Setting Priorities for Services Trade Reform
APCD Lecture Theatre, Hedley Bull Centre, Garran Rd (opposite University House)
Australian National University, Canberra
17-18 November 2008
This conference is a joint event between Australian National University, the University of Adelaide and the Australian Productivity Commission to report progress on their three-year ARC Linkage project.
Keynote speaker is:
- Joe Francois from Johannes Kepler University in Linz, the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London and the Institute for International and Development Economics
Other speakers are:
- Rupa Chanda, Professor of Economics, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
- Junjie Hong, University of International Business and Economics, China
- Marn-Heong Wong, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
- Christopher Findlay, Professor of Economics, University of Adelaide
- Anne McNaughton, Faculty of Law, Australian National University
- Ian Gibbs, Assistant Commissioner, Productivity Commission
- Lisa Gropp, Assistant Commissioner, Productivity Commission
- Philippa Dee, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School, Australian National University
- Huong Dinh, PhD candidate, Crawford School, Australian National University
Our aim is to contribute on two fronts — to further our understanding of regulatory ‘best practice’ in a range of services sectors, and to quantify the economic costs of deviating from best practice.
We hope that these new estimates of the effects of regulatory restrictions in services will offer a firm empirical basis for setting trade policy priorities in services, within a broad domestic structural reform agenda.
The conference program leaves ample time for feedback from industry and government policy experts. The intention is for this to be a highly interactive two days.
For any enquiries email marilyn.popp@anu.edu.au
