Shiro Armstrong
Director, Australia-Japan Research Centre; Director, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research; and Professor, Crawford School
Qualifications
BEcon (ANU), BActS (ANU), MA (IDEC, ANU), PhD (ANU)
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Selected papers
- Navigating Prosperity and Security in East Asia, ANU Press, Canberra, 2023 (ed. with Adam Triggs and Tom Westland).
- Laurenceson, James & Shiro Armstrong (2023) ‘Learning the right policy lessons from Beijing’s campaign of trade disruption against Australia’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, DOI: 10.1080/10357718.2023.2212612
- Drysdale P. and S. Armstrong (2021) ‘RCEP: a strategic opportunity for multilateralism’, China Economic Journal, DOI: 10.1080/17538963.2021.1937092
- Armstrong S. 2021 ‘Economic diplomacy and economic security under Abe’, Asian Economic Policy Review, 16 (2).
- Akman, S., Armstrong, S., Braga, C., Dadush, U., Gonzalez, A., Kimura, F., Nagakawa, J., Rashish, P., Tamura, A. 2020. ‘World Trading System under Stress: Scenarios for the Future’ Global Policy, Volume 11, Issue 3, May.
- Armstrong, Shiro, Lorraine Dearden, Masayuki Kobayashi and Nobuko Nagase, 2019. Student loans in Japan: current problems and possible solutions, Economics of Education Review, Volume 71, August, Pages 120-134.
- Shiro Armstrong, Sam Reinhardt and Tom Westland, 2017. ‘Are free trade agreements making Swiss cheese of Australia’s foreign investment regime?’, International Journal of Public Policy, Vol. 13, pp 290-303.
- Peter Drysdale, Shiro Armstrong and Neil Thomas, 2017. ‘Chinese ODI and the deficiencies of Australia’s foreign investment regime’, International Journal of Public Policy, Vol. 13, pp 277-289.
- ‘Escaping the Middle-Income Trap: Trade, Investment and Innovation’ in Hutchinson, F and S Basu Das (eds) Asia and the Middle Income Trap, Routledge, Oxford, 2016 (with Tom Westland)
- ‘Fiscal Sustainability in Japan’, Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 3, Issue 2, pages 235-43, 2016 (with Tatsuyoshi Okimoto)
- ‘East and South Asia: Managing Difficult Bilateral Relations and Regional Integration Globally’, Asian Economic Journal, Volume 29, Issue 4, pages 303–324, December 2015
- ‘Foreign economic policy strategies and economic performance’, in Funabashi, Y. and B. Kushner (eds) Examining Japan’s Lost Decades, Routledge, London and New York, 2015 (with Peter Drysdale). Also available as ‘Japan’s Foreign Economic Policy Strategies and Economic Performance’, Center on Japanese Economy and Business Working Papers, No. 340, 2014 (with Peter Drysdale).
- ‘The economic impact of the Australia-United States free trade agreement’, Australian Journal of International Affairs Volume 69, Issue 5, 2015. Also available as ‘The economic impact of the Australia-United States free trade agreement’, Australia-Japan Research Centre, Working Paper 01-2015, January 2015.
- ‘Economic Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific and the Global Trading System’, Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 1(3), pp 513–521, September 2014.
- ‘Economics Still Trumps Politics Between Japan and China’, KOKUSAI MONDAI (International Affairs), No.634 September 2014.
- ‘Survey of Recent Developments’, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 48(3): 299-324, 2014 (with Sjamsu Rahardja).
- ‘Australian trade policy strategy contradictions’, The World Economy, Volume 35, Issue 12, 2012.
- ‘The politics of Japan-China trade and the role of the world trade system’, The World Economy, 35(9), 2012.
- ‘Assessing the scale and potential of Chinese investment overseas: an econometric approach’, China & World Economy, Volume 19, Issue 4, 2011
- ‘International and regional cooperation: Asia’s role and responsibilities’, Asian Economic Policy Review, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 157-173. 2010 (with Peter Drysdale)
- ‘The influence of economics and politics on the structure of world trade and investment flows’ (with Peter Drysdale), presented to the 33rd Pacific Trade and Development Conference, The Politics and the Economics of Integration in Asia and the Pacific, 6-8 October 2009, Taipei, Taiwan. » view paper
- Measuring Trade and Trade Potential: A Survey, Asia Pacific Economic Papers, Number 368 » view paper PDF, 187KB
Books
- Armstrong, Shiro, and Tom Westland, 2018. Asian economic integration in an era of global uncertainty, ANU Press, Canberra
- Armstrong, Shiro and Yiping Huang, 2014 Asian Financial Integration: Impacts of the Global Crisis and Options for Regional Policies, Routledge, London.
- The Politics and the Economics of Integration in Asia and the Pacific, Routledge, London, 2011.
- Financing Higher Education and Economic Development in East Asia, ANU E Press, 2011 (with Bruce Chapman)
- International Institutions and Asian Development, London: Routledge, 2011 (with Vo Tri Thanh)
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