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Russell Smyth Curriculum Vitae: January, 2009 1

CURRICULUM VITAE Personal Name

Russell Leigh Smyth Date of Birth

August 2, 1969 Citizenship

Australian

Country of Permanent Residence

Australia Work Address

Department of Economics Monash University 900 Dandenong Road Caulfield East 3145 Telephone: 99032134 E-mail: [email protected] Mobile: 0437 684 152 Qualifications Formal Qualifications

Ph.D, Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1997 Thesis title: “Institutional Perspectives on Post-Socialist Transformation with Particular Reference to Township and Village Enterprises in China”

Examiners:

Professor Peter Nolan, Dr. Chenggang Xu Judge Institute of Management, Department of Economics University of Cambridge London School of Economics

Accepted without amendment.

MEc, Monash University, 1995 Thesis title: “An Empirical Application of the Ehrlich Supply Function Using New South Wales Local Court Data”

LLB (Hons), Monash University, 1993 (Upper Second Class Honours) Thesis title: “Implied Hearsay and the Res Gestae in the House of Lords and High Court of Australia”

BEc (Hons), Monash University, 1991 (First Class Honours)


Academic Prizes and Awards:

Honorary Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia, 2008. Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Commendation for Excellence in Research, 2008. Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Commendation for Excellence in Research Publications, 2007. Department of Economics, Monash University, Research Award, 2007, 2008 Nominated for the Monash Postgraduate Association Supervisor of the Year, 2007. Nominated for the Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award at the 66th Academy of Management Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2007 (one of nine nominees). Australian Political Science Association Commendation, 2006 (for an article published in Australian Journal of Political Science, 2005, 40(4): 519-540). Emerald Management Reviews (Anbar) Citation for Excellence, 2004 (for an article published in Applied Economics, 2004, 36(18): 2079-2095). Overseas Research Student (ORS) Award, Economics Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1995-1997. Australian Postgraduate Award, Economics Department, Monash University, 1994-95. Sydney Futures Exchange Prize for the best research paper in ECO5820 Hedging and Uncertainty - “Futures Exchanges, Aspects of the Theory of the Firm and Implications for Futures Markets’ Regulation”, Monash University, 1994. Bankers Trust Australia Honours Scholarship, Monash University, 1991. Appointments

Current Appointment

Professor, Department of Economics, Monash University, 2004 -. Head, Department of Economics, Monash University 2009- Director of Asian Business and Economics Research Unit, Monash University 2001- Honorary Professor, North-Eastern University of Finance and Economics, China 2008- Honorary Professor, Dalian Nationalities University, China 2007-2010.


Associate Member, Centre for Small Business and Regional Research, University of Wollongong 2005- Previous Appointments

Deputy Head, Department of Economics, Monash University 2005-2008. Acting Deputy Head, Department of Economics, Monash University, June-December 2004. Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Monash University, 2003.

Member, Central Council of the Economic Society of Australia 2001-2008.

Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Monash University, 2000-2002.

Lecturer, Department of Economics, Monash University, 1997-1999. Assistant Lecturer, Department of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1996-97. Assistant Lecturer, Department of Economics, Monash University, part time 1992-1995 Teaching 2007-2008 ECF1100 Microeconomics 2006-2008 ECF1200 Macroeconomics 2006-2008 AST 4000/5000 Contemporary Issues in Asia (Guest Lectures) 2005-2006 ECF2550/ECF3550 Business in Asia 1997-2006 ECC4720 Law & Economics 2004 ECC3830 Competition and Regulation 1998, 2004 ECC3855 Economics Honours (Law & Economics) 1998, 2003 ECC3520 Australia in the Asia Business World (Guest Lectures) 1997-2002 ECW3301 Case Studies in International Trade 1997-2003 ECW3291 Multinational Trade and Investment 1998 ECC2400 Issues in Applied Microeconomics 1998 MBA Macroeconomics (MBA Programme in Shanghai) 1998 ECC3760 Economic Development of East Asia (Guest Lectures) Research


Publications

Books

1. Rebecca French, Graeme Johanson and Russell Smyth (Eds.) Living Outside the Walls: The Chinese in Prato (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009) pp. x + 314..

2. Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth (Eds.) Migration and Social Protection in

China (Singapore: World Scientific, 2008) pp. xiii + 256. 3. Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (Eds) Business in Asia (Melbourne: Monash

University Press, 2008) pp. x + 228. 4. Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (Eds) Globalisation and

Labour Mobility in China (Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2007) pp. vii + 233

5. Russell Smyth, On Kit Tam, Malcolm Warner and Cherrie Zhu (Eds) China’s

Business Reforms: Institutional Challenges in a Globalised Economy (London: Routledge, 2005) pp. xiv + 251.

6. Mita Bhattacharya, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (Eds) South Asia in the

Era of Globalisation: Trade, Industrialisation and Welfare (New York: Nova Science, 2004) pp. vi + 266.

7. Chris Nyland, Wendy Smith, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany, (Eds)

Malaysian Business in the New Era (Cheltenham, UK and Lyme, US: Edward Elgar, 2001) pp. xviii + 264

Edited Conference Proceedings

1. Mita Bhattacharya, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (Eds) Globalisation and Labour Mobility in India and China Proceedings of a Conference held at Monash University, September 2005 (on CD Rom – ISBN 0-9757512-0-4).

2. Russell Smyth, On Kit Tam and Cherrie Zhu (Eds) Institutional Challenges

for the Global China Proceedings of a Conference held at Monash University, November 2003 (on CD Rom – ISBN 0-7326-2247-6).

Chapters in Books

1. Russell Smyth and Qingguo Zhai, “Change and Restructuring in State-owned

Enterprises” in Chris Rowley and Fang Lee Cooke (Eds.) The Changing Face of Chinese Management (London: Routledge) (in press).


2. Russell Smyth, “The Costs to Business of Providing Social Security in

China” in Frank Columbus (Ed.) Business in China (New York: Nova Science) (in press).

3. Zhang Xiaolv, Chen Yi and Russell Smyth, “The Contribution of Donations

of Overseas Chinese to Wenzhou Development” in Rebecca French, Graeme Johanson and Russell Smyth (Eds.) Living Outside the Walls: The Chinese in Prato (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), pp. 261-273.

4. Tom Denison, Dharmalingam Arunachalam, Graeme Johanson and Russell

Smyth, “The Chinese Community in Prato” in Rebecca French, Graeme Johanson and Russell Smyth (Eds.) Living Outside the Walls: The Chinese in Prato (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), pp. 2-25.

5. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Fiji, You are the Way the World Should

Be – So Why is Everyone Leaving? Forecasting Fiji-Australia Migration Over the Next Decade” in J. Ram Pillarisetti, , Roger Lawrey, Teo Siew Yean, Shamim A. Siddiqui, and Azman Ahmad (Eds.) Small Economies and Global Economics (New York: Nova Science, 2008) Chapter 15.

6. Russell Smyth, “Preface” in Zhong Qin, Changing Patterns in Corporate

Governance: Family and Government Trust in Private Enterprises in Zhejiang Province, China (Beijing: Social Science Documentation House, 2008)

7. Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, “The Rhetoric and the Reality of Social

Protection for China’s Migrant Workers” in Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth (Eds.) Migration and Social Protection in China (Singapore: World Scientific, 2008) pp. 3-16.

8. Gloria Davies, Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, “Correct Ideas and Social

Security Reform in China: The Case of Shanghai’s Township Insurance” in Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth (Eds.) Migration and Social Protection in China (Singapore: World Scientific, 2008) pp. 65-91.

9. Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, “Towards an Harmonious Society:

Challenges for China in the Pursuit of Social-Protection-as-Social-Justice” in Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth (Eds.) Migration and Social Protection in China (Singapore: World Scientific, 2008), pp. 247-256.

10. Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany, “Asian Dominance: Imperialism,

Entrepreneurship and the New Growth Era”, in Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (Eds) Business in Asia (Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2008) pp.1-27.


11. Russell Smyth, “China: Privatization and Enterprise Restructuring in a Socialist Market Economy” in Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (Eds) Business in Asia (Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2008), pp.71-85.

12. Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany, “Movement of the

Masses in the Global Economy” in Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (Eds) Globalisation and Labour Mobility in China (Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2007) pp. 1-15.

13. Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, “‘Better City – Better Life’ for Whom?”

in Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (Eds) Globalisation and Labour Mobility in China (Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2007), pp. 101-118.

14. Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth “The Comparative Basic Living

Conditions and Leisure Activities of China’s Off-farm Migrants and Urban Locals” in Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (Eds) Globalisation and Labour Mobility in China (Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2007), pp. 119-134.

15. Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, “Rural Migrants and Public Security” in

Yanrui Wu (Ed.) Economic Transition, Growth and Globalization in China (Cheltenham, UK and Lyme, US Edward Elgar, 2006), pp. 121-152.

16. Russell Smyth, “The Changing Role of Local Government in Promoting

China’s Collective Township and Village Enterprises” in Charles Harvie and Boon-Chye Lee (Eds) Sustaining Growth and Performance in East Asia: The Role of Small and Medium Enterprises (Cheltenham, UK and Lyme, US Edward Elgar, 2005), pp. 327-340.

17. Russell Smyth, Junli Wang and Xin Deng, “Equity-for-Debt Swaps in

Chinese Big Business: A Case Study of Restructuring in One Large State-owned Enterprise”, in Chris Rowley and Malcolm Warner (Eds) Globalization and Competitiveness in Asia: Big Business in Asia (London: Routledge, 2005) [reprinted from Asia Pacific Business Review]

18. Russell Smyth, On Kit Tam, Malcolm Warner and Cherrie Zhu “Institutional

Challenges for China’s Business Reforms in a Globalised Economy” in Russell Smyth, On Kit Tam, Malcolm Warner and Cherrie Zhu (Eds) China’s Business Reforms: Institutional Challenges in a Globalised Economy (London: Routledge, 2005), pp. 1-10.

19. Dic Lo and Russell Smyth, “Industrial Restructuring and Corporate

Governance in China’s Large-scale State-owned Enterprises” in Russell Smyth, On Kit Tam, Malcolm Warner and Cherrie Zhu (Eds) China’s


Business Reforms: Institutional Challenges in a Globalised Economy (London: Routledge, 2005), pp. 11-26

20. Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and Cherrie Zhu, “Globalisation and

Occupational Health and Safety Regulation in China” in Russell Smyth, On Kit Tam, Malcolm Warner and Cherrie Zhu (Eds) China’s Business Reforms: Institutional Challenges in a Globalised Economy (London: Routledge, 2005) pp. 177-198.

21. Mita Bhattacharya, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany “The South Asian

Economies within the Global Context” in Mita Bhattacharya, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (Eds) South Asia in the Era of Globalisation: Trade, Industrialisation and Welfare (New York: Nova Science, 2004) pp. 1-13.

22. Paresh Narayan, Russell Smyth and Mohan Nandha “Potential Gains from

International Portfolio Diversification? Stock Market Linkages Between the Japanese and South Asian Markets” in Mita Bhattacharya, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (Eds) South Asia in the Era of Globalisation: Trade, Industrialisation and Welfare (New York: Nova Science, 2004) pp. 59-70.

23. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Revisiting an Old Question:

Investigating the Relationship Between Female Education and Fertility in South Asia” in Mita Bhattacharya, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (Eds) South Asia in the Era of Globalisation: Trade, Industrialisation and Welfare (New York: Nova Science, 2004) pp. 251-260.

24. Chris Nyland and Russell Smyth, “Australian Roadmaps to Globalism:

Explaining the Shift From Multilateralism to Imperial Preference”, in Gloria Davies and Chris Nyland (eds) Globalisation in the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, US Edward Elgar, 2004), pp. 117-141

25. Gloria Davies and Russell Smyth, “Globalisation, Late Industrialization and

China’s Accession to the WTO: A Critical Perspective on Close Integration” in Gloria Davies and Chris Nyland (eds) Globalisation in the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, US Edward Elgar, 2004), pp. 185-213.

26. Russell Smyth, “Enterprise Bankruptcies and the Restructuring of China’s

State-Owned Sector - A Review of Some Recent Problems and Prospects for Future Success” in Frank N. Pieke (ed) People’s Republic of China, Policies and Implications of Structural Reform (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing 2002) [reprinted from China Information]


27. Russell Smyth, “Citations by Court” in Tony Blackshield, Michael Coper and George Williams (eds) Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 98-99

28. Russell Smyth, “Extrinsic Materials” in Tony Blackshield, Michael Coper

and George Williams (eds) Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 265-267

29. Russell Smyth, “Judicial Robes or Academic Gowns? – Citations to

Secondary Authority and Legal Method in the New Zealand Court of Appeal” in Rick Bigwood (ed), Legal Method in New Zealand (Auckland: Butterworths, 2001), pp. 101-129

30. Ergun Dogan, Russell Smyth and Ian Wills, “Transaction Costs of Cross

Cultural Exchange: Evidence From Australia-Malaysia Case Studies” in Chris Nyland, Wendy Smith, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (eds) Malaysian Business in the New Era (Cheltenham, UK and Lyme, US Edward Elgar, 2001), pp. 51-66

31. Chris Nyland, Wendy Smith, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany

“Economic and Social Adjustments in Malaysia in the ‘New’ Business Era” in Chris Nyland, Wendy Smith, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (eds) Malaysian Business in the New Era (Cheltenham, UK and Lyme, US Edward Elgar, 2001), pp. 1-9

32. Russell Smyth and Ian Wills, “The Transaction Costs of Doing Business in

Malaysia” in Ron Edwards, Chris Nyland and Max Coulthard (eds) Readings in International Business: An Asia Pacific Perspective (Sydney: Prentice Hall, 2000), pp. 33-47

Refereed Journal Articles

1. Russell Smyth and Xiaolei Qian, “Corruption and Left-Wing Beliefs in a Post-Socialist Transition Economy: Evidence From China’s ‘Harmonious Society’”, Economics Letters (in press).

2. Svetlana Maslyuk and Russell Smyth “Cointegration Between Oil Spot and Future Prices of the Same and Different Grades in the Presence of Structural Change”, Energy Policy (in press).

3. Russell Smyth, Qingguo Zhai and Xiaoxu Li,, “The Impact of Gender

Differences on Determinants of Job Satisfaction Among Chinese Off Farm Migrants in Jiangsu”, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies (in press).


4. Russell Smyth, “Trends in Citation Practice of the Supreme Court of Queensland Over the Course of the Twentieth Century”, University of Queensland Law Journal (in press).

5. Vinod Mishra, Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, “On the Relationship

Between Female Labour Force Participation and Fertility in G7 Countries: Evidence from Panel Cointegration and Granger Causality”, Empirical Economics (in press).

6. Vinod Mishra, Susan Sharma and Russell Smyth, “Are Shocks to Real

Output Permanent or Transitory? Evidence from a Panel of Pacific Island Countries”, Pacific Economic Bulletin (in press).

7. Gloria Davies, Ingrid Nielsen, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth, Cherrie Zhu and

Judith Zhu, “The ‘X Component’ in Shanghai’s Social Security Reforms”, International Social Security Review (in press).

8. Russell Smyth, Qingguo Zhai and Xiaoxu Li, “Determinants of Turnover

Intentions Among Chinese Off Farm Migrants”, Economic Change and Restructuring (in press).

9. Russell Smyth, “A Century of Citation of Case-law and Secondary Authority

in the Supreme Court of Western Australia”, University of Western Australia Law Review (in press).

10. Paresh Narayan, Seema Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Understanding the

Inflation-Output Nexus in China”, China Economic Review (in press). 11. Hooi Hooi Lean and Russell Smyth, “Asian Financial Crisis, Avian Flu and

Terrorist Threats: Are Shocks to Malaysian Tourist Arrivals Permanent or Transitory?” Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research (in press).

12. Russell Smyth, “Citations of Foreign Decisions in Australian State Supreme

Courts Over the Course of the Twentieth Century: An Empirical Analysis”, Temple International & Comparative Law Journal (in press).

13. Djauhari Pambudi, Nathalie McCaughey and Russell Smyth, “Computable

General Equilibrium Estimates of the Impact of the Bali Bombing on the Indonesian Economy”, Tourism Management (in press).

14. Russell Smyth, Ingrid Nielsen and Xiaolei Qian, “What Determines

Employer Willingness to ‘Top Up’ Social Insurance? Evidence From Shanghai’s 25 Plus X Scheme”, International Journal of Manpower (in press).


15. Russell Smyth, “Citation to Authority on the Supreme Court of South Australia: Evidence From a Hundred Years of Data”, Adelaide Law Review (in press).

16. Guibin Zhang and Russell Smyth, “An Emerging Credit Reporting System in

China”, The Chinese Economy (Special Issue on “China’s Banking Sector After WTO Accession”) (in press).

17. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “The Effect of Inflation and Real Wages

on Productivity: New Evidence from a Panel of G7 Countries”, Applied Economics (in press).

18. Russell Smyth, Ingrid Nielsen and Vinod Mishra, “I’ve Been to Bali Too

(And I Will Be Going Back): Are Shocks to Bali’s Tourist Arrivals Permanent or Transitory?” Applied Economics (in press).

19. Djauhari Pambudi and Russell Smyth, “Making Indonesia More Attractive to

Foreign Investors: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Reducing the Risk Premium in Central Java”, Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies (in press).

20. Russell Smyth and Paresh Narayan, “A Panel Data Analysis of the Military

Expenditure-External Debt Nexus: Evidence From Six Middle Eastern Countries”, Journal of Peace Research (2009) 46(2): 203-218.

21. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Multivariate Granger Causality

Between Electricity Consumption, Exports and GDP: Evidence from a Panel of Middle Eastern Countries”, Energy Policy (2009) 37(1): 229-236.

22. Svetlana Maslyuk and Russell Smyth, “Non-linear unit root properties of

crude oil production”, Energy Economics (2009) 31(1): 109-118.

23. Xiaolei Qian and Russell Smyth, “Private and Public Financing of Education and Regional Disparities in Education Inputs in Contemporary China”, China Economic Journal (2008) 1(3): 287-301.

24. Seema Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Unit Roots and Structural Breaks in

PNG’s Macroeconomic Time Series”, International Journal of Social Economics (Symposium Issue on “Economic and Social Issues Facing the Pacific Island Economies”) (2008) 35(12): 963-984.

25. Russell Smyth, Vinod Mishra and Xiaolei Qian, “The Environment and Well-

Being in Urban China”, Ecological Economics (2008) 68(1-2): 547-555.


26. Russell Smyth and Dietrich Fausten, “Coordinate Citations Between Australian State Supreme Courts Over the Twentieth Century”, Monash University Law Review (2008) 34(1): 53-74.

27. Xiaolei Qian and Russell Smyth, “Private Returns for Investment in

Education: An Empirical Study of Urban China”, Post Communist Economies (2008) 20(4): 483-501.

28. Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, “One Hundred Years of Citation of

Authority on the Supreme Court of New South Wales”, University of New South Wales Law Journal (2008) 31(1): 189-214.

29. Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, “Job Satisfaction and Response to

Incentives Among China's Urban Workforce” Journal of Socio-Economics (2008) 37(5): 1931-1936.

30. Qiao Zhuo, Russell Smyth and Wong Wing Keung, “Volatility Switching and

Regime Interdependence Between Information Technology Stocks 1995-2005”, Global Finance Journal (2008) 19(2): 139-156.

31. Tuck Cheong Tang and Russell Smyth, “Sustainability of External

Imbalances for 22 Least Developed Countries: An Empirical Investigation”, ICFAI Journal of Applied Economics (2008) 7(3): 50-60.

32. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Energy Consumption and Real GDP in

G7 countries: New Evidence from Panel Cointegration with Structural Breaks”, Energy Economics (2008) 30(5): 2331-2341.

33. Russell Smyth and Xiaolei Qian, “Inequality and Happiness in Urban China”

Economics Bulletin (2008) 4(23): 1-10.

34. Vinod Mishra, Russell Smyth and Tuck Cheong Tang, “Is the Balancing Item for Australia Sustainable? Evidence from a Threshold Autoregressive Model with an Autoregressive Unit Root”, Australian Economic Papers (2008) 47(2): 190-198.

35. Jakob Madsen, Vinod Mishra and Russell Smyth, “Are Labour Force

Participation Rates Non-stationary? Evidence from 130 Years for G7 Countries”, Australian Economic Papers (2008) 47(2): 166-189.

36. Svetlana Maslyuk and Russell Smyth, “Unit Root Properties of Crude Oil

Spot and Futures Prices”, Energy Policy (2008) 36(7): 2591-2600.

37. Paresh Narayan, Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, “Panel Data, Cointegration, Causality and Wagner’s Law: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Provinces”, China Economic Review (2008) 19(2): 297-307.


38. Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, “Who Bears the Burden of Employer

Compliance with Social Security Contributions? Evidence from Chinese Firm Level Data”, China Economic Review (2008) 19(2): 230-244.

39. Heng Cheng, Russell Smyth and Wing-Keung Wong “Is Being a Super-

Power More Important Than Being Your Close Neighbor? A Study of What Moves the Australian Stock Market”, Applied Financial Economics (2008) 18(9): 1-15.

40. Xiaolei Qian and Russell Smyth, “Measuring Regional Inequality of

Education in China: Widening Coast-Inland Gap or Widening Rural-Urban Gap?” Journal of International Development (2008) 20(2): 132-144.

41. Paresh Narayan, Seema Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Are Oil Shocks

Permanent or Temporary? Panel Data Evidence from Crude Oil and NGL Production in 60 Countries”, Energy Economics (2008) 30(3): 919-936.

42. Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, “Who Wants Safer Cities? Perceptions of

Public Safety and Attitudes to Migrants Among China’s Urban Population”, International Review of Law and Economics (2008) 28(1): 46-55.

43. Hooi Hooi Lean and Russell Smyth, “Are Malaysia’s Tourism Markets

Converging? Evidence from Univariate and Panel Unit Root Tests with Structural Breaks”, Tourism Economics (2008) 14(1): 97-112.

44. Russell Smyth, “The Citation Practices of the Supreme Court of Tasmania,

1905-2005”, University of Tasmania Law Review (2007) 26(1): 34-62.

45. Xiaolei Qian and Russell Smyth, “Education and Economic Growth: Complementarities or Threshold Effects? Some Empirical Evidence from China”, Indian Economic Journal (2007) 55(2): 24-38.

46. Dietrich Fausten, Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, “A Century of Citation

Practice on the Supreme Court of Victoria”, Melbourne University Law Review (2007) 31(2): 733-804.

47. Xun Lu, Dietrich Fausten and Russell Smyth, “Financial Development,

Capital Accumulation and Productivity Improvement: Evidence from China” Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies (2007) 5(3): 227-242.

48. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “A Cointegration Analysis of the

Demand for Oil in the Middle East”, Energy Policy (2007) 35(12): 6258-6265. Panel


49. Xiaolei Qian and Russell Smyth, “Social Security in China – Jump! And We Might Catch You”, Monash Business Review (2007) 3(3): 42-45.

50. Pushkar Maitra, Russell Smyth, Ingrid Nielsen, Chris Nyland, and Cherrie

Zhu, “Firm Compliance with Social Insurance Obligations Where There is a Weak Surveillance and Enforcement Mechanism: Empirical Evidence from Shanghai”, Pacific Economic Review (2007) 12(5): 577-596. [A shorter version of this article was published in Chinese in China Labor Economics (2005) 2(4): 49-77].

51. Hooi Hooi Lean and Russell Smyth, “Are Asian Real Exchange Rates Mean

Reverting? Evidence from Univariate and Panel LM Unit Root Tests with One and Two Structural Breaks”, Applied Economics (2007) 39(16): 2109-2120.

52. Russell Smyth, “Asia’s Booming Economies a Decade After the Crisis”,

Economic Papers (2007) 26(3): 193-195.

53. Paresh Narayan, Russell Smyth and Arti Prasad, “Electricity Consumption in G7 countries: A Panel Cointegration Analysis of Residential Demand Elasticities”, Energy Policy (2007) 35(9): 4485-4494.

54. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “What Explains Dissent on the High

Court of Australia? An Empirical Assessment Using a Cointegration and Error Correction Approach”, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2007) 4(2): 401-425.

55. Sijun Shao, Ingrid Nielsen, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth, Mingqiong Zhang

and Cherrie Zhu, “Migrants as Homo Economicus: Explaining the Emerging Phenomenon of a Shortage of Migrant Labor in China’s Coastal Provinces”, China Information (2007) 21(1): 7-41.

56. Hooi Hooi Lean and Russell Smyth, “Do Asian Stock Markets Follow a

Random Walk? Evidence from LM Unit Root Tests with One and Two Structural Breaks”, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (2007) 10(1): 15-31.

57. Ingrid Nielsen, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and Mingqiong Zhang,

“Migration and the Right to Social Security: Perceptions of Off-farm Migrants’ Rights to Social Insurance in China’s Jiangsu Province”, China and the World Economy (2007) 15(2): 29-43.

58. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Mean Reversion versus Random Walk

in G7 Stock Prices: Evidence from Multiple Trend Break Unit Root Tests”, International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money (2007) 17(2): 152-166.


59. Hooi Hooi Lean, Russell Smyth and Wing-Keung Wong, “Revisiting

Calender Anomalies in Asian Stock Markets Using a Stochastic Dominance Approach”, Journal of Multinational Financial Management (2007) 17(2): 125-141.

60. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Are Shocks to Energy Consumption

Permanent or Temporary? Evidence from 182 Countries”, Energy Policy (2007) 35(1): 333-341.

61. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Democracy and Economic Growth in

China: Evidence from Cointegration and Causality Testing”, Review of Applied Economics (2006) 2(1): 81-98.

62. Ingrid Nielsen, Berenice Nyland, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and

Mingqiong Zhang, “Determinants of School Attendance Among Migrant Children: Survey Evidence From China’s Jiangsu Province”, Pacific Economic Review (2006) 11(4): 461-476.

63. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Temporal Causality and the Dynamics

of Judicial Appellate Caseload, Real Income and Socio-Economic Complexity in Australia”, Applied Economics (2006) 38(19): 2209-2219.

64. Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth and Mingqiong Zhang, “Unemployment

Within China’s Floating Population: Empirical Evidence From Jiangsu Survey Data”, The Chinese Economy (Special Issue on “China’s Rural Economy at the Crossroads”) (2006) 39(4): 41-56.

65. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Dead Man Walking: An Empirical

Reassessment of the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment Using the Bounds Testing Approach to Cointegration”, Applied Economics (2006) 38(17): 1975-1990.

66. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “The Dynamic Relationship Between

Real Exchange Rates, Real Interest Rates and Foreign Exchange Reserves: Empirical Evidence From China”, Applied Financial Economics (2006) 16(9): 639-651

67. Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, “Hi-ho, Hi-ho, It’s Off to Work We

Go…..What Drives the Needs and Desires of Employees in China?”, Monash Business Review (2006) 2(1): 8-11.

68. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, Female Labour Force Participation,

Fertility and Infant Mortality in Australia: Some Empirical Evidence from Granger Causality Tests”, Applied Economics (2006) 38(5): 563-572.


69. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “What Determines Migration Flows from Low Income to High Income Countries? An Empirical Investigation of Fiji-US Migration 1972-2001”, Contemporary Economic Policy (2006) 24(2): 332-342.

70. Xiaolei Qian and Russell Smyth, “Growth Accounting for the Chinese

Provinces 1990-2000: Incorporating Human Capital Accumulation”, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies (2006) 4(1): 21-37.

71. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Random Walk versus Multiple Trend

Breaks in Stock Prices: Evidence from Fifteen European Markets”, Applied Financial Economics Letters (2006) 2(1): 1-7.

72. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Do Governments Lead or Lag in

Fighting Crime?” Applied Economics Letters (2006) 13(1): 11-15

73. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Higher Education, Real Income and Real Investment in China: Evidence From Granger Causality Tests”, Education Economics (2006) 14(1): 107-125.

74. Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and Cherrie Zhu, “What Determines the Extent

to Which Employers Will Comply With their Social Security Obligations? Evidence From Chinese Firm Level Data”, Social Policy and Administration (2006) 40(2): 196-214.

75. Ingrid Nielsen, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth, Mingqiong Zhang and Cherrie

Zhu, “Effects of Intergroup Contact on Attitudes of Chinese Urban Residents to Migrant Workers”, Urban Studies (2006) 43(3): 475-490.

76. Russell Smyth and Paresh Narayan, “Multiple Regime Shifts in Concurring

and Dissenting Opinions on the U.S. Supreme Court”, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2006) 3(1):79-98.

77. Russell Smyth, “Do Judges Behave as Homo economicus and, if so, Can We

Measure their Performance? An Antipodean Perspective on a Tournament of Judges”, Florida State University Law Review (Symposium Issue on “Empirical Measures of Judicial Performance”) (2005) 32(4): 1299-1330.

78. Mita Bhattacharya, Ingrid Nielsen, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and

Mingqiong Zhang, “Urban Social Insurance and Worker Satisfaction in China: Implications for India”, Indian Journal of Labour Economics (2005) 48(3): 475-494.

79. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Structural Breaks and Unit Roots in

Australian Macroeconomic Time Series”, Pacific Economic Review (2005) 10(4): 421-437.


80. Ingrid Nielsen, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and Cherrie Zhu, “Perceptions

of Subjective Economic Well-Being and Support for Market Reform Among China’s Urban Population”, Post-Communist Economies (2005) 17(4): 425-447.

81. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “The Determinants of Aggregate Import

Demand in Brunei Darussalam: An Empirical Assessment Using a Cointegration and Error Correction Approach”, Singapore Economic Review (2005) 50(2): 197-210.

82. Ingrid Nielsen, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and Cherrie Zhu,

“Marketization and Perceptions of Social Protection in China’s Cities”, World Development (2005) 33(11): 1759-1781.

83. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Modelling Immigration Flows From

Developing to Developed Countries: An Application of the Bounds Test to Fiji –Australia Migration”, Pacific Economic Bulletin (2005) 20(2): 104-116.

84. Russell Smyth, “The Role of Attitudinal, Institutional and Environmental

Factors in Explaining Variations in Dissent Rates on the High Court of Australia”, Australian Journal of Political Science (2005) 40(4): 519-540.


Zhu, “Which Rural Migrants Receive Social Insurance in Chinese Cities? Evidence From Jiangsu Survey Data”, Global Social Policy (2005) 5(3): 353-381 (Special Issue on “Migration and Social Protection”).

86. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Cointegration of Stock Markets

Between New Zealand, Australia and the G7 Economics: Searching for Co-movement Under Structural Change”, Australian Economic Papers (2005) 44(3): 231-247.

87. Li Ke, Russell Smyth and Yao Shuntian, “Institutionalized Corruption and

Privilege in China’s Socialist Market Economy: A General Equilibrium Analysis”, Pacific Economic Review (2005) 10(3): 341-360.

88. Pushkar Maitra and Russell Smyth, “Determinants of Retirement on the High

Court of Australia”, Economic Record (2005) 81(254): 193-203.

89. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Are OECD Stock Prices Characterized by a Random Walk? Evidence from Sequential Trend Break and Panel Data Models”, Applied Financial Economics (2005) 15(8): 547-556


90. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Exchange Rates and Stock Prices in South Asia: Evidence From Granger Causality Tests”, ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance (2005) 11(3): 31-37.

91. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Trade Liberalisation and Economic

Growth in Fiji: An Empirical Assessment Using the ARDL Approach”, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (2005) 10(1): 96-115

92. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Temporal Causality and the Dynamics

of Democracy, Emigration and Real Income in Fiji”, International Review of Applied Economics (2005) 19(2): 245-263.

93. Gennadi Kazakevitch and Russell Smyth, “Gradualism versus Shock

Therapy: (Re)interpreting the Chinese and Russian Experience”, Asia Pacific Business Review (2005) 11(1): 69-81.

94. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “The Consensual Norm on the High

Court of Australia: 1904-2001”, International Political Science Review (2005) 26(2): 147-168.

95. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Electricity Consumption, Employment

and Real Income in Australia: Evidence From Multivariate Granger Causality Tests”, Energy Policy (2005) 33(9): 1109-1116.

96. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Residential Demand for Electricity in

Australia: An Application of the Bounds Testing Approach to Cointegration”, Energy Policy (2005) 33(4): 467-474.

97. Ergun Dogan, Russell Smyth and Ian Wills, “Transaction Costs and

Alternative Export Channels: The Case of Malaysian Exporters”, Asian Profile (2004) 32(6): 539-555.

98. Russell Smyth, Junli Wang and Xin Deng, “Equity-for-Debt Swaps in

Chinese Big Business: A Case Study of Restructuring in One Large State-owned Enterprise”, Asia Pacific Business Review (2004) 10(3&4): 382-401 (Special 10th Anniversary Issue - Globalization and Competition: Big Business in Asia).

99. Matthew Groves and Russell Smyth, “A Century of Judicial Style: Changing

Patterns in Judgment Writing on the High Court 1903-2001”, Federal Law Review (2004) 32(2): 255-280

100. Dic Lo and Russell Smyth, “Towards a Re-interpretation of the Economics of

Feasible Socialism”, Cambridge Journal of Economics (2004) 28(6): 791-808.


101. Li Ke and Russell Smyth, “Division of Labor, Specialization and the Enforcement of a System of Property Rights: A General Equilibrium Analysis”, Pacific Economic Review (2004) 9(4): 305-324.

102. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Modelling the Linkage Between

Australian and G7 Stock Markets: Common Stochastic Trends and Regime Shifts”, Applied Financial Economics (2004) 14(14): 991-1004.

103. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Crime Rates, Male Youth

Unemployment and Real Income in Australia: Evidence From Granger Causality Tests”, Applied Economics (2004) 36(18): 2079-2095.

[This article received an Emerald Management Reviews (Anbar) Citation for Excellence, 2004] 104. Paresh Narayan, Russell Smyth and Mohan Nandha, “Interdependence and

Dynamic Linkages Between the Emerging Stock Markets of South Asia”, Accounting and Finance (2004) 44(3): 419-439

105. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Is Korea’s Stock Market Efficient?”

Applied Economics Letters (2004) 11(11): 707-710 106. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Temporal Causality and the Dynamics

of Exports, Human Capital and Real Income in China”, International Journal of Applied Economics (2004) 1(1): 24-45

107. Russell Smyth, Xin Deng and Junli Wang, “Restructuring State-Owned Big

Business in Former Planned Economies: The Case of China’s Shipbuilding Industry”, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 6(1): 100-129.

108. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Temporal Causality Between Human

Capital and Real Income in Cointegrated VAR Processes: Empirical Evidence From China 1960-1999”, International Journal of Business and Economics (2004) 3(1): 1-11.

109. Russell Smyth and Paresh Narayan, “Hail to the Chief! Leadership and

Structural Change in the Level of Consensus on the High Court of Australia”, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2004) 1(2): 399-427.

110. Russell Smyth, “What Explains Variations in Dissent Rates? Time Series

Evidence from the High Court”, Sydney Law Review (2004) 26(2): 221-240. 111. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “The Race that Stops a Nation: The

Demand for the Melbourne Cup”, Economic Record (2004) 80(249): 193-207.

112. Pushkar Maitra and Russell Smyth, “Judicial Independence, Judicial

Promotion and the Enforcement of Legislative Wealth Transfers - An


Empirical Study of the New Zealand High Court”, European Journal of Law and Economics (2004) 17(2): 209-235.

113. Russell Smyth and Brett Inder, “Is Chinese Provincial Real GDP Per Capita

Nonstationary? Evidence from Multiple Trend Break Unit Root Tests”, China Economic Review (2004) 15(1): 1-24.

114. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “The Relationship Between the Real

Exchange Rate and Balance of Payments: Empirical Evidence for China from Cointegration and Causality Testing”, Applied Economics Letters (2004) 11(5): 287-291.

115. Russell Smyth, “Is the Inflation Rate Non-stationary? Panel Data Evidence

From Australian Capital Cities”, Empirical Economics Letters (2003) 2(5): 173-181

116. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “The Causal Relationship Between

Female Employment and Fertility in South Asia: An Application of the Bounds Testing Approach to Cointegration”, Indian Journal of Labour Economics (2003) 46(2): 247-252.

117. Russell Smyth and Mita Bhattacharya, “What Determines Judicial Prestige?

An Empirical Analysis for Judges of the Federal Court of Australia”, American Law and Economics Review (2003) 5(1): 233-262.

118. Russell Smyth and Mita Bhattacharya, “How Fast Do Old Judges Slow

Down? A Life Cycle Study of Aging and Productivity in the Federal Court of Australia”, International Review of Law and Economics (2003) 23(2): 141-164.

119. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Attendance and Pricing at Sporting

Events: Empirical Results From Granger Causality Tests for the Melbourne Cup”, Applied Economics (2003) 35(15): 1649-1658.

120. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “The Determinants of Immigration from

Fiji to New Zealand: An Empirical Reassessment Using the Bounds Testing Approach”, International Migration (2003) 41(5): 33-58.

121. Russell Smyth, “Unemployment Hysteresis in Australian States and

Territories: Evidence From Panel Data Unit Root Tests”, Australian Economic Review (2003) 36(2): 181-192.

122. Russell Smyth and Mohan Nandha, “Cointegration and Causality in

Australian Capital City House Prices 1986-2001”, Journal of Economic and Social Policy (2003) 7(2): 35-50.


123. Mita Bhattacharya and Russell Smyth, “The Life Cycle Research Output of Professors in Australian Economics Departments: An Empirical Analysis Based on Survey Questionnaires”, Economic Papers (2003) 22(2): 30-46.

124. Russell Smyth, “Explaining Historical Dissent Rates in the High Court of

Australia”, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics (2003) 41(2): 83-114.

125. Russell Smyth and Zen Lu, “Explaining TFP Growth in Chinese Industry –

The Role of Incentives, Openness and Ownership Reform”, Journal of International Economic Studies (2003) No. 17: 71-86.

126. Mita Bhattacharya and Russell Smyth, “The Game is Not the Same: The

Demand for Test Match Cricket in Australia” Australian Economic Papers (2003) 42(1): 77-90.

127. Russell Smyth and Zhai Qingguo, “Economic Restructuring in China’s Large

and Medium-Sized State-owned Enterprises – Evidence from Liaoning’ Journal of Contemporary China (2003) 12(34): 173-205.

128. Russell Smyth, “Is there a Unit Root in Per Capita Real GDP? Panel Data

Evidence from Chinese Provinces” Asian Profile (2003) 31(4): 289-295. 129. Russell Smyth and Mohan Nandha, “Bivariate Causality Between Exchange

Rates and Stock Prices in South Asia”, Applied Economics Letters (2003) 10(11): 699-704.

130. Russell Smyth, “Case Complexity and Citation of Judicial Authority - Some

Empirical Evidence from the New Zealand Court of Appeal”, Murdoch E-Law Journal (2003) 10(1): http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/indices/issue/v10n1.html

131. Russell Smyth, “Acclimation Effects for High Court Justices 1903-1975”,

University of Western Sydney Law Review (2002) 6: 167-190. 132. Ergun Dogan and Russell Smyth, “Board Remuneration, Company

Performance and Ownership Concentration: Evidence from Publicly Listed Malaysian Companies” ASEAN Economic Bulletin (2002) 19(3): 319-347

133. Jianguo Wang, Lim Puay Keng and Russell Smyth, “China’s Population

Policy Design Alternatives: Using the Market to Regulate China’s Population Growth” Asian Profile (2002) 30(5): 379-392

134. Russell Smyth, “Judges and Academic Scholarship: An Empirical Study of

the Academic Publication Patterns of Federal Court and High Court Judges”, QUT Law and Justice Journal (2002) 2(2): 198-225


135. Russell Smyth, “Historical Consensual Norms in the High Court”, Australian Journal of Political Science (2002) 37(2): 255-266

136. Russell Smyth and Zhai Qingguo, “Equity for Debt Swaps in China’s State-

owned Enterprises: A Property Rights Perspective”, China Information (2002) 16(1): 1-24

137. Russell Smyth, “Explaining Voting Patterns on the Latham High Court 1935-

50” Melbourne University Law Review (2002) 26(1): 88-109 138. Russell Smyth and He ling Shi “Ownership Reform and Total Factor

Productivity Growth in Chinese Industry” Applied Economic Letters (2002) 9(1): 103-106

139. Russell Smyth, Freddie Lim and He-ling Shi, “Explaining the Performance of

China’s Collective Township and Village Enterprise Sector” Journal of International Economic Studies (2002) No. 16: 111-126

140. Russell Smyth and Zhai Qingguo, “Reforming China’s Large-scale State-

owned Enterprises – The Petrochemical Sector” Asia Pacific Journal of Economics and Business (2001) 5(2): 82-104


Exchange: Nine Case Studies of Australian and Malaysian Firms” Asian Economic Journal (2001) 15(4): 451-471

142. Russell Smyth, Zhai Qingguo and Wang Jing, “Labour Market Reform in

China’s State-owned Enterprises – A Case Study of Post-Deng Fushun in Liaoning Province” New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 3(2): 42-72

143. Russell Smyth, “Historical Evolution, Financing and the Changing Nature of

Corporate Governance in China’s Collective Township and Village Enterprises”, Asian Academy of Management Journal (2001) 6(1): 81-97

144. Russell Smyth, “Citation of Judicial and Academic Authority in the Supreme

Court of Western Australia” University of Western Australia Law Review (2001) 30(1): 1-27

145. Russell Smyth, “Judicial Prestige: A Citation Analysis of Federal Court

Judges” Deakin Law Review (2001) 6(1): 120-148 146. Russell Smyth, “Judicial Interaction on the Latham Court: A Quantitative

Study of Voting Patterns on the High Court 1935-1950” Australian Journal of Politics and History (2001) 47(3): 330-348


147. Russell Smyth, Zhai Qingguo and Hu Wenguo, “Restructuring of China’s Petrochemical Enterprises – A Case Study of the Fushun Petrochemical Company” Post-Communist Economies (2001) 13(2): 243-261

148. Mita Bhattacharya and Russell Smyth “Aging and Productivity Among

Judges: Some Empirical Evidence From the High Court of Australia” Australian Economic Papers (2001) 40(2): 199-212

149. Mita Bhattacharya and Russell Smyth, “The Determinants of Judicial

Influence and Prestige: Some Empirical Evidence from the High Court of Australia” Journal of Legal Studies (2001) 30(1): 223-252

150. Wang Jianguo, Tang Mui Ling and Russell Smyth, “Corporate Governance

and Ownership Reform in China’s State-owned Enterprises” Asian Profile (2001) 29(2): 93-108

151. Russell Smyth, Wang Jianguo and Quek Lee Kiang “Efficiency, Performance

and Changing Corporate Governance in China’s Township-Village Enterprises since the 1990s” Asian-Pacific Economic Literature (2001) 15(1): 30-41

152. Russell Smyth, “The Authority of Secondary Authority: A Quantitative Study

of Secondary Source Citations in the Federal Court” Griffith Law Review (2000) 9(1): 25-52

153. Russell Smyth, “Who Gets Cited? An Empirical Study of Judicial Prestige in

the High Court” University of Queensland Law Journal (2000) 21(1): 7-22 154. Russell Smyth, “Judicial Citations – An Empirical Study of Citation Practice

in the New Zealand Court of Appeal” Victoria University of Wellington Law Review (2000) 31(4): 847-895

155. Xin Deng and Russell Smyth, “Non-tax Levies in China, Sources, Problems

and Suggestions for Reform”, Development Policy Review (2000) 18(4): 391-411

156. Russell Smyth, “Old-age Pension Reform in China’s State-owned Sector”

Journal of Aging and Social Policy (2000) 11(4): 69-85 157. Wang Jianguo, Russell Smyth and Tan Dai Hwee, “The Role of Confucian

Values in East Asian Development – Before and After the Financial Crisis”, Journal of International and Area Studies (2000) 7(1): 115-135

158. Russell Smyth, “The ‘Haves’ and the ‘Have Nots’ – An Empirical Study of

the Rational Actor and Party Capability Hypotheses in the High Court 1948-1999” Australian Journal of Political Science (2000) 35(2): 255-274


159. Russell Smyth and Dic Lo, “Theories of the Firm and the Relationship

Between Different Perspectives on the Division of Labour”, Review of Political Economy (2000) 12(3): 333-349.

160. Russell Smyth, “Should China be Promoting Large-scale Enterprises and

Enterprise Groups?” World Development (2000) 28(4): 721-737 161. Russell Smyth, “Asset Stripping in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises”,

Journal of Contemporary Asia (2000) 30 (1): 3-16 162. Russell Smyth, “Law or Economics? An Empirical Investigation of the

Impact of Economics on Australian Courts”, Australian Business Law Review (2000) 28(1): 5-21

163. Russell Smyth and Zen Lu “A Model Formalising the Trade-Offs Between

Collective Learning and Specialisation in the Collective Township and Village Enterprise Sector in China” Asian Economic Review (2000) 42(2): 263-278

164. Russell Smyth, “Labor-Market and Social-Welfare Reform in the State-

Owned Sector in China”, Journal of Developing Areas (1999) 33(2): 223-244 165. Russell Smyth, “Some are More Equal than Others – An Empirical

Investigation into the Voting Behaviour of the Mason Court” Canberra Law Review (1999) 6(1&2): 193-218

166. Russell Smyth, “Enterprise Bankruptcies and the Restructuring of China’s

State-Owned Sector - A Review of Some Recent Problems and Prospects for Future Success” China Information (1999) 13(4): 66-82.

167. Russell Smyth, “Shareholding Cooperative Reform and Ownership of

China’s Collective Township-Village and Small-Scale State-Owned Enterprises” New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 1(1): 60-76

168. Russell Smyth, “Rural Enterprises in Jiangsu Province, China: Recent

Institutional Changes and Future Prospects” Development Policy Review (1999) 17 (2): 191-213

169. Russell Smyth, “What do Intermediate Appellate Courts Cite? A Quantitative

Study of the Citation Practice of Australian State Supreme Courts”, Adelaide Law Review (1999) 21(1): 51-80

170. Russell Smyth, “What do Judges Cite? An Empirical Study of the ‘Authority

of Authority’ in the Supreme Court of Victoria”, Monash University Law Review (1999) 25(1): 29-53


171. Russell Smyth, “A Citation Analysis of Australian Economic Journals”

Australian Academic and Research Libraries (1999) 30(2): 119-133

172. Russell Smyth, “Other than ‘Accepted Sources of Law’? A Quantitative Study of Secondary Source Citations in the High Court” University of New South Wales Law Journal (1999) 22(1): 19-59

173. Russell Smyth “New Institutional Economics in the Post-Socialist

Transformation Debate” Journal of Economic Surveys (1998) 12 (4): 361-398

174. Russell Smyth, “Towards ‘the Modern Corporation’: Recent Developments

in the Institutional Reform of State-Owned Enterprises in Mainland China” Issues and Studies (1998) 34 (8): 102-131

175. Russell Smyth, “Recent Developments in Rural Enterprise Reform in China:

Achievements, Problems and Prospects” Asian Survey (1998) 38 (8): 784-800

176. Russell Smyth, “Property Rights in China’s Economic Reforms” Communist

and Post-Communist Studies (1998) 31 (3): 235-248

177. Russell Smyth, “Township and Village Enterprises in China - Growth Mechanism and Future Prospects” Journal of International Economic Studies (1998) No. 12: 101-117

178. Russell Smyth, “Academic Writing and the Courts: A Quantitative Study of

the Influence of Legal and Non-legal Periodicals in the High Court”, University of Tasmania Law Review (1998) 17(2): 164-185

179. Russell Smyth, “Prospects for Chinese ‘Red Chip’ Enterprises and ‘H-class’

Shares in Hong Kong” Asian Profile (1998) 26 (6): 451-461

180. Russell Smyth, “An Economics Perspective on Harsher Penalties” Current Issues in Criminal Justice (1997) 9 (1): 85-88

181. Russell Smyth, “The Township and Village Enterprise Sector as a Specific

Example of Regionalism - Some General Lessons for Socialist Transformation” Economic Systems (1997) 21 (3): 235-264

182. Russell Smyth, “A (Re)interpretation of Recent Developments in the Reform

of State-Owned Enterprises” China Report (1997) 33 (4): 507-525

183. Russell Smyth, “The Principle of Proportionality Ten Years After GCHQ” Australian Journal of Administrative Law (1995) 2 (4): 189-196


184. Russell Smyth, “Is it time to Bury the Consumption Tax? Tax Mix Switch

Post-Fightback” Economic Papers (1994) 13 (3): 29-39

Non-Refereed Journal Articles

1. Russell Smyth, “Monash: Building New Communities”, Around the Globe (2008) 4(3): 28-31.

2. Angelo Andrea Di Castro and Russell Smyth, “From Discrimination to

Multiculturalism: Melbourne’s Experience with Chinese Migration”, Prato Storia E Arte (Prato History and Art) (2007), No. 102: 55-67.

3. Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth and Guo Yue, “Where Have All the Workers

Gone? China’s Emerging Migrant Labour Shortage”, Around the Globe (2006) 3(1): 6-10

4. Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, “Workers and Social Protection in China”,

Around the Globe (2005) 2(3): 14-18. 5. Zhai Qingguo, Gennadi Kazakevitch and Russell Smyth, “Shock Therapy

and Gradualism in China and Russia”, Public Economics Research (2003) 1(1): 122-131 (in Chinese)

6. Russell Smyth, Zhai Qingguo and Chen Ye, “Property Rights Reform and ‘Equity Debt Swaps’ in China’s State-owned Enterprises”, Review of Political Economy, (2002) No1: 171-181 (in Chinese)

7. Russell Smyth and Zhai Qingguo, “A Comparative Perspective on Recent

Experience with the Reform of Public Enterprises in Australia and China”, Journal of the Fushun Petroleum Institute (2002) 22(3): 69-75 (in Chinese)

8. Russell Smyth and Zhai Qingguo, “Australia’s Experience with Reforming

State-Owned Enterprises and its Relevance to China”, Research on Financial and Economic Issues (2001) No. 7: 9-12 (in Chinese)

9. Russell Smyth, “Are TVEs Another East Asian Miracle that the World Bank

Can’t Explain?” SOAS Economic Digest (1997) 1 (1): 5-6

10. Russell Smyth, “Deng’s Legacy” China in Focus Spring (1997): 14 Non-Refereed Book Reviews


1. Russell Smyth, “Review of Rachel Murphy (Ed.) Labour Migration and Social Development in Contemporary China (London and New York: Routledge, 2009)” China Information (in press).

2. Russell Smyth, “Review of Charles A. Calomiris (Ed.) China’s Financial Transition at a Crossroads (New York, Columbia University Press, 2007)”, Asian Studies Review (2008) 32(3): 434-435.

3. Russell Smyth, “Review of R. Flemming, Tournament of Appeals: Granting

Judicial Review in Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004)”, Australian Journal of Political Science (2005) 40(1): 148-149.

4. Russell Smyth, “Review of C.A. Holz, China’s Industrial State-Owned

Enterprises: Between Profitability and Bankruptcy (Singapore: World Scientific 2003)” The China Review (2004) 4(1): 244-245.

5. Russell Smyth, “Review of E. Jones The Record of Economic Development

(Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2002)” Economic Analysis and Policy (2002) 32(2): 261-262.

6. Russell Smyth, “Review of L. Sun Aggregate Behaviour of Investment in

China 1953-96 – An Analysis of Investment Hunger and Fluctuation (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001)” Journal of Contemporary Asia (2002) 32(3): 407-408

7. Russell Smyth, “Review of H. Sun Foreign Investment and Economic

Development in China: 1979-1996 (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 1998); A. Nathan China’s Transition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997); E. Steinfeld Forging Reform in China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998)” Journal of Contemporary Asia (2001) 31(1): 121-125

8. Russell Smyth, “Review of J. Oi and A. Walder, eds, Property Rights and

Economic Reform in China (Stanford: Stanford University Press 1999) China Information (2000) 14(2): 290-293

9. Russell Smyth, “Review of J. Oi, Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform (Los Angeles: University of California Press 1999)” China Information (2000) 14(1): 230-232

10. Russell Smyth, “Review of D. Yang, Beyond Beijing - Liberalisation and the Regions in China (London: Routledge 1997); J. McMillan and B. Naughton (eds) Reforming Asian Socialism: The Growth of Market Institutions (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1996); Y. Ji China’s Enterprise Reform - Changing State/Society Relations after Mao (London: Routledge 1998)” Journal of Contemporary Asia (1998) 28 (3): 402-408


Refereed Conference Proceedings

1. Ingrid Nielsen, Jian Jian Li, Jie Shen and Russell Smyth, 2007, “Effects of Intergroup Contact of Chinese Off-farm Migrants' Attitudes to Local Workers. In George T. Solomon (Ed.), Proceedings of the Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (On CD Rom ISSN 1543-8643). [Nominated for the Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award]

2. Tuck-Cheong Tang and Russell Smyth “Sustainability of External

Imbalances for 22 Least Developed Countries: An Empirical Investigation” in Shaista E. Khilji, Mary B Teagarden, Daing Nasir Ibrahim, Tan Teck Meng, and Zafar U. Ahmed (Eds.) Advances in Global Business Research (Proceedings of the 2007 Academy for Global Business Advancement (AGBA) Fourth World Congress), Vol. 4 No.1, pp. 371-376 (ISSN 1549-9332), Universiti Sains Malaysia, May, 2007. [revised version published in ICFAI Journal of Applied Economics]

3. Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, “Job Satisfaction and Response to

Incentives Among China’s Urban Workforce” in Helen De Cieri, Anne Bardoel, Rowena Barrett, Donna Buttigieg, Al Rainnie and Kirsten McLean (eds) Socially Responsive, Socially Responsible Approaches to Employment and Work. Proceedings of the ACREW/KCL Conference, Prato, Italy, July 2006 (On CD Rom – ISBN 07326 2293 X). [revised version published in Journal of Socio-Economics]

4. Jaai Parasnis, Dietrich Fausten and Russell Smyth, “The Impact of

Immigration on Native Workers in Australia”, Proceedings of the Australian Conference of Economists, Melbourne, September, 2005 (On CD Rom - ISBN 07340 26080)

5. Ingrid Nielsen, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and Mingqiong Zhang,

“Migration and the Right to Social Protection: Perceptions of Off-farm Migrants’ Rights to Social Security in China’s Jiangsu Province” in Mita Bhattacharya, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (eds) Globalisation and Labour Mobility in India and China, Asian Business and Economics Research Unit, Monash University, September 2005, pp. 480-498. [revised version published in China and the World Economy]

6. Xiaolei Qian and Russell Smyth, “Growth Accounting for the Chinese

Provinces 1990-2000: Incorporating Human Capital Accumulation” in Mita Bhattacharya, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (eds) Globalisation and Labour Mobility in India and China, Asian Business and Economics Research Unit, Monash University, September 2005, pp. 53-77. [revised version published in Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies]


7. Ingrid Nielsen, Berenice Nyland, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and Mingqiong Zhang, “Determinants of School Attendance Among Migrant Children: Survey Evidence from China’s Jiangsu Province” in Mita Bhattacharya, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (eds) Globalisation and Labour Mobility in India and China, Asian Business and Economics Research Unit, Monash University, September 2005, pp. 172-186 [revised version published in Pacific Economic Review]

8. Zhai Qingguo, Russell Smyth, Li Xiao-xu and Li Xiao-qiu, “What Explains

the ‘Brain Drain’ from China’s Industrial North East? A Case Study of Worker Motivation in State-owned Enterprises” in Mita Bhattacharya, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (eds) Globalisation and Labour Mobility in India and China, Asian Business and Economics Research Unit, Monash University, September 2005, pp. 187-197.

9. Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, “Perceptions of Public Security in Post-

reform Urban China: A Routine Activity Analysis” in Mita Bhattacharya, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (eds) Globalisation and Labour Mobility in India and China, Asian Business and Economics Research Unit, Monash University, September 2005, pp. 287-307.

10. Sijun Shao, Ingrid Nielsen, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth, Mingqiong Zhang

and Cherrie Zhu, “Migrants as Homo Economicus: Explaining the Emerging Phenomenon of a Shortage of Migrant Labour in China’s Coastal Provinces” in Mita Bhattacharya, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (eds) Globalisation and Labour Mobility in India and China, Asian Business and Economics Research Unit, Monash University, September 2005, pp. 332-355. [revised version published in China Information]


Mingqiong Zhang, “Implications for India of Worker Satisfaction with Social Insurance in China’s Socialist Market Economy” in Mita Bhattacharya, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (eds) Globalisation and Labour Mobility in India and China, Asian Business and Economics Research Unit, Monash University, September 2005, pp. 356-379 [revised version published in Indian Journal of Labour Economics]

12. Russell Smyth, Ingrid Nielsen, Chris Nyland and Cherrie Zhu,

“Marketization and Perceptions of Social Protection in China’s Cities” in Greg Mahoney and Greg Fisher (eds) Dynamism and Challenges in Internationalisation: Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Conference of the Australia-New Zealand International Business Academy, University of Canberra, November 2004 (on CD Rom – ISBN 1740882393) [revised version published in Post Communist Economies]


13. Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and Cherrie Zhu, “What Determines the Extent to Which Employers Will Comply with their Social Security Obligations? Evidence From Chinese Firm Level Data” in Greg Mahoney and Greg Fisher (eds) Dynamism and Challenges in Internationalisation: Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Conference of the Australia-New Zealand International Business Academy, University of Canberra, November 2004 (on CD Rom – ISBN 1740882393) [revised version published in Social Policy and Administration]

14. Ran Zhang, Cherrie Zhu, Chris Nyland and Russell Smyth, “A Comparative

Study of the Australian and United Kingdom Pension Systems with Implications for China” in Siwei Cheng (and others) (eds) Management Sciences and Global Strategies in the 21st Century, Volume II: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Management (Macao: Macao University of Science and Technology Press, 2004), pp. 1573-1586.

15. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Does Democracy Lead or Lag

Economic Growth? Empirical Evidence From China” in Russell Smyth, On Kit Tam and Cherrie Zhu (eds) Institutional Challenges for the Global China, Monash University, November 2003 (on CD Rom – ISBN 0-7326-2247-6). [revised version published in Review of Applied Economics]

16. Gennadi Kazakevitch and Russell Smyth, “Shock Therapy versus Gradual

Transition: Comparing the Experiences of China and Russia” in Russell Smyth, On Kit Tam and Cherrie Zhu (eds) Institutional Challenges for the Global China, Monash University, November 2003 (on CD Rom – ISBN 0-7326-2247-6). [revised version published in Asia Pacific Business Review]

17. Ergun Dogan and Russell Smyth, “The Capabilities, Problems and Strategies

of Exporters in Emerging Markets – An Empirical Analysis of Malaysian Manufacturers” in Charles Harvie and Boon-Chye Lee (eds), Sustaining SME Innovations, Competitiveness and Development in the Global Economy SMEs in a Global Economy Conference, Wollongong, July 2002, pp. 224-243

18. Zhai Qingguo, Russell Smyth and Wang Jing, “Reforming China’s

Petrochemical Sector: The Reorganization and Restructuring of CNPC and Sinopec” in Ju Xiaofeng (ed) Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Management Science and Engineering, Harbin, China August 2001, Volume 1 (Harbin: Harbin Institute of Technology Press), pp. 1709-1714

19. Russell Smyth, Freddy Ger Terng Lim and He-ling Shi, “China’s Collective

Township Village Enterprises and Economies of Specialisation” in Ju


Xiaofeng (ed) Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Management Science and Engineering, Harbin, China August 2001, Volume 1 (Harbin: Harbin Institute of Technology Press), pp. 1091-1099

20. Russell Smyth, “The Changing Role of Local Government in Procuring

Finance for CTVEs and the Emergence of New Rural Industrial Governance Structures in Mainland China” in Charles Harvie and Boon-Chye Lee (eds), SMEs in East Asia in the Aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis, SMEs in a Global Economy Conference, Wollongong, June 2000 pp. 515-524. [revised version published in Harvie and Lee (Eds.) Sustaining Growth and Performance in East Asia (Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, Mass., 2005)]

21. Russell Smyth and Zen Lu, “Trade-offs Between Collective Learning and Specialisation in the Collective Township and Village Enterprise Sector in China” in Charles Harvie and Boon-Chye Lee (eds), SMEs in East Asia in the Aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis, SMEs in a Global Economy Conference, Wollongong, June 2000 pp. 502-514. [revised version published in Asian Economic Review]

22. Russell Smyth and Ian Wills, “The Transaction Costs of Doing Business in Malaysia” in Ron Edwards and Chris Nyland (eds), Preparing for 2000: Opportunities and Challenges for International Business in the Asia Pacific Region, Proceedings of the Annual Academy of International Business South-East Asia Region Conference, Melbourne July 8-10 1999, Volume 1, pp. 379-385 [revised version published in Edwards, Nyland and Coulthard (Eds.) Readings in International Business: An Asia Pacific Perspective (Sydney: Prentice Hall, 2000)

Non-Refereed Conference Proceedings

1. Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and Cherrie Zhu, “Compliance in Social Security Reform and its Impact on HRM in China” in Shuming Zhao (ed) Human Resource Management and Development in a Transitional Economy, Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Multinational Business Management, May 2005 (Nanjing: Nanjing University Press), pp. 465-478.

2. Chris Nyland, Sujin Shao, Russell Smyth, Mingqiong Zhang and Cherrie

Zhu, “Transforming Migrants to Urbanites by an Integrated Labour Market and Social Security Arrangements” in Shuming Zhao (ed) Human Resource Management and Development in a Transitional Economy, Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Multinational Business Management, May 2005 (Nanjing: Nanjing University Press), pp. 479-491.

3. Zhai Qingguo and Russell Smyth, “The Progress of Marketization of

Government Business Enterprises in Australia and an Analysis of its Effects” in Strengthening State Asset Management and Promoting the Development of Public Finance: Proceedings of an International Conference on Reforms in State-owned Assets Management and Public Finance, Xiamen, China,


October 2003 (Beijing: China Finance and Economics Press) pp. 292-296 (in Chinese).

4. Zhai Qingguo, Chen Ye, Zhang Yingxuan and Russell Smyth “Equity for

Debt Swaps and Corporate Governance” in Lan Hua (ed) Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Management Science and Engineering, Moscow, Russia, October 2002 (Harbin: Harbin Institute of Technology Press), pp. 1709-1713.

5. Zhai Qingguo, Zheng Ce and Russell Smyth, “A Comparative Perspective on

Recent Experience with the Reform of Public Enterprises in Australia and China” in Xi Youmin et al (eds) New Management Trends in the New Century, Proceedings of the International Conference on Management, Xi’an, China, May 2001 (Beijing: China Higher Education Press and Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag), pp. 685-690

6. Russell Smyth and Zhai Qingguo, “Recent Developments in the

Marketization of Urban Housing - Implications for State-owned Enterprise Restructuring in China” in Shen Rongfang et al (eds) China Joins the World Trade Organization: The Impact on Chinese Enterprise Management. Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Improving Management through University-Industry Partnership, Shanghai, China, August, 2000 (Shanghai: Shanghai Scientific and Technological Literature Publishing House), pp. 238-250

7. Russell Smyth, “Reform of the Pension System in China’s State-owned

Enterprises” in Ju Xiaofeng (ed) Proceedings of the ‘99 International Conference on Management Science and Engineering, Yichang, China November 1999, Volume 2 (Harbin: Harbin Institute of Technology Press), pp. 742-749. [revised version published in Journal of Aging and Social Policy]

Discussion Papers Not Published Elsewhere

1. Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth and Qingguo Zhai, “Subjective Wellbeing

Among Chinese Off-Farm Migrants”, (2009) Asian Business and Economics Research Unit Discussion Paper No. 72.

2. Russell Smyth, Ingrid Nielsen and Qingguo Zhai, “Personal Wellbeing in Urban China” (2009) Asian Business and Economics Research Unit Discussion Paper No. 71.

3. Vinod Mishra, Susan Sharma and Russell Smyth, “Are Fluctuations in

Energy Consumption Per Capita Transitory? Evidence from a Panel of


Pacific Island Countries”, (2008) Asian Business and Economics Research Unit Discussion Paper No. 70.

4. Jakob Madsen and Russell Smyth, “Is the Output-Capital Ratio Constant in

the Very Long Run?” (2008) Department of Economics Monash University Discussion Paper No. 10/08, ISSN 1441-5429.

5. Vinod Mishra and Russell Smyth, “An Examination of the Impact of India’s

Performance in One-Day Cricket Internationals on the Indian Stock Market”, (2008) Department of Economics Monash University Discussion Paper No. 09/08, ISSN 1441-5429.

6. Xiaolei Qian and Russell Smyth, “Educational Expenditure in Urban China:

Income Effects, Family Characteristics and the Demand for Domestic and Overseas Education”, (2008) Asian Business and Economics Research Unit Discussion Paper No. 60.

7. Hooi Hooi Lean, Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Exchange Rate and

Stock Price Interaction in Major Asian Markets: Evidence From Individual Countries and Panels Allowing for Structural Breaks” (2008) Asian Business and Economics Research Unit Discussion Paper No. 59.

8. Russell Smyth and Xiaolei Qian, “Knowing One’s Lot in Life Versus

Climbing the social Ladder: The Formation of Redistributive Preferences in Urban China” (2008) Department of Economics Monash University Discussion Paper No. 05/08, ISSN 1441-5429.

9. ZuXiang Wang, Yew-Kwang Ng and Russell Smyth, “A New Ordered

Family of Lorenz Curves with an Application to Measuring Income Inequality and Poverty in Rural China” (2007) Asian Business and Economics Research Unit Discussion Paper No. 48.

10. ZuXiang Wang and Russell Smyth, “Two New Exponetial Families of

Lorenz Curves” (2007) Department of Economics Monash University Discussion Paper No. 20/07, ISSN 1441-5429.

11. ZuXiang Wang, Yew-Kwang Ng and Russell Smyth, “Revisiting the Ordered

Family of Lorenz Curves” (2007) Department of Economics Monash University Discussion Paper No. 19/07, ISSN 1441-5429.

12. Paresh Narayan, Seema Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Does Democracy

Facilitate Economic Growth or Does Economic Growth Facilitate Democracy? An Empirical Study of Sub-Saharan Africa”, (2007) Department of Economics Monash University Discussion Paper No. 10/07, ISSN 1441-5429


13. Paresh Narayan, Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, “Is there a Natural Rate of Crime?” (2005) Department of Economics Monash University Discussion Paper No. 18/05, ISSN 1441-5429

14. Russell Smyth “Estimating the Deterrent Effect of Punishment Using New

South Wales Local Court Data” (1995) Department of Economics Monash University Seminar Paper No. 2/95

Conference Papers and External Presentations

International Invited Keynote Address

1. Russell Smyth (with Ingrid Nielsen), “Who Wants Safer Cities? Perceptions of Public Safety and Attitudes to Migrants Among China’s Urban Population”, Keynote Address to “Transition, Growth and Globalization – An International Conference on the Chinese Economy”, Association for Chinese Economic Studies Australia, Perth, July 2005.

2. Russell Smyth, “Judicial Robes or Academic Gowns? – Citations to

Secondary Authority and Legal Method in the Court of Appeal” Invited paper presented at a Seminar on “Legal Method in New Zealand”, Auckland, New Zealand, March 2001.

Other Major International Address

3. Russell Smyth, “A Comparative Perspective on Recent Economic Reforms in Australia and China”, Invited presentation to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Committee, Fushun and the Fushun Municipal Government, Fushun, China, June 2000.

International Conferences

4. Russell Smyth and Xiaolei Qian, “Knowing One’s Lot in Life Versus Climbing the Social Ladder: The Formation of Redistributive Preferences in Urban China”, International Conference on the Chinese Model and Chinese Economy, Renmim University of China, Beijing, September 2008. Paper also presented at the Second Annual Conference of the Victorian Chinese Ph.D Students and Young Scholars Conference, Monash University, October 2008.

5. Tom Denison, Dharmalingam Arunachalam, Graeme Johanson and Russell

Smyth, “The Chinese Community in Prato”, Community Informatics Prospects for Communities and Action, Fourth Prato International Community Informatics CIRN Conference, Monash Centre Prato, Italy, November 2007.

6. Ingrid Nielsen, Jian Jian Li, Jie Shen and Russell Smyth, “Effects of

Intergroup Contact of Chinese Off-farm Migrants' Attitudes to Local


Workers” Migration and Social Protection in China, ABERU, Institute of Population and Labor Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Science and Renmin-Monash Advanced Centre for Economic Studies Conference, Renmin University of China, Beijing, September 2007.

7. Ingrid Nielsen, Xiaolei Qian and Russell Smyth, "What Determines

Employer Willingness to 'Top Up' Social Insurance?", Paper presented at the 66th Academy of Management Meeting, Philadelphia, PA., August 2007.

8. Xiaolei Qian and Russell Smyth, “Educational Expenditures in Urban China:

Income Effects, Family Characteristics and the Demand for Domestic and Overseas Education”, 10th International Convention of the East Asian Economic Association, Beijing, November 2006.

9. Pushkar Maitra, Ingrid Nielsen, Chris Nyland, Russell Smyth and Cherrie

Zhu “Firm Compliance with Social Security Obligations where there is a Weak Surveillance and Enforcement Mechanism: Empirical Evidence from Shanghai”, International Conference on Migrant Communities, Urban Poverty and Social Protection in China”, Institute of Population and Labour Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, October, 2005; Second Conference of the Global Labour Forum, New Delhi, December, 2005; Australian Law & Economics Conference, Canberra, June 2007.


Mingqiong Zhang, “Implications for India of Worker Satisfaction with Social Insurance in China’s Market Socialist Economy”, International Conference on Employment and Income Security in India, New Delhi, India, April 2005.


Zhu, “Which Rural Migrants Receive Social Insurance in Chinese Cities? Evidence from Jiangsu Survey Data”, Ninth International Metropolis Conference on Migration, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2004.

12. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Dead Man Walking: An Empirical

Reassessment of the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment Using the Bounds Testing Approach to Cointegration”. Paper presented at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association, Northwestern University, Chicago, May 2004 and EASAM 04, the Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Melbourne, July, 2004.

13. Russell Smyth, Xin Deng and Junli Wang “Equity for Debt Swaps in Chinese

Big Business: A Case Study of Restructuring in One Large State-Owned Enterprise”. Paper presented at an International Conference on Reforms in State-owned Assets Management and Public Finance, Xiamen, China, October 2003.


14. Mohan Nandha and Russell Smyth, “Bivariate Causality Between Exchange Rates and Stock Prices in South Asia”. Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on the Changing Dimensions of Accounting and Finance – Issues and Strategies, Jawahar Nagar, Jaipur, India, February 2003.

15. Dic Lo and Russell Smyth, “Towards a Reinterpretation of the Economics of

Feasible Socialism”. Paper presented at a Conference on ‘Marxist Economics in the Twenty-First Century’, Renmin University, Beijing China, April 2002


Exchange: Eight Case Studies on Small and Medium-sized Firms in Australia and Malaysia”. Paper presented at the Seventh International Convention of the East Asian Economic Association, Singapore, November 2000

17. Ergun Dogan, Russell Smyth and Ian Wills, “Transaction Costs of Cross

Cultural Exchange: Evidence From Australia Malaysia Case Studies”. Paper Presented at the International Symposium on Malaysian Business in the New Era, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February 2000.

18. Russell Smyth, “A Model Formalising the Trade-Offs Between Collective

Learning and Specialisation in the Township and Village Enterprise Sector in China” Paper Presented at the Eighth Annual Conference of the Chinese Economic Association (United Kingdom), Held at London School of Economics December 1996

National Conferences

19. Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth, “Crime Rates, Male Youth Unemployment and Real Income in Australia Evidence from Granger Causality Tests”, Paper Presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of Economists, Canberra September 2003

20. Russell Smyth and Brett Inder, “Is Chinese Provincial Real GDP Per Capita

Nonstationary? Evidence from Multiple Trend Break Unit Root Tests”, Paper Presented at the 31st Annual Conference of Economists, Adelaide October 2002

21. Mita Bhattacharya and Russell Smyth, “The Life Cycle Research Output of

Professors in Australian Economics Departments: An Empirical Analysis Based on Survey Questionnaires”, Paper presented at the 31st Annual Conference of Economists, Adelaide October 2002

22. Russell Smyth and Mita Bhattacharya, “What Determines Judicial Prestige?

An Empirical Analysis for Judges of the Federal Court of Australia” Paper


Presented at Australian Law and Economics Association Annual Conference, ANU, November, 2001

23. Russell Smyth and Mita Bhattachrya “How Fast Do Old Judges Slow Down?

A Life-cycle Study of Aging and Productivity in the Federal Court of Australia” Paper Presented at the Industry Economics Conference, Melbourne, July 2001

24. Ergun Dogan and Russell Smyth, “Board Remuneration, Performance and

Corporate Governance in Publicly Listed Malaysian Companies” Paper Presented at “Whose Millenium?” the 13th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), University of Melbourne, July 2000. A revised version of this paper was later presented at the “National Workshop on Capacity Building Towards Excellence in Economic Research and Policy Formulation”, Universiti Utara, Malaysia, April 2001

25. Russell Smyth, “Law or Economics? An Empirical Investigation of the

Impact of Economics on Australian Courts”. Paper Presented at the 28th Annual Conference of Economists, La Trobe University September, 1999 and the Fourth Annual Conference of the Australian Law and Economics Association, University of Melbourne October, 1999.

26. Russell Smyth and Dic Lo, “Theories of the Firm and the Relationship

Between Different Perspectives on the Division of Labour”. Paper presented at the Industry Economics Conference, Melbourne, July 1999

27. Russell Smyth, “Should China be Promoting Large Enterprise Groups? A

Review of the Evidence in Light of the Asian Financial Crisis”. Paper Presented at the at the Eleventh Annual International Conference of the Association for Chinese Economic Studies (Australia), Melbourne University July 1999

28. Russell Smyth, “Labour Market and Social Welfare Reform in Emerging

Market Economies: The Experience of the State-Owned Sector in China” Paper Presented at the 27th Annual Conference of Economists, University of Sydney September-October 1998

Workshops and other External Presentations • Presentation at the Pacific Institute, Melbourne, 2008. • Presentation at the Indian High Commission, Suva, 2008. • Presentation to ABERU/CCNR Workshop ‘Building Bridges: The Chinese in

Melbourne and Prato’, 2008. • Presentation to the ECR Network Workshop, Monash University, 2008. • Presentation to the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Melbourne, 2008.


• Presentation at ‘Building Communities: the Chinese in Prato’ Monash Centre, Prato Italy, 2007

• Presentation at the Asian Business and Economics Research Unit Workshop on ‘Asian Business in the Global Age’, 2004.

• Presentation at the Asian Business and Economics Research Unit, South Asia Workshops, Monash University, 2002, 2003.

• Presentations at the Monash Governance Research Unit Workshop, Monash University, 2003.

• Presentation at a Workshop on Empirical Development, Monash University 2002. • Presentations at the Melbourne-Monash Business in Asia Workshop 1999-2001. • Seminar presentations at the Monash Asia Institute (08/98); Department of

Business Law and Taxation, Monash University (06/99); La Trobe University (06/00); Fushun Institute of Petroleum, China (06/00, 11/00); University of Canberra (08/02); Division of Economics, RSPAS, ANU (09/02); Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, China (10/02, 09/08); Renmin University of China, Beijing, China (11/02, 09/06, 01/07, 09/07); Institute of Industrial Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing (11/02); University of Wollongong (08/04, 08/07); Griffith University (11/04, 10/05); Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Shanghai (02/05); South West Jiao Tong University, Chengdu, China (01/07); Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China (01/07); Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China (07/07); Queensland University of Technology (09/07); Dalian Nationalities University, Dalian, China (09/07, 09/08); University of South Pacific, Fiji (07/08).

Media Op-Ed Pieces

1. Russell Smyth, “To Make its People Happier, China has to Ease Back on Growth”, The Age (Melbourne) 5 August 2008, p. 13.

2. Russell Smyth, “Child Care Must Be Made Affordable”, The Age (Melbourne) 5

February 2008, p. B10. 3. Russell Smyth, “Success Despite Lack of Democracy”, The Age (Melbourne) 7

September 2007, p. B10. Radio/Television Interviews

1. “Pollution and Well-Being in China”, ABC 891 Adelaide (with Deb Tribe), 12 August 2008.

2. “Pollution and Well-Being in China”, Global Focus, The Pulse, Geelong, 94.7

FM (with Leo Rankin), 11 August 2008


3. “Pollution and Well-Being in China”, The Wire, Radio Adelaide, 101.5 FM, 6 August 2008.

4. “Pollution and Well-Being in China”, Radio Adelaide 101.5 FM (with Peter

Godfrey), 5 August 2008. 5. “Food Prices and Inflation in China”, SBS World News Australia, 24 October,

2007. 6. “Economic Challenges Facing Congress”, Radio National (with Karen Snowden)

15 October, 2007. Successful Research Grant Applications

Year Title and scheme Amount applied Amount received

2008 Three Decades of Economic Reform in China”, International Strategic Initiatives Grant, Monash University

$5800 $5800

2008 Energy Costs, Firm Profitability and Exchange Rate Shocks in China, Monash SCU Strategic Initiative Fund (with G. Zhang)

$6200 $6200

2007 What are the decision-making patterns of Australia’s newest federal court? Faculty Research Grant, Faculty of Law, Monash University (with M. Groves)

$5000 $5000

2007 The Publication Patterns of County Court Judges, Department of Economics, Monash University

$9000 $9000

2007 State Supreme Court Database, Department of Economics and Faculty of Business and Economics, Infrastructure Grant

$24,000 $24,000

2007 The Relationship Between Female Labour Force Participation Rates and the Total Fertility Rate in OECD Countries: New Evidence From Panel Data, Faculty Grant

$4,605 $4,500

2007 The Chinese Community in Prato, Monash International Strategic Initiatives and Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements

$45,000 $45,000

2005 People Movement, Benefit Entitlement and the Creation of a Unified Labour Market in China, Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements (with G. Davies, C. Zhu)

$40,000 $40,000

2005 Effects of Intergroup Contact on Attitudes of Chinese Migrant Workers to Urban Locals, Faculty Research Grant (with I. Nielsen)

$14,105 $13,000

2005-07 Social and Business Implications of Extending China’s Social Security System, ARC Linkage

$133,600 $133,600


(with C. Nyland, C. Zhu, G. Ramia, G. Davies)

2004 Grant to purchase OECD Energy Databases, Department of Economics, Monash University

$12000 $12,000

2004 Grant to purchase OECD Health Databases, Department of Economics, Monash University

$1000 $1000

2004 Marketization and Subjective Well-Being Among China’s Urban Population, Faculty Research Grant (with C. Nyland and C. Zhu)

$14000 $14000

2004 Grants to Support the Research Activities of the ABERU, Department of Economics

$24,000 $24,000

2004 Globalisation and Labour Markets in South Asia, Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements (with C. Nyland and M. Vicziany)

$10,000 $10,000

2004-06 Business Social Protection Behaviour in Shanghai (with C. Nyland and C. Zhu), ARC Linkage.

$112,000 $112,000

2003-04 “Global Markets, Human Mobility and Social Protection” Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements (with C. Nyland and Others)

$400,000 $400,000

2003 Business Social Protection Behaviour Utilizing Chinese Firm Data (with C. Nyland and C. Zhu) Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Shanghai

$25,000 $25,000

2003 Business Social Protection Behaviour Utilizing Chinese Firm Data Part II (with C. Nyland and C. Zhu), Faculty Research Grant and Dean’s Strategic Research Fund

$25,000 $25,000

2003 Faculty Research Support Grant to support the activities of the Asian Business and Economics Research Unit

$9,300 $9,300

2002 “Judicial Independence, Judicial Promotion and the Enforcement of Legislative Wealth Transfers: An Empirical Study of the New Zealand High Court” MSG (with P. Maitra)

$7,200 $7,200

2002 “Corporate Governance in Asia” SMURF/MAI (with O.K. Tam)

$10,000 $10,000

2002 “The Global Governance Role of International Regulatory Organisations” SMURF/MGRU (with G. Gilligan)

$12,945 $10,621

2002 “Occupational Health and Safety Governance in Contemporary China” SMURF/MGRU (with T. Larsson, C. Nyland and C. Zhu)

$26,200 $18,775

2002 “Theories of Diversification in Large-scale State-owned Enterprise Groups in China”, Faculty Grant

$8,000 $8,000


2002 Institutional Challenges for the Global China (Conference), Dean’s strategic research fund, plus Departments of Accounting & Finance, Economics and Management.

$40,000 $40,000

2001 “WTO Membership of China and Sino-Australian Investment and Trade” ARC IREX (with Y.K. Ng, S. Ng, H. Shi and X. Yang)

$20,000 $13,000

2001 “The Determinants of Judicial Influence in the Federal Court” Faculty Grant (with M. Bhattacharya)

$6,500 $6,500

2000 “Asian Business and Economic Development Mark II” SMURF 2 (with others in the Asian Economies Research Unit)

$40,000 $40,000

2000 “The Economic Rationale for Diversification in Large-scale State-owned Enterprise Groups in China” Small ARC

$6,000 $5,000

2000 “Transaction Costs and Export Channels of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises” Monash University Malaysia (with E. Dogan and I. Wills)

$3,000 $3,000

1999 “The Effectiveness of Shareholding Cooperative Reform in the Rural Industrial Sector in Jiangsu, Faculty Grant

$5,000 $4,000

1999 “Asian Business and Economic Development” SMURF 1 (with others in the Asian Economies Research Unit)

$70,000 $70,000

1999 “Structure of Corporate Ownership in Malaysia” Monash University Malaysia” (with E. Dogan)

$4,600 $4,600

1998 Institutional Innovation and Growth in the Chinese State and Non-state Sector” Faculty Grant (with H-L. Shi)

$12,000 $12,000

Consulting Projects

China-Australia Governance Program, Component 2 Theme: Strengthening Policy Processes to Reduce Trade Barriers – Australian Advisory Quality Assurance Group Specialist on the Implementation Plan – Quality at Entry Assessment, January 2007.

Postgraduate Research Supervision

Completed Ph.D Students

Seema Narayan, Centre for Policy Studies, Thesis title – “The Dynamics of the Current Account: The Case of OECD Countries”, Submitted 2008.


Xiaolei Qian – Economics, Thesis title – “Parental Education Expenditure, the Returns to Education and Regional Disparities in Education Output with Empirical Applications to China”, Revisions Submitted 2008. Yaomin Wu – Economics, Thesis topic – “Essays on the Role of Banking and Credit in the Asian Financial Crisis”, Completed 2008. Vinod Mishra – Economics, Thesis title – “Three Essays on the Indian Stock Market”, Completed 2008. Lana Masliouk – Economics, Thesis title – “Three Essays on the Stochastic Properties of Crude Oil Prices and Production” Completed 2008. George Chen – Economics, Thesis title – “Agglomeration Economies and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment: The Regional Distribution of Taiwanese Investment in China” Completed 2008. Zhong Qin – Economics, Thesis title – “Changing Patterns in Corporate Governance, Family and Government Trust in Private Enterprises in Zhejiang Province, China”. Completed 2007. Guibin Zhang – Monash Asia Institute, Thesis Title – “Informal Financing and the Role of the Private Sector in Chengdu, China”. Completed 2006. Jaai Parasnis – Economics, Thesis title – “The Impact of Immigration on the Australian Labour Market”. Completed 2005. Xin Deng – Economics, Thesis title - “Externality, Road Pricing and Private Automobile Ownership – With a Case Study of China”. Completed 2003. Current Ph.D Students

David Treisman – MAI, Thesis topic – ‘The Political Economy of ASEAN’

Anja Fladrich – MAI, Thesis topic – ‘Chinese Enterprises in Germany’.

Arti Devi – Economics, Thesis topic – ‘Three Essays on Development’. Completed Masters’ Students

Xun Lu – M. Phil. (Economics), Thesis Title – “Financial Development, Capital Accumulation and Productivity Improvement: Evidence From China”. Completed 2005. Xiaolei Qian – M. Phil. (Economics), Thesis Title – “Growth Accounting for the Chinese Provinces Incorporating Human Capital Accumulation”. Completed 2004.


Josephine Lau - Master of Arts (Asian Studies), Thesis Title - “Factors Affecting the Competitiveness of Guangdong (China) and Java (Indonesia) in Textile, Clothing and Footwear Industries”. Completed 2001. Academic Planning and Governance Key Leadership Positions

2009 Head, Department of Economics. 2005 - 2008 Deputy Head, Department of Economics. 2005- Advisory Board, Advanced Centre for Economic Studies, Renmin

University. 2004 - 2006 Department of Economics, Caulfield Campus Coordinator 2004 Acting Deputy Head, Department of Economics, June-December. 2003-2005 Research Coordinator, Department of Economics. 2003 - Supervisor under the University Performance Management Scheme. 2001 - Director, Asian Business and Economics Research Unit

Participation in Staff Recruitment/Review

2009 Department of Economics Selection Committee (Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Caulfield and Clayton campuses).

2008 External Assessor, Confirmation (Major Review), Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics.

2008 Department of Business Law and Taxation Selection Committee (Associate Professor, Caulfield campus).

2008 Department of Business Law and Taxation Selection Committee (Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Caulfield and Clayton campuses).

2008 Department of Economics Selection Committee (Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Caulfield and Clayton campuses).

2008 School of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Deakin University Selection Committee, External Member (Lecturer in Finance)

2007 School of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Deakin University Selection Committee, External Member (Chair in Finance).

2007 Department of Economics Selection Committee (Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Berwick and Caulfield campuses).

2006 External Assessor, Recruitment, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

2006 Department of Economics Selection Committee (Professor, Level E, Caulfield and Clayton campuses)

2006 Department of Economics Selection Committee (PA to Head of Department HEW 5)

2006 Department of Economics Selection Committee (Administrative officer HEW 4)

2006 Department of Economics Selection Committee (Department Manager, HEW 8)


2006 Department of Economics Selection Committee (Lecturer and Senior Lecturer).

2005 Department of Economics Selection Committee (Administrative Officer, HEW 5)

2005 Department of Economics Selection Committee (Professor, Level E – 5 positions, Caulfield and Clayton campuses)

2005 Department of Accounting and Finance Selection Committee (Assistant Lecturer in Management Accounting, Berwick campus).

2005 Department of Economics Selection Committee (Department Manager, HEW 8)

2005 Department of Economics Selection Committee (Lecturer at Gippsland campus)

2004-2005 Department of Economics Selection Committee (Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Berwick, Caulfield, Clayton and Peninsula campuses).

2004 Department of Accounting and Finance Selection Committee (Assistant Lecturer in Finance, Caulfield campus).

2003 Department of Economics Selection Committee (Associate Professor, Berwick Campus).

Service on Faculty/University Committees

2009- Member, Faculty Executive 2009- Member, Faculty Education Committee 2007-2009 Member, Faculty Promotions Committee (Associate Professor). 2007 Executive Committee of the Criminal Justice Research Consortium. 2005-2006 Education Innovation and Quality Committee. 2004 Selection Committee for Dean’s Award for Excellence by an ECR. 2004 -2005 Member, Faculty Strategic Research Committee. 2004 - Member, Faculty Internationalisation Committee. 2004-2005 Member, Faculty Promotions Committee (Lecturer and Senior Lecturer). 2004-2005 Member B. Bus. Course Advisory Group. 2003-2005 Member, Faculty Research Committee. 2003 Mentor in the New Staff Induction Program 2001-2002 Member, Faculty Committee on the Institute for Global Movements. 2000-2002 Member, Faculty Board. 1999-2000 Member, Library Advisory Committee for the Humanities and Social

Sciences. 1997-1998 Monash Enhancement Program

Service on Department Committees

2007 Member of the Honours Review Committee 2006 Member B.Bus(Economics) Working Group. 2005- Member, Department of Economics Executive 2004-2005 Member, Department of Economics Internal Review Committee. 2004-2005 Member, Department of Economics, Department Plan Committee.


2002- Member, Department of Economics, Research Committee (Chair: 2003-2005) 2002 -2006 Editor, Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series 2002 Member, Department Review of International Unit Offerings 2000 Department of Economics, Finance Committee. 1999-2000 Department of Economics, Coursework Masters Committee 1997 Member, Department of Economics, Budget Review Committee

Organisation of Conferences/Workshops

2008 ‘Social Inclusion – The Chinese and Italian Communities in Prato’, Prato Italy (Co-Chair of Organising Committee).

2007 ‘Building Communities: the Chinese in Prato’ Monash Centre, Prato Italy (Chair of the Organising Committee).

2007 ‘Migration and Social Protection in China’, ABERU, Institute of Population and Labor Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Science and Renmin-Monash Advanced Centre for Economic Studies Conference, Renmin University of China, Beijing (Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee).

2005 ‘Globalisation and Labour Mobility in China and India’, ABERU/MAI Conference, Monash University (Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee)

2004 ‘Asian Business in the Global Age’, Asian Business and Economics Research Unit Workshop, Monash University, (Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee).

2003 ‘Institutional Challenges for the Global China’, Asian Business and Economics Research Unit Conference, Monash University (Chair of the Organizing Committee)

2003 Asian Business and Economics Research Unit, South Asia Workshop (Chair of the Organizing Committee)

2002 Asian Business and Economics Research Unit, South Asia Workshop (Chair of the Organizing Committee)

2001 Melbourne-Monash Business in Asia Workshop, Melbourne University (Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee)

2000 International Symposium on Malaysian Business in the New Era, Monash Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (Member of the Organising Committee)

1999 Industry Economics Conference (Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee) Editorial Responsibilities

Editor/Associate Editor

2007- Associate Editor, Asia Pacific Law & Economics Review (Berkeley Electronic Press) 2004-2009 Associate Editor, Pacific Economic Review (Blackwell, for the fourth issue each year published with financial assistance from Nihon Business School). 1998-2008 Editor, Economic Papers (Economic Society of Australia) Editorial Boards/Advisory Boards


2008- Editorial Board, Economic Analysis and Policy (Economic Society of Australia, Queensland Branch). 2008- International Advisory Board, Indian Economic Journal (Indian Economic Association). 2008- Editorial Board, Journal of International and Global Economic Studies (Institute of International Economic Studies, Southeastern Louisiana University).

2002- International Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (Blackwell). Refereeing for Scholarly Journals

I have acted as a referee for the following academic journals: Accounting and Finance African Journal of Business Management American Journal of Political Science Annals of Tourism Research Applied Economics Applied Energy Applied Financial Economics Asia Pacific Business Review Asian Studies Review Australian Economic Papers Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics Australian Journal of Social Issues Canadian Journal of Development Studies China Economic Review China Information China Review Comparative Economic Studies Ecological Economics Economic Development Quarterly Economic Modelling Economic Record Emerging Markets, Finance and Trade Energy Economics Energy Policy European Journal of Political Economy Global Business and Economics Review Governance Indian Economic Journal International Journal of Business and Economics International Journal of Emerging Markets International Journal of Social Economics


Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology Journal of Comparative Economics Journal of Economic Issues Journal of Economic Surveys Journal of Economics and Business Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Journal of Institutional Economics Journal of International Business Journal of International Trade & Economic Development Journal of Multinational Financial Management Journal of Politics Journal of Population Economics Just Policy Law and Society Review Melbourne University Law Review Monash Business Review Physica A Politics and Policy Review of Applied Economics Review of International Political Economy Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies Safety Science Monitor Singapore Economic Review Social Policy and Administration Sydney Law Review UNSW Law Journal World Development Refereeing for Publishers

Edward Elgar Refereeing for Funding Agencies

Law and Social Science Panel, National Science Foundation; Oz Reader, Australian Research Council. Examiner of Theses

Ph.D Ph.D Department of Economics, University of Western Australia, 2007. Masters MCom, School of Economics, University of South Pacific, 2007. MA, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, 2006. M.Ec.(Hons) Dept. of Economics, Monash University, 2006. M.App.Econ. Dept. of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith University, 2005. M.A. (Asian Studies), Monash Asia Institute, 2004


M.Ec. Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, 2000 Professional Involvement at National/International Conferences

I have chaired sessions and/or been an invited discussant at the following conferences: • ‘Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance’ Monash University,

November, 2008. • ‘Social Inclusion – The Chinese and Italian Communities in Prato’, Monash

Centre, Prato Italy, October 2008. • ‘Financial Development and Economic Growth’. Monash University, March,

2008. • ‘Building Communities: the Chinese in Prato’ Monash Centre, Prato Italy,

November 2007. • ‘Migration and Social Protection in China’, ABERU, Institute of Population and

Labor Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Science and Renmin-Monash Advanced Centre for Economic Studies Conference, Renmin University of China, Beijing, September 2007.

• “International Trade, Globalization and Income Distribution”, Monash University, February, 2007.

• Second Conference of the Global Labour Forum, New Delhi, December, 2005 • “Globalisation and Labour Mobility in China and India”, ABERU/MAI

Conference, Monash University, September, 2005 • “Transition, Growth and Globalization – An International Conference on the

Chinese Economy”, Association for Chinese Economic Studies Australia, Perth, July 2005.

• “China, Trade Liberalisation and Labour: Racing to the Bottom or Building a Foundation for Labour Rights?” Melbourne, February 2005.

• EASAM 04, the Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Melbourne, July, 2004.

• Fourteenth Conference of the American Law and Economics Association, Northwestern University, Chicago, May 2004.

• ‘Institutional Challenges for the Global China’, Asian Business and Economics Research Unit Conference, Monash University, September, 2003.

• “Sustaining SME Innovation, Competitiveness and Development in the Global Economy”, Wollongong, July 2002

• “SMEs in East Asia in the Aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis”, Wollongong, June 2000.

• Annual Academy of International Business South-East Asia Region Conference, Melbourne July, 1999

• International Symposium on Malaysian Business in the New Era, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia February, 2000

• Industry Economics Conference, Melbourne, July, 1999. • Eleventh Annual International Conference of the Association for Chinese

Economic Studies (Australia), Melbourne University July 1999

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