The Development, Markets and Growth (DMG) research cluster is an interdisciplinary group dedicated to exploring fundamental issues in economic growth and sustainable development. Applying cutting-edge qualitative and quantitative techniques, we tackle real-world problems concerning ordinary people in the developing world. Our mission is to work with all stakeholders and deliver practical solutions that improve the livelihood of the local community. We also actively encourage and support the ideas from graduate students and early career researchers that transform our current understanding on the roles of markets in a digital economy.
Expertise: Banking and Finance, Investment and Securities, Corporate Finance
Publications
Publications 2018 - 2019
2019 Publications
Caldas, P., Ferreira, D., Dollery, B.E. and Marques, R. (2019). Economies of Scope in Portuguese Local Government Using an Augmented Hicks-Moorsteen Approach, Regional Studies. 53(7), 963-76. - A*
Fonskea, M. Trian, Gao-Liang and Farooque, O. A.. (2019) "Impact of Environmental Information Disclosure and Real Estate Segments on Cost of Debt: Evidence from the Chinese Real Estate Industry". Economics of Transition and Institutional Change https://doi.org/10.1111/ecot.12238 - A
Hoang, H.T., Huynh, L.T.D. & Chen, G.S. (2019). How new economic geography explains provincial wage disparities: generalised methods of moments approach, Economy of Region, 15(1), 205-215. - A
Kotey B. and Koomson I. (2019). Firm size differences in financial returns from flexible work arrangements (FWAs). Small Business Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-019-00201-5 - A
Mollah, S., Farooque, O. A., Mobarak, A., & Molyneux, P. (2019). Bank Corporate Governance and Future Earnings Predictability. Journal of Financial Services Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10693-019-00307-7 - A
Nong, D., Siriwardana, M., Perera, S. and Nguyen, D.B. (2019). Growth of low emission-intensive energy production and energy impact in Vietnam under the new regulation, Journal of Cleaner Production 225, 90-103. - A
Silvestre, H., Correira, A.M., Marques, R. & Dollery, B.E. (2019). Services in Brazilian Local Government: Urban Development in Small Countries, Public Administration, 97(3), 686-702. - A
Tran, T.M., Siriwardana, M., Meng, S. & Nong, D. (2019), Impact of an emissions trading scheme on Australian households: A computable general equilibrium analysis, Journal of Cleaner Production, 221, 439-456. - A
Wang, C., Siriwardana, M. & Meng, S. (2019), Effects of the Chinese arable land fallow system and lang-use change on agricultural production and on the economy. Economic Modelling. 79, 186-197. - A
Farooque, O. A., Buachoom, W., & Hoang, N. (2019). Interactive Effects of Executive Compensation, Firm Performance and Corporate Governance: Evidence from an Asian Market. Asia Pacific Journal of Management. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-018-09640-2 - A
Yuliansyah Y., Khan, A.A., and Fadhilah, A. (2019). Strategic performance measurement system, firm capabilities and customer-focused strategy, Pacific Accounting Review, https://doi.org/10.1108/PAR-09-2018-0068. - B
2018 Publications
Meng, S., Siriwardana, M., McNeill, J., & Nelson, T. (2018). The impact of an ETS on the Australian energy sector: An integrated CGE and electricity modelling approach. Energy Economics. 69, 213-224. - A*
Nong, D., & Siriwardana, M. (2018). Effects on the U.S. economy of its proposed withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: A quantitative assessment. Energy. 159, 621-629. - A*
Nong, D., & Siriwardana, M. (2018). Potential impacts of the Emissions Reduction Fund on the Australian economy. Energy Economics. 74, 387-398. - A*
Adapa, S. (2018). Indian smart cities and cleaner production initiatives - Integrated framework and recommendations. Journal of Cleaner Production. 172, 3351-3366. - A*
Morales L. E., & Higuchi A. (2018). Is fish worth more than meat? – How consumers’ beliefs about health and nutrition affect their willingness to pay more for fish than meat. Food Quality and Preference. 65, 101-109. - A*
Azeem, M. M., Mugera, A. W. & Schilizzi, S. (2018). Do social protection transfers reduce poverty and vulnerability to poverty in Pakistan? Household level evidence from Punjab. Journal of Development Studies, 55(8). 1757-1783. - A
Azeem, M.M., Baker, D., Villano, R.A., Mounter, S. & Griffith, G. (2018). Food shoppers’ share of wallet: A small city case in a changing competitive environment. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 43, 119-130. - A
Crase, L., Cooper, B., Dollery, B. & Marques, R. (2018). One person’s drain is another’s water supply: Why property rights, scope, measurement and hydrology matter when it comes to Integrated Water Resources Management. Ecological Economics, 147, 436-441. - A
Nguyen, B., & Hoang, N. (2018). Oil and iron ore price shocks: What are the different economic effects in Australia? Economic Record, 94(305), 186-203. - A
Publications 2013 - 2017
2017 Publications
Nong, D., Meng, S., & Siriwardana, M. (2017). An assessment of a proposed ETS in Australia by using the MONASH-Green model. Energy Policy. 108, 281-291. - A*
Salim, R., Yao, Y., & Chen, G. (2017). Does human capital matter for energy consumption in China? Energy Economics. 67, 49-59. - A*
Salim, R., Yao, Y., Chen, G., & Zhang, Z. (2017). Can foreign direct investment harness energy consumption in China? A time series investigation. Energy Economics. 66, 43-53. - A*
Morales, L.E., (2017). The effects of international price volatility on farmer prices and marketing margins in cattle markets. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 21, pp.335-349.
Azeem, M. M., Mugera, A. W., & Schilizzi, S. (2017). Vulnerability to multi-dimensional poverty: An empirical comparison of alternative measurement approaches. Journal of Development Studies, 54(9), 1612-1636. - A
Chowdhury. A., Mollah, S. & Farooque, O. A. (2017). Insider trading, discretionary accrual and information asymmetry. The British Accounting Review. 50(4), 341-363. - A
Kennedy, T., Smyth, R., Valadkhani, A. & Chen, G. (2017). Does income inequality hinder economic growth? New evidence using Australian taxation statistics. Economic Modelling, 65, 119-128. - A
Morales, L. E., Hoang, N. & Stuen, E., (2017). Spatial price premium transmission for meat standards Australia graded cattle: The vulnerability of price premiums to outside shocks. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 61(4), 590-609. - A
Yao, Y., Chen. G., Salim, R. & Yu, X. (2017). Schooling returns for migrant workers in China: Estimations from the perspective of the institutional environment in a rural setting. China Economic Review, 51, 240-256. - A
Yarram, S. R. & Rice, J., (2017). Executive compensation among Australian mining and non-mining firms: Risk taking, long and short-term incentives. Economic Modelling, 64, 211-220. - A
Dollery, B.E. & Drew, J., (2017). Chalk and cheese: A comparative analysis of local government reform processes in New South Wales and Victoria. International Journal of Public Administration, 41(11), 847-858. - B
Jayasuriya, S. & Leu, S., (2017). Volatile capital flows and macroeconomic performance in Indonesia: An SVAR analysis. Economic Papers, 36(2), 135-55. - B
Nong, D. & Siriwardana, M., (2017). Australia’s Emissions Reduction Fund in an international context. Economic Analysis and Policy, 54, 123-134. - B
Meng, S. & Siriwardana, M., (2017). Assessing the economic Impact of Tourism: A Computable General Equilibrium Modelling Approach. Palgrave Macmillan, London. - BK
Yuliansyah, Y., and Khan, A.A. (2017), A revisit of the participative budgeting and employees’ self-efficacy interrelationship–Empirical evidence from Indonesia’s public sector. International Review of Public Administration, 22(3), 213-230. - B
2016 Publications
Chen, G., Yao, Y. & Malizard, J., (2016). Does foreign direct investment crowd in or crowd out private domestic investment in China? The effect of entry mode. Economic Modelling, 61, 409-19. - A
Kennedy, T., Smyth, R., Valadkhani, A. & Chen, G., (2016). Refitting the Kuznets curve using a gender-specific threshold model. Applied Economics, 49(19), 1847-54. - A
Komaladara, P., Patrick, I. & Hoang, N., (2016). Contract bonus systems to encourage biosecurity adoption on small-scale broiler farms in Indonesia. Animal Production Science, 58(3), 595-600. - A
Khan, A.A. (2016), Effective exit planning in regional small businesses–A borrow from the ‘specialised clusters’ approach. Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 22(3). 375-401. - B
2015 Publications
Khan, A.A. (2015), Compromising the organization’s identity: Pressured organizational submission to externally dictated change, Academy of Taiwan Business Management Review. 11(2), 111-124.
Yuliansyah, Y., and Khan, A.A. (2015), Interactive use of performance measurement systems and the organization’s customers-focused strategy: The mediating role of organizational learning. Problems and Perspectives in Management, 13(2). 219-229.
Yuliansyah, Y., and Khan, A.A. (2015), Strategic performance measurement system: A service sector and lower level employees empirical investigation. Corporate Ownership and Control, 12(3), 304-316.
2014 Publications
Perera, S., Siriwardana, M. & Mounter, S., (2014). Reducing poverty and income inequality in Sri Lanka: Does trade liberalisation help? Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 19(4), 629-55. - A
Nahar, B., Siriwardana, M. & Treadgold, M., (2014). Trade Reforms, Poverty and Inequality in Bangladesh. Nova Science Publishers, New York. - BK
2013 Publications
Meng, X., Siriwardana, M. & Pham, T., (2013). A CGE assessment of Singapore’s tourism policies, Tourism Management. 34, 25-36. - A*
Siriwardana, M., Meng, S. & McNeill, J., (2013). A CGE assessment of the Australian carbon tax policy, International Journal of Global Energy, 36(4), 242–261. - A
Meng, S., Siriwardana, M., & McNeill, J., (2013). The environmental and economic impact of the carbon tax in Australia. Environmental and Resource Economics, 54, 313-332. - A
Meng, X., Hoang, N. & Siriwardana, M., (2013). The determinants of Australian Household debt: A macro level study. Journal of Asian Economics, 29, 80-90. - A
Morales, L.E., Griffith, G., Fleming, E., Wright, V., Umberger, W. & Hoang, N., (2013). Variables affecting the propensity to buy branded beef among groups of Australian beef buyers. Meat Science, 94(2), 239-46. - A
Name
Degree
Country
Project title
Abdulaziz Basahel
PhD
Saudi Arabia
Factors Affecting Access to Bank Finance and SMEs Performance: Empirical evidence from Saudi Arabia
Abdullah Sunauten H Alharbi
PhD
Saudi Arabia
Corporate governance and financial policies of family businesses listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange
Ali Ghurmullah S Alkathami
PhD
Saudi Arabia
Business Incubation in Saudi Arabia: An Empirical Investigation into the Effects of Business Incubators on New Venture Creation
Amrit Pathak
PhD
Nepal
Trade balance issue of landlocked Nepal
Bader Sunaytan H Alharbi
PhD
Saudi Arabia
The effect of corporate governance on the capital structure, risk taking and financial performance of companies: Evidence from GCC countries
Can (Tsan) Wang
PhD
China
Rural land policy and land use change in China: A computable general equilibrium (CGE) analysis
Edward Lefley
PhD
United Kingdom
Triple Helix and Regional Innovation Systems: Knowledge Transfer that enables regional growth in the Australian context
Ethan (Yao) Yao
PhD
China
Urban Economic Development in China: The Role of Foreign Direct Investment
Hien Thanh Hoang
PhD
Vietnam
Foreign direct investment and new economic geography: evidence from Vietnam
Mirza Md. Moyen Uddin
PhD
Bangladesh
An empirical analysis of the relationships between economic growht and selected indicators of environmental degradation
Ngoc Duy Nong
PhD
Vietnam
An Examination of the Economic Consequences of GHG Mitigation Policies in Australia: A CGE Modelling Approach
Onkemetse Wani
PhD
Australia
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: A CGE Case Study of Botswana’s Agricultural Sector
Sharmin Akhter
PhD
Australia
Foreign Direct Investment, Institutional Quality and Sustainable Economic Development in ASEAN and SAARC Countries
Sheeraz Ahmad
PhD
Pakistan
Consumer Preferences and Opportunities for Differentiation of Tomatoes in Pakistan
Subashni Perera
PhD
Sri Lanka
Modelling of trade faciliation in South Asia
Thi Dieu Linh Huynh
PhD
Vietnam
Exchange Rate Volatility and its Impact on Trade Performance in Vietnam: Empirical Evidence from Aggregate, Bilateral and Sectoral Trade Data Levels
Thomas Kennedy
PhD
Australia
Essays on Australian Income Inequality
Tian Jihadhan Wankar
PhD.I
Indonesia
Developing a marketing strategy for selling high value Nusa Tenggara Barat beef in selected urban markets in Indonesia
Tim Nelson
PhD
Australia
The emergence of new technologies- economic and public policy implications of Australia's changing electricity markets
Trang Tran
PhD
Vietnam
A CGE Analysis of Distributional and Welfare Effects of Australia’s Carbon Emissions Reduction Strategies
Walimuni Abeysekara
PhD
Sri Lanka
Adaptations to climate change in Sri Lanka
Wasanthi Thenuwara Hennadige
PhD
Sri Lanka
Demographics and Asset Prices in Australia. Do the Dynamics of Population Ageing Matter?
Yue (Nikki) Zhang
PhD
China
The Value of Information and Information Sharing in the Australian Beef and Sheep Meat Supply Chain
Zhenghan Yang
PhD
China
The determinants of steel industry performance in China
Project title
Participants
Funding agency
Enhancing farm-household management decision-making for increased productivity in the Eastern Gangetic Plains (with UWA. 2018-2021)
Rene Villano
ACIAR
Adaptation to carbon-tax-induced changes in energy demand in rural and regional Australia
M.Siriwardana and S.Meng
ARC
Improving Australia's energy security and efficiency
M.Siriwardana and S. Meng
ARC (pending)
Adaptation to carbon-tax-induced changes in energy demand in rural and regional Australia. 2012-19.
Mahinda Siriwardana
ARC Linkage
Do mothers’ participation in household decision-making reduce gender disparities in child health outcome? A multilevel analysis of nested data from Pakistan
Azka Rehman, Qing Ping, and Masood Azeem
Huazhong Agriculture University, Wuhan, China
Insider trading, discretionary accrual and information asymmetry (Current)
Dr Abu Chowdhury, Prof. Sabur Mollah and Omar Al Farooque
Jan Wallenders and Tom Hedelius Stiftelse, Handelsbanken, Sweden (Project ID-2011-0212:1)
In search of opportunistic trades of corporate insiders (Current)
Dr Abu Chowdhury, Prof. Sabur Mollah, Prof. Mir Zaman and Omar Al Farooque
Jan Wallenders and Tom Hedelius Stiftelse, Handelsbanken, Sweden, Project ID-P2011-0212::1
Food shoppers’ share of wallet: A small city case in a changing competitive environment
Masood Azeem, Derek Baker, Renato Villano, Stuart Mounter, Garry Griffith
UNE
Response to stockout in grocery stores: A small city case in a changing competitive environment
Masood Azeem, Derek Baker, Renato Villano, Stuart Mounter, Garry Griffith
UNE
Examining the antecedents and consequences of perceived shopping value through smart retail technology
Sujana Adapa., Syed Muhammad Fazal-e-Hasan, Masood Azeem, and Gary Mortimer
UNE Postdoc
How do consumers’ perceptions of Smart Retail Technology lead to brand loyalty?
Syed Muhammad Fazal-e-Hasan, Sujana Adapa., Masood Azeem, and Gary Mortimer
UNE Postdoc
Efficiency and shareholder value in Australia banking
Hoang, V., Hoang, N., and Yarram, R.
UNEBS
Interactive effects of executive compensation, firm performance and corporate governance: Evidence from an Asian markets
Farooque, O., Buachom, W., and Hoang, N.
UNEBS
Islamic banking’s long institutionalisation struggle – A case study investigation
Ashfaq Khan
UNEBS
Bridging the expectations gap – Regional SMEs and banks
Ashfaq Khan
UNEBS
The effects of hedging and speculation on cash-futures basis: Results from the US wheat markets
Grieb, T. and Hoang, N.
UNEBS
Executive compensation in family and non-family firms
S.R. Yarram and S. Adapa
UNEBS
Gender diversity and corporate performance
S.R. Yarram and S. Adapa
UNEBS
Gender diversity and corporate risk-taking
S.R. Yarram and S. Adapa
UNEBS
‘Self-sustainability’ and ‘performance’ in microfinance – An empirical investigation into the contextual relevance of the terms
Ashfaq Khan
UNEBS
An assessment of vulnerability to poverty in Punjab, Pakistan: Subjective choices of poverty indicators
Masood Azeem, Amin Mugera, and Steven Schilizzi
UWA-Pakistan Flood Reconstruction Scholarship
Do social protection transfers reduce poverty and vulnerability to poverty in Pakistan? Household level evidence from Punjab
Masood Azeem, Amin Mugera, and Steven Schilizzi
UWA-Pakistan Flood Reconstruction Scholarship
Living on the edge: household vulnerability to food-insecurity in the Punjab, Pakistan
Masood Azeem, Amin Mugera, and Steven Schilizzi
UWA-Pakistan Flood Reconstruction Scholarship
Poverty and vulnerability in the Punjab, Pakistan: A multilevel analysis
Masood Azeem, Amin Mugera, and Steven Schilizzi
UWA-Pakistan Flood Reconstruction Scholarship
Vulnerability to multi-dimensional poverty: An empirical comparison of alternative measurement approaches
Masood Azeem, Amin Mugera, and Steven Schilizzi
UWA-Pakistan Flood Reconstruction Scholarship
Buying perishable fresh food in-store or online?
L. Emilio Morales and Mariah Ehmke
UNEBS
How has the minimum support price policy of India affected cross-commodity price linkages?
L. Emilio Morales, Jean Balie and Emiliano Magrini
UNEBS
How consumer beliefs affect expenditure on quinoa and traditional staple foods
L. Emilio Morales and Angie Higuchi
UNEBS
Price and volatility transmission between quality grades: Evidence from Australian cattle markets