Prof Russell Smyth - Researcher Profile

Russell Smyth

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Department of Economics
Monash University, Clayton

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 990 51560

Email: Russell.Smyth@monash.edu


Biography

Russell Smyth is a Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Economics.

He has First Class Honours degrees in Economics and Law and a Masters degree in Economics from Monash, as well as a PhD in Economics from the University of London.

His research interests include Asian economies, development economics, empirical legal studies, energy economics and law and economics.  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 for services to the economic profession in Australia and in 2010 he received the Dean’s Award for research excellence in the Faculty of Business and Economics.

He currently sits on the Editorial Boards of seven journals, including the ERA A-ranked Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, edited at Cornell. He is a regular reviewer for leading journals in his fields of research. In 2009 he received a ‘best reviewer award’ from the ERA A-ranked journal Applied Energy. He is an Int. Reader for the ARC, an External Assessor for the Law and Social Science Panel of the National Science Foundation in the United States and a peer reviewer for the ERA.

Keywords

Development economics, energy economics, Asian economies

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Institution: London University
Year awarded: 2005

Publications

Books

Johanson, G., Smyth, R.L., French, R.L. (eds), 2009, Living Outside the Walls: The Chinese in Prato, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne UK.

Smyth, R.L., Vicziany, A.M. (eds), 2008, Business in Asia, Monash University Press, Clayton Vic Australia.

Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L. (eds), 2008, Migration and Social Protection in China, World Scientific, Singapore.

Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., Vicziany, A.M. (eds), 2007, Globalisation and Labour Mobility in China, Monash University Press, Clayton Vic Australia.

Smyth, R.L., Tam, O.K., Warner, M., Zhu, J.C. (eds), 2005, China's Business Reforms: Institutional Challenges in a Globalized Economy, Routledge Curzon, Abingdon UK.

Nyland, C.T., Smith, W., Smyth, R.L., Vicziany, M. (eds), 2001, Malaysian business in the new era, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham UK.

Smyth, R.L., 1997, The Township and Village Enterprise Sector as a Specific Example of Regionalism - Some General Lessons for Socialist Transformation, Department of Economics, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

Smyth, R., Zhai, Q., 2010, The changing face of state-owned enterprise management in China, in The Changing Face of Management in China, eds Chris Rowley and Fang Lee Cooke, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 101-124.

Denison, T.F., Arunachalam, D., Johanson, G., Smyth, R.L., 2009, The Chinese community in Prato, in Living Outside the Walls: The Chinese in Prato, eds Graeme Johanson, Russell Smyth and Rebecca French, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne UK, pp. 2-24.

Zhang, X., Chen, Y., Smyth, R.L., 2009, The contribution of donations of overseas Chinese to Wenzhou development, in Living Outside The Walls: The Chinese in Prato, eds Graeme Johanson, Russell Smyth and Rebecca French, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne UK, pp. 261-273.

Smyth, R.L., Vicziany, A.M., 2008, Asian dominance: Imperialism, entrepreneurship and the new growth era, in Business in Asia, eds Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany, MAI Press, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 1-27.

Smyth, R.L., 2008, China: Privatisation and enterprise restructuring in a socialist market economy, in Business in Asia, eds Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany, MAI Press, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 71-85.

Davies, G., Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., 2008, Correct ideas and social security reform in China: the case of Shanghai's township insurance, in Migration and Social Protection in China, eds Ingrid Nielson and Russell Smyth, World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 65-91.

Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., 2008, The rhetoric and the reality of social protection for China's migrant workers, in Migration and Social Protection in China, eds Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, pp. 3-13.

Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., 2008, Towards a harmonious society: Challenges for China in the pursuit of social-protection-as-social-justice, in Migration and Social Protection in China, eds Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth, World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 247-256.

Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., 2007, 'Better city, better life' - for whom?, in Globalisation and Labour Mobility in China, eds Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany, MAI Press, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 101-118.

Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., Vicziany, A.M., 2007, Movement of the masses in the global economy, in Globalisation and Labour Mobility in China, eds Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany, MAI Press, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 1-15.

Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., 2007, The comparative basic living conditions and leisure activities of China's off-farm migrants and urban locals, in Globalisation and Labour Mobility in China, eds Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany, MAI Press, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 119-134.

Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., 2006, Rural migrants and public security, in Economic Growth, Transition and Globalization in China, eds Yanrui Wu, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham UK, pp. 121-152.

Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., Zhu, J.C., 2005, Globalization and occupational health and safety regulation in China, in China's Business Reforms: Institutional Challenges in a Globalized Economy, eds Russell Smyth, On Kit Tam, Malcolm Warner and Cherrie Jihua Zhu, RoutledgeCurzon, Abingdon UK, pp. 177-198.

Lo, D., Smyth, R.L., 2005, Industrial restructuring and corporate governance in China's large-scale state-owned enterprises, in China's Business Reforms: Institutional Challenges in a Globalized Economy, eds Russell Smyth, On Kit Tam, Malcolm Warner and Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu, RoutledgeCurzon, Abingdon UK, pp. 11-26.

Smyth, R.L., Tam, O.K., Warner, M., Zhu, J.C., 2005, Institutional challenges for China's business reforms in a globalised economy, in China's Business Reforms: Institutional Challenges in a Globalized Economy, eds Russell Smyth, On Kit Tam, Malcolm Warner and Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu, RoutledgeCurzon, Abingdon UK, pp. 1-10.

Smyth, R.L., 2005, The changing role of local government in promoting China's collective township and village enterprises, in Sustaining growth and performance in East Asia: the role of small and medium sized enterprises, eds Charles Harvie and Boon-Chye Lee, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham UK, pp. 327-340.

Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., 2004, Australian roadmaps to globalism: explaining the shift from Multilateralism to imperial preference, in Globalisation in the Asian region: impacts and consequences, eds Gloria Davies and Chris Nyland, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK, pp. 117-141.

Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., 2004, Australian roadmaps to globalism: explaining the shift from multilateralism to imperial preference, in Globalization in the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences, eds Gloria Davies and Chris Nyland, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham UK, pp. 117-141.

Davies, G., Smyth, R.L., 2004, Globalization, late industrialization and China's accession to the WTO: a critical perspective on close integration, in Globalization in the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences, eds Gloria Davies and Chris Nyland, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham UK, pp. 185-213.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., Nandha, M.S., 2004, Potential gains from international portfolio diversification? Stock market linkages between the Japanese and South Asian markets, in South Asia in the Era of Globalisation: Trade, Industrialisation and Welfare, eds Mita Bhattacharya, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York USA, pp. 59-70.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2004, Revisiting an old question: investigating the causal relationship between female education and fertility in South Asia, in South Asia in the Era of Globalization: Trade, Industrialisation and Welfare, eds Mita Bhattacharya, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York USA, pp. 251-260.

Bhattacharya, M., Smyth, R.L., Vicziany, M.A., 2004, The South Asian economies within the global context, in South Asia in the Era of Globalization: Trade, Industrialisation and Welfare, eds Mita Bhattacharya, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York USA, pp. 1-13.

Nyland, C.T., Smith, W.A., Smyth, R.L., Vicziany, M.A., 2001, Economic and social adjustment in Malaysia in the 'new' business era, in Malaysian Business in the New Era, eds C Nyland, W Smith, R Smyth and M Vicziany, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham UK, pp. 1-9.

Smyth, R.L., 2001, Judicial robes or academic gowns? - citations to secondary authority and legal method in the New Zealand Court of Appeal, in Legal Method in New Zealand, eds Rick Bigwood, Butterworths, Wellington New Zealand, pp. 101-129.

Dogan, E., Smyth, R.L., Wills, I.R., 2001, Transaction costs of cross cultural exchange: evidence from Australia-Malaysia case studies, in Malaysian Business in the New Era, eds Chris Nyland, Wendy Smith, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany, Edwad Elgar, Cheltenham UK, pp. 51-66.

Smyth, R.L., Wills, I.R., 2000, The Transactions Costs of Doing Business in Malaysia, in Readings in International Business - an Asia Pacific Perspective, Prentice Hall-SprintPrint, French's Forest NSW, pp. 33-47.

Journal Articles

Nielsen, I.L., Paritski, O., Smyth, R.L., 2012, A minority-status perspective on intergroup relations: A study of an ethnic Chinese population in a small Italian town, Urban Studies [P], vol 49, issue 2, Sage Publications Ltd, London UK, pp. 307-318.

Narayan, P., Narayan, S.W.D., Mishra, S., Smyth, R.L., 2012, An analysis of Fiji's monetary policy transmission, Studies in Economics and Finance [P], vol 29, issue 1, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, Bingley UK, pp. 52-70.

Shi, H., Smyth, R.L., 2012, Economies of scale in the Australian tourism industry, Applied Economics [P], vol 44, issue 33, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 4355-4367.

Mishra, V., Smyth, R.L., 2012, Environmental regulation and wages in China, Journal Of Environmental Planning And Management [P], vol 55, issue 8, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 1075-1093.

Smyth, R.L., Narayan, P., Shi, H., 2012, Inter-fuel substitution in the Chinese iron and steel sector, International Journal of Production Economics [P], vol 139, issue 2, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 525-532.

Madsen, J.B., Mishra, V., Smyth, R.L., 2012, Is the output-capital ratio constant in the very long run?, Manchester School [P], vol 80, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford UK, pp. 210-236.

Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., Zhai, Q., Zhang, J., 2012, Personal wellbeing among ethnic Koreans in China's Northeast, Asian Ethnicity [P], vol 13, issue 1, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 75-96.

Islam, A., Smyth, R.L., 2012, The economic returns to good looks and risky sex in the Bangladesh commercial sex market, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy [P], vol 12, issue 1, Walter de Gruyter GmbH and Co KG, Berlin Germany, pp. 1-23.

Smyth, R.L., 2012, Who publishes in Australia's top law journals?, University of New South Wales Law Journal [P], vol 35, issue 1, University of New South Wales Faculty of Law, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 201-245.

Wang, Z., Ng, Y., Smyth, R., 2011, A general method for creating Lorenz curves, Review Of Income And Wealth [P], vol 57, issue 3, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford UK, pp. 561-582.

Smyth, R., Nielsen, I., Zhai, Q., Liu, T., Liu, Y., Tang, C., Wang, Z., Wang, Z., Zhang, J., 2011, A study of the impact of environmental surroundings on personal well-being in urban China using a multi-item well-being indicator, Population and Environment [P], vol 32, issue 4, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht Netherlands, pp. 353-375.

Narayan, P., Narayan, S., Smyth, R., 2011, Does democracy facilitate economic growth or does economic growth facilitate democracy? An empirical study of Sub-Saharan Africa, Economic Modelling [P], vol 28, issue 3, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 900-910.

Gao, W., Smyth, R., 2011, Economic returns to speaking 'standard Mandarin' among migrants in China's urban labour market, Economics of Education Review [P], vol 30, issue 2, Pergamon, Oxford UK, pp. 342-352.

Qian, X., Smyth, R., 2011, Educational expenditure in urban China: Income effects, family characteristics and the demand for domestic and overseas education, Applied Economics [P], vol 43, issue 24, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 3379-3394.

Narayan, P., Narayan, S., Smyth, R., 2011, Energy consumption at business cycle horizons: The case of the United States, Energy Economics [P], vol 33, issue 2, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 161-167.

Lean, H., Narayan, P., Smyth, R., 2011, Exchange rate and stock price interaction in major Asian markets: Evidence for individual countries and panels allowing for structural breaks, Singapore Economic Review [P], vol 56, issue 2, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, Singapore, pp. 255-277.

Gao, W., Smyth, R., 2011, Firm size and wages in China, Applied Economics Letters [P], vol 18, issue 4, Routledge, Oxon UK, pp. 353-357.

Mishra, V., Smyth, R., 2011, Firm-size and inter-hierarchy wage dispersion in Shanghai, Economics Bulletin [P], vol 31, issue 3, Economics Bulletin, Nashville USA, pp. 2159-2166.

Seroussi, Y., Smyth, R., Zukerman, I., 2011, Ghosts from the High Court's past: Evidence from computational linguistics for Dixon ghosting for McTiernan and Rich, University of New South Wales Law Journal [P], vol 34, issue 3, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 984-1005.

Narayan, P., Narayan, S., Smyth, R., 2011, Is health care really a luxury in OECD countries? Evidence from alternative price deflators, Applied Economics [P], vol 43, issue 25, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 3631-3643.

Smyth, R., Narayan, P., Shi, H., 2011, Substitution between energy and classical factor inputs in the Chinese steel sector, Applied Energy [P], vol 88, issue 1, Pergamon, Oxford UK, pp. 361-367.

Nielsen, I., Smyth, R., 2011, The contact hypothesis in urban China: The perspective of minority-status migrant workers, Journal of Urban Affairs [P], vol 33, issue 4, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc, Hoboken NJ USA, pp. 469-481.

Nielsen, I., Smyth, R., Liu, Y., 2011, The moderating effects of demographic factors and hukou status on the job satisfaction-subjective well-being relationship in urban China, International Journal Of Human Resource Management [P], vol 22, issue 6, Routledge, Oxon UK, pp. 1333-1350.

Smyth, R., Mishra, V., 2011, The transmission of legal precedent across the Australian state Supreme Courts over the twentieth century, Law & Society Review [P], vol 45, issue 1, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc, Hoboken NJ USA, pp. 139-170.

Gao, W., Smyth, R., 2011, What keeps China's migrant workers going? Expectations and happiness among China's floating population, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy [P], vol 16, issue 2, Routledge, Oxon UK, pp. 163-182.

Lean, H., Smyth, R., 2011, Will Obama's economic stimulus package be effective? Evidence from the misery index, Applied Economics Letters [P], vol 18, issue 5, Routledge, Oxon UK, pp. 493-495.

Mishra, V., Smyth, R., 2010, An examination of the impact of India's performance in one-day cricket internationals on the Indian stock market, Pacific Basin Finance Journal [P], vol 18, issue 3, Elsevier BV, North-Holland, Netherlands, pp. 319-334.

Lean, H., Smyth, R., 2010, CO2 emissions, electricity consumption and output in ASEAN, Applied Energy [P], vol 87, issue 6, Pergamon, UK, pp. 1858-1864.

Xin, W., Smyth, R., 2010, Economic openness and subjective well-being in China, China and World Economy [P], vol 18, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 22-40.

Mishra, V., Smyth, R., 2010, Female labor force participation and total fertility rates in the OECD: New evidence from panel cointegration and Granger causality testing, Journal of Economics and Business [P], vol 62, issue 1, Elsevier Inc, USA, pp. 48-64.

Gao, W., Smyth, R., 2010, Health human capital, height and wages in China, Journal of Development Studies [P], vol 46, issue 3, Routledge, UK, pp. 466-484.

Mishra, V., Sharma, S., Smyth, R., 2010, Is economic development in the Pacific island countries export led or import led?, Pacific Economic Bulletin [P], vol 25, issue 1, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 46-63.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., Nielsen, I.L., 2010, Is there a natural rate of crime?, American Journal Of Economics And Sociology [P], vol 69, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc, USA, pp. 759-782.

Gao, W., Smyth, R., 2010, Job satisfaction and relative income in economic transition: Status or signal?. The case of urban China., China Economic Review [P], vol 21, issue 3, Elsevier BV, North-Holland, Netherlands, pp. 442-455.

Smyth, R., Mishra, V., Qian, X., 2010, Knowing one's lot in life versus climbing the social ladder: The formation of redistributive preferences in urban China, Social Indicators Research [P], vol 96, issue 2, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 275-293.

Lean, H., Smyth, R., 2010, Multivariate Granger causality between electricity generation, exports, prices and GDP in Malaysia, Energy [P], vol 35, issue 9, Pergamon, UK, pp. 3640-3648.

Lean, H.H., Smyth, R., 2010, On the dynamics of aggregate output, electricity consumption and exports in Malaysia: Evidence from multivariate Granger causality tests, Applied Energy [P], vol 87, issue 6, Pergamon, UK, pp. 1963-1971.

Mishra, V., Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., 2010, On the relationship between female labour force participation and fertility in G7 countries: Evidence from panel cointegration and Granger causality, Empirical Economics [P], vol 38, issue 2, Physica-Verlag GmBH und Co, Germany, pp. 361-372.

Smyth, R.L., Nielsen, I.L., Zhai, Q., 2010, Personal well-being in urban China, Social Indicators Research [P], vol 95, issue 2, Springer Netherlands, Netherlands, pp. 231-251.

Smyth, R., Soderberg, M., 2010, Public interest versus regulatory capture in the Swedish electricity market, Journal Of Regulatory Economics [P], vol 38, issue 3, Springer New York LLC, USA, pp. 292-312.

Nielsen, I., Paritski, O., Smyth, R., 2010, Subjective well-being of Beijing taxi drivers, Journal of Happiness Studies [P], vol 11, issue 6, Springer Netherlands, Netherlands, pp. 721-733.

Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., Zhai, Q., 2010, Subjective well-being of China's off-farm migrants, Journal of Happiness Studies [P], vol 11, issue 3, Springer Netherlands, Netherlands, pp. 315-333.

Smyth, R., 2010, The business of the Australian state supreme courts over the course of the 20th Century, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies [P], vol 7, issue 1, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc, USA, pp. 141-163.

Smyth, R., Mishra, V., 2010, The prestige of Australian state supreme courts over the 20th Century, Australian Journal of Political Science [P], vol 45, issue 3, Routledge, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 323-336.

Wang, Z., Smyth, R.L., Ng, Y., 2009, A new ordered family of Lorenz curves with an application to measuring income inequality and poverty in rural China, China Economic Review [P], vol 20, issue 2, Elsevier BV, North-Holland, The Netherlands, pp. 218-235.

Smyth, R.L., Narayan, P.K., 2009, A panel data analysis of the military expenditure-external debt nexus: Evidence from six Middle Eastern countries, Journal of Peace Research [P], vol 46, issue 2, Sage Publications Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 235-250.

Zhang, G., Smyth, R.L., 2009, An emerging credit-reporting system in China, The Chinese Economy [P], vol 42, issue 5, M.E. Sharpe, Inc, United States, pp. 40-57.

Mishra, V., Sharma, S., Smyth, R.L., 2009, Are fluctuations in energy consumption per capita transitory? Evidence from a panel of Pacific Island countries, Energy Policy [P], vol 37, issue 6, Pergamon, United Kingdom, pp. 2318-2326.

Mishra, V., Sharma, S., Smyth, R.L., 2009, Are shocks to real output permanent or transitory? Evidence from a panel of Pacific island countries, Pacific Economic Bulletin [P], vol 24, issue 1, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 65-82.

Lean, H., Smyth, R.L., 2009, Asian financial crisis, avian flu and terrorist threats: Are shocks to Malaysian tourist arrivals permanent or transitory?, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research [P], vol 14, issue 3, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 301-321.

Smyth, R.L., 2009, Citing utside the law reports: Citations of secondary authorities on the Australian State Supreme Courts over the twentieth century, Griffith Law Review [P], vol 18, issue 3, Griffith University, Law School, Nathan Qld Australia, pp. 692-724.

Maslyuk, S., Smyth, R.L., 2009, Cointegration between oil spot and future prices of the same and different grades in the presence of structural change, Energy Policy [P], vol 37, issue 5, Pergamon, United Kingdom, pp. 1687-1693.

Pambudi, D., McCaughey, N.C., Smyth, R.L., 2009, Computable general equilibrium estimates of the impact of the Bali bombing on the Indonesian economy, Tourism Management [P], vol 30, issue 2, Pergamon, United Kingdom, pp. 232-239.

Smyth, R.L., Qian, X., 2009, Corruption and left-wing beliefs in a post-socialist transition economy: Evidence from China's 'harmonious society', Economics Letters [P], vol 102, issue 1, Elsevier BV, The Netherlands, pp. 42-44.

Smyth, R.L., Zhai, Q., Li, X., 2009, Determinants of turnover intentions among Chinese off farm migrants, Economic Change and Restructuring [P], vol 42, issue 3, Springer New York LLC, United States, pp. 189-209.

Smyth, R.L., Nielsen, I.L., Mishra, V., 2009, 'I've been to Bali too' (and I will be going back): Are terrorist shocks to Bali's tourist arrivals permanent or transitory?, Applied Economics [P], vol 41, issue 11, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 1367-1378.

Lean, H., Smyth, R.L., 2009, Long memory in US disaggregated petroleum consumption: Evidence from univariate and multivariate LM tests for fractional integration, Energy Policy [P], vol 37, issue 8, Pergamon, United Kingdom, pp. 3205-3211.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2009, Multivariate Granger causality between electricity consumption, exports and GDP: Evidence from a panel of Middle Eastern countries, Energy Policy [P], vol 37, issue 1, Pergamon, United Kingdom, pp. 229-236.

Maslyuk, S., Smyth, R.L., 2009, Non-linear unit root properties of crude oil production, Energy Economics [P], vol 31, issue 1, Elsevier BV, Netherlands, pp. 109-118.

Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., 2009, Perceptions of public security in post-reform urban China: A routine activity analysis, Asian Journal of Criminology [P], vol 4, issue 2, Springer Netherlands, The Netherlands, pp. 145-163.

Davies, G., Nielsen, I.L., Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., Zhu, J.C., Zhu, J., 2009, The "X component" in Shanghai's social security reforms, International Social Security Review [P], vol 62, issue 2, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford UK, pp. 31-54.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2009, The effect of inflation and real wages on productivity: New evidence from a panel of G7 countries, Applied Economics [P], vol 41, issue 10, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 1285-1291.

Mishra, V., Smyth, R.L., Sharma, S., 2009, The energy-GDP nexus: Evidence from a panel of Pacific Island countries, Resources and Energy Economics [P], vol 31, issue 3, Elsevier BV, North Holland, The Netherlands, pp. 210-220.

Smyth, R.L., Zhai, Q., Li, X., 2009, The impact of gender differences on determinants of job satisfaction among Chinese off-farm migrants in Jiangsu, Journal of Chinese Economics and Business Studies [P], vol 7, issue 3, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 363-380.

Smyth, R.L., Mishra, V., 2009, The publication decisions of judges on the County Court of Victoria, Economic Record [P], vol 85, issue 271, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Richmond Vic Australia, pp. 462-471.

Smyth, R.L., 2009, Trends in the citation practice of the Supreme Court of Queensland over the course of the twentieth century, University of Queensland Law Journal [P], vol 28, issue 1, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia Qld Australia, pp. 39-80.

Narayan, P.K., Narayan, S.W.D., Smyth, R.L., 2009, Understanding the inflation-output nexus for China, China Economic Review [P], vol 20, issue 1, Elsevier BV, North-Holland, Netherlands, pp. 82-90.

Smyth, R.L., Nielsen, I.L., Qian, X., 2009, What determines employer willingness to "top up" social insurance?: Evidence from Shanghai's 25 plus X scheme, International Journal of Manpower [P], vol 30, issue 6, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, United Kingdom, pp. 512-528.

Smyth, R.L., 2008, A century of citation: Case-law and secondary authority in the Supreme Court of Western Australia, University of Western Australia Law Review, vol 34, issue 1, University of Western Australia, Law School, Crawley WA Australia, pp. 145-167.

Lean, H.H., Smyth, R.L., 2008, Are Malaysia's tourism markets converging? Evidence from univariate and panel unit root tests with structural breaks, Tourism Economics, vol 14, issue 1, IP Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 97-112.

Madsen, J.B., Mishra, V., Smyth, R.L., 2008, Are labour force participation rates non-stationary? Evidence from 130 years for G7 countries, Australian Economic Papers, vol 47, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Richmond Vic Australia, pp. 166-189.

Narayan, P.K., Narayan, S.W.D., Smyth, R.L., 2008, Are oil shocks permanent or temporary? Panel data evidence from crude oil and NGL production in 60 countries, Energy Economics, vol 30, issue 3, Elsevier BV, North-Holland, Netherlands, pp. 919-936.

Smyth, R.L., 2008, Citation to authority on the Supreme Court of South Australia: Evidence from a hundred years of data, Adelaide Law Review, vol 29, issue 1, Adelaide Law Review Association, Adelaide SA Australia, pp. 113-166.

Smyth, R.L., Fausten, D.K., 2008, Co-ordinate citations between Australian state Supreme Courts over the 20th century, Monash University Law Review, vol 34, issue 1, Monash University Faculty of Law, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 53-74.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2008, Energy consumption and real GDP in G7 countries: New evidence from panel cointegration with structural breaks, Energy Economics, vol 30, issue 5, Elsevier BV, North-Holland, Netherlands, pp. 2331-2341.

Smyth, R.L., Qian, X., 2008, Inequality and happiness in urban China, Economics Bulletin, vol 4, issue 23, Economics Bulletin, USA, pp. 1-10.

Chen, H., Smyth, R.L., Wong, W., 2008, Is being a super-power more important than being your close neighbour? A study of what moves the Australian stock market, Applied Financial Economics, vol 18, issue 9, Routledge, UK, pp. 733-747.

Mishra, V., Smyth, R.L., Tang, T., 2008, Is the balancing item for Australia sustainable? Evidence from a threshod autoregressive model with an autoregressive, Australian Economic Papers, vol 47, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Richmond Vic Australia, pp. 190-198.

Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., 2008, Job satisfaction and response to incentives among China's urban workforce, Journal of Socio-Economics, vol 37, issue 5, Elsevier BV, North-Holland, Netherlands, pp. 1921-1936.

Pambudi, D., Smyth, R.L., 2008, Making Indonesia More Attractive to Foreign Investors: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Reducing the Risk Premium in Central Java, Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies [P], vol 20, issue 3, Wiley Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 226-240.

Qian, X., Smyth, R.L., 2008, Measuring regional inequality of education in China: Widening coast-inland gap or widening rural-urban gap?, Journal of International Development, vol 20, issue 2, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 132-144.

Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., 2008, One hundred years of citation of authority on the Supreme Court of New South Wales, University of New South Wales Law Journal, vol 31, issue 1, University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 189-214.

Narayan, P.K., Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., 2008, Panel data, cointegration, causality and Wagner's Law: Empirical evidence from Chinese provinces, China Economic Review, vol 19, issue 2, Elsevier BV, North-Holland, Netherlands, pp. 297-307.

Qian, X., Smyth, R.L., 2008, Private and public financing of education and regional disparities in education inputs in contemporary China, China Economic Journal, vol 1, issue 3, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 287-301.

Qian, X., Smyth, R.L., 2008, Private returns to investment in education: An empirical study of urban China, Post-Communist Economies, vol 20, issue 4, Routledge, UK, pp. 483-501.

Tang, T., Smyth, R.L., 2008, Sustainability of external imbalances for 22 least developed countries: An empirical investigation, The ICFAI Journal of Applied Economics, vol 7, issue 3, ICFAI University Press, India, pp. 50-60.

Smyth, R.L., Mishra, V., Qian, X., 2008, The environment and well-being in urban China, Ecological Economics, vol 68, issue 1-2, Elsevier BV, Netherlands, pp. 547-555.

Maslyuk, S., Smyth, R.L., 2008, Unit root properties of crude oil spot and futures prices, Energy Policy, vol 36, issue 7, Pergamon, United Kingdom, pp. 2591-2600.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2008, Unit roots and structural breaks in PNG macroeconomic time series, International Journal of Social Economics, vol 35, issue 12, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, pp. 963-984.

Qiao, Z., Smyth, R.L., Wong, W., 2008, Volatility switching and regime interdependence between information technology stocks 1995-2005, Global Finance Journal, vol 19, issue 2, Elsevier BV, North-Holland, Netherlands, pp. 139-156.

Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., 2008, Who bears the burden of employer compliance with social security contributions? Evidence from Chinese firm level data, China Economic Review, vol 19, issue 2, Elsevier BV, North-Holland, Netherlands, pp. 230-244.

Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., 2008, Who wants safer cities? Perceptions of public safety and attitudes to migrants among China's urban population, International Review of Law and Economics, vol 28, issue 1, Elsevier Inc, USA, pp. 46-55.

Fausten, D.K., Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., 2007, A century of citation practice on the Supreme Court of Victoria, Melbourne University Law Review, vol 31, issue 3, Melbourne University Law Review Association Inc, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 733-804.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2007, A panel cointegration analysis of the demand for oil in the Middle East, Energy Policy, vol 35, issue 12, Pergamon, UK, pp. 6258-6265.

Lean, H.H., Smyth, R.L., 2007, Are Asian real exchange rates mean reverting? Evidence from univariate and panel LM unit root tests with one and two structural breaks, Applied Economics, vol 39, issue 16, Routledge, UK, pp. 2109-2120.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2007, Are shocks to energy consumption permanent or temporary? Evidence from 182 countries, Energy Policy, vol 35, issue 1, Pergamon, UK, pp. 333-341.

Smyth, R.L., 2007, Asia's booming economies a decade after the crisis, Economic Papers, vol 26, issue 3, Economic Society of Australia, Australia, pp. 193-195.

Lean, H.H., Smyth, R.L., 2007, 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, vol 10, issue 1, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, pp. 15-31.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., Prasad, A., 2007, Electricity consumption in G7 countries: A panel cointegration analysis of residential demand elasticities, Energy Policy, vol 35, issue 9, Pergamon, UK, pp. 4485-4494.

Lu, X., Fausten, D.K., Smyth, R.L., 2007, Financial development, capital accumulation and productivity improvement: Evidence from China, Journal of Chinese Economics and Business Studies, vol 5, issue 3, Routledge, UK, pp. 227-242.

Maitra, P., Smyth, R.L., Nielsen, I.L., Nyland, C., Zhu, C.J., 2007, Firm compliance with social insurance obligations where there is a weak surveillance and enforcement mechanism: Empirical evidence from Shanghai, Pacific Economic Review, vol 12, issue 5, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Carlton South Vic Australia, pp. 577-596.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2007, Mean reversion versus random walk in G7 stock prices evidence from multiple trend break unit root tests, International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, vol 17, issue 2, Elsevier BV, North-Holland, Netherlands, pp. 152-166.

Shao, S., Nielsen, I.L., Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., Zhang, M., Zhu, C.J., 2007, Migrants as Homo economicus : EEExplaining the emerging phenomenon of a shortage of migrant labor in China's coastal provinces, China Information: A Journal on Contemporary China Studies, vol 21, issue 1, Sage Publications, UK, pp. 7-41.

Nielsen, I.L., Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., Zhang, M., 2007, Migration and the right to social security: Perceptions of off-farm migrants' rights to social insurance in China's Jiangsu Province, China & World Economy, vol 15, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 29-43.

Lean, H.H., Smyth, R.L., Wong, W., 2007, Revisiting calendar anomalies in Asian stock markets using a stochastic dominance approach, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, vol 17, issue 2, Elsevier BV, North-Holland, Netherlands, pp. 125-141.

Qian, X., Smyth, R.L., 2007, The costs to business of providing social security in China, Monash Business Review, vol 3, issue 3, Monash University ePress, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 1-10.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2007, What explains dissent on the High Court of Australia? An empirical assessment using a cointegration and error correction approach, Journal Of Empirical Legal Studies, vol 4, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, USA, pp. 401-425.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2006, Dead man walking: an empirical reassessment of the deterrent effect of capital punishment using the bounds testing approach to cointegration, Applied Economics, vol 38, issue 17, Routledge, UK, pp. 1975-1989.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2006, Democracy and economic growth in China: Evidence from cointegration and causality testing, Review of Applied Economics, vol 2, issue 1, Serials Publications, New Delhi India, pp. 81-98.

Nielsen, I.L., Nyland, B., Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., Zhang, M., 2006, Determinants of school attendance among migrant children: survey evidence from China's Jiangsu province, Pacific Economic Review, vol 11, issue 4, Blackwell Publishing Asia, Carlton Vic Australia, pp. 461-476.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2006, Do governments lead or lag in fighting crime?, Applied Economics Letters, vol 13, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 11-15.

Nielsen, I.L., Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., Zhang, M., Zhu, C.J., 2006, Effects of intergroup contact on attitudes of Chinese urban residents to migrant workers, Urban Studies, vol 43, issue 3, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 475-490.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2006, Female labour force participation, fertility and infant mortality in Australia: some empirical evidence from Granger causality tests, Applied Economics, vol 38, issue 5, Routledge, UK, pp. 563-572.

Qian, X., Smyth, R.L., 2006, Growth accounting for the Chinese Provinces 1990-2000: incorporating human capital accumulation, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, vol 4, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 21-37.

Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., 2006, Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work we go...: implications for managers of organizational incentives in urban China, Monash Business Review, vol 2, issue 1, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Caufield East Vic Australia, pp. 8-11.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2006, Higher education, real income and real investment in China: evidence from Granger causality tests, Education Economics, vol 14, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 107-125.

Smyth, R.L., Narayan, P.K., 2006, Multiple regime shifts in concurring and dissenting opinions on the US Supreme Court, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, vol 3, issue 1, Blackwell Publishing Inc., USA, pp. 79-98.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2006, Random walk versus multiple trend breaks in stock prices: Evidence from 15 European markets, Applied Financial Economics Letters, vol 2, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 1-7.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2006, Temporal causality and the dynamics of judicial appellate caseload, real income and socio-economic complexity in Australia, Applied Economics, vol 38, issue 19, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 2209-2219.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2006, The dynamic relationship between real exchange rates, real interest rates and foreign exchange reserves: empirical evidence from China, Applied Financial Economics, vol 16, issue 9, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 639-651.

Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., Zhang, M., 2006, Unemployment within China's floating population: empirical evidence from Jiangsu survey data, The Chinese Economy, vol 39, issue 4, ME Sharpe, Inc., Armonk USA, pp. 41-56.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2006, What determines migration flows from low-income to high-income countries? An empirical investigation of Fiji-U.S. migration 1972-2001, Contemporary Economic Policy, vol 24, issue 2, Blackwell Publishing Inc., USA, pp. 332-342.

Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., Zhu, C.J., 2006, What determines the extent to which employers will comply with their social security obligations? Evidence from Chinese firm-level data, Social Policy and Administration, vol 40, issue 2, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 196-214.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2005, Are OECD stock prices characterized by a random walk? evidence from sequential trend break and panel data models, Applied Financial Economics, vol 15, issue 8, Routledge, UK, pp. 547-556.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2005, Cointegration of stock markets between New Zealand, Australia and the G7 economies: searching for co-movement under structural change, Australian Economic Papers, vol 44, issue 3, Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 231-247.

Maitra, P., Smyth, R.L., 2005, Determinants of retirement on the High Court of Australia, The Economic Record, vol 81, issue 254, Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 193-203.

Smyth, R.L., 2005, Do judges behave as Homo economicus, and if so, can we measure their performance? an Antipodean perspective on a tournament of judges, Florida State University Law Review, vol 32, issue 4, College of Law, Florida State University, USA, pp. 1299-1330.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2005, Electricity consumption, employment and real income in Australia evidence from multivariate Granger causality tests, Energy Policy, vol 33, issue 9, Pergamon, UK, pp. 1109-1116.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2005, Exchange rates and stock prices in South Asia: evidence from Granger causality tests, The ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance, vol 11, issue 3, Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India, ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad India, pp. 31-37.

Kazakevitch, G., Smyth, R.L., 2005, Gradualism versus shock therapy: (re)interpreting the Chinese and Russian experiences, Asia Pacific Business Review, vol 11, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 69-81.

Li, K., Smyth, R.L., Yao, S., 2005, Institutionalized corruption and privilege in China's socialist market economy: a general equilibrium analysis, Pacific Economic Review, vol 10, issue 3, Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 341-360.

Nielsen, I.L., Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., Zhu, J.C., 2005, Marketization and perceptions of social protection in China's cities, World Development, vol 33, issue 11, Pergamon, UK, pp. 1759-1781.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2005, Modelling immigration flows: an application of the bounds test to Fiji-Australia migration, Pacific Economic Bulletin, vol 20, issue 2, Asia Pacific Press at the Australian National University, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 104-116.

Nielsen, I.L., Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., Zhu, J.C., 2005, Perceptions of subjective economic well-being and support for market reform among China's urban population, Post-Communist Economies, vol 17, issue 4, Routledge, UK, pp. 425-447.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2005, Structural breaks and unit roots in Australian macroeconomic time series, Pacific Economic Review, vol 10, issue 4, Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 421-437.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2005, Temporal causality and the dynamics of democracy, emigration and real income in Fiji, International Review of Applied Economics, vol 19, issue 2, Routledge, UK, pp. 245-263.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2005, The consensual norm on the High Court of Australia: 1904-2001, International Political Science Review, vol 26, issue 2, Sage Publications Ltd, UK, pp. 147-168.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2005, The determinants of aggregate import demand in Brunei Darussalam: An empirical assesment using a cointegration and error correction approach, The Singapore Economic Review, vol 50, issue 2, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd, Singapore, pp. 197-210.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2005, The residential demand for electricity in Australia: an application of the bounds testing approach to cointegration, Energy Policy, vol 33, issue 4, Pergamon, UK, pp. 467-474.

Smyth, R.L., 2005, The role of attitudinal, institutional and environmental factors in explaining variations in the dissent rate on the High Court of Australia, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol 40, issue 4, Routledge, UK, pp. 519-540.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2005, Trade liberalization and economic growth in Fiji. An empirical assessment using the ARDL approach, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, vol 10, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 96-115.

Bhattacharya, M., Nielsen, I.L., Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., Zhang, M., 2005, Urban social insurance and worker satisfaction in China: implications for India, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, vol 48, issue 3, The Indian Society of Labour Economics, Delhi India, pp. 475-494.

Nielsen, I.L., Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., Zhang, M., Zhu, J.C., 2005, Which rural migrants receive social insurance in Chinese cities? Evidence from Jiangsu survey data, Global Social Policy, vol 5, issue 3, Sage Publications Ltd, UK, pp. 353-381.

Groves, M.N., Smyth, R.L., 2004, A century of judicial style: changing patterns in judgment writing on the High Court 1903-2001, Federal Law Review, vol 32, issue 2, Faculty of Law, Australian National University, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 255-280.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2004, Crime rates, male youth unemployment and real income in Australia: evidence from Granger causality tests, Applied Economics, vol 36, issue 18, Routledge, UK, pp. 2079-2095.

Li, K., Smyth, R.L., 2004, Divisions of labour, specialization and the enforcement of a system of property rights: a general equilibrium analysis, Pacific Economic Review, vol 9, issue 4, Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 307-326.

Smyth, R.L., Wang, J., Deng, X., 2004, Equity-for-debt swaps in Chinese big business: a case study of restructuring in one large state-owned enterprise, Asia Pacific Business Review, vol 10, issue 3/4, Frank Cass Publishers, UK, pp. 382-401.

Smyth, R.L., Narayan, P.K., 2004, Hail to the Chief! Leadership and Structural Change in the Level of Consensus on the High Court of Australia (p 399-427), Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, vol 1, issue 2, Blackwell Publishing, Inc., USA, pp. 399-427.

Narayan, P., Smyth, R.L., Nandha, M.S., 2004, Interdependence and dynamic linkages between the emerging stock markets of South Asia, Accounting and Finance, vol 44, Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 419-439.

Smyth, R.L., Inder, B.A., 2004, Is Chinese provincial real GDP per capital nonstationary? Evidence from multiple trend break unit root tests, China Economic Review, vol 15, Elsevier Ltd, UK, pp. 1-24.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2004, Is South Korea's stock market efficient?, Applied Economics Letters, vol 11, issue 11, Routledge, UK, pp. 707-710.

Maitra, P., Smyth, R.L., 2004, Judicial independence, judicial promotion and the enforcement of legislative wealth transfers - An empirical study of the New Zealand high court, European Journal of Law and Economics, vol 17, issue 2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, USA, pp. 209-235.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2004, Modelling the linkages between Australian and G7 stock markets: common stochastic trends and regime shifts, Applied Financial Economics, vol 14, Routledge, UK, pp. 991-1004.

Smyth, R.L., Deng, X., Wang, J., 2004, Restructuring state-owned big business in former planned economies: the case of China's shipbuilding industry, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, vol 6, issue 1, New Zealand Asian Studies Society, Inc., New Zealand, pp. 100-129.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2004, Temporal causality and the dynamics of exports, human capital and real income in China, International Journal of Applied Economics, vol 1, issue 1, Institute of International Economic Studies, www.selu.edu/orgs/ijae/, pp. 24-45.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2004, Temporal causality between human capital and real income in cointegrated VAR processes: empirical evidence from China, 1960-1999, International Journal of Business and Economics, vol 3, issue 1, College of Business, Feng Chia University, Taichung Taiwan, pp. 1-11.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2004, The race that stops a nation: the demand for the Melbourne Cup, The Economic Record, vol 80, issue 249, Journal of the Economic Society of Australia, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 193-207.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2004, The relationship between the real exchange rate and balance of payments: empirical evidence for China from cointegration and causality testing, Applied Economics Letters, vol 11, issue 5, Routledge, UK, pp. 287-291.

Lo, D., Smyth, R.L., 2004, Towards a re-interpretation of the economics of feasible socialism, Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol 28, issue 6, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 791-808.

Dogan, E., Smyth, R.L., Wills, I.R., 2004, Transaction costs and alternative export channels: the case of Malaysian exporters, Asian Profile, vol 32, issue 6, Asian Research Service, Burnaby Canada, pp. 539-555.

Smyth, R.L., 2004, What explains variations in dissent rates?: time series evidence from the High Court, The Sydney Law Review, vol 26, issue 2, Lawbook Co., Rozelle NSW Australia, pp. 221-240.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2003, Attendance and pricing at sporting events: empirical results from Granger causality tests for the Melbourne Cup, Applied Economics, vol 35, issue 15, Routledge, UK, pp. 1649-1657.

Smyth, R.L., Nandha, M.S., 2003, Bivariate causality between exchange rates and stock prices in South Asia, Applied Economics Letters, vol 10, issue 11, Routledge, UK, pp. 699-704.

Smyth, R.L., 2003, Case complexity and citation to judicial authority - some empirical evidence from the New Zealand Court of Appeal, E Law, vol 10, issue 1, Murdoch University, School of Law, Murdoch WA Australia, pp. 1-19.

Smyth, R.L., Nandha, M.S., 2003, Cointegration and causality in Australian capital city house prices 1986-2001, Journal of Economic and Social Policy, vol 7, issue 2, Southern Cross University, Australia, pp. 35-50.

Smyth, R.L., Zhai, Q., 2003, Economic restructuring in China's large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises: evidence from Liaoning, Journal of Contemporary China, vol 12, issue 34, Carfax Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 173-205.

Smyth, R.L., 2003, Explaining historical dissent rates in the High Court of Australia, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, vol 41, issue 2, Frank Cass, London England, pp. 83-114.

Smyth, R.L., Lu, Z., 2003, Explaining total factor productivity growth in Chinese industry-the role of incentives, openness and ownership reform, Journal of International Economic Studies, vol 17, issue 17, Institute of Comparative Economic Studies, Hosei University, Tokyo Japan, pp. 71-86.

Smyth, R.L., Bhattacharya, M., 2003, How fast do old judges slow down? A life cycle study of aging and productivity in the Federal Court of Australia, International Review of Law and Economics, vol 23, issue 2, Elsevier, USA, pp. 141-164.

Smyth, R.L., 2003, Is there a unit root in per capita real GDP? Panel data evidence from Chinese provinces, Asian Profile, vol 31, issue 4, Asian Research Service, Hong Kong, pp. 289-295.

Narayan, P., Smyth, R.L., 2003, The causal relationship between female employment and fertility in south Asia: an application of the bounds testing approach to co-integration, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, vol 46, issue 2, Indian Society of Labour Economics, New Delhi India, pp. 247-252.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2003, The determinants of immigration from Fiji to New Zealand: an empirical reassessment using the bounds testing approach, International Migration, vol 41, issue 5, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 33-57.

Bhattacharya, M., Smyth, R.L., 2003, The game is not the same: the demand for test match cricket in Australia, Australian Economic Papers, vol 41, Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 77-90.

Bhattacharya, M., Smyth, R.L., 2003, The life cycle research output of professors in Australian economics departments: an empirical analysis based on survey questionnaires, Economic Papers, vol 22, issue 2, Economic Society of Australia, Australia, pp. 30-46.

Smyth, R.L., 2003, Unemployment hysteresis in Australian states and territories: evidence from panel data unit root tests, Australian Economic Review, vol 36, issue 2, Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 181-192.

Smyth, R.L., Bhattacharya, M., 2003, What determines judicial prestige? An empirical analysis for judges of the Federal Court of Australia, American Law and Economics Review, vol 5, issue 1, Oxford University Press, USA, pp. 233-262.

Smyth, R.L., 2002, Acclimation effects for high court justices 1903-1975, University of Western Sydney Law Review, vol 6, School of Law, University of Western Sydney, Penrith South NSW, pp. 167-190.

Smyth, R.L., Dogan, E., 2002, Board remuneration, company performance and ownership concentration: evidence from publicly listed Malaysian companies, ASEAN Economic Bulletin, vol 19, issue 3, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, pp. 319-347.

Wang, J., Lim, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2002, China's population policy design alternatives: using the market to regulate China's population growth, Asian Profile, vol 30, issue 5, Asian Research Service, Hong Kong, pp. 379-392.

Smyth, R.L., Zhai, Q., 2002, 'Equity for debt swaps' in China's state-owned enterprises: A property rights perspective, China Information, vol 16, issue 1, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, Netherlands, pp. 1-24.

Smyth, R.L., Lim, F.G., Shi, H., 2002, Explaining the performance of China's collective township and village enterprise sector, Journal of International Economic Studies, vol 16, The Institute of Comparative Economic Studies, Hosei University Japan, pp. 111-126.

Smyth, R.L., 2002, Explaining voting patterns on the Latham high court 1935-1950, Melbourne University Law Review, vol 26, issue 1, Law School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 88-109.

Smyth, R.L., 2002, Historical consensual norms in the High Court, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol 37, issue 2, Carfax Publishing, UK, pp. 255-266.

Smyth, R.L., 2002, Judges and academic scholarship: An empirical study of the academic publication patterns of Federal court and High court judges, Law and Justice Journal, vol 2, issue 2, QUT Publications, Kelvin Grove Qld Australia, pp. 198-225.

Smyth, R.L., Shi, H., 2002, Ownership reform and total factor productivity growth in Chinese industry, Applied Economic Letters, vol 9, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 103-106.

Smyth, R.L., Bhattacharya, M., 2001, Aging and productivity among judges: some empirical evidence from the High Court of Australia, Australian Economic Papers, vol 40, issue 2, Blackwell, Oxford UK, pp. 199-212.

Smyth, R.L., 2001, Citation of judicial and academic authority in the Supreme Court of Western Australia, University of Western Australia Law Review, vol 30, issue 1, University of Western Australia, Perth WA Australia, pp. 1-27.

Wang, J., Tang, M.L., Smyth, R.L., 2001, Corporate governance and ownership reform in China's state-owned enterprises, Asian Profile, vol 29, issue 2, Asian Research Service, Hong Kong, pp. 93-108.

Smyth, R.L., Wang, J., Quek, L.K., 2001, Efficiency, Performance and Changing Corporate Governnance in China's Township - Village Enterprises since the 1990s, Asian Pacific Economic Literature, vol 15, issue 1, Blackwell, Oxford UK, pp. 30-41.

Smyth, R.L., 2001, Historical evolution, financing and the changing nature of corporate governance in China's collective township and village enterprises, Asian Academy of Management Journal, vol 6, issue 1, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang Malaysia, pp. 81-97.

Smyth, R.L., 2001, Judicial Prestige: a citation analysis of Federal Court judges, Deakin Law Review, vol 6, issue 1, School of Law, Deakin University, Burwood Vic Australia, pp. 120-148.

Smyth, R.L., 2001, Judicial interaction on the Latham Court: a quantitative study of voting patterns on the High Court 1935-1950, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol 47, issue 3, Blackwell, Oxford UK, pp. 330-348.

Smyth, R.L., Zhai, Q., Wang, J., 2001, Labour market reform in China's state-owned enterprises - a case study of post-Deng Fushun in Liaoning Province, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, vol 3, issue 2, New Zealand Asian Studies Society, Dunedin New Zealand, pp. 42-72.

Smyth, R.L., Zhai, Q., 2001, Reforming China's Large-scale State-owned Enterprises: The Petrochemical Sector, The Asia Pacific Journal of Economics & Business, vol 5, issue 2, Curtin Business School, Perth WA Australia, pp. 82-100.

Smyth, R.L., Zhai, Q., Hu, W., 2001, Restructuring China's large-scale state-woned enterprises - a case study of the Fushun Petrochemical Company, Post-Communist Economies, vol 13, issue 2, Carfax Publishing, Basingstoke UK, pp. 243-261.

Smyth, R.L., Bhattacharya, M., 2001, The determinants of judicial influence and prestige: some empirical evidence from the High Court of Australia, Journal of Legal Studies, vol 30, issue 1, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago USA, pp. 223-252.

Dogan, E., Smyth, R.L., Wills, I., 2001, Transaction costs and exchange: nine case studies of Australian and Malaysian firms, Asian Economic Journal, vol 15, issue 4, Blackwells, Oxford UK, pp. 451-471.

Smyth, R.L., 2000, Asset Stripping in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises, Journal of Contemporary Asia, vol 30 issue 1, Journal of Contemporary Asia Publishers, Manila Philippines, pp. 3-16.

Smyth, R.L., 2000, Judicial Citations - An Empirical Study of Citation Practice in the New Zealand Court of Appeal, Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, vol 31 issue 4, Victoria University of Wellington Law School, Wellington New Zealand, pp. 847-895.

Smyth, R.L., 2000, Law or Economics? An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of Economics on Australian Courts, Australian Business Law Review, vol 28 issue 1, LBC Information Services, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 5-21.

Deng, X., Smyth, R.L., 2000, Non-tax Levies in China, Sources, Problems and Suggestions for Reform, Development Policy Review, vol 18 issue 4, Blackwell, Oxford UK, pp. 391-411.

Smyth, R.L., 2000, Old Age Pension Reform in China's State-Owned Enterprises, Journal of Aging & Social Policy, vol 11 issue 4, The Haworth Press Inc, New York NY USA, pp. 69-85.

Smyth, R.L., 2000, Should China be Promoting Large-scale Enterprises and Enterprise Groups?, World Development, vol 28 issue 4, Pergamon, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 721-737.

Smyth, R.L., 2000, The Authority of Secondary Authority: A Quantitative Study of Secondary Source Citations in the Federal Court, Griffith Law Review, vol 9 issue 1, Griffith Law School, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 26-58.

Smyth, R.L., 2000, The 'Haves' and the 'Have Nots': An Empirical Study of the Rational Actor and Party Capability Hypothesis in the High Court 1948-99, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol 35 issue 2, Carfax Publishing, London UK, pp. 255-274.

Smyth, R.L., Wang, J., Tan, D., 2000, The Role of Confucian Values in East Asian Development: Before and After the Financial Crisis, Journal of International and Area Studies, vol 7 issue 1, School of International and Area Studies, Seoul Korea, pp. 115-135.

Smyth, R.L., Lo, D., 2000, Theories of the Firm and the Relationship between Different Perspectives on the Division of Labour, Review of Political Economy, vol 12 issue 3, Carfax Publishing, London UK, pp. 333-349.

Smyth, R.L., 2000, Who Gets Cited? An Empirical Study of Judicial Prestige in the High Court, University of Queensland Law Journal, vol 21 no 1, University of Queensland, Qld Australia, pp. 7-22.

Smyth, R.L., 1999, A Citation Analysis of Australian Economic Journals, Australian Academic and Research Libraries, vol 30, 2, Australian Library & Information Association, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 119-133.

Smyth, R.L., 1999, Enterprise Bankruptcies and the Restructuring of China's State-Owned Sector : A Review of Some Recent Problems and Prospects for Future Success, China Information, vol 13, 4, Doc. & Res. Center for Contemp.China, Leiden Univ, Leiden Netherlands, pp. 66-82.

Smyth, R.L., 1999, Labor-Market and Social-Welfare Reform in the State-Owned Sector in China, Journal of Developing Areas, vol 33, 2, Western Illinois University, Illinois USA, pp. 223-244.

Smyth, R.L., 1999, Other than 'Accepted Sources of Law'? A Quantitative Study of Secondary Source Citations in the High Court, University of New South Wales Law Journal, vol 22, 1, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 19-59.

Smyth, R.L., 1999, Rural Enterprises in Jiangsu Province, China: Recent Institutional Changes and Future Prospects, Development Policy Review, vol 17, 2, Blackwell, Oxford UK, pp. 191-213.

Smyth, R.L., 1999, Shareholding Cooperative Reform and Ownership of China's Collective Township-Village and Small-Scale State-Owned Enterprises, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, vol 1, 1, University of Waikoto, Hamilton New Zealand, pp. 60-76.

Smyth, R.L., 1999, Some are More Equal than Others - An Empirical Investigation into the Voting Behaviour of the Mason Court, Canberra Law Review, vol 6, 1 & 2, University of Canberra, Canberra ACT Australia, p. See eviden.

Smyth, R.L., 1999, What do Intermediate Appellate Courts Cite? A Quantitative Study of the Citation Practice of Australian State Supreme Courts, Adelaide Law Review, vol 21, 1, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA Australia, pp. 51-80.

Smyth, R.L., 1999, What do Judges Cite? An Empriical Study of the 'Authority of Authority' in the Supreme Court of Victoria, Monash University Law Review, vol 25, 1, Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 29-53.

Smyth, R.L., 1998, New Institutional Economics in the Post Socialist Transformation Debate, Journal of Economic Surveys, vol 12, 4, Blackwell, Oxford UK, pp. 361-398.

Smyth, R.L., 1998, Property Rights in China's Economic Reforms, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, vol 31, 3, Elsevier, UK, pp. 235-248.

Smyth, R.L., 1998, Recent Developments in Rural Enterprise Reform in China, Asian Survey, vol 38, 8, University of California Press, USA, pp. 784-800.

Smyth, R.L., 1998, Review of D. Yang "Beyond Beijing - Liberalisation and the Regions in China, Journal of Contemporary Asia, vol 28, 3, Journal of Contemporary Asia Publishers, Phillipines, pp. 402-408.

Smyth, R.L., 1998, Toward "the Modern Corporation": Recent Developments in the Institutional Reform of State-Owned Enterprises in Mainland China, Issues and Studies, vol 34, 8, Inst. of Int'l Relations, National Chengchi Uni., Taiwan, pp. 102-131.

Smyth, R.L., 1998, Township and Village Enterprises in China: Growth Mechanism and Future Prospects, Journal of International Economic Studies, vol 12 (march), Institute of Comparative Eco. Studies, Hosei Uni, Japan, pp. 101-117.

Smyth, R.L., 1997, A Reinterpretation of Recent Developments in the Reform of State-Owned Enterprises, China Report, vol 33, Sage Publications, New Delhi, pp. 507-525.

Smyth, R.L., 1997, An Economic Perspective on Harsher Penalties, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol 9, Inst. of Criminology, Uni. of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 85-88.

Smyth, R.L., 1997, Are TVEs Another East Asian Miracle the World Bank Can't Explain?, Economic Digest, vol 1, Scho. of Orient. & African Stud, Uni. of London, London UK, pp. 5-6.

Smyth, R.L., 1997, Deng's Legacy, China in Focus, Soc. for Anglo-Chinese Understanding, London UK, p. 14.

Smyth, R.L., 1997, The Township and Village Enterprise Sector as a Specific Example of Regionalism - Some General Lessons for Socialist Transformation, Economic Systems, vol 21, Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg Germany, pp. 235-264.

Conference Proceedings

Nielsen, I.L., Li, J., Shen, J., Smyth, R.L., 2007, Effects of intergroup contact on Chinese off-farm migrants' attitudes to urban locals, Academy of Management 2007 Annual Meeting Proceedings, 3 August 2007 to 8 August 2007, Academy of Management, USA, pp. 1-6.

Tang, T., Smyth, R.L., 2007, Sustainability of external imbalances for 22 least developed countries: An empirical investigation, Proceedings of the 2007 Academy for Global Business Advancement (AGBA) Fourth World Congress: Advances in Global Business Research, 21 May 2007 to 25 May 2007, Academy for Global Business Advancement, USA, pp. 371-376.

Denison, T.F., Arunachalam, D., Johanson, G., Smyth, R.L., 2007, The Chinese community in Prato, Proceedings of the Communities and Action: Prospects for Community and Development Informatics (Prato CIRN Conference 2007), 5 November 2007 to 7 November 2007, CCNR, http://www.conftool.net/prato2007/index.php?page=browseSessions, pp. 1-10.

Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., 2006, Job satisfaction and response to incentives among China's urban workforce, Socially Responsive, Socially Responsible Approaches to Employment and Work: Proceedings of the ACREW/KCL Conference, 01 July 2006 to 04 July 2006, Events Management Office, Monash University, Caulfield East Vic Australia, pp. 1-40.

Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., Zhu, J.C., 2005, Compliance in social security reform and its impact on HRM in China, Human resource management and development in a transitional economy, 28/05/2005 to 30/05/2005, Nanjing University Press, Nanjing China, pp. 465-478.

Nielsen, I.L., Nyland, B., Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., Zhang, M., 2005, Determinants of school attendance among migrant children: survey evidence from China Jiangsu's province, Globalisation and labour mobility in India and China, 29/09/2005 to 30/09/2005, Asian Business and Economics Research Unit (ABERU), Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 172-186.

Qian, X., Smyth, R.L., 2005, Growth accounting for the Chinese provinces 1990-2000: incorporating human capital accumulation, Globalisation and Labour Mobility in India and China: Conference Proceedings, 29 September 2005 to 30 September 2005, Asian Business and Economics Research Unit, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 53-77.

Bhattacharya, M., Nielsen, I.L., Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., Zhang, M., 2005, Implications for India of worker satisfaction with social insurance in China's market socialist economy, Globalisation and Labour Mobility in India and China: Conference Proceedings, 29 September 2005 to 30 September 2005, Asian Business and Economics Research Unit, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 356-379.

Shao, S., Nielsen, I.L., Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., Zhang, M., Zhu, J.C., 2005, Migrants as homo economicus: explaining the emerging phenomenon of a shortage of migrant labour in China's coastal provinces, Globalisation and labour mobility in India and China, 29/09/2005 to 30/09/2005, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-25.

Nielsen, I.L., Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., Zhang, M., 2005, Migration and the right to social protection: perceptions of off-farm migrants' rights to social security in China's Jiangsu province, Globalisation and labour mobility in India and China, 29/09/2005 to 30/09/2005, Asian Business and Economics Research Unit, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 480-498.

Nielsen, I.L., Smyth, R.L., 2005, Perceptions of public security in post-reform urban China: a routine activity analysis, Globalisation and labour mobility in India and China, 29/09/2005 to 30/09/2005, Asian Business and Economics Research Unit, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 287-307.

Parasnis, J., Fausten, D.K., Smyth, R.L., 2005, The impact of immigration on native workers in Australia, Proceedings of the 34th Conference of Economists 2005, 26 September 2005 to 28 September 2005, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-27.

Nyland, C., Shao, S., Smyth, R.L., Zhang, M., Zhu, J.C., 2005, Transforming migrants to urbanites by an integrated labour market and social security arrangement, Human Resource Management and Development in a Transitional Economy: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Multinational Business Management, 28 May 2005 to 30 May 2005, Nanjing University Press, Nanjing China, pp. 479-491.

Zhai, Q., Smyth, R.L., Li, X., Liu, X., 2005, What explains the 'brain drain' from China's industrial North East? A case study of worker motivation in state-owned enterprises, Globalisation and Labour Mobility in India and China: ABERU 2005 Conference Proceedings, 29 September 2005 to 30 September 2005, Asian Business and Economic Research Unit, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 187-197.

Zhang, R., Zhu, J.C., Nyland, C., Smyth, R.L., 2004, A comparative study of the Australian and United Kingdom pension systems with implications for China, Management Sciences and Global Strategies in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the The 5th International Conference on Management, 03 May 2004 to 05 May 2004, Macao University of Science and Technology, Macao China, pp. 1573-1586.

Smyth, R.L., Nielsen, I.L., Nyland, C., Zhu, J.C., 2004, Marketization and perceptions of social protection in China's cities, Dynamism and Challenges in Internationalisation: Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Conference of the Australia-New Zealand International Business Academy, 05 November 2004 to 06 November 2004, University of Canberra, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 1-31.

Smyth, R.L., Nyland, C., Zhu, J.C., 2004, What determines the extent to which employers will comply with their social security obligations? Evidence from Chinese firm level data, Dynamism and Challenges in Internationalisation: Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Conference of the Austrlaia-New Zealand International Business Academy, 05 November 2004 to 06 November 2004, University of Canberra, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 1-21.

Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R.L., 2003, Does democracy lead or lag economic growth? Empirical evidence from China, Proceedings of the Institutional Challenges for the Global China, 13 November 2003 to 14 November 2003, Asian Business and Economic Research Unit, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 92-114.

Kazakevitch, G., Smyth, R.L., 2003, Shock therapy versus gradual transition: comparing the experiences of Russia and China, Institutional Challenges for the Global China, 13 November 2003 to 14 November 2003, Asian Business and Economic Research Unit, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 154-167.

Dogan, E., Smyth, R.L., 2002, The capabilities, problems and strategies of exporters in emerging markets - An empirical analysis of Malaysian manufacturers, Sustaining SME Innovation, Competitiveness and Development in the Global Economy, 12/07/02 to 13/07/02, University of Woollongong, Woollongong NSW, pp. 222-243.

Smyth, R.L., Lim, G., Shi, H., 2001, China's collective township-village enterprises and economies of specialisation, Proceedings of 2001 International Conference on Management Science and Engineering, 18/08/2001 to 20/08/2001, Harbin Institute of Technological Press, Harbin PR China, pp. 1091-1099.

Zhai, Q., Smyth, R.L., Wang, J., 2001, Reforming China's petrochemical sector: the reorganization and restructuring of CNPC and Sinopec, Proceedings of 2001 International Conference on Management Science and Engineering, 18/08/2001 to 29/08/2001, Harbin Institute of Technology Press, Harbin PR China, pp. 1709-1714.

Smyth, R.L., 2000, The Changing Role of Local Government in Procuring Finance for CTVEs and the Emergence of New Rural Industrial Governance Structures in Mainland China, SMEs in East Asia in the Aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis, Wollongong Australia 16-17 June 2000, Intn'l Business Research Inst, Uni of Wollongong, Wollongong, pp. 515-521.

Smyth, R.L., Lu, Z., 2000, Trade-offs Between Collective Learning and Specialisation in the Collective Township and Village Enterprise Sector in China, SMEs in the Aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis, Wollongong Australia 16-17 June 2000, Intn'l Business Research Inst, Uni of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW, pp. 502-514.

Smyth, R.L., 1999, Reform of the Pension System in China's State-Owned Enterprises, Proceedings of the '99 International Conference on Management Science and Engineering, China, November, Harbin Institute of Technology Press, Yichang China, pp. 742-749.

Smyth, R.L., Wills, I.R., 1999, The Transactions Costs of Doing Business in Malaysia, Preparing for 2000: Opportunities and Challenges for International Business in the Asia Pacific Region, Melbourne, Vic, July, Office of Continuing Education, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 379-385.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Linkage between formal and informal sectors in developing countries.
Supervisors:
Islam, M (Main), Hahn, Y (Associate), Smyth, R (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Roads to private enterprise: a three country approach comparing Australia, China and Germany..
Supervisors:
Smyth, R (Joint), Vicziany, A (Joint-co).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Three essays on development economics.
Supervisors:
Smyth, R (Main), Grossman, P (Associate), Islam, M (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Three essays on economic effects of civil war in Cambodia.
Supervisors:
Smyth, R (Main), Islam, M (Associate), Wang, L (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Three essays on microfinance.
Supervisors:
Islam, M (Main), Abbink, K (Associate), Smyth, R (Associate), Wang, L (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Abdol Ghapar, F.
Program of Study:
Patenting activity and financial performance at the Malaysian firm level: an empirical study (1994 - 2008). (PHD) 2011.
Supervisors:
Smyth, R (Main), Deng, M (Associate).
Student:
Chen, G.
Program of Study:
Agglomeration economies and the location of foreign direct investment: a study of the spatial distribution of Taiwanese investment in China. (PHD) 2007.
Supervisors:
Smyth, R (Main), Fausten, D (Associate), Rice, R (Associate).
Student:
Deng, X.
Program of Study:
OPTIMAL PRICING ON ROAD TRANSPORT AND PRIVATE CAR OWNERSHIP-WITH A CASE STUDY OF CHINA. (PHD) 2003.
Supervisors:
Ng, Y (Main), Forsyth, P (Joint), Smyth, R (Joint).
Student:
Lau, J.
Program of Study:
Comparative Studies on China and Indonesia - "Factors Affecting the Competitiveness of Guangdong (China) and Java (Indonesia) in Textile, Clothing and Footwear Industries". (Masters) 2001.
Supervisors:
Smyth, R (Main).
Student:
Lu, X.
Program of Study:
Financial development, capital accumulation and productivity improvement: evidence from China, 1952-1999. (Masters) 2005.
Supervisors:
Fausten, D (Joint-Co), Smyth, R (Joint).
Student:
Maslyuk, S.
Program of Study:
Three essays on stochastic properties of crude oil prices and production. (PHD) 2007.
Supervisors:
Kim, J (Joint), Smyth, R (Joint-Co).
Student:
Mishra, V.
Program of Study:
Essays on the Indian stock market. (PHD) 2008.
Supervisors:
Smyth, R (Main), Kim, J (Associate).
Student:
Narayan, S.
Program of Study:
The dynamics of the current account: the case of the OECD countries. (PHD) 2008.
Supervisors:
Dixon, P (Joint-Co), Smyth, R (Joint).
Student:
Parasnis, J.
Program of Study:
THE IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION ON THE AUSSTRALIAN LABOUR MARKET. (PHD) 2004.
Supervisors:
Fausten, D (Joint), Smyth, R (Joint-Co).
Student:
Qian, J.
Program of Study:
Growth Accounting for the Chinese Provinces 1990-2000: Incorporating Human Capital Accumulation. (Masters) 2004.
Supervisors:
Smyth, R (Main), Ng, Y (Associate), Maitra, P (Associate).
Student:
Qian, J.
Program of Study:
Parental education expenditure, the returns to education and regional disparities in education output with empirical applications to China. (PHD) 2008.
Supervisors:
Smyth, R (Main), Ng, Y (Associate), Mulino, D (Associate).
Student:
Qin, Z.
Program of Study:
Changing patterns in corporate governance, family and government trust in private enterprises in Zhejiang Province, China. (PHD) 2007.
Supervisors:
Smyth, R (Main), Cheng, W (Associate).
Student:
Shi, H.
Program of Study:
The efficiency of government promotion of the tourism industry - with special reference to Australia. (PHD) 2010.
Supervisors:
Ng, Y (Main), Smyth, R (Associate), Cheng, W (Associate).
Student:
Tang, T.
Program of Study:
"Common factors" and cointegration of Japan's aggregate import demand function: an empirical study. (PHD) 2012.
Supervisors:
Fausten, D (Joint-Co), Dogan, E (Associate), Smyth, R (Associate).
Student:
Wu, Y.
Program of Study:
Essays on financial development and the role of the banking sector in the Asian financial crisis. (PHD) 2008.
Supervisors:
Madsen, J (Joint), Smyth, R (Joint-Co).
Student:
Zhang, G.
Program of Study:
Private sector finance and entrepreneurship in Chengdu, China. (PHD) 2006.
Supervisors:
Vicziany, A (Main), Smyth, R (Associate).