Research interests/expertise

• International trade
• International economic development and policy
• China

Current Projects

• ARC Project on China's industrialisation and its demand on global resources

Edited Books

• (2009), China’s New Place in the World in Crisis: Economic Geopolitical and Environmental Dimensions, Ross Garnaut, Ligang Song and Wing Thye Woo, Australian National University E-Press: Canberra and the Brookings Institution Press: Washington, DC (July)
• (2008), China’s Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change, Ligang Song and Wing Thye Woo (eds), Asia Pacific Press: Canberra and The Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC and Social Sciences Academic Press: Beijing
• (2007), Japan’s Future in East Asia and the Pacific, Mari Pangestu and Ligang Song (eds), Asia Pacific Press: Canberra (December)
• (2007), China: Linking Markets for Growth, Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (eds), Asia Pacific Press: Canberra
• (2006), The Turning Point in China’s Economic Development, Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (eds), Asia Pacific Press: Canberra 

Books

• (2005), Song, L. R. Garnaut, S. Tenev and Y. Yao, China's Ownership Transformation: Process, Outcomes, Prospects, The World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC), Washington DC
• (2001), Song, L.; Garnaut, R.; Yao, Y.; Wang, X. 'Private Enterprise in China'.
  Asia Pacific Press.
• (1996), Song, L. 'Changing Comparative Advantage: Evidence from Asia and the Pacific'.
  Addison-Wesley

Journal articles

• (2008), ‘Comparative advantage and Australia-China bilateral trade’ (with Sheng Yu), Economic Papers, Vol. 27, No. 1, March, pp. 41-56
• (2006), Song, L. and R. Garnaut, 'Rapid industrialisation and market for energy and minerals: China in East Asian context', Frontiers of Economics in China (Springer), July, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 373-379
• (2006), Song, L. R. Garnaut, and Y. Yao, 'Impact and significance of SOE restructuring in China', The China Journal, No. 55 (January), pp. 35-66.
• (2000), Song, L.; Xu, X.'Regional Cooperation and the Environment: Do “Dirty” Industries Migrate?'. Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv-Review of World Economics, Vol. 136, J.C.B. Mohr, Tubingen, Germany, 137-157..
• (1995), Song,L. 'Trade-revealed factor abundance: further evidence'.
  Journal of Japanese and International Economies, Vol. 9(3), 278-89.
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Working papers

• (2008), ‘The impact of economic reform on economic growth in China: a principal component analysis, (with Sheng Yu), Research Paper No. 2008/12, United Nations University (UNU) and World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), Helsinki, 2008

Chapters in books

• (2009), ‘Linking economic development with demand on energy: a discontinous estimation of energy demand elasticity’, (with Sheng Yu), Chapter 11 in Chunlai Chen (ed.), China’s Integration with the Global Economy: WTO Accession, Foreign Direct Investment and International Trade, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 204-220
• (2009), ‘Global implications of China as the manuafacturing powerhouse’, (with Huw McKay), Chapter 13 in Ross Garnaut, Ligang Song and Wing Thye Woo(eds), China’s New Place in the World in Crisis: Economic, Geopolitical and Enviromental Dimensions, Australian National University E-Press: Canberra and The Brookings Institution Press: Washington DC, pp. 261-302
• (2008), ‘Impact and significance of SOE restructuring in China’, (with Ross Garnaut and Yang Yao), Chapter 2 in Belton M. Fleisher, Nicholas, C. Hope, Anita Alves Pena, and Dennis Tao Yang, (eds), Policy Reform and Chinese Markets: Progress and Challenges, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 38-70
• (2008), ‘China’s dilemmas in the 21st century’, (with Wing Thye Woo), Chapter 1 in Ligang Song and Wing Thye Woo (eds), China’s Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change, Asia Pacific Press: Canberra and The Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC and Social Sciences Academic Press: Beijing, pp. 1-12
• (2008), ‘The environmental consequences of foreign direct investment in China,’ (with Qun Bao and Yuanyuan Chen), Chapter 11 in Ligang Song and Wing Thye Woo (eds), China’s Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change, Asia Pacific Press: Canberra and the Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC and Social Sciences Academic Press: Beijing, pp. 243-264
• (2007), ‘The East Asian experience: the People’s Republic of China’, Chapter 4 in ArsenioM. Balisacan and Hal Hill (eds), The Dynamics of Regional Development: The Philippines in East Asia, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 93-122
• (2007), ‘Component trade and China’s global economic integration’, (with Kunwang Liang Xingjun Zhao), Chapter 5 in Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (eds), China:Linking Markets for Growth, Asia Pacific Press: Canberra, pp. 71-94
• (2007), ‘China’s demand for energy: a global perspective’, (with Sheng Yu), Chapter 12 inRoss Garnaut and Ligang Song (eds), China: Linking Markets for Growth, AsiaPacific Press: Canberra, pp. 225-247
• (2007), ‘The dynamic in East Asia trade‘, (with Tina Chen and Shiji Zhao), Chapter 7 inMari Pangestu and Ligang Song (eds), Japan’s Future in East Asia and the Pacific, Asia Pacific Press: Canberra (December), pp. 166-194
• (2006), 'The impact of privatisation on firm performance in China,' (with Yang Yao), Chapter 3 in Y. Yao and L. Yueh (eds), Globalisation and Economic Growth in China, World Scienticfic: London, pp. 59-114.
• (2005), 'Interest rate liberalisation in China and the implications for non-state banking', Chapter 7 in Y. Huang, A. Saich and E. Steinfeld, (ed.), Financial Sector Reform in China, Harvard University Asia Centre: Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 111-130.

Others

• (2009), Let the stimulus package work in China, APEC Economies (Newsletter), Vol. 13, No. 3, April 2009, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University
• (2009), China as a manufacturing powerhouse, (with Huw McKay), APEC Economies (Newsletter), Vol. 13, No. 5, July 2009, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University

Teaching

• Development Economics
• The Chinese Economy