Suiwah Leung MCom (UNSW), MA , PhD (Johns Hopkins) Senior Lecturer, Graduate Studies in International and Development Economics Crawford School of Economics and Government

Research interests/expertise

• International finance
• Financial sector developments
• Open economy macroeconomics
• Postgraduate economics education

Current Projects

• Vietnam Economic Research and Public Policy Project
• Exchange rates and financial sector developments in Australia, Asia and the Pacific
• International postgraduate education in Australia

Recent Publications

• Leung,S. (1995), 'Exchange rate regimes and outward looking growth'.
  Sustaining Export Oriented Development in East Asia, Garnuat, Grilli, Reidel (ed), Cambridge University Press, 151-91.
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• Leung,S.; Vo, T. (1996), 'Vietnam in the 1980s - price reforms and stabilization'.
  Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, Vol. 197,
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• Leung,S. (1997), 'Financial deregulation and trade expansion'.
  East Asian Trade after the Uruquay Round, Robertson, D. (ed), Cambridge University Press, 78-100.
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• Leung,S.; Doanh, L (1998), 'Vietnam'.
  East Asia in Crisis, McLeod, R. H.; Garnaut, R (ed), Routledge Publishing, 120-30.
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• Leung,S. (1999), 'Crisis in Asia and Vietnam’s Economic Policy Response'.
  Vietnam and the East Asian Crisis, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 3-9.
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• Leung,S. (2003), 'The role of graduate studies at the Australian National University in the development of innovative human resources in the Asia-Pacific region'.
  Strategy of Human Resources Development in Science and Technology, Japan International Science and Technology Exchange Centre (JISTEC), Tokyo,
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Selected Publications

• Vietnam Assessment - Creating a Sound Investment Climate (ed), ISEAS/Curzon Press, Singapore and UK, 1996
• Vietnam and the East Asian Crisis (ed), Elgar Publishers, UK, 1999

Working Papers

• Dollarization and macroeconomic policy in Vietnam (jointly with Tom Kompas), paper presented at the Conference of Economists, Canberra, Sept. 2003
• Integration and transition - Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao PDR (with TT Vo and K. Viseth), paper presented at conference on Deepening Financial Arrangements in East Asia, Bangkok, Oct. 2003

Teaching

Masters Courses

• Open economy macroeconomics, finance and development (IDEC8008)
• Political economy of economic reform (IDEC8019)

Dr. Leung supervises numerous PhD theses ranging from dollarization and financial sector reforms in Cambodia to State owned enterprise reform in Vietnam to electricity industry reform in Australia.

Career Highlights

Dr. Leung consults regularly with AusAID, the Australian Deparment of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, the UN Development Program, and the Vietnamese government on macroeconomic and economic development issues. Dr. Leung is also a member of the ANU Divisional Education Committee, and is currently part of the ANU Committee to review graduate course work education.

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