PhD graduates

2024

  • Sulistiyo Kadam Ardiyono (Chair of panel: Dr A Patunru)
    Thesis title: Firms’ responses to shocks and the impacts on employment and investment

  • Joel Bowman (Chair of panel: Professor L Song)
    Thesis title: The working dead: The dynamics, causes and consequences of zombie businesses

  • Bashar Fakhruzzaman (Chair of panel: Associate Professor Y Zhou)
    Thesis title: Industrial upgrading in the apparel value chain: Evidence from Bangladesh

  • Xueting Jiang (Chair of panel: Professor D Stern)
    Thesis title: Essays on air pollution, climate change, and extreme weather

  • Riswandi (Chair of panel: Professor B Resosudarmo)
    Thesis title: Essays on child development in Indonesia

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

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