Central Asia and the Global Economic Crisis. EUCAM Policy Brief No. 7, June 2009 (2009)
In 2007, the EU published a Strategy for a New Partnership with Central Asia. In its initial stages the EU focused on developing new forae for dialogue with the Central Asian countries, and received...
EVALUATING THE RESEARCH OUTPUT OF AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES ’ ECONOMICS DEPARTMENTS * (2008)
Richard Pomfret, Liang Choon Wang
This paper presents measures of the research output of Australian economics departments. Our study covers the 640 academic staff at rank Lecturer and above in the 27 Australian universities with...
Alderman, Harold, Allen, Robert, Allingham, Michael, Altavilla, Carlo, Altenburg, Lutz, Anand, Paul, ...
Alderman, Harold, Allen, Robert, Allingham, Michael, Altavilla, Carlo, Altenburg, Lutz, Anand, Paul, ...
Transition and Democracy in Mongolia (1999)
Richard Pomfred, Richard Pomfret
Transition and Democracy in Mongolia Mongolia began the 1990s with one of the largest negative economic shocks experienced in peacetime. By the end of the decade, Mongolia had successfully made the...
Coordinating Aid for Regional Cooperation Projects: The Experience of Central Asia
For the Central Asian countries the dissolution of the Soviet Union led to economic disintegration as old coordination mechanisms disappeared and new national borders appeared. This paper analyses...
Is Regionalism an Increasing Feature of the World Economy?
Measuring the importance of regionalism in international trade is desirable but difficult. The number of regional trade agreements (RTAs) reported to the WTO or the proportion of world trade which is...
Is Regionalism an Increasing Feature of the World Economy?
Measuring the importance of regionalism in international trade is desirable but difficult. The number of regional trade agreements (RTAs) reported to the WTO or the proportion of world trade which is...
When Soviet central planners began to mechanize the cotton harvest in earnest in 1958, they expected more rapid diffusion than the market-driven process that had begun in the United States a decade...
Ann Capling s book deals with Australia s role in the design of the global trade system, from the post-1945 negotiations over the (aborted) International Trade Organization (ITO), up to the 1999...
Currency Areas in Theory and Practice
The dominant theoretical framework for analysing currency domains, optimum currency area (OCA) theory, has a miserable record in explaining actual currency area formation, expansion or dissolution....
Evaluating The Research Output Of Australian Universities' Economics Departments
Richard Pomfret, Liang Choon Wang
This paper presents measures of the research output of Australian economics departments. Our study covers the 640 academic staff at rank Lecturer and above in the 27 Australian universities with...
The Economics of Voluntary Export Restraint Agreements.
The three substantive sections of this survey deal with the economic consequences of voluntary export restraint agreements (VERs), e.g. the Multi-Fibre Arrangement and VERs on Japanese auto exports....
Trade and Exchange Rate Policies in Formerly Centrally Planned Economies
This paper examines the international economic policies of the eastern European and Soviet Successes States in the early 1990s which provide one of those wide-open windows of opportunity when...
Economic Performance in Central Asia Since 1991: Macro and Micro Evidence1
How should the economic performance of the Central Asian countries during the 1990s be measured? The most commonly used indicator is GDP, even though GDP estimates for transition economies are known...
Voluntary Export Restraints in the Presence of Monopoly Power.
When there is a single domestic import-competing firm, there will always exist a voluntary export restraint that is superior to free trade both for the domestic firm and for all foreign suppliers as...
This paper reviews the evolution of thinking about regional trade agreements (RTAs) and the policy developments reflected in three waves of RTAs during the last half century. It rejects claims, based...
How are Oil Revenues redistributed in an Oil Economy? The case of Kazakhstan
Boris Najman, Richard Pomfret, Gael Raballand, Patricia Sourdin
Kazakhstan’s economy has been driven by an oilboom since the discovery of large new oilfields coincided with the upturn of world oil prices after 1998. This paper uses national household...
This paper analyses the choices between regionalism and multilateralism, and the impact of WTO membership on the five Central Asian countries. The two main sections analyse (1) why the large number...
Sequencing Trade and Monetary Integration
Regional integration for at least the last sixty years has focused on trade integration. Balassa’s canonical taxonomy of regional trading arrangements is often interpreted as a sequence from free...
III. Weltwirtschaft und Wirtschaft einzlner Länder und Gebiete
Torsten Tewes, R. Langhammer, Karin Thone, Richard Pomfret, Karel Holbik
I. Allgemeine Wirstchaftslehre
Richard Pomfret, Wilfried Fuhrmann, Kurt Rothschild, Juergen Donges, Silvio Borner, Bettina Hürni
Torsten Tewes, Manfred Neldner, Dieter Leinmüller, Gunter Steinmann, Pualgeorg Juhl, Wolf Schäfer, ...
Richard Pomfret, Werner Sesselmeier, Erich Gundlach, Klaus-Dieter Schmidt, Jens Lorz, Rolf Langhammer, ...
Jörg-Volker Schrader, Richard Pomfret, Peter Nunnenkamp, Jürgen Stehn, Erich Gundlach, Rolf Langhammer, ...
Richard Pomfret, Patricia Sourd In
Trade theorists and policymakers have until recently ignored trade costs, but as tariffs have fallen it is apparent that trade costs are a significant obstacle to trade and they are not simply...
Central Asia Since 1991: The Experience of the New Independent States
The five former Soviet republics have become separate states, developing at different rates and in different directions, and with different political and economic regimes. As a result, the cohesion...
Coordinating Aid for Regional Cooperation Projects: The Experience of Central Asia
For the Central Asian countries the dissolution of the Soviet Union led to economic disintegration as old coordination mechanisms disappeared and new national borders appeared. This paper analyses...
RESOURCE ABUNDANCE, GOVERNANCE AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN TURKMENISTAN AND UZBEKISTAN
This paper analyses the connection between resource wealth, governance and economic performance in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Since independence, both countries have remained heavily...
Regional integration in Central Asia
Central Asia, Regional integration, Multilateralism,
THE FINANCIAL SECTOR AND THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM
Jonathan Pincus, Richard Pomfret
Financial sector innovation and development has been an integral part of the rise of capitalism over the last half millennium. The innovations of the last three decades of the twentieth century were...
Using Energy Resources to Diversify the Economy: Agricultural Price Distortions in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan's government has used oil revenues to promote economic diversification, including a billion dollar 2003–2005 Agriculture and Food Program to reverse the 1990s decline in agricultural...
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in the Kyrgyz Republic
Christensen, Garry, Pomfret, Richard
distorted incentives, agricultural and trade policy reforms, national agricultural development, Agricultural and Food Policy, International Relations/Trade, F13, F14, Q17, Q18,
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Kazakhstan
distorted incentives, agricultural and trade policy reforms, national agricultural development, Agricultural and Food Policy, International Relations/Trade, F13, F14, Q17, Q18,
Distortions To Agricultural Incentives in Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
Distorted incentives, agricultural and trade policy reforms, national agricultural development, Agricultural and Food Policy, International Relations/Trade, F13, F14, Q17, Q18,
Have Asian trade agreements reduced trade costs?
Pomfret, Richard, Sourdin, Patricia
Regionalization of trade in East Asia increased in the 1990s, and has been accompanied by a growing number of trade agreements. The wave of trade agreements is in part a response to the need to...
Government Subsidies for Professional Team Sports in Australia
John K. Wilson, Richard Pomfret
"Professional team sports represent an important aspect of Australian life. Interest is great, and a significant portion of household expenditure is directed toward sports-related goods and services....