Publications 2007

Chapters in Books  B1

Booth, R. Around the grounds: a comparative analysis of football in Australia. The games are not the same: the political economy of football in Australia. B. Stewart. Carlton, Melbourne University Press.     

Dwyer, L., P. Forsyth & R. Spurr. Productivity and yield measurement in Australian inbound tourism using tourism satellite accounts and general equilibrium modelling. Developments in Tourism Research. J. Tribe and D. Airey. Oxford, Elsevier: 77-94.         

Dwyer, L., P. Forsyth, R. Spurr & T. Ho. Tourism's economic contribution versus economic impact assessment: differing roles for satellite accounts and economic modelling. Tourism management: analysis, behaviour and strategy. A. a. M. Woodside, D. Wallingford, CABI Publishing.         

Forsyth, P.  Models of airport performance. Handbook of Transport Modelling. D. A. Hensher and K. Button. Oxford, Elsevier: 715-727.         

Ng Y-K, “Utility, welfare, and happiness”, In Wang Dingding et al. Economics: Discussions by Three Economists, People’s Publishers, Shanghai.

Nielsen, I. & R. Smyth. Better city - better life' for whom? Globalisation and labour mobility in China. I. Nielsen, R. Smyth and M. Vicziany. Melbourne, Monash University Press: 101-118.           

Nielsen, I., R. Smyth & Y. Guo. The comparative basic living conditions and leisure activities of China's off-farm migrants and urban locals. Globalisation and Labour Mobility in China. I. Nielsen, R. Smyth and M. Vicziany. Melbourne, Monash University Press: 119-134.          

Nielsen, I., R. Smyth & M Vicziany. Movement of the masses in the global economy. Globalisation and Labour Mobility in China. I. Nielsen, R. Smyth and M. Vicziany. Melbourne, Monash University Press: 1-15.

Refereed Journal Articles   C1

Ang, J.. "Are saving and investment cointegrated?  The case of Malaysia (1965-2003)." Applied Economics 39(17): 2167-2174.           

Ang, J..  "CO2 emissions, energy consumption, and output in France." Energy Policy 35(10): 4772-4778.        

Ang, J.. "Financial deepening and economic development in Malaysia." Economic Papers 26(3): 249-260.           

Ang, J.. & W. McKibbin, "Financial liberalization, financial sector development and growth: Evidence from Malaysia." Journal of Development Economics 84(1): 215-233.          

Argyres, N. & V-L. Mui. "Rules of engagement, credibility and the political economy of organizational dissent." Strategic Organization 5(2): 107-154.

Banerjee, D. & V. Mukherjee . "Copyright infringement, product quality and producer's profit." Review of Law and Economics 3(3).          

Bhattacharya, M. "The small hands of slavery." Monash Business Review 3(3): 32-33.          

Bhattacharya, M. & J-R Chen. "Market dynamics and dichotomy: evidence from Taiwanese manufacturing." Applied Economics 1- 11

Bhattacharya, M. "Industrial performance and competition: The case of Japanese manufacturing." Pacific Economic Review, 12, 5

Cason, T. N. & V-L. Mui. "Communication and coordination in the laboratory collective resistance game." Experimental Economics 10(3): 251-267.           

Cheng, W. & D. Zhang. "Can productivity progress in china hurt the US?  Samuelson's example extended." Pacific Economic Review 12(1): 101-115.         

Cheng, W. & D. Zhang. "Does trade in intermediate goods increase or decrease wage inequality?" Singapore Economic Review 52(2): 201-213.

Cheung W & Y-K Ng, “Specialization and cooperation in research”, Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics, 14(1): 27-42.

C. Choe & C. E. Hyde, “Multinational Transfer Pricing, Tax Arbitrage, and the Arm’s Length Principle”, Economic Record, 83, No. 263, 398-404, December

C. Choe, “The Political Economy of SME Financing and Regional Bank Problems in Japan”, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 15, No. 4, 354-367, September

Dwyer, L., P. Forsyth, L. Fredline, M. Deery, L Jago & S Lundie. "Yield measures for special-interest Australian inbound tourism markets." Tourism Economics: the business and finance tourism and recreation 13(3): 421-440.          

Dwyer, L., P. Forsyth & R. Spurr. "Contrasting the uses of TSAs and CGE models: measuring tourism yield and productivity." Tourism and Economics: the business and finance of tourism and recreation 13(4): 537-551.       

Dwyer, L., P. Forsyth & R. Spurr. . "Economic impact of sport events: a reassessment." Tourism Review International 10(4): 207-216.

Fausten, D., Nielson, I. & Smyth, R. “A century of citation practice on the Supreme Court of Victoria”, Melbourne law review 31, 733-804  

Forsyth, P. "The impacts of emerging aviation trends on airport infrastructure." Journal of Air Transport Management 13: 45-52.        

Harris, E. "Historical regulation of Victoria's water sector:  A case of government failure?" The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 51(3): 343-352.         

Harris, E."Institutional Change and Economic Growth:  The evolution of water rights in Victoria, Australia 1850-1886." Economic Papers 26(2): 118-127.          

Harris, E. "Troubled waters: An evaluation of current water reform using historical evidence." Monash Business Review 3(2): 17-18.

Hooi, L. H. & R. Smyth. "Are Asians real exchange rates mean reverting?  Evidence from univariate and panel LM unit root tests with one and two structural breaks."  Applied Economics 39(16): 2109-2120.         

Hooi, L. H. & R. 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 10(1): 15-31.       

Hooi, L. H., R. Smyth & W-K Wong. "Revisiting calendar anomalies in asian stock markets using a stochastic dominance approach." Journal of Multinational Financial Management 17(2): 125-141.     

Jevons, C, M. Ewing & E. Khalil. "Managing brand demise." Journal of General Management 32(4): 73-81.      

Li, G.-Q. & Y-K. Ng.  "Indirect pricing theory of the firm:  a general-equilibrium analysis involving production technology and management service." Pacific Economic Review 12(1): 129-148.    

Lu, X., D. Fausten & R. Smyth.  "Financial development, capital accumulation and productivity improvement:  evidence from China." Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies 5(3): 227-242.

Lundie, S., L. Dwyer & P. Forsyth. . "Environmental-economic measures of tourism yield." Journal of Sustainable Tourism 15(5): 503-519.          

Madsen, J. "Are there diminishing returns R&D?" Economics Letters 95(2): 161-166.          

Madsen, J.. "Pitfalls in estimates of the relationship between share returns and inflation." Empirical Economics 33(1): 1-21.          

Madsen, J. "Technology spillover through trade and TFP convergence: 135 Years of evidence for the OECD countries." Journal of International Economics 72(2): 464-480.         

Maitra, P, R. Smyth, I. Nielsen, C. Nyland & C. Zhu. . "Firm compliance with social insurance obligations where there is a weak surveillance and enforcement mechanism:  empirical evidence from Shanghai." Pacific Economic Review 12(5): 577-596.         

Mishra, V."The determinants of R & D expenditure of firms:  evidence from a cross-section of Indian firms." Economic Papers 26(3): 237-248.         

Narayan, P. & R. Smyth. "Are shocks to energy consumption permanent or temporary?  Evidence from 182 countries." Energy Policy 35(1): 333-341.          

Narayan, P. & R. Smyth. "Mean reversion versus random walk in G7 stock prices evidence from multiple trend break unit root tests." Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money 17(2): 152-166.          

Narayan, P. & R. Smyth. "A panel cointegration analysis of the demand for oil in the Middle East." Energy Policy 35(12): 6258-6265.           

Narayan, P. & R. 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 4(2): 401-425.          

Narayan, P., R. Smyth & A. Prasad. "Electricity consumption in G7 countries:  A panel cointegration analysis of residential demand elasticities." Energy Policy 35(9): 4485-4494.           

Ng, Y-K. "Do the economies of specialization justify the work ethics? A further examination of Buchanan's Hypothesis." Annals of Economics and Finance 7(2): 385-403.          

Ng, Y-K. "Eternal Coase and external costs: A case for bilateral taxation and amenity rights." European Journal of Political Economy 23(3): 641-659.          

Ng, Y-K. & G-Z. Sun . "Economics of endogenous specialization:  introduction." Pacific Economic Review 12(1): 63-67.           

Ng, Y-K. & D. Zhang . "Average-cost pricing, increasing returns, and optimal output:  comparing home and market production." Journal of Economics 90(2): 167-192.           

Ng Y-K,“On the use of the representative decision-maker methodology: A reply to Professor Kemp’, Keio Economic Studies, 2007, 43(2): 73-8.

Ng Y-K & S Ng, “Why should governments encourage improvements in infrastructure?  Indirect network externality of transaction efficiency”, Public Finance and Management, 7(4): 340-362.

Nielsen, I., C. Nyland, R. Smyth & M Zhang. "Migration and the right to social security:  perceptions of off-farm migrants' rights to social insurance in China's Jiangsu Province." China & World Economy 15(2): 29-43.           

Pandey, V. & V. Mishra. "Factors affecting adoption of resource conservation technology: case of zero tillage in rice-wheat farming systems." Indian Journal of Agriculture Economics 62(1): 126-138.          

Shao, S., I. Nielsen, C. Nyland, R. Smyth, M. Zhang & C. Zhu. "Migrants as homo economicus:  explaining the emerging phenomenon of a shortage of migrant labor in China's coastal provinces." China Information 21(1): 7-41.           

Smyth, R. "Asia's booming economies a decade after the crisis." Economic Papers 26(3): 193-195.           

Smyth, R. & X. Qian. "China social security - Jump! And We Might Catch You." Monash Business Review 3(3): 42-45.

Tombazos, C. "Specialization, the intermediate nature of traded products and the myth of import driven wage inequality in the United States." Pacific Economic Review 12(1): 117-128.

Editorship: and Edited Compilation- A3

Nielsen, I., R. Smyth & M Vicziany, Eds.  Globalisation and labour mobility in China, Monash University Press.

Conference Publications: Full Written Paper – Refereed - E1         

Banerjee, D.. & T. Chou. Copyright protection and innovation in the presence of commercial piracy. Annual Congress of the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues.           

Banerjee, D. & T. Chou. Copyright protection and innovation in the presence of commercial piracy. 2007 Australasian Meeting of The Econometric Society, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Econometric Society.          

Forsyth, P. Estimating the costs and benefits of regional airport subsidies: a computable general equilibrium approach. 36th Australian Conference of Economists, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.           

Kazakevitch, G. Comparative measurement of unemployment: revisited. 9th Path to Full Employment Conference, The University of Newcastle, Australia, Centre of Full Employment and Equity.           

Nielsen, I., J. J. Li, J. Shen & R. Smyth. Effects of intergroup contact on Chinese off-farm migrants' attitudes to urban locals, Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA, Academy of Management.