Development, Markets and Growth

    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.

    Convener: Emilio Morales

  • Staff
  • Publications
  • Postgraduate Students
  • Projects

Our staff

  • Expertise: Management Accounting, Organisational Change, Institutional Theory , Poverty and SMEs
  • Expertise: Public and Health Care Administration, Policy Studies, Local Government
  • Expertise: Applied Econometrics, Financial Inclusion, Financial Literacy, Poverty, Women's Empoerment, Impact Analysis
  • Expertise: Agro-food markets, consumer preferences, price transmission
  • Expertise: Economic policy analysis, CGE modelling, Carbon pricing, Trade policy
  • Expertise: Accounting and Auditing, Banking and Finance, Investment and Securities
  • Expertise: agriculturaleconomics, agribusiness, economics
  • 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

L. Emilio Morales and Nam Hoang

UNEBS