PhD students

Current students

Name	Email	Topic
Rahman Abdurohman	Rahman.Abdurohman@anu.edu.au	The Role of Counter Cyclical Fiscal Policy in Indonesia
Lwin Lwin Aung	Lwin.Aung@anu.edu.au	The relationship between economic policy and poverty incidence in Myanmar
Ariun-Erdene Bayarjargal	ariun-erdene.bayarjargal@anu.edu.au	Institutions and Economic Performance in Transition Countries
Michael Cabalfin	michael.cabalfin@anu.edu.au	Sources of Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in the Philippines: The Roles of Human Capital and Institutional Development
Jagath R Dissanayake	jagath.dissanayake@anu.edu.au	Capital flows and global imbalance
Hemantha Ekanayake	Hemantha.Ekanayake@anu.edu.au	Fiscal Monetary Interactions in Developing Countries
Fadliya	fadliya.tj@anu.edu.au	Fiscal Decentralisation in Indonesia
Nitin Gupta	Nitin.Gupta@anu.edu.au	Essays on Indian Industries Performance in the Post-Reforms Era
Delwar Hossain	delwar.hossain@anu.edu.au	Exchange Rate Misalignments and Choice of Appropriate Exchange Rate System - The Case of Bangladesh
Fahad Khan	fahad.khan@anu.edu.au	Endogeneity of Institutions to Policy
Acram Latiph	acram.latiph@anu.edu.au	The Causes of Underdevelopment in the Muslim Region on Mindanao
Moses Lee	Moses.Lee@anu.edu.au	Implication of Foreign Labor for Income Inequality in Malaysia
Sirikarn Lertamphainont	Sirikarn.Lertamphainont@anu.edu.au	Computable general equilibrium analysis of agricultural production and forecasting issue: A case of Thailand
Omer Majeed	omer.majeed@anu.edu.au	Trade Policy and Production Fragmentation
Matthew McKay	matthew.mckay@anu.edu.au	African export performance - Why has Africa lagged the world in exports?
Kien Trung Nguyen	Kien.Nguyen@anu.edu.au	Economic Reforms Manufacturing Employment and Productivity in Vietnam
Quynh Huy Nguyen	huy.nguyen@anu.edu.au	Impacts of Government Spending on Income Distribution and Poverty Reduction in Vietnam: A General Equilibrium Analysis
Duc Trung	truong.nguyen@anu.edu.au	Monetary and Fiscal Reaction Functions and their Interrelation in India
Nga Thi Thanh	nga.nguyen@anu.edu.au	Ownership Bias and Economic Transition: Evidence from Manufacturing Sector in Vietnam
Manoj Kumar Pandey	Manoj.Pandey@anu.edu.au	Ageing, health and social insurance in India: A public policy perspective
Rajan Krishna Panta	rajan.panta@anu.edu.au	Labour Migration, Migrant Remittances and Economic Development
Ramesh C Paudel	ramesh.paudel@anu.edu.au	Economic Growth and Trade Performance of Landlocked Economies
Sitthiroth Rasphone	Sitthiroth.Rasphone@anu.edu.au	Impact of trade liberalisation on poverty reduction
Umbu Raya	Umbu.Raya@anu.edu.au	Social return to education
Sitta Izza Rosdaniah	sitta.rosdaniah@anu.edu.au	Nominal and Actual Objectives of Economic Policy-making in Indonesia
Marcel Schroder	marcel.schroder@anu.edu.au	Comparative study of automobile industry in Brazil and Thailand
Razib Tuhin	Razib.Tuhin@anu.edu.au	Impact of International Trade on Employment, Wages, and Productivity: Evidence from Australian Manufacturing Industries
Yessi Vadila	yessi.vadila@anu.edu.au	Trade Policy and Poverty in Indonesia
Thang Tat Vo	thang.vo@anu.edu.au	The Relationship between Confidence and Economic Policy in Vietnam
Swarnim Waglé	swarnim.wagle@anu.edu.au	Essays on Policy Reforms in Trade, Investment and Taxation

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Submitted 2012

Titik Anas
Research topic: Determinants of Exports: Case of Indonesia

Andrew Kam
Research topic: International trade and technology transfers in South East Asian countries

Moekti Soejachmoen
Research topic: Global production networks: Case of Japanese automative industry

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Submitted 2011

Swarnim Wagle (Supervisor: Premachandra Athukorala, Martin Richardson, Yusaku Horiuchi, Hal Hill)
Research topic: Essays on Policy Reforms in Trade, Investment and Taxation

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Recent graduates

2011

Shuhei Nishitateno (Supervisor: Prema-Chandra Athukorala)
Research topic: The trend of production fragmentation, its determinants and the impact of the fragmentation on Exchange Rate Pass-Through (ERPT)

Ditya Nurdianto (Supervisor: Budy Resosudarmo)
Research topic: A General Equilibrium Perspective on Energy and Environmental Policies in ASEAN

Raden Muhamad Purnagunawan (Supervisor: Chris Manning)
Research topic: Minimum Wages and Labour Market Outcomes in Decentralised Indonesia

2010

Burke, Paul (Supervisor: Prof R Jha)
Research topic: On impacts of economic growth

Liu, Xin (Supervisor:  George Fane)
Research topic: Testing Alternative Explanations for the Uncovered Interest Parity Anomaly

2009

Gong, Honge (Cathy) (Supervisor: Professor X Meng)
Research topic: Financial essays on spatial price differences and income mobility in urban China, 1986-2004

Matsui, Miki (Supervisor: Associate Professor Chris Manning)
Research topic: Marriage, employment and happiness: The work-life balance of Japanese women

Suphannachart, Waleerat (Supervisor: Prof P Warr)
Research topic: Research and productivity in Thailand agriculture

Taborda, Rodrigo (Supervisor: Prof PC Athukorala)
Research topic: Structural reforms and industrial adjustment in Columbia

Thomson, Russell (Supervisor: Prof H Hill, Prof PC Athukorala)
Research topic: The Determinants of technological innovation

Yeo, Christine (Supervisor: Prof X Meng)
Research topic: Three essays on individuals' responses to welfare reforms in China

Zhang, Dandan (Supervisor: Prof X Meng)
Research Topic: Employment, inequality and poverty in China

2008

Dang, Tu (Supervisor: Prof R Jha)
Research topic: Choice between exchange rate band and corner solutions with imperfect credibility

Machmud, T M Arief (Supervisor: Prof PC Athukorala)
Research topic: Determinants of inflation in Indonesia: An econometric analysis

Sam Hill (Supervisor: Prof PC Athukorala)
Research topic: Foreign direct investment and economic growth: The role of host country policies

Jakrit Ruangkajorn (Supervisor: Prof P Warr)
The determinants of private investment in Thailand

Muhammad Nashihin (Supervisor: Prof G Fane)
Poverty incidence in Indonesia, 1987-2002: A utility-consistent approach based on a new survey of regional prices

Posso, Alberto (Supervisor: Prof PC Athukorala)
Research topic: Outward orientation and labour market outcomes in Asia and Latin America

Riyana Miranti (Supervisor: Assoc Prof C Manning)
The determinants of regional poverty in Indonesia 1984-2002

Temenggung, Della (Prof H Hill)
Research topic: Foreign direct investment and industrial transformation in Indonesia

Vidyattama, Yogi (Prof H Hill and Dr B Resosudarmo)
Research topic: Patterns of provinicial economic growth in Indonesia

Yamashita, Nobuaki (Prof PC Athukorala and Prof M Richardson)
Research topic: International fragmentation of production, trade patterns and the labour market adjustments in Japanese manufacturing

Yusuf, Arief Anshory (Supervisor: Dr B Resosudarmo)
Research topic: Distributional impact of environmental policies in Indonesia

2007

Beng Jiunn Ang (Supervisor: Prof PC Athukorala)
The causal relationship between economic growth and financial development

Kompal Sinha (Superivsor: R Jha)
Essays in nutrition and labour supply: An empirical investigation for rural India

Quang Tien Tran (Supervisor: Prof PC Athukorala)
Foreign direct investment and industrialisation in Vietnam

2006

Edda Claus (Supervisors: Dr M H Dungey, Dr R Fry)
Monetary policy and inflation targeting

Tao Kong (Supervisor: Prof R Garnaut)
Growth effects of political institutions

Dionisius Narjoko (Supervisor: Prof H Hill)
Indonesian manufacturing and the economic crisis of 1997/98

Kang Yong Tan (Supervisor: Prof W McKibbin, Advisor: Dr P Gai)
Dynamic learning in macroeconometric models

Hsiao Chink Tang (Supervisor: Prof W Mckibbin)
Monetary policy transmission mechanism in Malaysia: An empirical and methodological exploration

Zavkijon Zavkiev (Supervisor: Prof W McKibbin)
Modelling the Tajikistan economy with an application to the evaluation of monetary regimes

2005

Juthathip Jongwanich (Supervisor: Prof W McKibbin, Prof PC Athukorala)
Crisis, adjustment and exchange rate policy option for post-crisis East Asia: The case study of Thailand

Archanun Kohpaiboon (Supervisor: Prof PC Athukorala)
Foreign direct investment and industrial transformation in Thailand

Natalia Ponomareva (Supervisor: Prof W McKibbin)
Monetary regimes for developing countries

Alison Stegman (Supervisor: Prof W Mckibbin)
International climate change agreements

2004

Anurag Sharma (Supervisor: Professor Raghbendra Jha)
Fiscal deficits, banking crises and adjustment policy in a semi-open economy

2003

Iman Sugema (Supervisor: Prof H Hill, Prof PC Athukorala)
Indonesia's deep economic crisis: The role of the banking sector in its origins and propagation

Chia-Hung Sun (Supervisor: Prof K Kalirajan, Prof W Mckibbin)
The growth process in East Asian manufacturing industries: a re-examination

Qun Shi (Supervisor: Prof G Fane)
The social security system in China - Its origin, recent reforms and the prospects of future reforms

2002

Tingsong Jiang (Supervisor Prof W McKibbin)
Economic instruments for pollution control in an imperfect world: Theory and implications for carbon dioxide emissions control in China

M C Basri (Supervisor Prof H Hill)
The political economy of manufacturing protection in Indonesia

Kanhaiya Singh (Supervisor: Prof K Kalirajan, Prof W McKibbin)
Inflation, growth and monetary policy in India: A macroeconomic analysis

2001

Alexandra Sidorenko (Supervisor Prof W McKibbin)
Health insurance and demand for medical care: Theory and application to Australia

Steve Seneque (Supervisor: Prof K Kalirajan)
The impact of economic reforms on Vietnam's agricultural economy (1989-1995)

X. Fan (Supervisor: Prof W. McKibbin)
Technological spillovers from foreign direct investment and industrial growth in China

2000

Aswicahyono, H (Supervisor Prof H Hill)
Total factor productivity in Indonesia manufacturing, 1975-1993

Bird, K B (Supervisor Prof H Hill)
Industrial concentration and competition in Indonesian manufacturing

Chang, H (Supervisor Prof W McKibbin)
International trade, productivity growth, eduction and wage differentials in general equilibrium

Tang, KK (Supervisor Prof W McKibbin)
One country, two systems, how many monies? Essays on the exchange rate arrangement of Hong Kong

Thapa, P J (Supervisor Prof P Warr)
Labour heterogeneity in a farm household model: an application to Nepalese agriculture

Weerasinghe, P N (Supervisor Prof G Fane)
Trade openness and economic performance: a cross-country empirical study

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