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Profile James Ang joined the Department of Economics at Monash University in 2007 as a Lecturer after receiving his PhD from the Australian National University. He was promoted to his current position of Senior Lecturer in 2009. His main areas of research interest are economic growth and development, with a focus on the roles of R&D and financial liberalization. He has published widely in these fields, with recent articles in, among others, the Journal of Development Economics, World Development, the Southern Economic Journal and the Journal of Macroeconomics. He has recently received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher, an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, and two ARC Discovery Projects grants to study issues related to finance and growth.
Contact Details Postal Address: Department of Economics, Monash University, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, Vic 3145, Australia.

  James.Ang@buseco.monash.edu.au

Selected Recent Papers
  • "Productivity Growth and Technology Catch-up: Does Human Capital Composition Matter?, with M Islam
  • "Second Generation Innovation-based Growth Models and the British Industrial Revolution", with J Madsen & R Banerjee.
  • "Endogenous Growth Accounting", with J Madsen.
  • "Can Second-Generation Endogenous Growth Models Explain Productivity Trends In the Asian Miracle Economies?", with J Madsen. Under revision at Review of Economics & Statistics. [paper]
  • "Finance and Macroeconomic Volatility" Under revision at Journal of International Money & Finance. [paper]
  • "Catching up to the Technology Frontier: The Dichotomy between Innovation and Imitation", with J Madsen & M Islam. Under revision at Canadian Journal of Economics. [paper]
  • "Financial Sector Reforms, Patent Protection and Knowledge Accumulation" Under revision at World Development. [paper]
  • "Do Financial Sector Policies Promote Innovative Activity in Developing Countries?" Under revision at Journal of Productivity Analysis. [paper]
  • "The Indian Growth Miracle and Endogenous Growth", with J Madsen & S Saxena. Forthcoming in Journal of Development Economics. [paper]
  • "Research, Technological Change and Financial Liberalization in South Korea" Forthcoming in Journal of Macroeconomics. [paper]
  • "Finance and Inequality: The Case of India." Forthcoming in Southern Economic Journal. [paper]
  • "CO2 Emissions, Research and Technology Transfer in China" Ecological Economics 68(10), pp. 2658-2665, 2009. [paper]
  • "Private Investment and Financial Sector Policies in India and Malaysia." World Development 37(7), pp. 1261-1273, 2009. [paper]
  • "Household Saving Behaviour in An Extended Life Cycle Model: A Comparative Study of China and India” Journal of Development Studies 45(8), pp. 1344-1359, 2009. [paper]
  • "Financial Liberalization, Financial Sector Development and Growth: Evidence from Malaysia." Journal of Development Economics 84(1), pp. 215-233, 2007, with W McKibbin. [paper]

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National Competitive Grants
  • Australian Research Council Discovery Projects (ARC-DP) Grant, 2010-2013, with Joshua Feng, “Financial Development, Liberalization and Productivity Growth”, lead principal investigator.
  • Australian Research Council Discovery Projects (ARC-DP) Grant, 2009-2010, “Consumption Volatility and Financial Openness in the Developing World”, sole principal investigator.
  • Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Australia-Malaysia Institute Grant, 2008, “Reversing the Recent Private Investment Slump in Malaysia”, sole principal investigator.
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