Dr Jayanthakumaran's research has concentrated on the manufacturing performance of Australia and Asia. The findings from his research have important policy implications for Australian manufacturing and trade policies, showing among other things that declining protection in Australian manufacturing is associated with rising productivity and rising exports, despite the fact that the positive productivity growth does not appear to have been passed on to consumers in the form of lower prices; that the positive productivity effect of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) does not appear to have been translated into export gains; that trade reforms have had a negative impact on employment; that declining protection is weakly associated with increasing employment to the degree that trade flows are intra-industry; and that declining protection in the passenger motor vehicle industry has increased the volume of trade and productivity, but reduced the locally produced cars for internal consumption.
Articles
CO2 emissions, energy consumption, trade and income: a comparative analysis of China and India (with Reetu Verma and Ying Liu), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2012)
In order to prevent the destabilisation of the Earth's biosphere, CO2 emissions must be reduced...
Trends in emissions across the states of Australia 1998¿99 to 2007¿08: a shift-share analysis (with Ying Liu), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)
This paper reviews structural changes in emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxide (NOx), carbon...
Economic reforms and income convergence/divergence in regional India, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2010)
This paper explores Indiaÿs recent economic reforms and associated state-level income convergence/divergence by applying stochastic...
Financial Liberalization and Performance in Sri Lanka: The ARDL Approach (with Ramesh Chandra Paudel), South Asia Economic Journal (2009)
From the 1950s to the early 1970s, Sri Lankan governments pursued controls on the financial...
Income convergence of the Saarc-5' countries (with Shao-Wei Lee), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2009)
Contributions to Books
Multilateralism, Regionalism and Income Convergence: ASEAN and SAARC (with Shao-Wei Lee), in K. Jayanthakumaran (Ed.), Advanced Technologies (2009)
The contemporary nature of regional trade agreements (discriminatory RTAs) and multilateralism (non-discriminatory) is widely discussed...
Presentations
An overview of export processing zones: selected Asian countries, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2002)
This paper surveys the literature on the perfonnance of Export processing Zones (EPZs) that have...