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Researcher Focus: Professor Kaliappa Kalirajan

Kaliappa Kalirajan is an applied economist and policy analyst. His areas of major interests include macroeconomic and trade policies and reform, poverty reduction, and sources of growth. Kali is currently working on two major studies: “The Impact of Globalization on Employment Generation and Poverty Reduction: The case of Emerging Big Shopping Malls and Retailers in India”, funded by the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, Tokyo, and “The Environmental Impacts of Changing Trade Patterns on the Poor”, funded by the Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo.

Kali’s work on stochastic frontier production function methods has met with international recognition, including a special commendation award from the Indian Econometric Society for his outstanding work in frontier production function analyses. He also serves on the editorial board of several journals, including the International Journal of Applied Economics, Agricultural Economics, The Developing Economies, and the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Grants and Awards

Jenny Corbett and Kazuki Onji received $6,000 from the Australia-Japan Foundation for the project on the Australian Research Network on the Japanese Economy (ARNJE).

Ann Nevile and Janine O’Flynn received an ARC Linkage grant earlier this year.  The project, ‘Balancing Trust and Control in the Provision of Employment Services’ will provide an independent review of two key elements in the new generation of employment services (which came into effect on 1 July 2009) and test claims about the advantages of a model of service provision that relies primarily on trust, rather than competition and control to achieve desired outcomes. 

Activities (Staff and Associates)

Shiro Armstrong has been appointed as a Research Fellow in Crawford. In June Shiro attended the Global Think Tank Summit in Beijing hosted by the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, China's new premier government think tank. Shiro presented a chapter of his thesis to the Japan Studies Association of Australia meeting in Sydney, was a discussant at a South Asia Bureau of Economic Research (SABER) conference in New Delhi on Microeconomic and Structural Reform in South Asia and Asian Economic Integration and participated in a workshop in Denpasar on East Asian caucusing in the G20. 

Bruce Chapman was invited to present at a number of conferences including the DP University Conference, “Higher Education and Globalisation” in Bangkok giving a keynote lecture titled “Where are We with Thai Student Loans Policy?” on July 10.  He was invited to present at the Australian Economics Forum in Sydney on the 19th of August on the topic, “The GFC and Long Term Unemployment”.   He was invited to speak at the Productivity Commission Roundtable on “Evidence Based Policy Formulation” in Canberra on the 18th of August, his talk titled, “Evidence on Evidence Based Policy”.  Bruce gave an invited presentation discussing “Where Are we with HECS?” at the ALP Annual Conference on August 10 in Sydney.  He was also invited to participate in the ASRI roundtable discussion on “Academics and the Media” at the ANU on September 9. 

Leo Dobes gave the keynote address to the Deakin University July 2009 Developing Research Leaders Grants Retreat.  He and Jeff Bennett coordinated a special Forum on “Is Australia's Good Governance in Jeopardy?' published in Agenda (ANU e-Press http://epress.anu.edu.au/agenda/016/03/index.html) in September, including their own article “Multicriteria Analysis: ‘Good Enough’ for Government Work?”.  Other contributors included ex-Western Australian Senator Andrew Murray, Roxanne Missingham (Parliamentary Librarian), Tony Harris (ex NSW auditor general), Mark Harrison (ex Productivity Commission), Henry Ergas (Concept Economics).

Peter Drysdale chaired a meeting in New Delhi on “Economic Policy Formation in South East Asian Nations”, June 2009.

Prasanna Gai visited the Bank of Canada between June-July 2009 to advise the Canadian authorities on policy responses to the global financial crisis.

Carolyn Hendriks delivered a peer-reviewed paper at the 2009 Public Policy Network Annual Conference held at the ANU in January on the importance of public legitimacy for future energy reforms. Carolyn has recently secured a book contract with Palgrave Macmillan (in the UK) for her manuscript on deliberative governance and interest advocacy.

Yusaku Horiuchi presented the three new papers at various conferences and seminars.  He spoke on "Mobilization and Participation: A Natural Experiment" (with Kentaro Fukumoto) at the Society of Political Methodology 2009 Summer Conference, Yale University in July and at the UCLA Conference on Japanese politics in September. Yusaku also gave a presentation titled  "The Incumbency Advantage in Australia: Three Natural Experiments" (with Andrew Leigh) at the Crawford Research Workshop in August.  He travelled  to Sydney to present "In Search of Soft Power: Does Foreign Public Opinion Matter for U.S. Foreign Policy?”(with Benjamin Goldsmith) at the United States Studies Center (USSC) at the University of Sydney in August.  All papers are available from www.horiuchi.org

Tom Kompas: The Australian Centre for Biosecurity and Environmental Economics (AC BEE) was informally launched by John Radcliffe at the AARES National Symposium on ‘Invasive Species and Biosecurity’ in Canberra on September 10th. The director of AC BEE is Professor Tom Kompas. The formal launch of AC BEE by the Hon. Minister for the Environment, Peter Garrett, is planned for November 23rd.  Tom presented two papers at the AARES Symposium: “Economic Policy and Biosecurity,” and  “The Economics of Biosecurity: Risk, Border Quarantine, Local Surveillance and Eradication Measures.” Tom has also just jointed a Ministerial Review on biosecurity policy for red imported fire ant eradication in Queensland.

Peter Lamour completed the second draft of a book called 'Understanding Corruption in the Pacific Islands'.  Its is now being reviewed by readers for the University of Hawaii Press.   He is also drafting a proposal for a book on 'The International Anti Corruption Movement' for a Routledge series on international institutions. 

Richard Mulgan's article on the meaning of 'accountability' (“’Accountability': An Ever-Expanding Concept?” 78 (3) 2000: 555-573) has been selected as one of the twelve most significant articles over the last 25 years in Public Administration , the leading UK journal in the field of comparative public adminstration and management.

Ann Nevile was interviewed by PM on 11 May about future trends in welfare reform. 

Kazuki Onji was invited to present a paper at a conference titled  “The Role of Firms in Tax Systems” organized by the Office of Tax Policy Research, Ross School of Business in the University of Michigan in April. He also presented a new paper on safeguard tariffs at the Ohio University and Kent State University in April. As a part of the activity of the Australian Research Network on the Japanese Economy (ARNJE), Kazuki organized and presented at a panel on the China-Japan relation at the Japan Studies Association of Australia Conference in Sydney. He is also involved in organizing a panel session on the Japanese Economy at the Australian Conference of Economists in Adelaide in the late September.

Ben Reilly was one of the speakers at a special session of the World Congress of Political Science in Santiago in July on the subject of “Party Democracy and Party Law: the Legal Regulation of Political Parties in Modern Democracies”. Ben’s paper looked at the increasing incidence of party engineering in developing democracies, and the growing tendency for South-South learning and imitation as part of this process.  Professor Reilly also served as a discussant at an invitation-only workshop on "Party and Party System Institutionalization in Asia" held at McGill University in Canada in August. The workshop aimed to assess the state of parties in Asia through the concept of party institutionalization. The resulting edited book will be the first systematic cross-national application of the burgeoning literature on political party instutionalization to Southeast Asian cases.  In September, Prof Reilly travelled to Copenhagen, where he gave a presentation on his book “Democracy and Diversity” to a special panel of the same name at the 14th International Metropolis conference.

PhD Students

Shiro Armstrong – submitted in July
Eddie Cheung – submitted in August
Xunpeng Shi – submitted June

Publications (Students, Staff and Associates)

Bruce Chapman
 “Do Very High Tax Rates Induce Bunching? Implications for the Design of Income Contingent Loan Schemes” (with Andrew Leigh) (September, 2009), The Economic Record, Vol. 85 (270): 276-289.

“The Effects of Different Loan Schemes for Higher Education Tuition: An Analysis of Rates of Return and Government Revenue in Thailand” (with Kiatanantha Lounkaew) (July, 2009), Higher Education in Europe, Vol. 34 (2): 239-254.

“Exploring Creative Applications of Income Contingent Loans” (with Boyd Hunter) (June, 2009), Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 12 (2): 133-144.

“Income Contingent Loans for Mature Aged Training” (with Tim Higgins and Dehne Taylor) (June, 2009) Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 12 (2): 167-179.

“A Revenue Contingent Loan Instrument for Agricultural Credit with Particular Reference to Drought Relief” (with Linda Botterill) (June, 2009), Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 12 (2): 181-196.

“An Income Contingent Loan for Extending Parental Leave” (with Tim Higgins) (June, 2009), Australian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 12 (2): 197-216.

“Income Contingent Student Loans for Thailand: Alternatives Compared” (with Kiatanantha Lounkaew), (forthcoming), Economics of Education Review.

“Thailand’s Student Loan Fund: An Analysis of Interest Rate Subsidies and Repayment Hardships” (with Kiatanantha Lounkaew, Piruna Polsiri, Rangsit Sarachitti, and Thitima Sitthipongpanich) (forthcoming), Economics of Education Review,

Book Chapters:
“The Australian Approach to Higher Education Financing” (forthcoming, 2009) (with Michelle Tan), in Financing Higher Education: A Comparative Analysis of Australia, India, Thailand, New Zealand, and the Way Forward for Malaysia, USM Press.

“Policy Design Issues for Risk Management: Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in the Context of Income Contingent Loans” (forthcoming, 2009), in Greg Marston, Jeremy Moss and John Quiggin (eds), Risk, Responsibility and the Welfare State, Melbourne University Press.

“Financing Higher Education” (forthcoming, 2010) (with Peter Tulip), in Eva Baker, Penelope Peterson, and Barry McGaw (eds), International Encyclopedia of Education, Elsevier.

Jenny Corbett
with Anne Daly, Hisakazu Matsushige, Dehne Taylor (eds) Laggards and Leaders in Labour Market Reform: Comparing Japan and Australia, Routledge (2009)

Leo Dobes
with Jeff Bennett   “Multicriteria Analysis: ‘Good Enough’ for Government Work?” Agenda, 16:3 (2009)

Peter Drysdale
“Impact of Big Shopping Malls and Retailers on Employment and Consumer Prices in India”, Co-authored with Dr. Kaliappa Kalirajan. Research paper presented at Agricultural Economics Conference in Beijing.

Book:
“Introduction” to APEC 20th Anniversary Commemerative Book Project. (Forthcoming)

Scott Flower
“Australian Foreign Policy in the Age of Terror”, Book Review for the Journal of Pacific Affairs, University of British Columbia (forthcoming Volume 83, No.2). 
“The Struggle to Establish Islam in PNG (1976-1983)”, Journal of Pacific History, 44: 3(forthcoming).

Book chapter:
“The History of Terrorism and its Analysis in Melanesia: Implications for Security and Policy” in Brawley, S (ed), Doomed to Repeat: Terrorism and the Lessons of History, New Academia, Washington D.C., (2009) pp.187-216.

Patrick De Fontenay
Tonga survey, The Pacific Economic Bulletin 24:3 (Forthcoming)

Prasanna Gai
with with G Cameron and K Tan  “Sovereign Risk in the Classical Gold Standard Era”, Economic Record, forthcoming.

with P Alessandri, S Kapadia, N Mora, and C Puhr, “Towards a Framework for Quantifying Systemic Stability, International Journal of Central Banking, 5, 47-81

Conference paper:
“Liquidity Hoarding, Network Externalities and Interbank Market Collapse”, presented at the European Summer Symposium on Economic Theory (ESSET), Gersenzee, July 2009 (with S Kapadia).

Quentin Grafton  
with Lynham, J., C. Costello, S.N. Gaines, and J. Price. “Response to Letters to the Editor on ‘Can Catch Shares Prevent Fisheries Collapse’” Science 323: 338, 2009.

with Yamazaki, S., and T. Kompas. “Output versus Input Controls under Uncertainty: The Case of a Fishery”. Natural Resource Modeling 22(2): 212-236, 2009.

with T. Kompas and P.V. Ha “Cod Today and None Tomorrow: The Economic Value of a Marine Reserve”. Land Economics 85: 454-469. (2009)

with A. McIlgorm. “Ex Ante Evaluation of the Costs and Benefits of Individual Transferable Quotas: A Case-study of Seven Australian Commonwealth Fisheries”. Marine Policy 33: 714-719.

Books:
Economics of Water Resources Volumes 1 and II (Edward Elgar, UK) 597 pp. and 709 pp. Edited volume.

Carolyn Hendriks
(guest editor) (2009) “Deliberative Governance in the Context of Power” Policy & Society. Special Issue.

with Carson, L (2008). “Can the Market Help the Forum? Negotiating the Commercialization of Deliberative Democracy”, Policy Sciences, 41 (4):293-313.
Conference paper (peer reviewed):“Securing Public Legitimacy for Long-Term Energy Reforms”, Paper presented at Public Policy Network Annual Conference, 29-30 January 2009, ANU.

Book:
with R. Harding & M. Faruqi (2009) Environmental Decision-Making: Exploring complexity and context. The Federation Press

Yusaku Horiuchi
“Understanding Japanese Politics from a Local Perspective.” International Political Science Review, forthcoming.

with Benjamin E. Goldsmith. “Spinning the Globe? U.S. Public Diplomacy and Foreign Public Opinion”. Journal of Politics, Vol. 71, Issue 3, July 2009, pp. 863-875.

with Jun Saito. “Rain, Election, and Money: The Impact of Voter Turnout on Distributive Policy Outcomes”. Asia Pacific Economic Papers, No. 379, 2009.

Kaliappa Kalirajan
with K. Singh, “The Pace of Poverty Reduction across the Globe: An Exploratory Analysis”, International Journal of Social Economics, 36(6): 692-705, 2009.

Tom Kompas
with R. Quentin Grafton, and Pham Van Ha, (2009) “Cod Today and None Tomorrow: The Economic Value of a Marine Reserve”, Land Economics, 85 (3): 454-469.

with Thi Bich Tran and Quentin Grafton, “Contribution of Productivity and Firm Size to Value-Added: Evidence from Vietnam”, International Journal of Production Economics, 121, 274-285. (2009)

with aThi Bich Tran and R. Quentin Grafton “Institutions Matter: The Case of Vietnam”, Journal of Socio-Economics, 38, 1-12. (2009)

with Satoshi Yamazaki and R. Quentin Grafton, “Output versus Input Controls under Uncertainty: The Case of a Fishery,” Natural Resource Modeling, 22, 212-236.  (2009)

Marit Kragt
with Bennett J “Integrated Hydro-Economic Modelling: Experiences from an Australian Catchment”. Paper presented at the pre-conference on Water Economics for the 17th annual conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Amsterdam, 24 June 2009

with Bennett J, “What's Appropriate? Investigating the Effects of Attribute Framing and Changing Cost Levels in Choice Experiments”. Paper presented at the 17th annual conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Amsterdam, 25-27 June 2009

Conference Papers (peer reviewed):
with Newham LTH and Jakeman AJ “A Bayesian Network Approach to Integrating Economic and Biophysical Modelling”, in: Anderssen, R.S., Braddock, R.D. and Newham, L.T.H. (eds) Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, in proceedings of the 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 13-17 July 2009.

John McCarthy
with R.A Cramb, “Policy narratives, landholder engagement, and oil palm expansion on the Malaysian and Indonesian frontiers”, The Geographical Journal, 175: 2, (2009) pp. 112-123.

Kazuki Onji
“The Response of Firms to Eligibility Thresholds: Evidence from the Japanese Value-Added Tax”, 2009, Journal of Public Economics 93(5-6), 766-775.

with D. Vera, “Tax Law Asymmetries and Income Shifting: Evidence from Japanese Capital Keiretsu”, Forthcoming, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy.

John Uhr
“Deliberating about Democracy: Five Perspectives”, Australian Journal of Political Science, 2009, 44/3, 529-535.

“Bipartisanship and Bicameralism in Australia’s War on Terror”, Legislative Studies Journal, v15, nos2/3, June/September 2009, 239-256 (co-authored with Phil Larkin)

“Comparing Congress: Bryce on Deliberation and Decline in Legislatures”, Boston University Law Review, v89, 2009, 847-862.

“The Australian Model Senate”, Canadian Parliamentary Review, v32/no1, Spring 2009, 26-32

“Parliamentary Oppositional Leadership”, chapter in J Kane, H Patapan, and P ‘t Hart, eds, Dispersed Democratic Leadership OUP 2009, 59-81.

“Bicameralism and democratic deliberation”, in N Aroney, J Nethercote and S Prasser, eds. Restraining Elective Dictatorship. UWA Press 2008, pp11-27.

“Who's responsible for the public interest?”, Public Service Informant, Canberra Times, September 2009

“Rules of the Parliamentary Game”, Public Service Informant, Canberra Times, October 2009

Xunpeng Shi
“Have Government Regulations Improved Workplace Safety?”, Journal of Safety Research, 40 (3): 207-213. (2009)

with Quentin Grafton: "Efficiency Impacts of the Chinese Industrial Transition: a Quantitative Evaluation of Reforms in the Coal Industry ". Economic Change and Restructuring (forthcoming)

Discussion paper:
With the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia "The Prospects for Coal: Global Experience and Implications for Energy Policy" , EIRA discussion paper series, ERIA-DP-2009-19.

Crawford School Paper Series
http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/research/papers.php