Prema-chandra Athukorala, BCom (Hons), PhD (LaTrobe)
Professor of Economics, Arndt-Corden Division of Economics, Crawford School of Economics and Government

Email: prema-chandra.athukorala@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

I am currently working on foreign trade and investment in economic transition in Vietnam (book based on research undertaken for the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank); growth, employment and equity in Malaysia (book); international food safety standards and processed food exports from India and Thailand (project funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research); and international product fragmentation and trade patterns.

Research Interests

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

Current Research Projects

• Global production sharing, network trade and trade flow modeling
• Growth and equity in a multi-ethnic society: The Malaysia case.
• Economic transition and labour market adjustment in China

Key Publications

• "The Rise of China and East Asian Export Performance: Is the Crowding-out Fear Warranted?", World Economy, 32 (2), 234–66, 2009.
• Multinational Enterprises in Asian Development, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007.
  "Trade Policy Reforms and the Structure of Protection in Vietnam", World Economy, 29 (2), 161-87, 2006.
• "The Determinants of Private Saving in India", World Development, 32 (3), 491-503, 2004.
  Saving, Investment and growth in India, Oxford University Press, 2002
  Liberalization and Industrial Transformation: Sri Lanka in International Perspective, Oxford University Press, 2000.
• 'Liberalization and Industrial Transformation', Economic Development and Cultural Change, 48 (3), 543-572, 2000.
• Structural Change and International Migration in East Asia: Adjusting to Labour Scarcity, Oxford University Press, 1999.
• "Exchange Rates and Strategic Pricing in Swedish Manufacturing Exports," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 57 (4), 529-542, 1995.
• "Developed and Developing Country Multinationals and Export Performance in Developing Countries", Journal of Development Economics, 46 (1), 109-122, 1995.
• "Pricing to Market Behaviour and Exchange Rate Pass-through", Economic Journal, 104 (423), 271-81, 1994.
• Five other books, three edited volumes and numerous papers in scholarly journals and multi-author volumes.

Career Highlights

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia since 2003; Assistant Editor of Asian Economic Papers and editorial board member of ASEAN Economic Bulletin and Journal of South Asian Development; Consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, International Labour Organization, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the government of Sri Lanka; Visiting Scholar/Professor: Hitotsubashi University, Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, University of East Anglia and University of Malaya; listed in The Australian Who's Who since 2005.