Professor Jenny Corbett
BA (Hons, ANU), MA and PhD (Michigan), MA (Oxon), FASSA
Emeritus Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, CAP
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Areas of expertise
- International Economics And International Finance 140210
- Macroeconomics (Incl. Monetary And Fiscal Theory) 140212
- Comparative Economic Systems 149901
Research interests
- The Japanese economy, particularly banking, macro-economic policy and corporate governance.
- Banking and financial crisis.
- Financial integration in East Asia
- Financial regulation
Biography
Professor Jenny Corbett is Emeritus Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy and the inaugural Rio Tinto Fellow for the Foundation for Australia-Japan Studies (www.fajs.org), based at the University of Tokyo. She is also Professorial Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute of Griffith University. She a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. She was Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Research Training) from 2012 to 2016 and Director of the ANU Japan Institute 2016-17. Before that she was the Executive Director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre, at the Crawford School from 2005 to 2012. She is also Reader in the Economy of Japan at the University of Oxford where she has taught since 1983, a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London) and a Research Associate of the Centre for Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia University. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan. Her research centres on current macro-economic and financial policy issues in Japan, regional financial integration and regulation of cross-border financial flows. She has written on financial crisis and financial system design since the early 1990s, covering developments in Eastern Europe in the early 90s and Asia and Japan in the late 1990s. She has been a consultant to the Asian Development Bank, the OECD, the World Bank and the European Commission and has directed research projects for the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) on economic policy issues in the East Asia Summit group of countries. She is a member of the Australia New Zealand Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee which comments on current developments in financial and monetary policy. In 2014 she was awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon.
Researcher's projects
- Regional Financial Integration
- Structure of regional financial regulation
- Trade in Services
- Banking restructuring in Japan and post-crisis Asia
Publications
- Xu, Y & Corbett, J 2020, 'What a network measure can tell us about financial interconnectedness and output volatility', Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, vol. 58, no. -, pp. 1-20.
- Corbett, J & Xu, Y 2015, 'Macroeconomic rebalancing and financial integration in East Asia: Overview', in Jenny Corbett and Ying Xu (ed.), Rebalancing Economies in Financially Integrating East Asia, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 169-200.
- Corbett, J & Twite, G 2015, 'Corporate savings, investment and financial structure in East Asia: micro-evidence', in Jenny Corbett and Ying Xu (ed.), Rebalancing Economies in Financially Integrating East Asia, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 25-48.
- Corbett, J & Xu, Y 2015, 'Macroeconomic rebalancing and financial integration in East Asia', in Jenny Corbett and Ying Xu (ed.), Rebalancing Economies in Financially Integrating East Asia, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 1-9.
- Maulana, A, Feng, W & Corbett, J 2015, 'Choosing the best partners for risk-sharing integration', in Jenny Corbett and Ying Xu (ed.), Rebalancing Economies in Financially Integrating East Asia, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 149-180.
- Corbett, J & Xu, Y, eds, 2015, Rebalancing Economies in Financially Integrating East Asia, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York.
- Heng, D & Corbett, J 2015, 'What drives some countries to hoard foreign reserves?', in Jenny Corbett and Ying Xu (ed.), Rebalancing Economies in Financially Integrating East Asia, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 102-128.
- Corbett, J, Macintyre, A & Mewburn, I 2014, 'Functional Dystopia: Diversity, Contestability and New Media in the Academy', in Margaret Thornton (ed.), Through a Glass Darkly: The Social Sciences Look at the Neoliberal University, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 195-208.
- Corbett, J 2012, 'Growth: getting back on track', East Asia Forum Quarterly (EAFQ), vol. 4, no. 3 (July-September 2012), pp. 37-38.
- Corbett J. and Maulana, A., 2012, "Consumption Risk Sharing and Its Implications for Financial Integration: The Case of Nine East Asian Countries", Chapter 4 in S. Thangavelu & A. Chongvilaivan (eds), Real and Financial Integration in Asia, Routledge-ERIA Studies in Development Economics, London & New York: Routledge.
- Corbett J. and Twite G. 2012, "Capital Structure of Firms and Real-Financial Linkages in East Asia",Chapter 6 in S. Thangavelu & A. Chongvilaivan (eds), Real and Financial Integration in Asia. Routledge-ERIA Studies in Development Economics. London, New York:Routledge
- Corbett, J 2012, 'Has Japan's Lost Decade(s) Changed Economic Thinking?', The Economic Record, vol. 88, pp. 100-105.
- Corbett, J. 2012,"Has Japan's Lost Decade(s) Changed Economic Thinking?", Economic Record. Volume 88, Special Issue, pp 100-105.
- Corbett, Jenny, Gai, Prasanna, and Onji, Kazuki, 2012, "The Banking System in East Asia and The Transmission of The Global Financial Crisis", Chapter 7 in S. Thangavelu & A. Chongvilaivan (eds), Real and Financial Integration in Asia, Routledge-ERIA Studies in Development Economics, London & New York: Routledge.
- Onji, K, Vera, D & Corbett, J., 2012, 'Capital injection, restructuring targets and personnel management: The case of Japanese regional banks', Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 495-517.
- Tyers, R & Corbett, J 2012, 'Japan's economic slowdown and its global implications: A review of the economic modelling', Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 1-28.
- Corbett, J. 2011, 'Financial System Reform: Recovery or Retrogression?', in Purnendra Jain and Brad Williams (ed.), Japan In Decline: Fact or Fiction?, Global Oriental (Brill), Folkstone UK, pp. 3-17.
- Corbett, J 2010, 'Asian Financial Integration', in Noel Gaston and Ahmed M. Khalid (ed.), Globalization and Economic Integration: Winners and Losers in the Asia-Pacific, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltanham UK and Northampton, MA, USA, pp. 95-118.
- Corbett, J, Gai, P & Onji, K 2010, The Banking System in East Asia and the Transmission of the Global Financial Crisis.
- Corbett, J & Maulana, A 2010, 'Consumption Risk Sharing and Its Implications for Financial Integration: The Case of Nine East Asian Countries', in Christopher Findlay, Friska Parulian and Jenny Corbett (ed.), Linkages Between Real and Financial Aspects of Economic Integration in East Asia, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Jakarta, pp. 60-93.
- Corbett, J & Twite, G 2010, 'Capital Structure of Firms and Real-Financial Linkages in East Asia', in Christopher Findlay, Friska Parulian and Jenny Corbett (ed.), Linkages Between Real and Financial Aspects of Economic Integration in East Asia, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Jakarta, pp. 152-195.
- Corbett, J & Vines, D 1999, 'Asian currency and financial crises: Lessons from vulnerability, crisis, and collapse', The World Economy, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 155-177.
- Corbett, J, Daly, A, Taylor, D et al., eds, 2009, Laggards and Leaders: Australia and Japan Labour Market Changes, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York.
- Corbett, J, Daly, A & Taylor, D 2009, 'Facing up to the Hurdle Race', in Jenny Corbett, Anne Daly, Hisakazu Matsushige & Dehne Taylor (ed.), Laggards and Leaders in Labour Market Reform. Comparing Japan and Australia, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 1-19.
- Corbett, J 2008, 'Integrating Financial Markets', in Asian Development Bank (ed.), Emerging Asian Regionalism: A partnership for shared prosperity, Asian Development Bank, Phillippines, pp. 108-148.
- Corbett, J 2007, 'Democratic Partners', in Jenny Corbet et al (ed.), Australia-Japan: Friendship and Prosperity, Focus Publishing, Sydney, p. 99.
- Corbett, J 2007, 'Evolution of Risk and Risk Management - A Prudential regulator's perspective. Discussion', in Christopher Kent and Jeremy Lawson (ed.), The Structure and Resilience of the Financial System, Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney, pp. 318-323.
- de Brouwer, G & Corbett, J 2005, 'A new financial market structure for East Asia: How to promote regional financial market integration', in Yung Chul Park, Takatoshi Ito, Yunjong Wang (ed.), A New Financial Market Structure for East Asia, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, pp. 417-450.
- Corbett, J, Edwards, J, Jenkinson, T et al. 2004, 'A Responce to Hackethal and Schmidt (2003) 'Financing Patterns: Measurement Concepts and Empirical Results'', Social Sciences Research Network, vol. 2004493623.
- Corbett, J & Sidorenko, A 2003, 'Consumer Protection in Cross-Border e-finance: Regional Approaches', in Alexandra Sidorenko and Christopher Findlay (ed.), Regulation and Market Access, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 207-241.
- Blomstrom, M, Corbett, J, Hayashi, F et al., eds, 2003, Structural Impediments to Growth in Japan, University of Chicago Press, United States.
