Ligang Song BA (Renmin), MA (International University of Japan), PhD (ANU) Associate Professor , and Director China Economy and Business Program Crawford School of Economics and Government

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

• (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

Book Chapters

• (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.

Teaching

• Development Economics
• The Chinese Economy

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