & Wang, L. approach. Journal of Cleaner (2016). Do government grants promote Production, 112, 3875-3883. innovation efficiency in China's high-tech industries?. Technovation, 57, 4-13. Fan, J., Li, J., Wu, Y., Wang, S., & Zhao, D. (2016). The effects of allowance price on Hussey, A., & Jetter, M. (2017). Long term energy demand under a personal carbon trends in fair and unfair inequality in the trading scheme. Applied Energy, 170, 242- United States. Applied Economics, 49(12), 249. 1147-1163.

Fan, J., Wu, Y., Guo, X., Zhao, D., & Kerr, S. P., Kerr, W., Özden, Ç., & Parsons, Marinova, D. (2015). Regional disparity of C. (2016). Global talent flows. The Journal embedded carbon footprint and its sources of Economic Perspectives, 30(4), 83-106. in China: a consumption perspective. Asia Pacific Business Review, 21(1), 130-146. Kristoffersen, I. (2017). The metrics of subjective wellbeing data: An empirical Fiorini, L. C. (2016). Equilibrium evaluation of the ordinal and cardinal Indeterminacy in a Model of Constrained comparability of life satisfaction Financial Markets. International Economic scores. Social Indicators Research, 130(2), Review, 57(3), 857-880. 845-865.

Ghosh, A., Robertson, P. E., & Robitaille, Li, Y., Fan, J., Zhao, D., Wu, Y., & Li, J. M. C. (2016). Does Globalisation Affect (2016). Tiered gasoline pricing: A personal Crime? Theory and Evidence. The World carbon trading perspective. Energy Economy, 39(10), 1482-1513. Policy, 89, 194-201.

Goli, S., Rammohan, A., & Pradhan, J. McLure, M. (2016). James Tobin. Great (2016). High spending on maternity care in Thinkers in Economics Series, by Robert India: What are the factors explaining Dimand. The European Journal of the it?. PloS one, 11(6), e0156437. History of Economic Thought, 23(3), 512- 516. Guo, Y., Wen, X., Wu, Y., & Guo, X. (2016). How is China's coke price related Metaxas, P. E., & Weber, E. J. (2016). An with the world oil price? The role of Australian contribution to international trade extreme movements. Economic theory: the dependent economy model. Modelling, 58, 22-33. Economic Record, 92(298), 464-497.

Hartley, P., Medlock, K., Temzelides, T., & Özden, Ç., & Parsons, C. (2016). On the Zhang, X. (2016). Energy Sector Innovation economic geography of international and Growth: An Optimal Energy Crisis. The migration. The World Economy, 39(4), 478- Energy Journal, 37(1). 495.

Robitaille, M. C., & Chatterjee, I. (2016). (eds), Structural Change in China: Sex-Selective Abortions and Infant Implications for Australia and the World, Mortality in India: The Role of Parents’ Proceedings of the April Conference of the Stated Son Preference. The Journal of Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney, Development Studies, 1-10. November: 243-280.

Siddique, A., Selvanathan, E. A., & Wu, J., Wu, Y., & Wang, B. (2016). The Selvanathan, S. (2016). The impact of greenness of Chinese cities: carbon dioxide external debt on growth: Evidence from emission and its determinants. Journal of highly indebted poor countries. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 21(3), 378-396. Policy Modeling, 38(5), 874-894. Wu, J., Wu, Y., Guo, X., & Cheong, T. S. Siddique, A., Sen, R., & Srivastava, S. (2016). Convergence of carbon dioxide (2016), Australia-Thailand Trade: An emissions in Chinese cities: A continuous Analysis of Competitiveness and Effects of dynamic distribution approach. Energy the Bilateral FTA. The Journal of Policy, 91, 207-219. Developing Areas (special Issue), 50(5), 103-118 Wu, Y. (2016). China's capital stock series by region and sector. Frontiers of Tang, S. H. K., & Leung, C. K. Y. (2016). Economics in China, 11(1), 156. The deep historical roots of macroeconomic volatility. Economic Record, 92(299), 568- Xu, R., Wu, Y., & Luan, J. (2016). Analysis 589. of farmers’ willingness to adopt genetically modified insect-resistant rice in Tyers, R. (2016). Slower Growth and China. China Agricultural Economic Vulnerability to Recession: Updating Review, 8(3), 368-382. China's Global Impact. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 63(1), 66-88. Ye, L., & Robertson, P. E. (2016). On the Existence of a Middle Income Tyers, R. (2016). China and Global Trap. Economic Record, 92(297), 173-189. Macroeconomic Interdependence. The World Economy, 39(11), 1674-1702. Yu, F., Wu, Y., & Chen, J. (2016). Biases in patent examination and firms’ responses: Tyers, R., & Walker, A. (2016). Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry. Quantifying Australia's ‘Three Speed’ China Economic Journal, 9(2), 101-115. Boom. Australian Economic Review, 49(1), 20-43. Zhu, N., Wang, B., Yu, Z., & Wu, Y. (2016). Technical Efficiency Measurement Golley, J., R. Tyers and Y. Zhou (2016), Incorporating Risk Preferences: An “Contractions in Chinese fertility and Empirical Analysis of Chinese Commercial saving: long run domestic and global Banks. Emerging Markets Finance and implications”, in I. Day and J. Simon Trade, 52(3), 610-624.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Wu, J., Wu, Y., Guo, X. (2016). Urban Density and Carbon Emissions in China, In Ligang Song, Ross Garnaut, Cai Fang & Lauren Johnston (eds) China’s New Sources of Economic Growth: Reform, Resources and Climate Change, Volume 1, Canberra: ANU Press.

PUBLICATIONS NOT PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED

McLure, M. (2015). Mixed Fortunes: An Economic History of China, Russia and the West, by Vladimir Popov (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014), pp. xiii+ 191. Economic Record, 91(293), 270-272.

Wu, Y. (2015). China’s services sector: the new engine of economic growth. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 56(6), 618-634.

15. Discussion Papers

The Economics Discipline has published working papers in its Discussion Paper Series since 1980. These papers are authored by staff members and visitors, and are an ideal platform for research, collaboration and discussion. The editor of the Series is Sam Tang.

The Economics Discussion Papers can be downloaded from RePEc1. At the time of printing all papers in the Series were now digitalised and were soon to be uploaded to RePEc.

No. AUTHORS TITLE Analysis of Farmers’ Willingness to Adopt Genetically 16.01 Xu, R., Wu, Y. and Luan, J. Modified Insect-Resistant Rice in China Lia, Y., Fan, J., Zhao, D., Wu, Y. Tiered Gasoline Pricing: A Personal Carbon Trading 16.02 and Li, J. Perspective 16.03 Clements, K.W., Lan, Y. and Si, J. Uncertainty in Currency Mispricing Migrant Networks and Trade: the Vietnamese Boat 16.04 Parsons, C. and Vézina, P.L. People as a Natural Experiment What Will You Do If I Say ‘I Do’?: The Effect Of The Chang, S., Connelly, R. and Ma, P. 16.05 Sex Ratio on Time Use within Taiwanese Married

Couples Biases in Patent Examination and Firms’ Responses: 16.06 Yu, F. and Wu, Y. Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry Fan, J., Li, J., Wu, Y., Wang, S. The Effects of Allowance Price on Energy Demand 16.07 and Zhao, D. Under a Personal Carbon Trading Scheme Contractions in Chinese Fertility and Savings: Long 16.08 Golley, J., Tyers, R. and Zhou, Y. Run Domestic and Global Implications Foreign and Domestic Ownership in Western 16.09 McGrath, G. and Neill, K. Australia’s Gas Market 16.10 Clements, K.W. and Si, J. Simplifying the Big Mac Index Price Relationships in Vegetable Oil and Energy 16.11 Priyati, R.Y. and Tyers, R. Markets The Greenness of Chinese Cities: Carbon Dioxide 16.12 Wu, J., Wu, Y. and Wang, B. Emission and Its Determinants Arslan, C., Dumont, J.C., Kone, Z., International Migration to the OECD in the Twenty- 16.13 Özden, Ç., Parsons, C. and First Century Xenogiani, T. Has Foreign Growth Contributed to Stagnation and 16.14 Tomioka, K. and Tyers, R. Inequality in Japan? Riding the Iron Ore Cycle: Actions of Australia’s 16.15 Donovan, J. and Hartley, P. Major Producers 16.16 Czaika, M. and Parsons, C. High-Skilled Migration in Times of Global Economic

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Crisis Lefroy, T., Key, J. and Kingwell, A Longitudinal Examination of Broadacre Farm Size 16.17 R. and Performance in Western Australia 16.18 Arthmar, R. and McLure, M. Sraffa, Myrdal And The 1961 Söderström Gold Medal Post-GFC External Shocks and Indonesian Economic 19.19 Azwar, P. and Tyers, R. Performance Output Shocks in China: Do the Distributional Effects 19.20 Chen, A. and Groenewold, N. Depend on the Regional Source? Wu, Y., Zhu, X. and Groenewold, The Determinants and Effectiveness of Industrial 19.21 N. Policy in China: a Study Based on Five-Year Plans

16.22 Liu, H. The Income and Price Sensitivity of Diets Globally Asano, A., Neill, K. and Yamazaki, Decomposing Fishing Effort: Modelling the Sources of 16.23 S. Inefficiency in a Limited-Entry Fishery Fertility and Savings Contractions in China: Long-Run 16.24 Golley, J., Tyers, R. and Zhou, Y. Global Implications Secular Stagnation: Determinants and Consequences 16.25 Taylor, G., Tyers, R. for Australia

16. Seminar and Conference Presentations by Staff

Staff of the Economics Discipline made numerous presentations of their research and participated as discussants during 2016. Below are details of these presentations.

Presenter Seminar / Conference Date / Location Topic

E.R. Birch Work in Progress Sep / Perth Do Indigenous University Seminar, UWA Graduates Actually Fare Better in the Labour Market 2016 Australian Labour Dec / Canberra Do Indigenous University Market Research Graduates Actually Fare Workshop, ANU Better in the Labour Market

S. Chang Seminar, Curtin Perth Decriminalization of Homosexuality and the Invisible Wall of Sex Ratio Asian Meeting of the Kyoto, Japan The Dark Side of Mating Econometric Society Competition: Gender Differences Seminar, University of Melbourne The Dark Side of Mating Melbourne Competition: Gender Differences

I. Chatterjee Work in Progress Nov / Perth Do Spouses Influence Each Seminar, UWA Other's Stated Son Preference?

S. Chen Seminar, School of Jan / Beijing Cleaner Booker after a Economics, CUFE Closer Look? – Evidence from Tax Enforcement in China Seminars, International Jan / Beijing; Shifts of Distortions over School of Business, Mar / Perth; Local Political Cycles in BUFS; Business School, May / Melbourne; China Curtin U; School of Jun / Chengdu Economics, Monash U; Swinburne U. of

Technology. Conference, School of Finance, SWUFE Conference, School of Jul / Kunming; Tax Administration Issues in Economic, Yunnan U; Dec / Beijing China Conference, CASS Seminars, School of Jun / Chengdu; Taxation Resource Curse: Finance, SWUFE; School Jul / Kunming; Evidence from China of Economic, Yunnan U; Oct / Perth; School of Finance, Dec / Beijing, YNUFE; School of Hangzhou, Finance, CUFE; School of Quanzhou, Finance, Renmin U; Xiamen, CCER, Peking U; School Guangzhou of Finance, ZUFE; School of Economics and Finance, Huaqiao U; School of Economics, South China Normal U; Lingnan College, Sun Yat-sen U. Conference, School of Economics, Xiamen U; Conference on China’s Growth Transition, Business School, UWA

K.W. Clements Economics Seminar, Mar / Perth; Engel’s Law, Diet Diversity UWA; Seminar, School of Sep / Perth; and the Quality of Food Agricultural and Resource Dec / Sydney Consumption Economics, UWA; EMG Workshop

Economic Society Apr / Perth The Long-Term Value of the Workshop on Aussie Dollar Measurement and Policy

L.C. Fiorini 2016 Australasia Meeting Sydney The Opportunity Criterion: of the Econometric An Axiomatic Approach

Society

N. Groenewold 4th International Jun / Beijing; An Increase in the Workshop on Regional, Aug / Lisbon Retirement Age in China: Urban, and Spatial The Regional Economic Economics in China; Effects European Regional Science Association Meeting

P.R. Hartley Committee for Economic Mar / Perth Predicting Commodity Development, Australia Cycles Seminar on Mexican Apr / Centro de The Mexican Electricity Energy Sector Reforms Investigación y Market Reforms: An Docencia assessment Económicas (CIDE) Conference in Honor of Apr / University Comments on: “Ripple Eects Albert S. (Pete) Kyle of Maryland of Noise on Corporate Investment” by Dessaint, Foucault, Fresard and Matray Presentation, Policy May / UWA WA Assets: To Sell or Not to Committee, Liberal Party Sell of Australia (WA Branch) Seminar, Japanese May / Japan; Energy markets in transition Association for Energy Dec / Rice with a focus on Economics; Presentation, University LNG: Growing pains, new Naval Staff War College, technologies and new trading visiting class of 2107 arrangements Seminar, Hong Kong May / Hong Kong Natural Gas Markets in Asia: Association for Energy Recent History and Potential Economics Developments Seminar, Saudi Arabian May / Saudi Energy markets in transition Association for Energy Arabia Economics Seminar, Saudi Arabian May / Saudi Privatization with a focus on Association for Energy Arabia; Jul / electricity market reform Economics; Presentation, Indonesia Ministry of Energy and

Mineral Resources of the Republic of Indonesia Presentation, Australian Jun / Brisbane Longer term energy market Petroleum Production & developments Exploration Association (APPEA) Annual Conference Presentation, Queensland Jun / Brisbane LNG Markets: Recent Department of Energy History and Potential and Water Supply Developments Lectures, Bandung Jul / Indonesia Lectures on Energy Institute of Technology, Economics Business School Jakarta campus Presentation, Visiting Sep / Rice LNG markets in Asia: delegation of Future University Recent History and Potential Leaders, Qatar Developments

M. Jetter Seminar California State Mar / Los Terrorism and the media University; Economic Angeles (USA) Society Workshop Apr / Perth Western Australia Curtin University; Apr / Perth; Gender differences in University of Freiburg; Jun / Freiburg competitiveness and risk- Monash University (Germany); taking Oct / Melbourne University of Konstanz; Jun / Konstanz Peace, terrorism, or CESifo Munich; (Germany); insurgency? The decision of Australasian Public Jun / Munich an unsatisfied opposition Choice Conference (Germany); group Dec / Canberra

I. Kristoffersen Happiness Workshop Dec / Canberra Great Expectations: Education and subjective wellbeing National Longitudinal Oct / Canberra Income, wealth and Data Conference subjective wellbeing: Considerations and

implications for assumptions about marginal utilities B. Li Singapore Economic Aug / Singapore; Efficient Education Review Conference; Nov / Melbourne Subsidisation and the Pay- Seminar at Monash As-You-Go Principle University

L.M. Magnusson Australasian Meeting of Jul / Sydney Does Monetary Policy Affect the Econometric Society Aggregate Demand in Australia? 2nd Conference of the Jun / Milan, Italy; Evidence on the Euler International Association Barcelona, Spain Equation for Consumption for Applied and Output in the US Econometrics; Summer Forum, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics Seminar, Department of May / Caulfield, Bootstrap Methods for Econometrics, Monash Melbourne Inference with Cluster- University; Sample IV Models Econometrics Seminar Series, University of Melbourne

M.T. McLure HETSA at the Royal Jul / Melbourne Staffa, Myrdal and the 1961 Society of Victoria Soderstrom Prize

C. Parsons Economic Society of Apr / Perth Efficacy of High Skilled Australia Workshop; Jun / DC Migration Policies World Band Seminar Australian Development Jun / Deakin, Dissecting the Mobility Economics Workshop; Florence, & Transition Curve International Conference Porland on Migration and Development; Western Economics Association Annual Conference

Monash University Sep / Melbourne Migrant Networks and Trade Seminar

R. Tyers Globalisation and Feb / Kuala Indonesian macroeconomics Economic Policy Centre, Lumpur through two crises University of Nottingham, annual Asia Conference Reserve Bank of Australia Mar & Jul / Contractions in Chinese annual conference; 2nd Sydney fertility and savings: long run Annual Workshop on domestic and global Population Ageing and implications the Chinese Economy UWA Economics May / Perth Japan’s oligopolies: Discipline Seminar implications for third arrow reforms National CGE Workshop, Aug / Canberra China and global Centre of Policy Studies, macroeconomic Victoria University interdependence International Symposium Nov / Perth; Fertility and savings on China in Australia - Dec / Hong Kong contractions in China: long- Critical Issues and run global implications Perspectives in a Globalised World; Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research

Y. Wu CESA Annual Jul / Cairns Additionality of National Conference, James Cook S&T Programs: Evidence University from Chinese Innovative Firms

Development, Trade and Aug / Sweden Interregional Impact of Investment conference, Foreign Direct Investment on Stockholm Business Urban-Rural Income School Inequality in China’s Inland Provinces Chinese Economic Sep / Duisburg, University-industry Association conference Germany Collaboration and Efficiency (CEA-Europe) in Chinese Innovative Firms

WUN Chinese Economy Oct / Perth Risk Preference and Workshop, UWA Efficiency in Chinese Banking 4th Young Scholars’ Nov / Hong Kong Can China Avoid the Conference on China Middle-Income Trap? Studies

17. Other Professional Activities

Staff members of the Economics Discipline Economics Design Network (University of have been very active in taking part in Melbourne). She has acted as a referee for various additional professional activities. A several scholarly journals. selection of these activities follows. Shawn Chen has been a referee for the Elisa Birch is the honours coordinator for following journals: International Tax and the Discipline and also maintains the Public Finance, Journal of Industrial discipline’s Facebook page. In 2016 she Relations, Economic Research Journal (《 refereed papers for journals including The 经济研究》in Chinese), Chinese Social Economic Record, Australian Economic Sciences (《中国社会科学》in Chinese). Papers, Australian Journal of Labour Economics, and Studies in Higher Ken Clements is a member of the Editorial Education. She was also part of the Boards for Economic Papers and the University of Western Australia’s Australian Journal of Economics Education. Worldwide University Network (WUN) and He is a member of the UWA Business was an assessor for the Australian Research School Research Committee. He organised Council. (jointly with Izan) the PhD Conference in Economics and Business at UWA in Simon Chang has been an external grant November 2016, at which 30 PhD students reviewer for the Swiss Cancer League and is from a number of universities presented presently a member of the Program papers and senior economists served as Committee (Health Economics) for the 2016 discussants. Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society. He has been a referee for the following Paul Crompton is the Associate MBA journals: Economic Journal, Journal of Director of the Business School. Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal Mel Davies is responsible for producing a of Population Economics, Health quarterly newsletter and organising Annual Economics, China Economic Review, Association Conferences for the Economic Record, Pacific Economic Australasian Mining History Association Review, International Journal of Health (AMHA), and is the editor of the Journal of Care Finance and Economics, BMC Health Australian Mining History. In the Service Research, Bulletin of Economic international sphere, he was a member of Research. both the Program and Organising Committees for the 7th International Mining Ishita Chatterjee is a member of the UWA History Congress at Bhubaneswar, India and Business School Research Committee; the is on the organizing committee for the 11th Economic Society of Australia (WA); the International Mining History Congress Econometric Society; the Society for the being held in Linares, Spain in September Advancement of Economic Theory; and the 2016. He organised the 21st Annual

Conference of the AMHA held in Darwin in President and Member of Council for the 2015, where he acted as a session International Association for Energy chairperson, and presented a paper. He was Economics (IAEE). re-elected as Secretary and Treasurer of that organisation, positions he has held since the Michael Jetter is an IZA Research Fellow formation of the organisation in 1994. at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany. He has previously Rony Gabbay delivered public lectures to convened a student group to conduct the Rotary Club of Crawley on “The academic research, and organised an Ideology of ISIL” and “Hamas, Israel, and undergraduate conference on ‘illegality and the Gaza War 2014”. conflicts’ in October 2014. His work, particularly related to terrorism and Luciana Fiorini is a member of the coverage of terrorism, has been widely American Economic Association, the reported in the media, including by the ABC Econometric Society, Economic Society of in Australia, The Guardian in the UK, the Australia and the Royal Economic Society. Huffington Post (USA), the Neue Zuercher Zeitung (Switzerland) and the FAZ Robin Ghosh is on the Editorial Board of (Germany), among others. two journals, the International Journal of Development Issues published from Sydney Inga Kristoffersen serves on the Ethics University, and the Atlantic Journal of Committee for the Business School, as a World Affairs published by Atlantic council member of the Economist Society of Publishers & Distributors. Robin Ghosh is Australia (WA branch), and as a member of also the current chairman of the Institute of the Young Economists Network and Development Studies (Australia). Currently, Australian Centre on Quality of Life Ghosh is editing (jointly with Abu Siddique) (ACQOL). She has acted as a referee for a a volume of papers on “Good Governance, number of Australian and international Corruption and Economic Growth” from the journals, including Economic Record, proceedings of two international Economics Letters, The Manchester School, conferences held at UWA Perth in June, The Australian Journal of Agricultural & 2009 and then followed by another in Resource Economics, and the Journal of Kolkata (India) in December, 2009. Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities. Nic Groenewold was a referee for Urban Studies, China Economic Review, Regional Bei Li has acted as a referee for the journal, Studies, Annals of Regional Science, the Economic Record. She is also a member Journal of Banking and Finance, and of the Econometric Society. Papers in Regional Science. Leandro Magnusson is a member of the Peter Hartley is a Past President and Econometric Society, and a member of the Member of Council, President and Scientific Committee for the 32nd Latin Presidential Advisor for the US Association American Meeting of the Econometric for Energy Economics (USAEE), and Past Society in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Early Childhood Education Report and the Michael McLure is President of the WA Round Table on enquiry into Child Care; Branch of the Economic Society of and she was invited panel discussant at the Australia and the Western Australian WUN network’s Conference on Global representative on the Central Council of the Public Health. She is also a member of the Economic Society of Australia. He is also DFAT-sponsored Australian Development an editorial board member of the History of Economics Secretariat. In 2013, she Economics Review and the History of examined the PhD theses of students from Economic Thought and Policy; a member of the Australian National University, the the advisory council of the History of University of Sydney, and the University of Economic Thought Society of Australia; and Canberra. Additionally, she has acted as a a member of the Board for the Centre for referee for a number of journals, including Labour Market Research. This year he Health Economics, European Journal of served as a referee for the History of Development Economics, Food Policy, Economic Ideas and a number of book Journal of Development Economics, publishers. Economic Record, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Demographic Chris Parsons served as a member of the Research, and Journal of Asian Economics. Academic Board of the business school. Dr Parsons was also an instructor at the Peter Robertson has served as a Consultant IZA/DFID Short Course on Programme for the Department of Innovation, Industry Evaluation in Lusaka, Zambia, October Science and Research and the Productivity where he taught econometrics to PhD Commission. He was a member of the students. In service to the profession Dr Review Panel, Department of Economics, Parsons has served as an academic referee Otago University, 2012 and an external for over 26 international journals including examiner for the Monash University, ANU the Journal of International Economics and and Sydney University. He is a member of the Journal of Development Economics. the Scientific Committee for the Australian International Trade Workshop, the Anu Rammohan is a member of the Executive for the Australian Development Institute of Agriculture, UWA. In 2013, she Economics Workshop, and is a member of served as the guest editor for the 2013 the Colleg of experts for the ARC. conference volume of the Economic Record. She is an expert referee on several Abu Siddique has been a member of international research funding organisations, AusAID’s Joint Selection Team (JST) for its including the UK’s NHIR Health ADS and APS postgraduate scholarships. Technology Assessment Program (on-going He is a member of the Economic Society of since 2007), Canada’s Social Science and Australia, as well as an elected committee Humanities Research Council grants (since member of the Society’s WA Branch. He is 2010), and the Qatar Research Grant a member of the UWA Association of the Development Scheme (on-going since 2010). Study of Australasia in Asia (ASAA). He is In addition, she was invited to be an expert also serving on the Faculty Board of the referee for the Productivity Commission’s UWA Business School as an elected

member. This year he has been elected as a Plant Energy Biology, University of member of UWA’s Academic Board. In Western Australia. He is a member of the addition, he is a member of the UWA Economic Society of Australia, the Historical Society. American Economic Association and the Swiss-Australian Academic Network Sam Tang has acted as an anonymous (SAAN). referee for several journals; Journal of Applied Economics, English for Specific Yanrui Wu acted as an anonymous referee Purpose, Bulletin of Economic Research. for several international journals (China Economic Review, China Agricultural Rod Tyers is an honorary Research Economic Review, Asian Development Associate of the Centre for Applied Review, Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) at the Economic Systems Research, Empirical Australian National University, and is an Markets Finance and Trade, China and the invited member of the Editorial Board, World Economy, Journal of Chinese Springer Series on Advances in Applied Economic and Business Studies, Cities, and CGE Modelling. Review of Income and Wealth) and a thesis examiner for the University of Tasmania Juerg Weber is a team member at the and Nanyang Technological University. He Centre for Integrative Bee Research was a reader for the ARC discovery grant (CIBER), ARC Centre of Excellence in applications.