Principal speaker
Professor Tony Makin
Raising Our APEC-Related Research Profile
Presented by: Professor Tony Makin. Director of the APEC Study Centre, Griffith University.
This seminar will cover the overall significance of APEC, the APEC Study Centre Consortium’s priority research areas, and how the profile and impact of research by Griffith staff may be enhanced via the Griffith APEC Study Centre. While international trade and investment remain APEC priority areas, it is less well known that APEC has increasingly recognised other means of achieving higher levels of inclusive growth in Asia-Pacific economies. Hence, a broader array of APEC research themes has emerged in recent years, including determinants of economic growth, structural reform, poverty reduction, infrastructure financing and technology transfer, some of which have directly influenced the current G20 agenda.
Tony Makin, Professor of Economics and Director of the Griffith APEC Study Centre, is the author of Global Imbalances, Exchange Rates and Stabilization Policy, Global Finance and the Macroeconomy, and International Macroeconomics, and over 100 journal papers and book chapters, including in Journal of International Money and Finance, International Review of Economics and Finance, Economic Modelling, The World Economy, Economic Record and numerous Asia-oriented journals. He holds a PhD from the ANU and previously served with the IMF and in the federal departments of The Treasury and Finance. Current research interests include Australia’s competitiveness, foreign investment, fiscal and monetary policy.
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