Premachandra Athukorala

Emailprema-chandra.athukoralaanu.eduau

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Biography

Prema-chandra Athukorala is Professor of Economics in Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, College of Asia and The Pacific at the Australian National University, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and Honarary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. His publications include Trade Policy Issues in Asian Development (Rutledge, 1998), Structural Adjustment and labour Migration in East Asia (Oxford University Press). Liberalization and Industrial Adjustment: Sri Lanka in International Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2000), Saving, Investment and Growth in India (Oxford University Press, 2002), Crisis and Recovery in Malaysia: The Role of Capital Controls (Edward Elgar 2003), Multinational Enterprises in Asian Development (Edward Elgar 2007), The Rise of Asia (Routledge, 2010), six edited volumes, 112 papers in scholarly journals, 77chapters in multi-author volumes, and nemerous book reviews, policy papers and consulatancy reports. He is on the editorial boards on Asian Economic Papers (MIT Press), Asian Development Review (MIT Press) and Aisn-Pacific Economic Literature (Wiley). At various times he has served as a consultant to the World Bank, ADB, ILO, UNDP, UNIDO, UNCTAD, ESCAP and the Australian Agency for International Development. These assignments have resulted in work on, inter alia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Jordan and Georgia.

Career highlights

Honarary Professorial Research Fellow, University of Manchester (since 2012); Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia since 2003; Consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, International Labour Organization, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the government of Sri Lanka; Visiting Scholar/Professor: Copanhagen Business School, Hitotsubashi University, Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, University of East Anglia and University of Malaya; listed in The Australian Who's Who since 2005.

Research interests

Development Macroeconomics: capital flows and financial crises, structural adjustment and stabilisation reforms, determinants of economic growth
Trade and development: trade policy reforms, multinational enterprises and globalisation of production, patterns and determinants of trade flows, and international labour migration

Current student projects

Doctoral dissertaions in progress

Phan Le, ‘Global Production Sharing and Export-led Industrialisation: Analytical Issues and Evidence from Vietnam’ (in progress).

Thanh, Nguyen, ‘Growth and Structural Adjustment in the Manufacturing Industry in Vietnam’ (inprogress).

Mahraddika, Wishnu, ‘Capital Mobility and Macroeconomic Policy (in progress).

Tanasritunyakul, Alongkorn, Global Production Sharing, Free Trade Agreements, and Trade Patterns’ (in progress).

Durongkaveroj, Wannaphong, Trade policy, poverty and income inequality

Durongkaveroj, Wannaphong, Trade policy, poevry and income inequality

Past student projects

PhD Dissertaions

(Principal supervisor in all cases unless otherwise stated)

McGillivary, Mark, A Quantitative Analysis of the Allocation of Australia's Official Development Assistance to Developing Countries and Multinational Organisations', La Trobe University, 1989.

Ratnayaka, Ravindra., 'Foreign Trade Linkages and Structure, Conduct and Performance of Australian Manufacturing: An Econometric Analysis', La Trobe University, 1990.

Menon, Jayant, 'Exchange Rate Pass-through in Australian Manufacturing Imports', The Institute of Applied Economics and Social Research, University of Melbourne, 1992 (co-spervisor)

Wickramanayake, Jayasinghe, 'Finance and Development: The Sri Lankan Case', La Trobe University, 1993.

Chandrasiri, Sunil, 'Direct Foreign Investment and Productivity Efficiency in Australian Manufacturing', La Trobe University, 1993.

Sharma, Kishor, 'Industrial Strategies, Foreign Trade Regimes and Structural Change: An Analysis of Nepalese Manufacturing, La Trobe University, 1997.

Hossain, M.M., 'A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Trade Liberalisation in South Asia, 1997, Australian national University.

Chowdhury, Mumtha., 'Resource Booms and Macroeconomic Adjustment: Papua New Guinea, Australian National University, 1998.

Du Pont, Michael, 'Foreign Direct Investment in Transitional Economies; A Case Study of China and Poland, Australian National University, 1998.

Weerasinghe, Lal,, ‘Openness and Productivity Growth’, Australian National University, 1999 (member of the supervisory panel).

Sugema, Iman, ‘Indonesia’s Deep Economic Crisis: The Role of the Banking Sector in its Origin and Propagation’, 2000

Kohpaiboon, Archanun, ‘Industrialization in Thailand: NMEs and Global Integration’, 2005.

Jongwanich, Juthathip, ‘Exchange Rate Regimes, Capital Account Opening and Real Exchange Rates: Evidence from Thailand’, 2005.

Ang, James,’The Role of Financial Intermediation in Economic Development: Evidence from Malaysia’, 2007.

Hill, Samel Christopher, ‘Growth Effects of Foreign Direct Investment: The Role of Host Country Factors’, 2007.

Tien, Quang Tran, ‘Foreign Direct Investment in Industrial Transition: A Case Study of Vietnam’, 2007.

Thomson, Russell, ‘Investment in Research and Development: Does Tax Policy Matter’, 2008 (co-supervisor)

Posso, Alberto, ‘Outward Orientation and Labour Market Outcomes in Asia and Latin America’, 2008

Machmud, Tenku, Mohammad Arief Sajukur, ‘Determinants of Inflation in Indonesia: An Econometric Analysis’, 2008.

Nobuaki Yamashita, ‘International Fragmentation of Production, Trade Pattern and the Labour Market Adjustment in Japanese Manufacturing’, 2008.

Taborda, Rodrigo, ‘Structural Reforms and Industry Adjustment: The Case of Colombia’, 2009.

Yi, Andrew Kam, ‘Malaysian Industrialisation: Production Fragmentation, Productivity and Technology Spillovers’, 2012 (co-supervisor).

Anas, Titk, ‘Behind the boom and bust of Indonesian exports, 2012 (co-supervisor).

Soejachmoen, Moekti, Indonesia’s participation in global production networks (Co-supervisor)

Nishitateno, Shuhei, ‘Global Production Sharing in the Automobile Industry: The Case of Japan’, 2011.

Wagle, Swarnim, ‘Essays on Policy reforms in Trade, Investment and Taxation’, 2011.

Ekanayake, Hemantha, ‘Essays on fiscal-monetary interdependence’, 2012 (member of the supervisory panel)

Nguyen, Thai Thanh Nga, ‘Ownership Bias and Economic Transition: Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector in Vietnam’, 2013.

Paudel, Rmesh Chandra, ‘Growth and Export Performance of Developing Countries: Is Landlockedness Destiny?’, 2013.

Nguyen, Kien Trung, ‘Economic Reforms, Manufacturing Employment and Wages in Vietnam’, 2014.

Schroder, Marcel, ‘Real Exchange Rates and Foreign Assets: Three Essays’, 2014.

Khan, Fahad, ‘Three Essays on the Determinants and Impact of Institutional Quality’, 2014.

Dissanayake, D.M. Jagath Rohitha, ‘Three Essays on International Food Prices’, 2014 (co-supervisor).

Hossain, Delwar, ‘Essays on Capital Inflows and Economic Development’, 2014.

Panta, Rajan Krisha, ‘Migrant Remittances, Real Exchange Rate and Economic Growth’, 2015

McKay, Matthew, ‘Patterns of World Trade: An Application of Network Complexity Analysis’, 2016 (in progress)

Omer Majeed, ‘Global Production Sharing, Trade Patterns and Exchange Rate Pass-through’ (pending amendments to the thesis).