Expertise
Asia; Environmental policy; Exchange rates; Fiscal policy; International economics; Monetary policy; Trade policy
Background
Current Positions
Professor of International Economics and Executive Director Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis in the College of Business and Economics, The Australian National University; Professional Fellow, The Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney; Member, Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia; Executive, McKibbin Software Group USA/Australia
Past Positions
Senior Fellow, Visiting Fellow, Research Associate, Brookings; Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University; Visiting Scholar, Congressional Budget Office; Visiting Scholar, Japanese Ministry of Finance
Education
Ph.D. (1986), A.M. (1984), Harvard University;B.Comm., University of New South Wales (1978)
"The new [U.S.] president will need to focus more on getting the broad structure of the cap-and-trade system right and less on aggressive reductions that would undermine support for it."