School of Accounting and Finance

Dr. Duncan is a lecturer in economics and finance at CSU. He studied for his undergraduate degrees in economics and law at the Australian National University and his doctorate in economics at Stanford University. His research interests centre on development problems in Third World countries, including the Pacific island nations, and especially the links between natural resources and development. He has also been known to write on such disparate topics as the relationship between rising female education and falling marriage rates, on global warming policy and on the use of environmental offsets for wetlands management.

Teaching Responsibilities

Undergraduate

• ECO120 Macroeconomics
  
• ECO130 Business Economics
  
• ECO356 Environmental Economics
  
• FIN221 Investments
  

Masters

• ECO516- Public Sector Economics
• ECO517- Economic Evaluation.

Administrative Responsibilities

• Course co-ordinator for the Bachelor of Business (Honours)
• Co-ordinator for the Faculty of Business Honours programs

Research Focus

• International development
• Environmental and resource economics
• Politics in Pacific island nations

Research Project Supervision

• International trade and development
• Environmental and resource economics

Current Research Students

• Co-supervisor for Jodie Kleinschaffer, PhD, "Demand management options for electricity in Central West Australia"
  
• Co-supervisor for Steve Halliday, DBA, "Risk and audit committee structures in Australian companies"
  
• Saskia Faulk , DBA, "Tools for managing HIV/AIDS risk for companies"

Professional Activities

• Member of the Australian Agriculture and Resource Economics Society

Grants and Awards:

Title: Mapping the Aged Care Industry and Ageing Issues in the Bathurst Region
Sponsor: Bathurst City Council, Blayney Shire Council and the NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care
Co-PIs: Jennifer Sappey, Zelma Bone
Amount Funded: $15,000

Title: Commercialization of Forest Biotechnology
Sponsor: Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Co-PI(s): Gary Peter
Share of Amount Funded: $33,500

Selected Publications: 

Books

• Ronald Duncan, Satish Chand, Bryan Graham, Tony Lawson and Roderick Duncan (1998). Exchange rate policy in Papua New Guinea. Institute of National Affairs, Port Moresby.

Book Chapter

• Roderick Duncan. Governance reform in the public sector in Pacific island countries: understanding how culture matters. In R. Duncan ed. (2011) The Political Economy of Economic Reform in the Pacific, Asian Development Bank, Manila.
• Roderick Duncan. Regulatory cycles: Or why does the tax code get bigger every year? In Basu, P.K. et al eds. (2007) Engagement and Change: Exploring Management, Economic and Finance Implications of a Globalising Environment, Australian Academic Press, Brisbane .
• Rod Duncan. Regional conflicts over mineral rights in South East Asia. In R. Garnaut ed. (2002) Resource Management in Asia Pacific Developing Countries, Asia Pacific Press, Australia National University.
• Ron Duncan and Rod Duncan. Improving security of access to customary-owned land in Melanesia: mining in Papua New Guinea. In P. Larmour ed. (1997) The Governance of Common Property in the Pacific Region, Pacific Policy Papers #19, National Center for Development Studies.
• Anne O. Krueger and Roderick Duncan. The Political Economy of Complexity. In Stetting, Lauge et al. eds. (1993) Global Change and Transformation, Munksgaard International, Copenhagen.

Refereed Journal Articles

• Jennifer Sappey, Zelma Bone and Roderick Duncan (2010). The aged care industry in regional Australia: will it cope with the tsunami to come?". Australian Farm Business Management Journal, 7(1), 21-28.
• Satish Chand and Roderick Duncan. (2010). Strengthening political parties in the Pacific. Pacific Economic Bulletin, 25(1), 35-45.
• Roderick Duncan. (2008). Solomon Islands and Vanuatu: an economic survey. Pacific Economic Bulletin, 23(3), 1-17.
• Usha Nair-Reichert and Roderick Duncan. (2008). Patent regimes, host country policies and the nature of MNE activities. Review of International Economics, 16(4), 783-797.
• Roderick Duncan. (2008). Agricultural productivity, the electoral cycle and ENSO effects in Papua New Guinea. Pacific Economic Bulletin, 23(1), 74-84.
• Roderick Duncan. (2007). Papua New Guinea economic survey: fiscal discipline needed. Pacific Economic Bulletin, 22(1), 1 – 15.
• Roderick Duncan. (2006). Price or politics? An empirical investigation of the causes of expropriation. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 50(1), March, 85 - 101.
• Rod Duncan. (2003). Does 'Sex and the City' predict the future of marriage?. Challenge, 46(3), May, 73 - 88.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

• Roderick Duncan, Branka Krivokapic-skoko, Kerry Tilbrook and Errol Chopping (2011) "Academic time diaries: Measuring what Australian academics actually do", Proceedings of the 2011 ANZAM Conference in Wellington, December 7-9^th.
• Denise Jarratt, Roderick Duncan and Terry Bossomaier (2010) "It’s not only what you know… using simulation to explain research networks and innovation in the UK university sector", Proceedings of the British Academy of Management 2010 Conference, 14-16 September.

Working Papers

• Mark Morrison, Roderick Duncan, Kevin Parton and Chris Sherley (2012) "A comparison between attitude to climate change in Australia and the United States" presented at the 56^th Annual Conference for the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society in Fremantle on February 7-10, 2011.
• Daniel Masters, Mark Morrison, Roderick Duncan and Adrian Langdon (2011) "Do we need a value of statistical life for dam failures?" presented by Daniel Masters at the 10^th Annual Water Pricing Summit in October 2011 in Sydney.
• Roderick Duncan (2011) "Who is the real enemy of rational action on the environment?" presented at the Resolving Interdisciplinary Differences in the Use of Ecosystem Services Workshop in Canberra on August 24-25, 2011.
• Roderick Duncan (2011) "Will the new Australian mining tax drive out investment in the minerals sector?" presented t the 55^th Annual Conference for the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society in Melbourne on February 8-11, 2011.
• With Mark Morrison. Using environmental offsets in wetlands management. presented at the 2008 AARE S Conference. Canberra, Australia.
• Can subsidizing alternative energy technology development lead to faster global warming? Presented at the ICCB 2007. Leura, Australia.