Dr Roderick Duncan
Lecturer in Economics
Office location:
Room 232
Mansfield Building (C2)
Bathurst Campus
Full mail address:
Charles Sturt University
School of Business
Bathurst NSW 2795
Australia
Telephone: (02)-63384982
Fax: (02)-6338 4769
Email: rduncan@csu.edu.au
Qualifications:
BEc (Hons) ANU, LLB ANU, PhD Stanford
Brief Professional biography:
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.
Dr. Duncan is the course coordinator for the specializations of Banking, Economics and Finance in the Bachelor of Business. He is also the course coordinator for the Honours program in the Bachelor of Business.
Teaching:
Undergraduate
- Eco120- Macroeconomics
- Eco356- Environmental Economics
Masters
- Eco516- Public Sector Economics
- Eco517- Economic Evaluation.
Admin responsibilities
- Course co-ordinator for the Bachelor of Business (Banking)
- Course co-ordinator for the Bachelor of Business (Economics)
- Course co-ordinator for the Bachelor of Business (Finance)
- Course co-ordinator for the Bachelor of Business (Honours)
Recent Research
Books chapters:
- 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 (2002) “Regional conflicts over mineral rights in South East Asia”, in R. Garnaut ed., Resource Management in Asia Pacific Developing Countries, Asia Pacific Press, Australia National University.
Journal articles
- Roderick Duncan (2008) “Solomon Islands and Vanuatu: an economic survey”, Pacific Economic Bulletin, 23(3), pp. 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), pp. 783-797.
- Roderick Duncan (2008) “Agricultural productivity, the electoral cycle and ENSO effects in Papua New Guinea”, Pacific Economic Bulletin, 23(1), pp. 74-84.
- Roderick Duncan (2007) “Papua New Guinea economic survey: fiscal discipline needed”, Pacific Economic Bulletin, 22(1), pp. 1 – 15.
- Roderick Duncan (2006) “Price or politics? An empirical investigation of the causes of expropriation”, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, March, 50(1), pp. 85 - 101.
- Rod Duncan (2003) “Does ‘Sex and the City’ predict the future of marriage?”, Challenge, May, 46(3), pp. 73 - 88.
Working Papers:
- With Mark Morrison “Using environmental offsets in wetlands management” (Presented at the 2008 AARES Conference in Canberra, Australia).
- With Jennifer Sappey and Zelma Bone “The aged care industry in regional Australia: Will it cope with the tsunami to come?” (Presented at the 2007 ANZAM Conference in Sydney, Australia.)
- With Satish Chand "Strengthening political parties in the Pacific" (Presented at Executive Power and the Battle for Parliamentary Confidence in the Pacific Islands in Port Vila, Vanuatu, 2007).
- “Agricultural productivity and the electoral cycle in Papua New Guinea” (Presented at the Economics Research Workshop on Pacific Agriculture in Lae, Papua New Guinea, 2007).
- "Can subsidizing alternative energy technology development lead to faster global warming?” (Presented at the ICCB 2007 in Leura, Australia).
- “Costs and consequences of expropriation of foreign direct investment” (Presented at the AARES conference in Sydney in February, 2006).
Conference Presentations:
- Roderick Duncan (2009) “Leave it in the ground: Sustainability and resource use in the Pacific” at the 53rd Annual Conference for the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society in Cairns on February 11-13, 2009.
- Satish Chand and Roderick Duncan (2007) "Strengthening political parties in the Pacific" at Economics and Democracy, 2nd Annual Interdisciplinary Social sciences Conference, Research School of Social sciences, ANU on December 8-10, 2008.
- Roderick Duncan and Mark Morrison (2008) “Using environmental offsets in wetlands management” at the 52nd Annual Conference for the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society in Canberra on February 5-8, 2008.
- Satish Chand and Roderick Duncan (2007) "Strengthening political parties in the Pacific" at Executive Power and the Battle for Parliamentary Confidence in the Pacific Islands in Port Vila, Vanuatu, 21-23 September, 2007.
- Roderick Duncan (2007) “Agricultural productivity and the electoral cycle in Papua New Guinea” at the Economics Research Workshop on Pacific Agriculture at Lae, Papua New Guinea, 16-17 July, 2007.
- Roderick Duncan (2006) “Can subsidizing alternative energy technology development lead to faster global warming?” at the 51st Annual Conference for the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society at Queenstown, New Zealand on February 14-16, 2007.
- Roderick Duncan (2006) “Can subsidizing alternative energy technology development lead to faster global warming?” at the International Conference on Contemporary Business at Leura, NSW, on September 22, 2006
Research Grants:
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 P.I.(s): Gary Peter
Share of Amount Funded: $33,500
Professional associations, professional activities and consultancies:
Member of the Australian Agriculture and Resource Economics Society
Areas of research interest:
- International development
- Environmental and resource economics
- Politics in Pacific island nations
Areas of RHD supervision expertise:
- 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”