The University of Sydney, founded in 1850, is Australia's first university and has an international reputation for outstanding teaching, as a centre ofresearch excellence and as an active and engaged community leader. It currently has more than 46,000 enrolled students including one of the largest Ph.D. student cohorts in Australia. Latest figures confirm the University of Sydney as Australia's leading research university. The Economics Discipline at the University of Sydney is one of the leading economics departments in Australia. It is home to an active international trade theory and policy group which is pursuing an empirical and theoretical research agenda. This agenda involves work on the formation and optimal design of regional trade agreements (RTAs), the optimal design of NTMs, patents and the pattern of FDI. In 2008, the Discipline hosted the 4th annual meeting of The Asia Pacific Trade Seminars (APTS) - the Asia-Pacific's premier trade conference.
Recent International Project Experience:
1. OECD Consulting Project on NTMs (2007-2008).
Description: A Review of Methods for Quantifying the Trade Effects of Standards in Agri-Food.
2. OECD Consulting Project on RTAs (2006-2008)
Description: Trade Impacts of Selected Regional Trade Agreements in Agriculture.
3. Danish Social Science Research Council Grant (2008-2011)
Description: A theoretical project on RTA design and changes in the trading environment.
4. Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant # DP0665717 (2006-2008)
Description: A theoretical and empirical project linking RTA design to global migration patterns.
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Principal researchers
| Name | Position | |
| Dr. Mark Melatos | Policy data access, collection, modelling and analysis (coordination) | M.Melatos@econ.usyd.edu.au |
| Prof. John Beghin (ISU) | Policy modelling and analysis (co-coordination) | beghin@iastate.edu |