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Russell Smyth is Professor of Economics and Director of the Asian Business and Economics Research Unit in the Faculty. He is also Adjunct Professor at Dalian Nationalities University and North-Eastern University of Finance and Economics in the P.R. China. His research interests encompass Asian economies, Chinese economic reform, empirical legal studies, law and economics, migration and applied time series econometrics. From 1998 to 2008 he was Editor of Economic Papers, the policy journal of the Economic Society of Australia and was a member of the Central Council of the Economic Society of Australia. In 2008 he received the Honorary Fellow Award of the Economic Society of Australia He is currently an Associate Editor of the B.E. Press journal, Asia Pacific Law and Economics Review and Pacific Economic Review and sits on the Editorial Board of a further four journals.
Research
His research interests include Chinese economic reform, Asian Economies, law and economics, new institutional economics, and empirical legal studies.
Selected Publications
Smyth, R. and Qian, X. (in press), ‘Corruption and Left-Wing Beliefs in a Post-Socialist Transition Economy: Evidence From China's 'Harmonious Society'', Economics Letters.
Smyth, R., Mishra, V. and Qian, X. (2008), ‘The Environment and Well-Being in Urban China', Ecological Economics. 68(1-2), 547-555.
Nielsen, I, Li, J., Shen, J. and Smyth, R. (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.
Nielsen,I., Nyland, C. and Smyth, R. Zhang, M. and Zhu, C. (2006), ‘Effects of Intergroup Contact on Attitudes of Chinese Urban Residents to Migrant Workers', Urban Studies 43, 475-490.
Maitra, P. and Smyth, R. (2005), ‘Determinants of Retirement on the High Court of Australia', Economic Record 81, 193-203.
Nielsen, I., Nyland, C., Smyth, R. and Zhu, C. (2005), ‘Marketization and Perceptions of Social Protection in China's Cities', World Development 33, 1759-1781.
Narayan, P. and Smyth, R. (2004), ‘The Race that Stops a Nation: The Demand for the Melbourne Cup', Economic Record 80, 193-207.
Lo, D. and Smyth, R. (2004), ‘Towards a Re-interpretation of the Economics of Feasible Socialism', Cambridge Journal of Economics 28, 791-808.
Bhattacharya, M. and Smyth, R. (2001), ‘The Determinants of Judicial Influence and Prestige: Some Empirical Evidence from the High Court of Australia', Journal of Legal Studies 30, 223-252.
Smyth, R. (2000), ‘Should China be Promoting Large-scale Enterprises and Enterprise Groups?' World Development 28, 721-737.
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