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Created: 9/20/2000 Updated: 1/3/2018 Visits: 2,913	Dr. Mahinda Siriwardana Professor of Economics University of New England UNE Business School Armidale, New South Wales 2351 Australia asiriwar@une.edu.au 61-2-6773-2501 (ph) 0 (fx)

Biography
Mahinda Siriwardana has taught economics at the University of Colombo, University of Manitoba, La Trobe University, and held a fulltime research position at the Australian National University before he joined UNE. He has held visiting positions at Victoria University (Canada) and University Waterloo (Canada). Recently he was a visiting Professor at Doshisha University (Japan), Ryukoku University (Japan), Kindai University (Japan) and University of Malaya (Malaysia). He is a recipient of several Australia Research Council (ARC) grants.

Mahinda is an internationally recognised researcher in economics, especially in the fields of Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling, trade policy analysis and carbon price modelling. Mahinda has developed several CGE models during his career and they include models for Victoria, Australia, China, and Singapore. In addition he has associated with his PhD students to develop models for Kenya, the Philippines, Indonesia, Western Samoa, Iran, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Australia. Some of Mahinda's work has adopted the multi-country CGE framework using the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model.

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- The distributional and welfare effects of the Australian emissions trading scheme by Tran, Trang, Sam Meng, Mahinda Siriwardana, Judith McNeill and Duy Nong Resource Type: Other CGE Application - Economic Impacts of Trade Delays in South Asia: GTAP Application of Ad-Valorem Equivalents of Time to Trade by Ahangamage, Subashini and Mahinda Siriwardana Publication: Presented at the 20th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, West Lafayette, IN, USA Resource Type: 2017 Conference Paper Keywords: Non-Tariff barriers, The GTAP Data Base and extensions, Asia (South-Central), Asia (Southeast) - Regional Economic Consequences of the Chinese Agricultural Support Policies by Wang, Can, Mahinda Siriwardana and Sam Meng Publication: Presented at the 19th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Washington DC, USA Resource Type: 2016 Conference Paper Keywords: Economic growth, Agricultural policies, Domestic policy analysis, Food prices and food security - Will the direct action plan work? by Meng, Sam, Mahinda Siriwardana and Judith McNeill Publication: Presented at the 18th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Melbourne, Australia Resource Type: 2015 Conference Paper Keywords: Climate change policy, Oceania - A review of the economic modelling on the impacts of the Australian carbon tax by McNeill, Judith, Mahinda Siriwardana, Sam Meng, Duy Nong and Trang Tran Publication: Presented at the 18th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Melbourne, Australia Resource Type: 2015 Conference Paper Keywords: Climate change policy, Oceania - Australia in an International Emissions Trading (ETS) Scheme: An Economic Evaluation Using the GTAP-E Model by Siriwardana, Mahinda and Duy Nong Publication: Presented at the 18th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Melbourne, Australia Resource Type: 2015 Conference Paper Keywords: Software and modeling tools, Climate change policy, The GTAP Data Base and extensions, European Unio... - The Distributional and Welfare Effects of the Australian Emissions Trading Scheme by Tran, Trang, Sam Meng, Mahinda Siriwardana, Judith McNeill and Duy Nong Publication: Presented at the 18th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Melbourne, Australia Resource Type: 2015 Conference Paper Keywords: Climate change policy, Climate impacts, Economic development, Economic growth, Oceania - A Micro Environmental Social Accounting Matrix (E-SAM) for Australia by Nong, Duy, Sam Meng, Mahinda Siriwardana, Judith McNeill and Trang Tran Publication: Presented at the 18th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Melbourne, Australia Resource Type: 2015 Conference Paper Keywords: Climate change policy, Climate impacts, Other data bases and data issues, Oceania - Border Adjustments under Unilateral Carbon Pricing: Are they Warranted in the Case of Australian Carbon Tax? by Siriwardana, Mahinda, Sam Meng and Judith McNeill Publication: Presented at the 16th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Shanghai, China Resource Type: 2013 Conference Paper Keywords: Climate change policy, Trade and the environment, Domestic policy analysis, The GTAP Data Base and e... - The Impact of an Appreciation of the Chinese Yuan on the Global Trade by Meng, Sam, Mahinda Siriwardana and Judith McNeill Publication: Presented at the 16th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Shanghai, China Resource Type: 2013 Conference Paper Keywords: Domestic policy analysis, Asia (East) - Implications of the COMESA Free Trade Area and Proposed Customs Union: an Empirical Investigation by Karingi, Stephen, Mahinda Siriwardana and Eric Ronge Publication: Presented at the 5th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Taipei, Taiwan Resource Type: GTAP Application, 2002 Conference Paper Keywords: Preferential trading arrangements

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