Paul Burke
Professor; Head, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics; Deputy Director, Crawford School of Public Policy
Qualifications
BAgrEc (Hons I; Sydney), PhD (ANU)
Professor Paul Burke is Head of the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics (ACDE) and Deputy Director of the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. His research is in energy and environmental economics, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific.
Paul has published in journals including the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Economic Inquiry, Nature Geoscience, Nature Climate Change, Energy, and Global Environmental Change. Ongoing research topics include urban air pollution in Australia, electric vehicle promotion policies in China, and energy transition in South-East Asia. His publications are listed here.
Paul is convener of the Master of International and Development Economics, Master of Environmental and Resource Economics, and three Graduate Certificates. He has delivered Executive Education training in microeconomics, environmental economics, energy economics, and related fields for a range of public sector and open enrolment participants.
Paul supervises students in the Crawford PhD in Economics. He has been Chair for five PhD graduates and a panel member for another 18. In 2024 he is convening IDEC7902 Graduate Preparatory Mathematical Methods and IDEC8029 Issues in Applied Microeconomics.
Paul is a convener within the Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific initiative at ANU and is on the Executive Committee of the Australasian Development Economics Workshop (ADEW).
Research interests
- Energy economics
- Environmental economics
- Transport economics
- Development economics
- Asia-Pacific economies
Teaching
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