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My on-going and forthcoming research works includes

  • Researches that are in line with my Ph.D thesis i.e. "Distributional Impact of Environmental Policies", part of the research works is also funded by EEPSEA (Economy and the Environment Program for South East Asia).
  • Research projects under Poverty Research Center, RSPAS, The Australian National University. The works mostly to develop various CGE model with the emphasis on distributional issues for various developing countries, like Laos, PDR, Indonesia, and Thailand.
  • Researches project (forthcoming) with Dr. Budy P. Resosudarmo on "Analyzing Paths to Sustainability in Indonesia", collaboration of Australian National University, World Bank, AusAID, CSIRO and Bappenas.
  • I have been working together in various research work with Prof. Phoebe Koundouri (of Athens University of Economics and Business) mostly on water-related issues and hedonic studies (environmental econometrics).
  • I also plan to spare my time to develop and maintain a research and education website of www.equitablepolicy.org with the mission of promoting the use of economic modeling for better and equitable economic policies. This site is mainly for teaching and training purposes.

Thesis-related research projects

Empirical evidences suggest that in developed countries, environmental policies to reduce pollution or which are energy-related is mostly regressive i.e. the burden of the regulation are mostly borne to lower income households, and hence make income distribution less equal. However, whether similar conclusion would be applied to developing countries still needs to be researched. Distributional impact of environmental policies depends on the income and expenditure patterns of households which naturally may be different between rich and poor countries. It would be argued that whether or not environmental policies are equitable is an empirical question. This research, which will use Indonesia as a case study will be an attempt to answer such empirical question, and to contribute to the debate of whether conflict between environmental and equity goals do exist.

Working papers on this research include:

  • Who pay for the cleaner air: Distributional Impact of environmental policies in dualistic economy, Australian National University, 2007.
  • Constructing Indonesian Social Accounting Matrix for Distributional Analysis in the CGE modeling framework, Australian National University, December 2006.
  • Searching for equitable energy price reforms for Indonesia, Australian National University, 2007.
  • On the Distributional Cost (or gain) of carbon tax in developing countries: the case of Indonesia, Australian National University [in progress].

Researches under Poverty Research Center, ANU

Research under Poverty Research Center is mostly on " Technical change in Thai and Indonesian agriculture: measurement, socio-economic impact and policy implications". It is a collaboration among Australian National University, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Thailand, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand,  Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia, and  Centre for Agriculture Socio-Economic and Policy Studies, Indonesia. The project is funded by ACIAR (Australian Center for International Agricultural Research).

My part in the project is mostly developing, and programming (with GEMPACK and STATA) Computable General Equilibrim Model (CGE) with the emphasis on distributional analysis such as poverty and inequality. Researches that use those models are written among others in the following paper by Prof. Peter Warr

  • The Gregory Thesis visits the Tropics, ANU Working Papers in Trade and Development, 2006/03
  • Roads and Poverty in Rural Laos, ANU Working Papers in Trade and Development, 2005/04
  • Food Policy and Poverty in Indonesia: A General Equilibrium Analysis, ANU Working Papers in Trade and Development, 2005/03

The most recent working paper is "Agricultural Productivity Growth and Poverty Reduction in Indonesia: The Importance of Productivity Growth in Supporting Industries" written by Oktaviani, Yusuf, and Warr (to be presented AARES 2007 Annual Conference in Queenstown, NZ, from 13-16 February 2007).

Environmental Econometrics

Phoebe and I have published the following works for the last couple of years,

and currently working on the issue of measurement error in hedonic analysis, "Measurement Error in Pollution, Hedonic Price, and the Value of Clean Air in Developing Countries (with P. Koundouri), Athens University of Economics and Business Working Papers, LP3E UNPAD Working paper.

CSIRO Project

The research project will develop an approach that can be used to understand the community level triple bottom line outcomes of proposed macro policy interventions. and will undertake a case study using integrated methodologies and tools to understand the economic-social-ecological consequences of proposed energy related macro-policy decisions, and create feedback mechanisms that inform the policy decisions.

EquitablePolicy.ORG

The website will be a resource about economic modeling such as CGE, econometric model, and others, that can be used for analysing distributional impact of policies. The website will also be devoted as resources for students to learn economic modeling. In the website, many CGE models, program both in GEMPACK (Tablo file) or GAMS (GMS file) as well STATA (do file) can be downloadable. The website is under construction [take a peek .. http://www.equitablepolicy.org ]

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