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CSES Seminars 2007 | ||
CSES SEMINAR 10/2007 On December 3rd, the Victorian Government released its
second Emerging Market Strategy report which takes as its subject the
assessment of South Africa as an ICT producer and consumer and what this
means for Victoria. The research was undertaken by the Centre for
Strategic Economic Studies (CSES), Victoria University and BMI-TechKnowledge
Group (BMI-T) Johannesburg. It provides market intelligence to the
Victorian ICT industry by exploring the: | ||
CSES SEMINAR 9/2007 International production/distribution networks in
East Asia developed in the 1990s and after have distinctive features in
their significance, extensiveness, and sophistication. This paper first
lists “18 facts” on production/distribution networks in East Asia that
have been identified by a number of studies using international trade
data, microdata of Japanese multinational enterprises, and casual
observations. It then presents a concept of two-dimensional
fragmentation as a starting point of theoretically formalizing the
phenomena of fragmentation and agglomeration. It finally discusses the
policy environment in which the formation of production/distribution
networks has been accelerated and policy implications of the existence
of such networks for economic integration in East Asia. | ||
CSES SEMINAR 8/2007 This talk will explore approaches and techniques for
publishing research in high ranking journals. It will include targeting
journals, positioning and structuring your ideas, and finding your
'voice' and building an international reputation. It will also explain
the submission and refereeing process and discuss effective ways to
respond to referees' comments. | ||
CSES SEMINAR 7/2007 Tran Van Hoa is Professorial Fellow at the Centre for
Strategic Economic Studies (Victoria University, Melbourne) and
Director, Vietnam and ASEAN+3 Research Program (CSES). He is also
Honorary Professor, National Advanced Training Institute (NATI), Vietnam
Ministry of Trade; and Honorary Professor, National Economics
University, Hanoi, Vietnam. | ||
CSES SEMINAR 6/2007 Energy used in transport is an important focus since
it is increasing in both developed and developing countries and is a
carbon-intensive activity everywhere. Gasoline price and per capita
motor fuel consumption (thus CO2 emissions) are highly correlated, but
it may be too simplistic to assume that higher prices will lead to lower
use and emissions. It is true that gasoline price influences technology
choice and mobility demand; however, since gasoline price is heavily
influenced by government in both market and non-market economies, it is
likely that technology and mobility demand affect price too. This paper
assumes such a systemic, feedback relationship exists among price,
technology, and mobility demand, and tests for cointegration among
gasoline price, income, and both per capita motor fuel consumption and
per capita vehicle-miles traveled. This paper’s finding of a
cointegrating relationship means that gasoline price, technology, and
fuel consumption cannot be easily disentangled in the short-run. This
result has two important implications for policy. First, in countries
like the US, higher standards for vehicle efficiency are preferable to
higher gasoline taxes since (i) the former may lead to a faster change
in overall vehicle fleet efficiency; and (ii) the level of taxes
necessary for the latter approach to cause a sufficient change in
vehicle fleet efficiency via the market would be quite painful. Second,
countries like China and India would be wise to develop a system of
prices, technology, and mobility options that help them avoid the
difficult choice the US now faces. | ||
CSES SEMINAR 5/2007 This paper explores the current state and interfaces of
two broad policy discourses, i.e. that of policies for knowledge-based
economies (KBEs) and policy implications of happiness research, which so
far have exhibited little explicit cross-referencing. I first review the
state of ‘mainstream’ knowledge policy associated with the OECD, the
related but somewhat separate literature on information society
indicators, and some ‘non-mainstream’ knowledge policy analysis. This is
followed by a brief overview of some of the major policy implications
and controversies in happiness research. Next, I discuss major
interfaces of the two policy discourses. They mostly concern the nexus
of education, work and innovation. I also illustrate the diversity of
beliefs and values about some core elements of KBEs in a group of what
are usually regarded as similar countries, and advocate the use of
subjective variables to capture these differences. The main argument put
forward in this paper is that policies for KBEs should be informed by
insights from happiness research.
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CSES SEMINAR 4/2007 Dr. RAJESH MEHTA is a Senior Fellow at the Research and
Information System for Developing Countries (RIS). He is working with
the RIS since 1984. He was also Adjunct Professor in the Indian Council
for Research on International Economic Relations. He has also served on
the faculty of University of Western Ontario, Institute of Economic
Growth and Jawaharlal Nehru University. He did his Ph.D. in economics
from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He has been
consultant to various national and international organisations including
Government of India, ADB, APDC, World Bank, FAO, UNDP, UNCTAD, IFPRI,
etc. Professor Mehta has specialisation in the areas of International
Trade and Econometric Forecasting. He has written widely in the areas of
trade and development, regional trading blocs, trade policies of South
Asian countries, WTO-related issues, tariff and non-tariff barriers,
etc. He has authored and co-authored seven books/monographs and has
contributed regularly to national and international journals. | ||
CSES SEMINAR 3/2007 One major, but
often neglected, function of investment is the technological innovation
that becomes embedded in a region or nation. The dynamics of innovation
and investment need to be developed together on the basis of fundamental
uncertainty. This results in a non-equilibrium open system based on
historical-time processes like cumulative causation and path dependence
in the system’s evolution. The investment decision-making dynamics in
this approach originate with the work of Michał Kalecki on investment
cycles and increasing risk, in which profits derived from effective
demand provide both ability and incentive to invest. Kaleckian
foundations deliver an investment cycle of corporate instability due to
entrepreneurial uncertainty built into conventions and rules that are
sensitive to information about the unknown future and evolutionary
processes of technological innovation. In this way, investment and
technological innovation interact in an endogenous capital accumulation
process. | ||
LABOUR LAW SEMINAR Sally Weller is Senior
Research Fellow at CSES. She presented this seminar at the Centre for Employment
and Labour Relations Law at the University of Melbourne. She will spoke
to her recent article published in the Journal of Industrial
Relations, where she argued that the new regulatory strategies for
the control of clothing outwork effectively privatise responsibility for
labour market conditions. CELRL Research Fellow Shelley Marshall provided a response. | ||
CSES INTERNAL SEMINAR 2/2007 A number of international organisations, research funding bodies,
research agencies and governments are seeking to ensure that they
maximise the economic and social returns to public expenditure on R&D,
and to that end they are introducing hard and/or soft access mandates
(e.g.
OECD Declaration,
CODATA/GICS;
NSF,
RCUK,
ARC and
NHMRC; CERN;
Australia's Accessibility Framework). To underpin access policy
developments in Australia and elsewhere, CSES has been involved in
efforts to develop ways to measure the economic and social impacts of
open access to research findings (e.g.
Report to DEST and the development of the
Easi-OA Agenda).
The purpose of this seminar was to discuss some of that work and explore
possible developments. | ||
CSES INTERNAL SEMINAR 1/2007 Frank R. Lichtenberg is Courtney C. Brown Professor of
Business at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and a
Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. One of
America’s leading economists, he has undertaken a path-breaking series
of empirical studies on the impact of new medicines on individual
outcomes and quality of life, on the utilization of hospitals and
nursing
homes and on health costs. | ||
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CSES/CAPPE SEMINAR Since July 2003 Joachim Schummer is Heisenberg-Fellow at the
Department of Philosophy at Darmstadt Technical University, Germany and he is
Adjunct Professor at the University of South Carolina. He graduated both in
chemistry and philosophy and he received his Ph.D. (1994) and Habilitation
(2002) in philosophy from the University of Karlsruhe. From 2003 to 2004, he was
Visiting Professor at the University of South Carolina. His research interests
focus on the history, philosophy, sociology and ethics of science and
technology, with emphasis on chemistry and, since 2002, nanotechnology. He is
the author of Realismus und Chemie (1996) and more than 50 research articles;
(co-)editor of Philosophie der Chemie (1996), Glück und Ethik (1998),
Discovering the Nanoscale (2004), Nanotechnology Challenges (2006),
Nanotechnologie im Kontext (2006) and five special journal issues; and the
founding editor of Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry
(since 1995). His current research on nanotechnology focuses on ethical and
societal issues, science policy and communication issues, cross-cultural
perspectives, vision dynamics, early history and interdisciplinarity. Joachim
Schummer serves on various international committees, including the UNESCO expert
group on Nanotechnology and Ethics. | ||
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CSES EXTERNAL SEMINAR The growing economic and political importance of
China in the global economy in recent years has been discussed by academic and
business economists, trade and investment experts, transnational corporate
planners, government advisers and politicians alike worldwide (World Bank,
2005). While the discussions have been useful for global knowledge enhancement,
regional and national strategic purposes, they have often been regarded as
‘hypothetical or with fuzzy outcomes’ due to their lack of substantive support
of an empirically reliable kind. The paper addressed the issue by applying the
recent generalised gravity theory (Tran Van Hoa, 2002, 2003, 2004) to construct
a new multi-equation econometric model of trade-growth causality for China.
Using historical trade and growth data, advanced estimation, forecasting and
stochastic simulation theory (Tran Van Hoa, 1997), the model provides
substantive evidence for the intertwining impact of China’s WTO membership,
regional economic integration, and structural change (measured by national,
regional and global shocks and gradual policy reform) on China’s trade, growth
and economic relations. Some resulting major strategic trade, development and
co-operation issues were discussed. |
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