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Peter Drysdale

AM, BA (UNE), PhD (ANU)

Professor of Economics,
Crawford School of Economics and Government


Biography

Peter Drysdale is Emeritus Professor of Economics and Visiting Fellow in Policy and Governance in The Crawford School of Economics and Government . Until 2002 he was Executive Director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre. His main areas of expertise are international trade and economic policy; Australia's economic relations with East Asia and the Pacific; the East Asian and Japanese economy and economic policy. This work includes developments in Asia Pacific economic cooperation, including relations between East Asia, Europe and APEC. His research work also extends to Chinese and Korean economies.

Research interests/expertise

  • Asia Pacific economic integration
  • International trade and economic policy
  • Japanese economy and economic policy
  • Foreign direct investment
  • East Asia's and China's trade and transformation

Current Projects

  • East Asia trade policy
  • Future financial arrangements to support development in East Asia
  • Japanese corporate governance
  • China's and Taiwan's accession to the WTO

Recent Publications

  • Drysdale, P; Elek, A. (1997), 'APEC: Community-building in East Asia and the Pacific'.
    From APEC to Xanadu: creating a viable community in the post-Cold War Pacific, HELLMAN, D.; PYLE, K.D. (ed), National Bureau of Asian Research and M.E. Sharpe, 37-69. pdf View Publication Online >>

  • Drysdale,P. (1998), 'The Japanese Economy'.
    Drysdale,P. Gower, L. (ed), Routledge, London and New York,
    Online publication not available.

  • Drysdale,P. (2000), 'Reform and Recovery in East Asia: The Role of the State and Economic Enterprise'.
    Drysdale,P. (ed), Routledge, London and New York,
    Online publication not available.

  • Drysdale,P. (2003), 'Japanese Governance: Beyond Japan Inc.'.
    Drysdale,P. Amyx, J. (ed), Routledge, London and New York,
    Online publication not available.

  • Drysdale,P. (1995), 'The Question of Access to the Japanese Market'.
    Economic Record, Vol. 71(214), Economic Society of Australia, Sydney, 271-83.
    pdf View Publication Online >>

  • Drysdale, P.; Huang, Y. (1997), 'Technological Catch-Up and Productivity Growth in East Asia'.
    Economic Record, Vol. 73, 201-211.
    pdf View Publication Online >>

  • Drysdale,P.; Vines, d.; House, B. (1998), 'Europe, East Asia and APEC: A Shared Global Agenda'.
    Europe, East Asia and APEC: A Shared Global Agenda, Drysdale,P.$; Vines, D. (ed), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
    Online publication not available.

  • Drysdale,P. (2002), 'Beyond East Asia’s economic crisis: development paradise lost?'.
    Japan’s Asian Policy: revival and response, Takashi Inoguchi (ed), Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 55-80.
    pdf View Publication Online >>

  • Drysdale,P. (2004), 'The New Economy in East Asia and the Pacific'.
    Drysdale,P.$ (ed), Routledge, London and New York,
    Online publication not available.

 

Selected Publications

  • International Economic Pluralism: economic policy in East Asia and the Pacific, Allen and Unwin, 1988.


Recent Papers

'Trade as a Key to Economic Growth and Development',
Keynote Address to the Trade Forum, Pyongyang, DPR Korea, jointly organised by the Ministry of Foreign Trade, DPR Korea and UNDP, Yanggakdo Hotel,
4-5 May 2005
  Click here for a preliminary version »


  Powerpoint version »

'China's Global and Regional Trade Agenda'
Paper for presentation to the BOAO Forum, Hainan China in the Session on China's Open Markets and Regional Economic Development, chaired by Long Yongtu, Vice Minister, MOFTEC, 12 April 2002
  Click here for a preliminary version »

'East Asian Steel Projections for the 1990s Revisited' Pacific Economic Paper No. 322, December 2001, Australia-Japan Research Centre
  Click here for a draft version »

'Japan and the New Regionalism in East Asia' Presentation to the Japan Economic Seminar, Washington, 22 November 2002
  Click here for a draft version »

'Getting Things Straight with Mr Koizumi' Australian Financial Review 31 May 2002
  Click here for a draft version »

'China's Integration into the Regional and International Financial System' with Yiping Huang, Paper prepared for presentation at the Kyoto University China Project Workshop on China's Economic Development and Structural Change in East Asia, Kyoto University, 8-9 February 2003
  Click here for a draft version »

Lies and Statistics Column, Australian Financial Review 20 July 2002
  Click here for a draft version »

'History of Regional Economic Integration in East Asia' with Jane Drake Brockman. Originally published in Spanish as 'Integración económica en Asia Oriental y la Ronda de Doha' in Rosas, Cristina (2003) 'Que las 'Rondas' no son buenas.La OMC y la Ronda de Doha: ¿proteccionismo vs desarrollo?' Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
  Click here for a draft version »

'The East Asia Community: What Trade Arrangements Make Sense' Presentation to Asian Values and Japan's Options conference, University of Singapore, October 2001.
  Click here for a draft version »

'Reflections on the Relationship with Japan' Keynote presentation at 13TH Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia 2 July 2003
  Click here for a draft version »


Teaching

  • The Asia Pacific Economies (taught at Australia Asia Management Centre)
  • Japanese Economy and Economic Policy (ECON 8002/8008)
  • Issues in Economic Development: Asia Pacific Economies and Government(IDEC8003)

Contact Details

Telephone: 61 2 6125 5539
Fax: 61 2 6125 0767
Email: peter.drysdale@anu.edu.au
Mailing address: Crawford School of Economics and Government,
The Australian National University,
Canberra ACT 0200, Australia

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