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Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career

Key details

Areas of expertise

  • Economic modelling

Available to supervise research students

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About James Giesecke

James Giesecke took up his present position as director of CoPS in January 2014. Prior to his current position, he was Professor and deputy director of CoPS at Monash University (2012-14).

His research is in the development of large-scale multi-regional and national computable general equilibrium (CGE) models, and the application of these models to the analysis of the determinants of economic growth and structural change, forecasting, and policy analysis. He has published over fifty papers in peer-reviewed journals and edited books on these topics.

James has twenty years of experience undertaking contract research projects, completing over a hundred commissioned projects, on a wide range of topics, for private and public sector organisations, both nationally and internationally.

With colleagues from CoPS, he has built CGE models of the economies of Australia, Vietnam, Poland, Italy, and sub-regions of the U.S., and promoted the adoption of CGE models by public policy economists in these and other countries through the development and delivery of training courses in economic modelling. Recent major projects with colleagues from CoPS have included the development of CGE models with high levels of financial sector detail, and the application of these models to issues relating to financial structure and regulation.

Qualifications

  • B.Ec (Hons), PhD (Adelaide), 2001

Key publications

Year Citation
2019 Nassios, J., Giesecke, J. A., Dixon, P. B., & Rimmer, M. T. (190901). Modelling the allocative efficiency of landowner taxation. Economic Modelling, 81 (111-123).

doi: 10.1016/j.econmod.2018.12.007

2018 Nassios, J., & Giesecke, J. A. (180401). Informing Ex Ante Event Studies with Macro-Econometric Evidence on the Structural and Policy Impacts of Terrorism. Risk Analysis, 38(4), (804-825).

doi: 10.1111/risa.12874

2018 Giesecke, J. A., & Tran, N. H. (180101). The national and regional consequences of Australia s goods and services tax. Economic Record, 94(306), (255-275).

doi: 10.1111/1475-4932.12419

2017 Giesecke, J. A., Dixon, P. B., & Rimmer, M. T. (170601). The Economy-wide Impacts of a Rise in the Capital Adequacy Ratios of Australian Banks. Economic Record, 93 (16-37).

doi: 10.1111/1475-4932.12341

2016 Mariano, M. JM., & Giesecke, J. A. (160907). Forecasting development outcomes under alternative surplus labour assumptions. Applied Economics, 48(42), (4019-4032).

doi: 10.1080/00036846.2016.1150949

2016 Verikios, G., Sullivan, M., Stojanovski, P., Giesecke, J., & Woo, G. (160801). Assessing Regional Risks From Pandemic Influenza: A Scenario Analysis. World Economy, 39(8), (1225-1255).

doi: 10.1111/twec.12296

2016 Giesecke, J., Dixon, P., & Rimmer, M. (160101). Modelling the macroeconomic effects of an increase in superannuation contributions. JASSA: The Finsia Journal of Applied Finance, 2016(2), (72-82).
2015 Giesecke, J. A., Tran, N. H., Meagher, G. A., & Pang, F. (150403). A decomposition approach to labour market forecasting. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 20(2), (243-270).

doi: 10.1080/13547860.2014.964964

2015 Mariano, M. JM., Giesecke, J. A., & Tran, N. H. (150213). The effects of domestic rice market interventions outside business-as-usual conditions for imported rice prices. Applied Economics, 47(8), (809-832).

doi: 10.1080/00036846.2014.980576

2013 Zawaliska, K., Giesecke, J., & Horridge, M. (130101). The consequences of Less Favoured Area support: A multi-regional CGE analysis for Poland. Agricultural and Food Science, 22(2), (272-287).

doi: 10.23986/afsci.7754

Research funding for the past 5 years

Please note:

  • Funding is ordered by the year the project commenced and may continue over several years.
  • Funding amounts for contact research are not disclosed to maintain commercial confidentiality.
  • The order of investigators is not indicative of the role they played in the research project.

NSW Treasury - Modelling of Marginal Excess Burdens of Payroll Tax
From: NSW Treasury
Other investigators: Dr Jason Nassios, Dr Xianglong Liu
For period: 2023-2023
Not disclosed
Modeling for analysis of Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) and American Partnership for Economic Prosperity (APEP)
From: United States Department of Commerce
Other investigators: Dr Robert Waschik, Prof Peter Dixon, Prof Maureen Bleazby
For period: 2023-2024
Not disclosed
Supply of a national input-output database of Australia with energy and emission-intensive industry detail
From: The Treasury
Other investigators: Dr Xianglong Liu, Dr Jason Nassios, Prof Philip Adams
For period: 2023-2024
Not disclosed
Housing price impacts of housing affordability measures in Victoria
From: Dept of Treasury and Finance
Other investigators: Dr Jason Nassios, Dr Xianglong Liu
For period: 2023-2023
Not disclosed
NSW Treasury 2022-23 HYR Budget Sensitivity Analysis
From: NSW Treasury
Other investigators: Dr Xianglong Liu, Dr Jason Nassios
For period: 2023-2023
Not disclosed

GTAP Baseline
From: World Trade Organisation
Other investigators: Prof Maureen Bleazby, Prof Peter Dixon
For period: 2022-2023
Not disclosed

Economic Impact of Nuclear Detonations: The Nuclear Economic Consequence Analysis Tool (NECAT)
From: University of Southern California Grant
Other investigators: Mr Christopher King, Prof Peter Dixon, Dr Florian Schiffmann, Dr Nicholas Sheard, Prof Glyn Wittwer, Dr Michael Jerie
For period: 2021-2024
Not disclosed
Payroll tax reform options for Queensland
From: Queensland Treasury
Other investigators: Dr Jason Nassios, Mr Christopher King
For period: 2021-2021
Not disclosed

Economic Modelling the Impacts of COVID-19
From: Department of Homeland Security
Other investigators: Prof Peter Dixon, Prof Glyn Wittwer, Dr Robert Waschik
For period: 2020-2020
Not disclosed

Modelling of the Economic Effects of CDC's Financial Institution Investees in India
From: National Council for Applied Economic Research
For period: 2019-2019
Not disclosed

Queensland Treasury Economic Modelling.
From: Queensland Treasury
Other investigators: Prof Glyn Wittwer, Dr Nhi Tran, Prof Philip Adams
For period: 2017-2021
Not disclosed

Supervision of research students at VU

Available to supervise research students

Available for media queries

Currently supervised research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
1 PhD Integrated Associate supervisor

Currently supervised research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD Integrated (1) Associate supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
1 PhD Principal supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (1) Principal supervisor

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