Dr Paul Hubbard's PhD research on "The Nature and Performance of China’s State-owned Enterprises" has underpinned his influential career in economic policy and strategic thinking within the Australian Public Service. Awarded the 2024 Ian Castles Alumni Prize for strengthening the links between ANU research and public policy, Paul continues to actively engage as a visiting scholar at the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy.
Currently, as Co-Head of AI CoLab, Paul leads efforts to responsibly integrate artificial intelligence into public sector practice. He also hosts "The Masked Economist," a popular platform that makes complex economic topics accessible.
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Professor Shiro Armstrong
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PhD title: The nature and performance of China’s state owned enterprises.
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Department of Finance
Australian National University
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Publications
- Hubbard P (2004) ‘Accountability in the grey area: employing Stiglitz to tackle compliance in a world of structural pluralism, a comparative study’, Freedom of Information Review, 111: 26-32.
- Hubbard P (2005) ‘Freedom of Information and Security Intelligence: An economic analysis in an Australian context’ Open Government: a journal on Freedom of Information, 1(3):EJ).
- Hubbard P (2007) ‘Putting the power of transparency in context: Information’s role in reducing corruption in Uganda’s education sector’, Working Paper 136, Center for Global Development. Accessed 15 March 2023, https://www.cgdev.org/publication/putting-power-transparency-context-informations-role-reducing-corruption-ugandas.
- Hubbard P (2008) ‘Chinese Concessional Loans’ in Rotberg R I (ed), China into Africa: Trade, Aid, and Influence, Brookings Institution Press, World Peace Foundation, Washington, USA.
- Hubbard P (2008) ‘China’s regulations on open government information: Challenges of nationwide policy implementation’, Open Government: a journal on Freedom of Information, 4(1): 1-34.
- Hubbard P (2009) ‘Urban congestion-why ’free’ roads are costly’, Economic Round-up, 2:1-19.
- Hubbard P, Hurley S and Sharma D (2012) ‘The familiar pattern of Chinese consumption growth’, Economic Round-up, 4: 63-78.
- Hubbard P and Williams P (2014) ‘Some of China’s SOEs are more equal than others’, East Asia Forum Quarterly, 6(4):8-9.
- Hubbard P (2016) ‘Managing Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment’. The China Quarterly, 228:1106-1108.
- Callaghan M and Hubbard P (2016) ‘The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Multilateralism on the Silk Road’. China Economic Journal, 9(2):116-139.
- Hubbard P (2016) ‘Where have China’s state monopolies gone?’. China Economic Journal, 9(1):75-99.
- Hubbard P and Sharma D (2016) Understanding and applying long-term GDP projections, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, Canberra. Accessed 15 March 2023, https://eaber.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/EABER-Working-Paper-119-Hubbard-Sharma.pdf.
- Hubbard P (2016) ‘Reconciling China’s official statistics on state ownership and control’, Macroeconomic Working Papers, 25575, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research.
- Hubbard P (2016) ‘Fragmented authoritarianism and state ownership’, East Asia Forum Quarterly, 8(4):6-7.
- Hubbard P and Fan H (2016) Managing China, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia.
- Hubbard P and Xiao W (2017) ‘Open government information in Chinese state-owned enterprises’. Information Polity, 22(1):57-64.
- Hubbard P and Williams P (2017) ‘Chinese state owned enterprises: An observer’s guide’. International Journal of Public Policy,
- 13(3-5):153-170.
- Luo L, Qi Z and Hubbard P (2017) ‘Not looking for trouble: Understanding large-scale Chinese overseas investment by sector and ownership’ China Economic Review, 46: 142-164.
- Brødsgaard K E, Hubbard P (2017) ‘China’s SOE executives: drivers of or obstacles to reform?’ The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 35(1):52-75.
- Xu J and Hubbard P (2018) ‘A flying goose chase: China’s overseas direct investment in manufacturing (2011–2013)’. China Economic Journal, 11(2):91-107.
- Hubbard P (2018) The Nature and Performance of China’s State Owned Enterprises [PhD Thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.
- Hubbard P (2018) ‘The Future of the Belt and Road: Long-term Strategic Issues - By Andrew Elek’, Asian Pacific Economic Literature 32(1):144-145.
- Zentelis R, Hubbard P, Lindenmayer D, Roberts D and Dovers S (2020) ‘More bang for your buck: Managing the military training and environmental values of military training areas’, Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 8, Article 100053.
