PhD title: The nature and performance of China’s state owned enterprises.
Paul’s PhD, is on the “Nature and Performance of China’s State-owned Enterprises”. During his research, Paul was a frequent contributor to the East Asia Forum, and presented testimony to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission in Washington DC in February 2016. He also spent a period as a visiting scholar at Peking University in 2015
Paul joined the Department of the Treasury as a graduate in 2006. Since April 2017, Paul has worked at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on international economic issues, attending three G20 Summits. In July 2018, Paul received a Secretary’s Excellence Award ‘for making an outstanding contribution to the Department's critical and strategic thinking across disciplines.’ Paul returns to ANU from time to time to present guest lectures and seminars relating to the Chinese economy.
Hubbard, P 2016, ‘Managing Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment’. The China Quarterly, Vol. 228, pp. 1106-1108.
Callaghan, M & Hubbard, P 2016, ‘The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Multilateralism on the Silk Road’. China Economic Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 116-139.
Hubbard, P 2016, ‘Where have China’s state monopolies gone?’. China Economic Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 75-99.
Hubbard, P & Xiao, W 2017, ‘Open government information in Chinese state-owned enterprises’. Information Polity, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 57-64.
Hubbard, P & Williams, P 2017, ‘Chinese state owned enterprises: An observer’s guide’. International Journal of Public Policy, Vol. 13, No. 3-5, pp. 153-170.
Xu, J & Hubbard, P 2018, ‘A flying goose chase: China’s overseas direct investment in manufacturing (2011–2013)’. China Economic Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 91-107.
Hubbard, P 2018, ‘The Nature and Performance of China’s State Owned Enterprises’, PhD Thesis, The Australian National University, Canberra.
SRW Scholarship
Graduated
2015
Dr
Neal
Hughes
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australian National University
PhD title: Water property rights in rivers with large dams
Neal’s research focused on the design of water markets, particularly market mechanisms for managing major water storages. Recently, Neal’s PhD research was used to inform the ACCC Murray Darling Basin water market inquiry. Neal’s PhD also explored the application of machine learning techniques to economics.
Since returning to the APS, Neal has led several major projects at ABARES, including the development of new economic models of Australian farms and water markets, drawing on techniques developed as part of his thesis. At ABARES, Neal has produced a range of research on agricultural policy issues including the effects of drought and climate change on Australian farms, and water policy in the Murray-Darling Basin. Neal writes regularly on these issues in The Conversation.
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Hughes, N, Hafi, A & Goesch, T 2009, 'Urban water management: optimal price and investment policy under climate variability', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol. 53 No. 2, pp. 175-192.
Hughes, N & Goesch, T 2009, Management of irrigation water storages: carryover rights and capacity sharing, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
Hughes, N & Goesch, T 2009, Capacity sharing in the St George and Macintyre Brook irrigation schemes in southern Queensland, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
Hughes, N 2010, ‘Defining property rights to water in complex regulated river systems: generalising the capacity sharing concept’, AARES Conference (54th), February 10-12, Adelaide: Australian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society.
Hughes, N, Lawson, K, Davidson, A, Jackson, T & Sheng, Y 2011, Productivity pathways: Climate adjusted production frontiers for the Australian broadacre cropping industry, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
Hughes, N 2011, 'Estimating irrigation farm production functions using ABARES irrigation survey data’, AARES Conference (55th), February 8-11, Melbourne: Australian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society.
Hughes, N, Gibbs, C, Dahl, A, Tregeagle, D & Sanders, O 2013, Storage rights and water allocation arrangements in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
Hughes, N 2014 ‘Applying reinforcement learning to economic problems’. ANU Crawford PhD Conference, The Australian National University, Canberra.
Hughes, N 2014, ‘Water storage rights: decentralising reservoir operation’. 77th International Atlantic Economic Conference, April 2-5, Madrid: International Atlantic Economic Society.
Hughes, N 2015, ‘Water property rights in rivers with large dams’, PhD Thesis, The Australian National University, Canberra.
Hughes, N, Gupta, M & Rathakumar, K 2016, Lessons from the water market: the southern Murray-Darling Basin water allocation market 2000-01 to 2015-16, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
Hughes, N 2016, ‘Water property rights in rivers with large environmental water holders’, 2016 Conference (60th), February 2-5, Canberra: Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
Hughes, N, Lawson, K & Valle, H 2017, Farm performance and climate: climate adjusted productivity for broadacre cropping farms, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
Gupta, M & Hughes, N 2018, Future scenarios for the southern Murray-Darling Basin, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
Gupta, M, Hughes, N & Wakerman-Powell, K 2018, A model of water trade and irrigation activity in the southern Murray-Darling Basin, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
Hughes, N, Galeano, D & Hattfield-Dodds 2019, The effects of drought and climate variability on Australian farms, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
Hughes, N, Soh, W, Boult, C, Lawson, K, Donoghoe, M, Valle, H & Chancellor, W 2019, 'farmpredict: A micro-simulation model of Australian farms'. Working paper, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
Hughes, N, Donoghoe, M & Whittle, L 2020, 'Farm Level Effects of On-Farm Irrigation Infrastructure Programs in the Southern Murray–Darling Basin'. Australian Economic Review, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 494-516.
Hughes, N, Gupta, M, Soh, W, Boult, C, Lawson, K, Lu, Michael & Westwood, T 2020, The Agricultural Data Integration Project, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
Hughes, N, Soh, W, Boult, C & Lawson, K 2020, 'Defining drought from the perspective of Australian farmers'. Working paper, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
Hughes, N, Lu, M, Soh, W & Lawson, K 2021, 'Simulating the effects of climate change on the profitability of Australian farms'. Working paper, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
Chancellor, W, Hughes, N, Zhao, S, Soh, W, Valle, H & Boult, C.2021, 'Controlling for the effects of climate on total factor productivity: A case study of Australian farms'. Food policy, Vol. 102, article no. 102091.
Hughes, N, Gupta, M, Whittle, L, Boult & C, Westwood, T 2021, 'A model of spatial and inter-temporal water trade in the southern Murray-Darling Basin'. Working paper, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra.
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PhD title: Geodemographic and life course perspectives of population ageing in Australia: informing the policy response to population ageing
Nerida began her training in demography in 2010 at the university of California and subsequently joined ANU to complete her PhD as a Sir Roland Wilson scholar. Her PhD undertook applied demographic research of Australia’s aged and ageing population. She examined the size, structure and characteristics of the aged population across 328 regions of Australia, looking at; healthy life and working life expectancies; lifespan and life course disparity; and projections of growth and settlement of the aged population through to 2031. She was also a student affiliate of the Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research.
Nerida worked in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) from 2006 to 2015 on a wide range of social policy issues. She was the Departmental Liaison Officer in the Office of the Cabinet Secretary in 2008 and 2009 and also headed the International and Trade Analysis Unit for the Department of the Treasury during 2015 and 2016.
Hunter N 2016, 'Geodemographic and life course perspectives of population ageing in Australia: informing the policy response to population ageing', PhD Thesis, The Australian National University, Canberra.
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