文玫 (Mei WEN)

Position
Research Fellow
Research School: Asian Pacific Studies
Unit: Division of Economics
THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Academic Qualifications:
1993-1997 Ph.D. in Economics, Department of Economics, Monash University, Australia
Supervisors: Professor Yewkwang Ng and Professor Xiaokai Yang

1986-1989 MA in Quantitative Economics, Department of Quantitative Economics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Supervisors: Professor Shaokung Lin and Professor Chunlin Li

1980-1984 B.Sc. in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Thesis supervisor: Professor Xiru Chen
PhD thesis title: Three Essays on the Division of Labour, A Contribution to New Classical Economics, 1997

Main Research Interests:
My PhD studies focused on the welfare implications of the dichotomy between production and consumption decisions, using general equilibrium models to describe and demonstrate the effect of the interplay between transaction efficiency and per capita resources on productivity and trade, as well as productivity implications of the investment in infrastructure.

I have been strongly interested in studies on China's industry related issues, such as capital allocation among industries, ownership and technical efficiency of industrial enterprises, location and agglomeration of industries, state owned enterprise reforms, capacity games in industrial competition, implication of market competition and ownership diversification for industrial growth, etc.

In addition to Infra-marginal Analysis (New Classical Economics) and studies on China's industry and enterprises, I am keen on theoretical and empirical studies on topics which have strong implications to transitional economies, such as privatization, auction, and optimal ownership structure.

My interests in development economics include how transaction efficiency improvement or a decline in pre capita resource would increase the level of division of labor and generate an economic structural change, the significance of infrastructure in evolution in division of labor, and the coordination between industrialization and urbanization.

Working Experience:
Research Fellow, Division of Economics, RSPAS, Australian National University, December, 1999 - present
Research Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, Australia, January 1997-December 1999
Lecturer (1991-1993), & Assistant Lecturer (1987-1990) Department of Quantitative Economics, Huazhong
University of Science and Technology, China, 1987-1993
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Huazhong University
Of Science and Technology, China, 1984-1987.
Record of Activitity

Publications
1. "Is Excess Capacity in Public Firms Socially Optimal?" (with Dan Sasaki), Economic Record, 2001, 77(238), 283-90.

2. "On Optimal Privatization" (with Dan Sasaki), Rivista Di Politica Economica, 2001, 3(4-5), 203-27.

3. "Infrastructure and Evolution in Division of Labor", Review of Development Economics, 1(2), June 1997, 191-206.

4. "Ownership and Technical Efficiency--A Cross-section Study on the Third Industrial Census of China", (with Dong Li and Peter Lloyd), forthcoming, EDCC.

5. "Bankruptcy, Sale, and Mergers as a Route to the Reform of Chinese SOEs," forthcoming, China Economic Review.

6. "Competition, Ownership Diversification and Industrial Growth", in China 2002: WTO Entry and World Recession, ed. by R. Garnaut and L. Song, Canberra: Asia Pacific Press, 2002, 63-80.

7. "Spatial Distribution of Manufacturing in China," (with Mary Amiti), in Modeling the Chinese Economy ed. by P. Lloyd and X. Zhang, Edward Elgar, 2001, 135-48.

8. "Capital Allocation in China," (with Xiaoguang Zhang), Modeling the Chinese Economy, ed. by P. Lloyd and X. Zhang, Edward Elgar, 2001, 271-89.

9. "Can China Sustain Fast Economic Growth? A perspective from transition and development", in The Asia Recovery: Issues and Aspects of Development, Growth, Trade and Investment, ed. by Tran Van Hoa, Edward Elgar, 2001, 136-173.

10. "Saving Functions for a Multi-sector CGE Model of the Chinese Economy" (with Peter Lloyd), in China in Global Economy, ed. by P. Lloyd and X. Zhang, Edward Elgar, 2000, 43-61.

11. "An Analytical Framework of Consumer-producers, Economies of Specialization and Transaction Costs", in Increasing Returns and Economic Analysis, ed. by K. J. Arrow, et al., 1998, London: Macmillan, 170-85.

12. "Strong Consistency for a Kind of Non-parametric Regression Estimates", Collection of Outstanding Bachelor Theses, Press of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, 1984.

Working Papers
1. "Push or Pull? The Relationship between Development, Trade and Resource Endowment " (forthcoming in Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization)

2. "Relocation and Agglomeration of Chinese Industry"

3. "Privatization: Theory and Evidence" (in Chinese), forthcoming in The Frontiers of Modern Western Economics, ed. by G. Tian, Beijing: Shangwu Press.

4. "Spatial Distribution of China's Industry and Cities___ Coordination between Industrial and Urban Development"

5. "The Dichotomy between Production and Consumption Decisions and Economic Efficiency"

Professional activities
Referee: for The Economic Journal, Social Choice and Welfare, Journal of Developing Areas, Australian Economic Papers, Journal of Economics
Secretary: The Association for Chinese Economic Studies, Australia (ACESA)
Memberships: The Canadian Economics Association; the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, and The Chinese Economist Society, The Association for Chinese Economic Studies, Australia (ACESA)

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