Information for future students

The Arndt-Corden Department of Economics is devoted to full-time research by tenured and non-tenured members of staff and PhD students. It is part of the Crawford School of Economics and Government in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. Professor Raghbendra Jha is the Head of Department.

The Department is mainly concerned with the theoretical and applied problems of economic development, international economics and macroeconomics, with special reference to the countries of Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Southwest Pacific.

Within the broad context of economic development, its interests include:

• The economic relations of these countries with Australia
• Macroeconomics and Finance
• International trade and investment
• Industrialization
• Poverty
• The role of the State
• Natural resources and the environment
• Agriculture
• Decentralization and regional development

For information about the intellectual, financial and physical resources available to PhD students enrolled full time in the Department of Economics, please go to the student support page.