Prof Mark Horridge - Researcher Profile

Mark Horridge

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Building 11E, Clayton

Biography

Professor Mark Horridge is currently Director, GEMPACK Software at the Centre of Policy Studies, Faculty of Business and Economics. He specializes in CGE modelling (especially regional CGE modelling) and database construction. Professor Horridge has, since joining Monash, undertaken around 50 overseas trips paid for by an external client. He has organized or taught in around 80 training courses at Monash or elsewhere.  He has developed several Windows programs used by GE modellers world-wide, and supervised several PhD students to successful completion.

    Born 1956, Mark Horridge followed undergraduate degrees in philosophy and sociology with a Graduate Diploma in Economics (ANU) and a Ph.D (Melbourne,1988). His Ph.D thesis described the construction of a large, long-run, CGE model of the Australian economy, which incorporated increasing returns to scale, imperfect competition and foreign ownership of Australian industry. After working at the University of Melbourne, Dr. Horridge moved in 1991 to the Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS) at Monash University, where he remains. In March 2007 he became Professor and Director, GEMPACK Software.
    Professor Horridge is the author or co-author of 22 refereed journal articles, 9 sections of books, and of numerous working papers or technical reports. His main research interests lie in the area of general equilibrium modelling. He has played a key role in many modelling projects including the creation of:
 a multi-regional model of world food trade, distinguishing 30 regions and sectors;
 a short-run macro model of the Australian economy;
 a multi-regional CGE model of land use and transport demands within Melbourne;
 the MMRF multi-regional model of Australia, distinguishing 8 states and around 40 sectors, together with extensions connecting industry outputs to CO2 emissions;
 a multi-period optimisation model of water supply planning, applied to both Sydney and Melbourne;
 TERM, a large multi-regional general equilibrium model of Australia, distinguishing 57 regions and 144 sectors; and
 large general equilibrium models of Brazil, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, South Africa, Taiwan, P.R. China and several other foreign countries, usually associated with training of foreign clients, at Monash or overseas.
Pursuant to various international projects Professor Horridge has, since joining Monash, undertaken around 50 overseas trips paid for by an external client. He has organized or taught in around 80 training courses at Monash or elsewhere.
He has been associated with the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) in various ways since its inception, and since 2009 is one of 3 'members-at-large' of the GTAP Consortium or Advisory Board.
In addition Professor Horridge has participated in numerous smaller projects, applying his skills in computer programming, applied microeconomic analysis, econometric methods, data collection and interpretation, and report writing. He has developed several Windows programs used by GE modellers world-wide, and supervised several PhD students to successful completion.

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Research & Supervision Interests

    CGE modelling

    Software design

Keywords

Brazil, cge modelling, software development, regional modelling cge modelling database development

Qualifications

PHD ECONOMICS
Institution: Melbourne Uni
Year awarded: 1988
GRAD DIP ECONOMICS
Institution: ANU
Year awarded: 1982
MA
Institution: Cambridge UK
Year awarded: 1982
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES
Institution: Cambridge UK
Year awarded: 1978
PHILOSOPHY
Institution: ANU
Year awarded: 1975

Publications

Books

Whiteman, J., Adams, P.D., Horridge, M., Parmenter, B.R., 1997, Guide to Growth: Australia's 112 Industies Ranked and Projected, Syntec Economic Services Pty Ltd, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

Horridge, J.M., 2012, The TERM model and its database, in Practical policy analysis using TERM, eds Glyn Wittwer, Springer, Dordrecht Netherlands, pp. 13-35.

Horridge, J.M., Zhai, F., 2006, Shocking a single-country CGE model with export prices and quantities from a global model, in Poverty and the WTO: Impacts of the Doha Development Agenda, eds Thomas W. Hertel and L. Alan Winters, Palgrave Macmillan and the World Bank, Basingstoke UK and http://www.worldbank.org, pp. 94-103.

Filho, J., Horridge, J.M., 2006, The Doha round, poverty, and regional inequality in Brazil, in Poverty and the WTO: Impacts of the Doha Development Agenda, eds Thomas W. Hertel and L. Alan Winters, Palgrave Macmillan and the World Bank, Basingstoke UK and http://www.worldbank.org, pp. 183-217.

Journal Articles

Wittwer, G., Horridge, J., 2010, Bringing regional detail to a CGE model using census data, Spatial Economic Analysis [E], vol 5, issue 2, Routledge, UK, pp. 229-255.

Narayanan, B., Hertel, T., Horridge, J., 2010, Disaggregated data and trade policy analysis: The value of linking partial and general equilibrium models, Economic Modelling [P], vol 27, issue 3, Elsevier BV, Netherlands, pp. 755-766.

Wittwer, G., Horridge, J.M., 2009, A multi-regional representation of China's agricultural sectors, China Agricultural Economic Review [P], vol 1, issue 4, Emerald Group Publishing, UK, pp. 420-434.

Giesecke, J.A., Horridge, J.M., Scaramucci, J.A., 2009, Brazilian structural adjustment to rapid growth in fuel ethanol demand, Chiikigaku Kenkyu (Studies in Regional Science ) [P], vol 39, issue 1, Nihon Chiiki Gakkai, Japan, pp. 189-207.

Van Heerden, J., Blignaut, J., Horridge, J.M., 2008, Integrated water and economic modelling of the impacts of water market instruments on the South African economy, Ecological Economics, vol 66, issue 1, Elsevier BV, Netherlands, pp. 105-116.

Horridge, J.M., Wittwer, G., 2008, SinoTERM, a multi-regional CGE model of China, China Economic Review, vol 19, issue 4, Elsevier BV, Netherlands, pp. 628-634.

Van Heerden, J., Gerlagh, R., Blignaut, J., Horridge, J.M., Hess, S., Mabugu, R., Mabugu, M., 2006, Searching for triple dividends in South Africa: fighting CO2 pollution and poverty while promoting growth, The Energy Journal, vol 27, issue 2, International Association for Energy Economics, USA, pp. 113-141.

Filho, J., Horridge, J.M., 2006, The Doha Development Agenda and Brazil: Distributional impacts, Review of Agricultural Economics, vol 28, issue 3, Blackwell Publishing Inc, USA, pp. 362-369.

Horridge, J.M., Madden, J., Wittwer, G., 2005, The impact of the 2002-2003 drought on Australia, Journal of Policy Modeling, vol 27, issue 3, Elsevier Inc., USA, pp. 285-308.

Harrison, J., Horridge, M., Pearson, K.R., Wittwer, G., 2004, A practical method for explicitly modeling quotas and other complementarities, Computational Economics, vol 23, issue 4, Kluwer Academic Publishers, USA, pp. 325-341.

Adams, P.D., Horridge, J.M., Madden, J., Wittwer, G., 2002, Drought, regions and the Australian economy between 2001-02 and 2004-05, Australian Bulletin of Labour, vol 28, issue 4, National Institute of Labour Studies Inc, Adelaide SA Australia, pp. 231-246.

Adams, P.D., Horridge, M., Parmenter, B.R., 2001, Forecasts for Australian Regions Using the MMRF-Green Model, The Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, vol 6, issue 3, The Australian & New Zealand Regional Science Assoc. Int. In., University of Queensland St Luca Qld Australia, pp. 293-322.

Harrison, J., Horridge, M., Pearson, K.R., 2000, Decomposing Simulation Results with Respect to Exogenous Shocks, Computational Economics, vol 15 issue 3, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Netherland, pp. 227-249.

Adams, P.D., Horridge, M., Parmenter, B.R., Zhang, X., 2000, Long-Run Effects on China of APEC Trade, Pacific Economic Review, vol 5 issue 1, Blackwell Publishers Ltd, Oxford UK, pp. 15-47.

Conference Proceedings

Filho, J.B.d., Horridge, M., 2004, Economic integration, poverty and regional inequality in Brazil, Regions and Fiscal Federalism: Proceedings of the 44th Congress European Regional Science Association, 25 August 2004 to 29 August 2004, European Regional Science Association, Portugal, pp. 5-43.

Horridge, M., Abayasiri-Silva, K., 1998, Economies of Scale and Imperfect Competition in an Applied General Eaquilibrium Model of the Australian Economy, Increasing Returns and Economic Analysis, Clayton, Victoria 7-8 September 1995, Macmillan Press Ltd & St Martin's Press Inc, Great Britain New York, pp. 307-334.

Other

Horridge, J.M., 2000, ORANI-G: a general equilibrium model of the Australian economy, Preliminary working paper No.OP-93, Centre of Policy Studies and Impact Project, Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia.

Consulting

Undertaken over 50 paid consultancies in Australia, China, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Finland, South Africa and USA.   

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Gender dimensions of global trade liberalisation.
Supervisors:
Horridge, M (Main).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Kauzi, G.
Program of Study:
FORECASTS AND THE IMPACT OF MACROECONOMIC POLICIES: A COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM STUDY FOR PAPUA NEW GUINEA. (PHD) 2003.
Supervisors:
Dixon, P (Main), Horridge, M (Associate).
Student:
Lee, H.
Program of Study:
MODELLING PRIVATE VEHICLE USE IN A COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL OF TAIWAN. (PHD) 2002.
Supervisors:
Horridge, M (Main), Parmenter, B (Associate).
Student:
Oum, S.
Program of Study:
A computable general equilibrium model for poverty and policy analysis in Cambodia. (PHD) 2009.
Supervisors:
Adams, P (Main), Horridge, M (Associate).
Student:
Pambudi, D.
Program of Study:
REGIONAL STRATEGIES TO ATTRACT INVESTMENT: USING A COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL OF INDONESIA. (PHD) 2005.
Supervisors:
Horridge, M (Main), Adams, P (Associate).
Student:
Rao, M.
Program of Study:
ORANI-ED: a CGE model of the Australian economy for labour market forecasting and education and training sector policy analysis. (PHD) 2011.
Supervisors:
Giesecke, J (Joint-Co), Horridge, M (Joint).
Student:
Yamamoto, S.
Program of Study:
The development and application of ORANIG-RD for Japan: the Japanese economy from 2001 to 2004. (PHD) 2007.
Supervisors:
Dixon, P (Joint-Co), Horridge, M (Joint).