2023

• Andrew Carter (Chair of panel: Professor R Breunig)
  Thesis title: Empirical essays in taxation - responses to the Australian taxation system

• Sudyumna Dahal (Chair of panel: Professor R Fry-McKibbin)
  Thesis title: Essays on remittances, R&D and macroeconomy

• Quoc Anh Ho (Chair of panel: Emeritus Professor K Kalirajan)
  Thesis title: Vietnam’s economic growth: The roles of labour productivity, structural change, and foreign direct investment

• Minh Ngoc Le (Chair of panel: Associate Professor HL Chu)
  Thesis title: Essays on enterprises, standards compliance, and environmental issues In Vietnam

• Mai Nguyen (Chair of panel: Associate Professor H Nguyen)
  Thesis title: Food safety in international trade and the political economy in Vietnam

• Lin Qi (Chair of panel: Professor R Fry-McKibbin)
  Thesis title: Essays on nonlinearities in financial market co-movements

• Tristram Sainsbury (Chair of panel: Professor R Breunig)
  Thesis title: Essays in empirical policy evaluation: COVID-19 fiscal policy and the early release of superannuation

• Thomas Wangi (Chair of panel: Professor R Fry-McKibbin)
  Thesis title: Demand for excess reserves by commercial banks in Papua New Guinea

• Tsendsuren Batsuuri (Chair of panel: Distinguished Professor W McKibbin)
  Thesis title: Economic and environmental impacts of demographic changes in a life-cycle model

• Mara Hammerle (Chair of panel: Professor P Burke)
  Thesis title: Essays on household energy poverty and Australia’s renewable energy transition

• Shane Johnson (Chair of panel: Professor R Breunig)
  Thesis title: Essays in empirical tax policy: Taxpayers’ responses to the Australian personal taxation system

• Yichang Liu (Chair of panel: Emeritus Professor K Kalirajan)
  Thesis title: Trade in renewable energy commodities among Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Countries: An exploratory study

• Matthew Woolf (Chair of panel: Associate Professor C Day)
  Thesis title: Essays on inequality, human capital, and economic growth

2022

• Krisna Gupta (Chair of panel: Dr A Patunru)
  Thesis title: How investment and trade shape the economic transformation of Indonesia

• Nurina Merdikawati (Chair of panel: Dr S Dong)
  Thesis title: Essays on the impact of labour market regulation in Indonesia

• Wanissa Suanin (Chair of panel: Emeritus Professor P Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Processed food exports from developing countries: patterns, determinants, policy issues

• Vishesh Agarwal (Chair of panel: Professor L Song)
  Thesis title: The effects of political shocks on international trade: evidence from China and major partners, 1998-2018

• Yuventus Effendi (Chair of panel: Professor B Resosudarmo)
  Thesis title: Implications of electricity market integration and renewable electricity development in the East Asia region

• Siti Kamariah Ghazali (Chair of panel: Emeritus Professor P Athukorala)
  Thesis title: The real exchange rate and economic performance: insights from the Malaysian experience

• Albert Lamberte (Chair of panel: Professor Q Grafton)
  Thesis title: Economic analyses of policies for household water services in Metro Manila

• Hai Thanh Nguyen (Chair of panel: Associate Professor HL Chu)
  Thesis title: Liberalisation reforms and manufacturing productivity in a transition economy: The Vietnamese experience

• Phan Le (Chair of panel: Professor B Lewis)
  Thesis title: Sources of productivity growth in Vietnam: Three essays

2021

• Taehyun Ryu (Chair of panel: Emeritus Professor R Jha)
  Thesis title: Institutions, government, and development

• Tong Zhang (Chair of panel: Associate Professor P Burke)
  Thesis title: Essays on the effects of road transport costs

• Martha Primanthi (Chair of panel: Emeritus Professor K Kalirajan)
  Thesis title: Characteristics of Indonesia’s large and medium scale manufacturing industries: An exploratory analysis

• Ruth Nikijuluw (Chair of panel: Associate Professor B Lewis)
  Thesis title: Essays on decentralisation and accountability in Indonesia

• Umi Yaumidin (Chair of panel: Associate Professor HL Chu)
  Thesis title: Essays on sustainable agriculture in Indonesia

• Denny Irawan (Chair of panel: Associate Professor T Okimoto)
  Thesis title: Macro uncertainties and financial dynamics of renewable and non-renewable resource companies

• Kai-Yun Tsai (Chair of panel: Distinguished Professor W McKibbin)
  Thesis title: The economic impact of the emergence of China on Taiwan

• Silva Daniel Withmory (Chair of panel: Professor R Fry-McKibbin)
  Thesis title: Essays in Australian macroeconomic policy

• Thai Nguyen (Chair of panel: Associate Professor HL Chu)
  Thesis title: Essays on the economics of energy in Vietnam

• Chris Wokker (Chair of panel: Professor R Breunig)
  Thesis title: Essays in applied microeconomics

• Wishnu Mahraddika (Chair of panel: Emeritus Professor P Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Financial globalization and macroeconomic policy

• Barli Suryanta (Chair of panel: Dr A Patunru)
  Thesis title: Indonesia’s integration into the regional and global economies

• Chandra Tri Putra (Chair of panel: Emeritus Professor H Hill)
  Thesis title: Essays on firm diversification strategies: Evidence from Indonesian medium and large manufacturing plants

• Christopher James Cabuay (Chair of panel: Professor B Resosudarmo)
  Thesis title: Essays on migration and remittances in the Philippines

• Hang Hoang (Chair of panel: Distinguished Professor W McKibbin)
  Thesis title: Essays in innovation, trade and determinants of growth

• Anthony Wiskich (Chair of panel: Distinguished Professor W McKibbin)
  Thesis title: Essays on modelling the economics of energy and the climate

• Trang Be (Chair of panel: Associate Professor HL Chu)
  Thesis title: The political economy of small and medium-sized enterprises in Vietnam.

• Augustus Panton (Chair of panel: Distinguished Professor W McKibbin)
  Thesis title: Essays on climatic disruptions and monetary policy

• Phitawat Poonpolkul (Chair of panel: Distinguished Professor W McKibbin)
  Thesis title: Essays on demographic changes and macroeconomics

• Shanika Rathnayake Mudiyanselage (Chair of panel: Professor R Jha)
  Thesis title: Sustainability of public debt, debt stabilisation, fiscal rules and debt growth nexus in developing world

• Alongkorn Tanasritunyakul (Chair of panel: Emeritus Professor P Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Asian export performance: diversification, product variety, and productivity

2020

• Lien Huong Do (Chair of panel: Dr H Nguyen)
  Thesis title: Essays on agriculture and rural development in Viet Nam

• Wannaphong Durongkaveroj (Chair of panel: Professor P Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Trade, growth, and equity: four essays

• Samuel Firew (Chair of panel: Professor K Kalirajan)
  Thesis title: Economic integration in the ASEAN region, and international trade linkages with FDI, tourism and the environment

• Adrianus Hendrawan (Chair of panel: Associate Professor B Lewis)
  Thesis title: Political economy of Indonesia’s decentralisation

• Nicholas Bayly (Chair of panel: Professor R Breunig)
  Thesis title: Female board representation and corporate performance: an Australian perspective

• Mark Fabian (Chair of panel: Professor R Breunig)
  Thesis title: A theory of subjective well-being

• Owen Freestone (Chair of panel: Professor R Breunig)
  Thesis title: Economic inequality over the life cycle in Australia

• Christopher Hoy (Chair of panel: Professor S Howes)
  Thesis title: Evaluating people’s support for and the impact of tax and transfer policies in developing countries

• Chi Hoong Leong (Chair of panel: Emeritus Professor J Bennett)
  Thesis title: Willingness-to-pay for noise abatement in Singapore

• Kate McKinnon (Chair of panel: Professor R Fry-McKibbin)
  Thesis title: Essays in empirical asset pricing

• Donny Pasaribu (Chair of panel: Emeritus Professor H Hill)
  Thesis title: The Dutch disease, natural resource booms and policy adjustments: The case of Indonesia

2019

• Deasy Pane (Chair of panel: Dr A Patunru)
  Thesis title: Firms in international trade: evidence from Indonesia

• Panittra Ninpanit (Chair of panel: Professor D Stern)
  Thesis title: Economic analysis of energy use and environmental impacts in Thailand

• Umbu Reku Raya (Chair of panel: Professor B Resosudarmo)
  Thesis title: Essays on inequality of opportunities and development outcomes in Indonesia

• Rus’an Nasrudin (Chair of panel: Professor B Resosudarmo)
  Thesis title: Three essays on livelihood and development in Indonesia

• Anna Triana Falentina (Chair of panel: Professor B Resosudarmo)
  Thesis title: Micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Indonesia: Three essays

• Yessi Vadila (Chair of panel: Professor B Resosudarmo)
  Thesis title: The socio-economic, environmental, and health impacts of tariff reforms in Indonesia

• Paul Wyrwoll (Chair of panel: Professor Q Grafton)
  Thesis title: The economics and governance of multipurpose hydropower reservoirs

• Nilar Aung (Chair of panel: Dr H Nguyen)
  Thesis title: Rice production, income diversification and rural development in Myanmar

• Nathan Deutscher (Chair of panel: Professor R Breunig)
  Thesis title: Empirical essays in intergenerational mobility and early childhood human capital formation

• Paul Hubbard (Chair of panel: Dr S Armstrong)
  Thesis title: The nature and performance of China’s state-owned enterprises

• Giang Nguyen (Chair of panel: Associate Professor M Sinning)
  Thesis title: Essays on economic development in Southeast Asia

• Lam Xuan Nguyen (Chair of panel: Professor K Kalirajan)
  Thesis title: An asymmetric country model with financial frictions

From 2019 onwards, this list includes all PhD in Economics graduates from the Crawford School of Public Policy under the newly-expanded Arndt-Corden Department of Economics.

2018

• Nguyen Thi Minh Hieu (Chair of panel: Professor R Jha)
  Thesis title: Human capital: Parental aspirations, ethnic differences and crime

• Sadia Afrin (Chair of panel: Professor R Jha)
  Thesis title: Monetary policy transmission mechanism, financial frictions in closed and open economy DSGE models

• Kimlong Chheng (Chair of panel: Professor B Resosudarmo)
  Thesis title: Food insecurity in developing economies: Cambodian and International evidence

2017

• Rohan Best (Chair of panel: Dr P Burke)
  Thesis title: Energy and economic development: Underlying macroeconomic and institutional factors

• Omer Majeed (Chair of panel: Professor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Trade policy and production fragmentation

• Samuel Weldeegzie (Chair of panel: R Breunig)
  Thesis title: Essays on human capital in Ethiopia

2016

• Lwin Lwin Aung (Chair of panel: Professor P Warr)
  Thesis title: Accounting for consumption inequality in Myanmar: 2004/05-2009/10

• Matthew McKay (Chair of panel: Professor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Patterns of world trade: An application of network complexity analysis

• Sirikarn Lertamphainont (Chair of panel: Dr R Sparrow)
  Thesis title: Farm household welfare: The application of weather and disaster shocks in Thailand

• Thang Tat Vo (Chair of panel: Professor R Jha)
  Thesis title: The relationship between confidence and economic policy in Vietnam

• Huy Quynh Nguyen (Chair of panel: Professor P Warr)
  Thesis title: Policy reform for smallholder agriculture: an analysis using household data for Vietnam

• Ryan Edwards (Chair of panel: Dr P Burke)
  Thesis title: Natural resource sectors and human development: International and Indonesian evidence

• Rajan Krishna Panta (Chair of panel: Professor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Labour migration, migrant remittances and economic development

• Fadliya (Chair of panel: Associate Professor R McLeod)
  Thesis title: Fiscal decentralisation in Indonesia

2015

• Sitta Rosdaniah (Chair of panel: Dr R McLeod)
  Thesis title: Nominal and actual objectives of economic policy making in Indonesia

• Jagath Dissanayake (Chair of panel: Professor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Three essays on international food prices

• Ariun-Erdene Bayarjargal (Chair of panel: Professor R Jha)
  Thesis title: Inequality and economic development

• Michael Cabalfin (Chair of panel: Professor H Hill)
  Thesis title: Of milk and honey: Returns to education and migration of Filipinos

2014

• Delwar Hossain (Chair of panel: Professor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Essays on capital inflows and economic development

• Fahad Khan (Chair of panel: Professor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Three essays on determinants and impact of institutional quality

• Manoj Kumar Pandey (Chair of panel: Professor R Jha)
  Thesis title: Essays in the economics of ageing

• Marcel Schroder (Chair of Panel: Professor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Real exchange rates and foreign assets: three essays

• Acram Latiph (Chair of panel: Professor H Hill)
  Thesis title: What’s wrong with Mindanao? The unequal development in the Philippines

• Kien Trung Nguyen (Chair of panel: Professor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Economic reforms manufacturing employment and productivi

• Sitthiroth Rasphone (Chair of panel: Professor P Warr)
  Thesis title: Marginal benefit incidence of public spending in Laos

• Nga Thi Thanh Nguyen (Chair of panel: Professor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Ownership bias and economic transition: Evidence from the manufacturing sector in Vietnam

• Duc Truong Nguyen (Chair of panel: Professor R Jha)
  Thesis title: Essays on India’s monetary and fiscal policies and their interrelation

• Ramesh C Paudel (Chair of panel: Professor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Growth and export performance of developing countries: Is landlockedness destiny?

2013

• Rahman Abdurohman (Chair of panel: Associate Professor B Resosudarmo)
  Thesis title: Countercyclical fiscal policy in Indonesia

2012

• Hemantha Ekanayake (Chair of panel: Professor R Jha)
  Thesis title: Essays on Fiscal and Monetary Interdependence

• Titik Anas (Chair of panel: Professor H Hill)
  Thesis title: Behind the Boom and Bust of Indonesian Exports

• Nitin Gupta (Chair of panel: Professor R Jha)
  Thesis title: Essays on India’s Post-Reform Industrial Performance

• Andrew Jia Yi Kam (Chair of panel: Professor H Hill)
  Thesis title: Malaysian Industrialisation: Production Fragmentation, Productivity and Technology Spillovers

• Moekti Soejachmoen (Chair of panel: Professor H Hill)
  Thesis title: Why is Indonesia Left Behind in Global Production Networks?

• Swarnim Wagle (Chair of panel: Professor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Essays on Policy Reforms in Trade, Investment and Taxation

2011

• Shuhei Nishitateno (Supervisor: Professor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: The trend of production fragmentation, its determinants and the impact of the fragmentation on Exchange Rate Pass-Through (ERPT)

• Ditya Nurdianto (Supervisor: Associate Professor B Resosudarmo)
  Thesis title: A General Equilibrium Perspective on Energy and Environmental Policies in ASEAN

• Raden Muhamad Purnagunawan (Supervisor: Associate Professor C Manning)
  Thesis title: Minimum Wages and Labour Market Outcomes in Decentralised Indonesia

2010

• Paul Burke (Supervisor: Professor R Jha)
  Thesis title: On impacts of economic growth

• Xin Liu (Supervisor: Professor G Fane)
  Thesis title: Testing Alternative Explanations for the Uncovered Interest Parity Anomaly

2009

• Honge (Cathy) Gong (Supervisor: Professor X Meng)
  Thesis title: Financial essays on spatial price differences and income mobility in urban China, 1986-2004

• Miki Matsui (Supervisor: Associate Professor C Manning)
  Thesis title: Marriage, employment and happiness: The work-life balance of Japanese women

• Waleerat Suphannachart (Supervisor: Professor P Warr)
  Thesis title: Research and productivity in Thailand agriculture

• Rodrigo Taborda (Supervisor: Professor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Structural reforms and industrial adjustment in Columbia

• Russell Thomson (Supervisor: Professor H Hill, Professor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: The Determinants of technological innovation

• Christine Yeo (Supervisor: Professor X Meng)
  Thesis title: Three essays on individuals’ responses to welfare reforms in China

• Dandan Zhang (Supervisor: Professor X Meng)
  Thesis title: Employment, inequality and poverty in China

2008

• Tu Dang (Supervisor: Professor R Jha)
  Thesis title: Choice between exchange rate band and corner solutions with imperfect credibility

• Machmud, T M Arief (Supervisor: Professor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Determinants of inflation in Indonesia: An econometric analysis

• Sam Hill (Supervisor: Professor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Foreign direct investment and economic growth: The role of host country policies

• Jakrit Ruangkajorn (Supervisor: Professor P Warr)
  Thesis title: The determinants of private investment in Thailand

• Muhammad Nashihin (Supervisor: Professor G Fane)
  Thesis title: Poverty incidence in Indonesia, 1987-2002: A utility-consistent approach based on a new survey of regional prices

• Alberto Posso (Supervisor: Professor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Outward orientation and labour market outcomes in Asia and Latin America

• Riyana Miranti (Supervisor: Associate Professor C Manning)
  Thesis title: The determinants of regional poverty in Indonesia 1984-2002

• Della Temenggung (Professor H Hill)
  Thesis title: Foreign direct investment and industrial transformation in Indonesia

• Yogi Vidyattama (Professor H Hill and Dr B Resosudarmo)
  Thesis title: Patterns of provinicial economic growth in Indonesia

• Nobuaki Yamashita (Professor PC Athukorala and Professor M Richardson)
  Thesis title: International fragmentation of production, trade patterns and the labour market adjustments in Japanese manufacturing

• Arief Anshory Yusuf (Supervisor: Dr B Resosudarmo)
  Thesis title: Distributional impact of environmental policies in Indonesia

2007

• Beng Jiunn Ang (Supervisor: Professor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: The causal relationship between economic growth and financial development

• Kompal Sinha (Superivsor: Professor R Jha)
  Thesis title: Essays in nutrition and labour supply: An empirical investigation for rural India

• Quang Tien Tran (Supervisor: ProfProfessor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Foreign direct investment and industrialisation in Vietnam

2006

• Edda Claus (Supervisors: Dr M H Dungey, Dr R Fry)
  Thesis title: Monetary policy and inflation targeting

• Tao Kong (Supervisor: Professor R Garnaut)
  Thesis title: Growth effects of political institutions

• Dionisius Narjoko (Supervisor: Professor H Hill)
  Thesis title: Indonesian manufacturing and the economic crisis of 1997/98

• Kang Yong Tan (Supervisor: Professor W McKibbin)
  Thesis title: Dynamic learning in macroeconometric models

• Hsiao Chink Tang (Supervisor: Professor W Mckibbin)
  Thesis title: Monetary policy transmission mechanism in Malaysia: An empirical and methodological exploration

• Zavkijon Zavkiev (Supervisor: Professor W McKibbin)
  Thesis title: Modelling the Tajikistan economy with an application to the evaluation of monetary regimes

2005

• Juthathip Jongwanich (Supervisor: Professor W McKibbin)
  Thesis title: Crisis, adjustment and exchange rate policy option for post-crisis East Asia: The case study of Thailand

• Archanun Kohpaiboon (Supervisor: Professor PC Athukorala)
  Thesis title: Foreign direct investment and industrial transformation in Thailand

• Natalia Ponomareva (Supervisor: Professor W McKibbin)
  Thesis title: Monetary regimes for developing countries

• Alison Stegman (Supervisor: Professor W Mckibbin)
  Thesis title: International climate change agreements

2004

• Anurag Sharma (Supervisor: Professor R Jha)
  Thesis title: Fiscal deficits, banking crises and adjustment policy in a semi-open economy

2003

• Iman Sugema (Supervisor: Professor H Hill)
  Thesis title: Indonesia’s deep economic crisis: The role of the banking sector in its origins and propagation

• Chia-Hung Sun (Supervisor: Professor K Kalirajan, Professor W Mckibbin)
  Thesis title: The growth process in East Asian manufacturing industries: a re-examination

• Qun Shi (Supervisor: Professor G Fane)
  Thesis title: The social security system in China - Its origin, recent reforms and the prospects of future reforms

2002

• Tingsong Jiang (Supervisor: Professor W McKibbin)
  Thesis title: Economic instruments for pollution control in an imperfect world: Theory and implications for carbon dioxide emissions control in China

• M C Basri (Supervisor: Professor H Hill)
  Thesis title: The political economy of manufacturing protection in Indonesia

• Kanhaiya Singh (Supervisor: Professor K Kalirajan, Professor W McKibbin)
  Thesis title: Inflation, growth and monetary policy in India: A macroeconomic analysis

2001

• Alexandra Sidorenko (Supervisor: Professor W McKibbin)
  Thesis title: Health insurance and demand for medical care: Theory and application to Australia

• Steve Seneque (Supervisor: Professor K Kalirajan)
  Thesis title: The impact of economic reforms on Vietnam’s agricultural economy (1989-1995)

• X. Fan (Supervisor: Professor W McKibbin)
  Thesis title: Technological spillovers from foreign direct investment and industrial growth in China

2000

• Aswicahyono, H (Supervisor: Professor H Hill)
  Thesis title: Total factor productivity in Indonesia manufacturing, 1975-1993

• Bird, K B (Supervisor Professor H Hill)
  Thesis title: Industrial concentration and competition in Indonesian manufacturing

• Chang, H (Supervisor: Professor W McKibbin)
  Thesis title: International trade, productivity growth, eduction and wage differentials in general equilibrium

• Tang, KK (Supervisor: Professor W McKibbin)
  Thesis title: One country, two systems, how many monies? Essays on the exchange rate arrangement of Hong Kong

• Thapa, PJ (Supervisor: Professor P Warr)
  Thesis title: Labour heterogeneity in a farm household model: an application to Nepalese agriculture

• Weerasinghe, PN (Supervisor: Professor G Fane)
  Thesis title: Trade openness and economic performance: a cross-country empirical study