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DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

Joshua Aizenman is Professor and Presidential Chair of Economics at University of California, Santa Cruz. Professor Aizenman has published widely, analysing a range of issues in open economy including commercial and financial policies, crises in emerging markets, foreign direct investment, capital controls, and exchange rate regimes. He also serves as a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has done theoretical and field studies research on rural institutions in poor countries, on political economy of development policies, and on international trade. A part of his work is in the interdisciplinary area of economics, political science, and social anthropology. Currently, Professor Bardhan heads the MacAthur Foundation International Research Network on "Inequality and Economic Performance," a unit of Berkeley's Institute of International Studies, which conducts research on the interaction of economic equality and efficiency in both rich and poor countries.

Hal Hill is the H.W. Arndt Professor of Southeast Asian Economies in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, College of Asia and the Pacific. His current research interest includes studies on Indonesian economic development, the Philippine economy, Indonesian industrialization since the Asian economic crisis, regional (sub-national) development in Indonesia and the Philippines, Indonesian trade policy, the smaller transition economies of Indo China, and the political economy of reform in Southeast Asia.

Cheng Hsiao is Professor of Economics at University of Southern California. A prominent econometrician with a keen interest in panel data analysis, Professor Hsiao has published widely in books and Econometrics journals.

Ali Khan is Abram Hutzler Professor of Political Economy at John Hopkins University. Professor Khan has wide range of research interest from economic interaction in general equilibrium theory, asset pricing models, development economics and cultural changes.

Jack Knetsch is an eminent economist whose works have appeared regularly in premier internationally refereed journals (such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, and Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, just to name a few; with over 180 publications mostly in either Premier and Leading journals). Professor Knetsch obtained his Ph.D from Harvard University and has taught at Simon Fraser University for 26 years and is recently Emeritus Professor of Economics as well as Professor of Resource and Environmental Management there. He continues to be active in research (his most recent paper (2001) appeared in Land Economics, a leading journal in the field of environmental economics) and has made a number of significant contributions in his field of study namely, the use of land value changes as an indirect measure of the benefit provided by an amenity resource, areas of recreation and environmental quality, alternative techniques of assessing changes in economic welfare, economic analysis of the various legal rules and institutions, and behavioural economics.

Peter John Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Economics at University of Melbourne. A prolific writer who has published and edited ten books, Professor Lloyd's areas of specialization include international economics, asian economics and microeconomic theory. He has also been a consultant to the OECD, the WTO, UNCTAD and a number of government departments and authorities in Australia and New Zealand.

Warwick McKibbin is Professor and Director of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis in the ANU College of Business and Economics and Adjunct Professor in the Australian Centre for Economic Research in Health at the Australian National University. He is internationally renowned for his contributions to global economic modeling. Professor McKibbin has also been a consultant for many international agencies and a range of governments on issues of macroeconomic policy, international trade and finance, greenhouse policy issues, global demographic change and the economic cost of infectious diseases.

Ronald I. McKinnon is William D. Eberle Professor of International Economics at Stanford University. An applied economist whose primary interests are international economics and economic development-with strong secondary interests in transitional economies and fiscal federalism, his research interests range from the proper regulation of banks and financial markets in poorer countries to the historical evolution of global and regional monetary systems. His profound economics knowledge in these areas has led him to engage in extensive consulting with central banks and monetary authorities in Asia, Latin America, North America, and Europe, as well as with international agencies such as the IMF, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and U.S. AID.

Danny Quah is Head of Department and Professor of Economics at The London School of Economics and Political Science. In the UK, he has served on the Academic Panels of HM Treasury and the Office for National Statistics. Prof Quah is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London and a Governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. His current research interest includes income distribution dynamics, economic growth, inflation, business cycles and information technology.

Donald B. Rubin is the John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. He has over 350 publications on a variety of topics including computational methods, causal inference in experiments and observational studies, survey methods, techniques for handling missing data, matched sampling and applications in many areas of social science.

Clement Tisdell is Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland. Although best known for his works in environmental and ecological economics, his research and writing encompass various areas that include poverty, trade and globalisation, economic development, welfare economics, tourism, natural resources, the economics and socioeconomics of China and India, socioeconomic gender issues, economic theory (e.g., bounded rationality and economic evolution) and the history of economic thought.

Wing Thye Woo is Professor in the Department of Economics, University of California at Davis. He is an expert on the East Asian economies, particularly China, Indonesia and Malaysia. He has advised the U.S. Treasury Department, the IMF, World Bank and the United Nations. He specializes in exchange rates, economic growth, regional economic disparity and financial sector development.

Steven Mark Sheffrin is Professor Economics at University of California, Davis. He formerly served as both department chair of economics and dean of the division of social sciences for ten years. Sheffrin has been a visiting professor at Nuffield College (Oxford), the London School of Economics, Princeton University and Nanyang Technological University. He has also served as a financial economist with the Office of Tax Analysis and the U.S. Department of the Treasury and served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Tax Association. Sheffrin also directs the Center for State and Local Taxation at UC Davis. His research focuses on public finance with special interests in taxation and macroeconomic fiscal policy. My most recent work has been focused on understanding the public's attitudes towards tax fairness and how this translates into observed behavior.

 

 
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