Trade and Development Group

• Expertise
• Advisory Work
• Research Interests
• Grants
• Publications
• Membership

The trade and development group currently has three full-time faculty members. In addition, there is a group of postgraduate students currently being supervised by the faculty members.

Expertise

• International Trade
• Agriculture and Development
• Trade in Services

Advisory Work

Group members have provided policy advice to the Australian Government and international organisations including the World Bank, OECD, APEC and the Asian Development Bank.

Research Interests

The main research interests of the Trade and Development group include:

• Agricultural Policy
• Air Transport
• Natural Resources and Development
• Trade Theory
• Regional Trading Arrangements

Grants

The research of this group has been supported by several research grants.  Most recently:

The key objectives of the project are to provide a clearer understanding of the forces or drivers of global food market outcomes over the next two to four decades, and of the uncertainties associated with them. Enhanced knowledge and understanding of such issues will provide a sounder basis for future investment decisions by Australian producers, and by R&D funders and providers.

(PSLP) AusAid, Public Sector Linkages Program (2012); Meeting food security goals with good policy; Professor Christopher Findlay in collaboration with IPSARD (Vietnam), University of the Philippines, (Philippines), Kasetsart University (Thailand), Academia Sinica (Taiwan), CAPAS (Indonesia), China Agricultural University (China)

The research activity will  enhance the capability of policy makers in the APEC Region to offer advice on food security goals that is based on evidence and analysis and thereby promote the adoption of policy measures for food security goals which are consistent with international market conditions and achieve those goals at least cost.

(PSLP) AusAid, Public Sector Linkages Program (2010 - 2012); Structural reform, services and logistics – building policy making capacity in APEC; Professor Christopher Findlay in collaboration with the Ministry of Trade (Indonesia) and the University of International Business and Economics (China).

The research activities focus particularly on infrastructure and logistics within the services sector.  The intention is to both, add to the growth of participating economies and improve the integration between them by more efficient use of resources and better policy making practices.

Recent Publications

Professor Kym Anderson

The Political Economy of Agricultural Price Distortions, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, September 2010

Agricultural Price Distortions, Inequality and Poverty (edited with J. Cockburn and W. Martin), Washington DC: World Bank, March 2010

Distortions to Agricultural Incentives: A Global Perspective, 1955-2007, London: Palgrave Macmillan and Washington DC: World Bank, October 2009 (Recipient of the Bruce Gardner memorial Prize of the (US) Agriculatural and Applied Economics Association, 2010, and the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Quality of Research Discovery Prize, 2010.)

“Export Restrictions and Price Insulation During Commodity Price Booms” (with W. Martin), American Journal of Agricultural Economics 94(1), January 2012 (forthcoming).

“Trade Barrier Volatility and Agricultural Price Stabilization” (with S. Nelgen), World Development 40(1), January 2012 (forthcoming). Click here

Professor Christopher Findlay

‘Services trade and investment liberalisation’, ch. 8 in Masahisa Fujita, Ikuo Kuroiwa and Satoru Kumagoi (eds), The Economics of East Asian Integration, Edward Elgar, 2011

Australia New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (ANZCERTA) and Regional Integration, ISEAS, Singapore, 2011, joint author with Robert Scollay and Uwe Kaufmann

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Membership

The current members of the group are:

• Associate Professor Mandar Oak (Head of School)
• Professor Kym Anderson
• Dr Risti Permani

also:

• Professor Christopher Findlay, Executive Dean of the Faculty of the Professions