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 India¿s recent economic reforms and associated state-level income convergence/divergence by applying stochastic...

 

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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)
 

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Trade and investment liberalisation and industrial per capita emissions in China: 1990 to 2007 (with Ying Liu), Faculty of Commerce - Economics Working Papers (2009)

It was hypothesised that trade and investment liberalisation in China had a short term negative...

 

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International Trade and Regional Income Convergence: The ASEAN-5 Evidence (with Reetu Verma), ASEAN Economic Bulletin (2008)

This paper demonstrates that multilateralism and regionalism are complementary, and that regional income convergence is...

 
The complementarities of multi-lateralism and regionalism and income convergence: ASEAN and SAARC (with Shao-Wei Lee), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2008)

This paper proposes the hypothesis thatmultilateralism and regionalism are complementary, and that regionalincome convergence is...

 

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Trade liberalisation and lagged reactions of trade flows, productivity and internal demand: an application to the Australian PMV industry (with Elias Sanidas), Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (2008)

A literature review regarding the consequences of trade liberalization on trade flows, productivity and internal...

 
Trade reforms and the survival of the textiles, clothing and footwear industries in Australia, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2008)

This paper documents the effects of trade reforms on the performance of Textiles Clothing and...

 
Structural breaks in trade and income per capita in ASEAN-5 countries: an application of Innovational Outlier models (with Mosayeb Pahlavani), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)

The founder members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN-5) Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the...

 
The complementarity hypothesis of integration: regionalism, multilateralism and the ASEAN-5 (with Elias Sanidas), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)

It is hypothesized that multilateralism and regionalism are complementary and that regional trade performance is...

 

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The impact of exchange rate volatility on Indonesia's exports to the USA: an application of ARDL Bounds testing procedure (with Arief Bustaman), International Journal of Applied Business and Economic Research (2007)

This paper investigates the long-run and short-run impacts of exchange rate volatility on Indonesia's exports...

 
Trade reforms and breakpoints in Australia's manufactured trade: an application of the Zivot and Andrews model (with Frank V. Neri and Mosayeb Pahlavani), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)

Trade liberalization is expected to increase imports but also exports via reduced input costs and...

 
An empirical assessment of the effects of trade on employment in Australia: 1989/1990-2000/2001, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2006)
 
Australia and New Zealand CER agreement: an application of the Wald-type test (with Mosayeb Pahlavani), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2006)
 

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Performance and prospects of export processing zones: Asia an update, The Journal of Comparative Asian Development (2006)

Descriptive studies carried out by international organizations and academics focus on conceptualization, objectives, incentives, developmental...

 
The Impact of Unilateral and Regional Trade Liberalisation on the Intra-Asean 5 Founding Nations' Exports and Export-GDP Nexus (with Elias Sanidas), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2005)
 
Trends in Manufactured Exports Across the States and Territories of Australia 1989/1990-2000/2001: A Shift-Share Analysis (with Frank V. Neri), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2005)
 

Contributions to Books

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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

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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...