Professor Kym Anderson

Institution School of Economics and Executive Director, Centre for
Discipline Economics
Expertise Modelling biotechnical change in the global economy and its welfare and
income distributional effects

Research RIRDC grant 2002-03 UA-57A entitled Global biotechnology adoption and
policy responses: Implications for Australian exporters

ARC Discovery Grant 2003-05 DP0345613 entitled Globalization, WTO and
sustainable development: New challenges, opportunities and implications
for Australia

Relevant Publications Anderson K, McRae, C and Wilson, D (eds) (2001) The Economics of Quarantine and the SPS Agreement, Adelaide: Centre for International Economic Studies and Canberra: Biosecurity Australia

Anderson K and Yao S (2003) China, GMOs and World Trade in Agricultural and Textile Products, Pacific Economic Review 8(2): 157-69

Anderson K and Nielsen C (2001) Cultures Transgeniques et Commerce International, Economie Internationale 87: 45-62, 2001 (in French)

Anderson K and Nielsen C (2001) Global Market Effects of European Responses to Genetically Modified Organisms, Weltwertschaftliches Archiv 137(2): 320-46 (To be reprinted in The WTO and Technical Barriers to Trade, edited by S. Henson and J. Wilson, London: Edward Elgar, 2004.)

Anderson K, Nielsen C, Robinson S and Thierfelder K (2001) Estimating the Global Economic Effects of GMOs, in Pardey P (ed), The Future of Food: Biotechnology: Markets and Policies in an International Setting, Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute

Anderson K and Nielsen C (2001) GMOs, Food Safety and the Environment: What Role for Trade Policy and the WTO? in Peters G and Pingali P, Tomorrow’s Agriculture: Incentives, Institutions, Infrastructure and Innovations, Aldershot: Ashgate for the IAAE, 61-85

Anderson K and Nielsen C (2001) GMOs, Trade Policy, and Welfare in Rich and Poor Countries" in Maskus K, Wilson J and Arbor A (eds) Quantifying the Impact of Technical Barriers to Trade: Can it be Done? University of Michigan Press, ch 6

Anderson K and Nielsen C (2001) Biotechnology, Trade, and Welfare: The Case of GMOs, in McMahon J (ed) Trade and Agriculture: Negotiating a New Agreement? London: Cameron May, Ch. 12

Anderson K, McRae C and Wilson D (2001) Introduction in Anderson K, McRae C and Wilson D (eds) The Economics of Quarantine and the SPS Agreement, Adelaide: Centre for International Economic Studies, and Canberra: Biosecurity Australia

Anderson K and Nielsen C (2001) GMOs, the SPS Agreement, and the WTO, in Anderson K, McRae C and Wilson D (eds) The Economics of Quarantine and the SPS Agreement,, Adelaide: Centre for International Economic Studies, and Canberra: Biosecurity Australia

Anderson, K. and Jackson L (2004), Global Responses to GM Food Technology: Implications for Australia, RIRDC Publication No. 04/xx, Canberra: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (forthcoming)

Memberships Positions 

Principal of research projects on global economics of agric biotech

Executive Director of CIES