Curriculum vitae »

Research interests/expertise

• Trade policy, barriers to services trade and investment
• Regulatory policy, microeconomic reform
• Quantitative techniques, computable general equilibrium modeling, econometrics

Current Projects

• Measuring the extent and implications of barriers to services trade
• The effects of the services and investment provisions of regional trading arrangements

Recent Publications

• Institutions for Economic Reform in Asia, Routledge, Abingdon and New York,
  2009
• Services in PTAs donuts or holes? (with Christopher Findlay), in S.
  Jayasuriya, D. MacLaren and G. Magee (eds), Negotiating a Preferential
  Trading Agreement: Issues, Constraints and Practical Options, Edward Elgar,
  Cheltenham UK, 2009, pp. 97-128.
• East Asian economic integration and its impact on future growth, World Economy, 30(3), 2007, pp. 405-23.
• The rise of services trade: Regional initiatives and challenges for the WTO (with Alexandra Sidorenko), in Findlay, C. and Soesastro, H. (eds), Reshaping the Asia Pacific Economic Order, Routledge, London and New York, 2006, pp. 200-26.
• Quantitative methods for assessing the effects of non-tariff measures and trade facilitation (with M. Ferrantino), APEC Secretariat and World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 2005.
• The trade and investment effects of preferential trading arrangements (with J. Gali), in Ito, T. and Rose, A. (eds), International Trade in East Asia, NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics, Volume 14, 2005, pp. 133-170.
• Domestic regulatory reform and liberalisation of trade in infrastructure services (with D. Nguyen-Hong), in Sidorenko, A. and Findlay, C. (eds), Regulation and Market Access, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, 2003, pp. 78–105.
• Modelling the policy issues in services trade , Économie Internationale (9495), 2003, pp. 283–300.
• Measuring the cost of barriers to trade in services (with K. Hanslow and T. Phamduc), in Ito, T. and Krueger, A. (eds), Trade in Services in the Asia-Pacific Region, NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics, Volume 11, 2003, pp. 11–46.
• Multilateral liberalisation of services trade (with K. Hanslow), in R. Stern (ed.), Services in the International Economy, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, pp. 117–39, 2001.
• Issues in the application of CGE models to services trade liberalisation (with A. Hardin and L. Holmes), in C. Findlay and T. Warren (eds), Impediments to Trade in Services: Measurement and Policy Implications, Routledge, London, pp. 267–86, 2000.

Recent Working Papers

• Services: A 'Deal-Maker' in the Doha Round? (with Christopher Findlay), Chapter 3 in Monitoring Trade Policy: A New Agenda for Reviving the Doha Round, Trade Policy Monitoring Centre, Kiel Institute and Centre for Policy Research, May 2007.
• Institutional Strategies Within APEC for Improving the Microeconomic Policy Foundations of East Asia's Economic Performance, paper prepared for  East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, ANU, Canberra, March 2006.
  
• Trade Facilitation: What, Why, How and Where? (with Christopher Findlay and Richard Pomfret), mimeo, October 2006.
• Multinational Corporations and Pacific Regionalism, Pacific Economic Papers No. 358, 2006.
• East Asian Economic Integration and its Impact on Future Growth, Pacific Economic Papers No. 350, 2005 (forthcoming in World Economy).
• The Australia-US Free Trade Agreement: An Assessment, Pacific Economic Papers No. 345, 2005.
• A Compendium of Barriers to Services Trade, prepared for the World Bank, November 2005.
  

Older Working Papers

• Modelling steady state forestry in a computable general equilibrium context, National Centre for Development Studies Working Paper No. 91/8, 1991.
• The economic consequences of saving Indonesia’s forests, National Centre for Development Studies Working Paper No. 91/7, 1991.

Economic Models

• The Structure of the FTAP Model, Kevin Hanslow, Tien Phamduc and George Verikios,  Research Memorandum, Productivity Commission, February 2000.
•  FTAP Model Code, Version 2_7, Philippa Dee, October 2009.