Professor Ligang Song
BA (Renmin), MA (International University of Japan), PhD (ANU)
Professor of Economics, Head, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
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612 6125 3315
Areas of expertise
- Economic Development And Growth 140202
- Other Economics 1499
Research interests
- International economics
- International economic development and policy
- Institutional economics
Publications
- Sheng, Y & Song, L 2019, 'Agricultural production and food consumption in China: A long-term projection', China Economic Review, vol. 53, pp. 15-29.
- Garnaut, R, Song, L & Fang, C, eds, 2018, China's 40 Years of Reform and Development: 1978-2018, ANU Press, Australia.
- Yang, S, Zhou, Y & Song, L 2018, 'Determinants of Intangible Investment and Its Impacts on Firms' Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Private Manufacturing Firms', China & World Economy, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 1-26.
- Song, L, Garnaut, R, Fang, C et al, eds, 2018, China's New Sources of Economic Growth, ANU Press, Canberra.
- Garnaut, R, Johnston, L & Song, L 2018, 'Where Is the Chinese Economy Going? A Forum on Contemporary Policy and Performance', The Australian Economic Review, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 441-449pp.
- Zhou, Y, Zhang, R & Song, L 2018, 'How funding structure affects efficiency of R&D investment by large- and medium-sized industrial firms in China? Evidence from province-level panel data', Singapore Economic Review, vol. 64, no. 4.
- Song, L & Simpson, C 2018, 'Linking "adaptive efficiency" with the basic market functions: A new analytical perspective for institution and policy analysis', Asia & The Pacific Policy Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 544-557pp.
- Song, L 2017, '[BOOK REVIEW] Revival, Legitimization, and Development of Private Enterprise in China: Empowering State Capitalism', The China Journal, vol. 77, no. 0, pp. 205-207.
- Garnaut, R, Johnston, L & Song, L 2017, 'Where Is the Chinese Economy Going? A Forum on Contemporary Policy and Performance', The Australian Economic Review, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 441-449pp.
- Bao, Q, Ye, N & Song, L 2016, 'Congested Export Spillover in China', Review of Development Economics, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 272-282.
- Zhou, Y & Song, L 2016, 'International Trade and R&D Investment: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms', China and World Economy, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 63-84.
- Zhou, Y & Song, L 2016, 'Income inequality in China: causes and policy responses', China Economic Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 186-208.
- Zhou, Y & Song, L 2016, 'Income inequality in China: causes and policy responses', China Economic Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 186-208.
- Song, L 2015, 'The global dimension of rebalancing and sustaining growth in China', in Juzhong Zhuang, Paul Vandenberg, Yiping Huang (ed.), Managing the Middle-Income Transition, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., Cheltenham, Northampton, pp. 141-175.
- Chu, S & Song, L 2015, 'Promoting Private Entrepreneurship for Deepening Market Reform in China: A Resource Allocation Perspective', China and World Economy, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 47-77.
- Garnaut, R, Song, L, Cai, F, Johnston, L, 2015, 'Domestic Transformation in the Global Context', in Ligang Song, Ross Garnaut, Cai Fang and Lauren Johnston (ed.), China's Domestic Transformation in A Global Context, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 1-18.
- Guo, Q, Lau, C, Li, K, Song, L, 2015, 'National energy market integration: a study of energy price convergence in China', in Ligang Song, Ross Garnaut, Cai Fang and Lauren Johnston (ed.), China's Domestic Transformation in A Global Context, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 111-135.
- Song, L 2015, 'State and non-state enterprises in China's economic transition', in Gregory C. Chow, Dwight H. Perkins (ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Economy, Routledge, Oxon, New York, pp. 182-207.
- Song, L, Garnaut, R, Cai. F, Johnston, L, eds, 2015, China's Domestic Transformation in a Global Context, ANU Press, Canberra.
- Song, L, Garnaut, R & Fang, C, eds, 2014, Deepening Reform for China's Long-term Growth and Development, ANU Press, Canberra.
- Song, L 2014, 'Rebalancing China's Growth', in Shenggen Fan, Ravi Kanbur, Shang-jin Wei, Xiabo Zhang (ed.), The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 75-79.
- Song, L 2014, 'China's resource demand, the environment and enterprise system Reform', in Peter Harris (ed.), China at the Crossroads, Victoria University Press, Wellington New Zealand, pp. 96-103.
- Chu, S & Song, L 2014, 'State Control, Entrepreneurship and Resource Allocation', in Ligang Song, Ross Garnaut, Cai Fang (ed.), Deepening Reform for China's Long-term Growth and Development, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 73-105.
- Garnaut, R, Song, L & Fang, C 2014, 'Reform and China's Long-Term Growth and Development', in Ligang Song, Ross Garnaut, Cai Fang (ed.), Deepening Reform for China's Long-term Growth and Development, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 3-25.
- Song, L, Bao, Q & Shao, M 2014, 'Is Export Spillover Localized in China', Review of Development Economics, Vol. 18, Issue 2, pp. 218-230
- Sheng, Y & Song, L 2013, 'Re-estimation of firms' total factor productivity in China's iron and steel industry', China Economic Review, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 177-188.
- Garnaut, R, Fang, C & Song, L, eds, 2013, China: A New Model for Growth and Development, ANU ePress, Canberra.
- Deer, L & Song, L 2013, 'International Financial Adjustment for China: A Financial Valuation Approach', China and World Economy, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 1-25.
- Glazebrook, K & Song, L 2013, 'Is China up to the Test? A review of theories and priorities for education investment for a modern China', China and World Economy, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 56-78.
- McKay, W & Song, L 2013, 'Chinese Industrialisation: Path Dependence and the Transition to a New Model', in Ross Garnaut, Cai Fang and Ligang Song (ed.), China: A New Model for Growth and Development, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 75-96.
- Garnaut, R, Fang, C & Song, L 2013, 'China's new strategy for long-term growth and development: Imperatives and Implications', in Ross Garnaut, Cai Fang and Ligang Song (ed.), China: A New Model for Growth and Development, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 1-16pp.
- Song, L 2013, 'China's rapid growth and development: a historical and international context', in Huang, Yiping & Yu, Miaojie (ed.), China's New Role in the World Economy, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 19-43.
- Deer, L & Song, L 2012, 'China's Approach to Rebalancing: A Conceptual and Policy Framework', China and World Economy, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 1-26.
- Song, L & Liu, H 2012, 'Steel industry development and transformation in China: an overview', in Ligang Song & Haimin Liu (ed.), The Chinese steel industry's transformation: structural change, performance and demand on resources, Edward Elgar Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 1-16.
- McKay, W & Song, L 2012, 'Rebalancing the Chinese Economy to Sustain Long-Term Growth', in Huw McKay and Ligang Song (ed.), Rebalancing and Sustaining Growth in China, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 1-18.
- Garnaut, R, Song, L, Yao, Y et al 2012, Private Enterprise in China (2nd ed), ANU ePress, Canberra.
- McKay, W & Song, L, eds, 2012, Rebalancing and Sustaining Growth in China, ANU ePress, Canberra.
- Sheng, Y. and Song, L 2012, 'China's iron ore import demand and its determinants: a time-series analysis', in Ligang Song & Haimin Liu (ed.), The Chinese steel industry's transformation: structural change, performance and demand on resources, Edward Elgar Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 145-161.
- Sheng, Y. and Song, L 2012, 'The technical efficiency of China's large and medium iron and steel enterprises: a firm-level analysis', in Ligang Song & Haimin Liu (ed.), The Chinese steel industry's transformation: structural change, performance and demand on resources, Edward Elgar Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 89-105.
- Sheng, Y. and Song, L, 2012, 'China's iron and steel industry performance: total factor productivity and its determinants', in Ligang Song & Haimin Liu (ed.), The Chinese steel industry's transformation: structural change, performance and demand on resources, Edward Elgar Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 69-88.
- Sheng, Y. and Song, L, 2012, 'The backward and forward linkages of the iron and steel industry in China and their implications', in Ligang Song & Haimin Liu (ed.), The Chinese steel industry's transformation: structural change, performance and demand on resources, Edward Elgar Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 106-128.
- Song, L and G. Dai, 2012, 'Restructuring China's steel industry and the implications for energy use and the environment', in Ligang Song & Haimin Liu (ed.), The Chinese steel industry's transformation: structural change, performance and demand on resources, Edward Elgar Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 162-176.
- Song, L and H. Liu, 2012, 'China's shift from being a net importer to a net exporter of steel and its implications', in Ligang Song & Haimin Liu (ed.), The Chinese steel industry's transformation: structural change, performance and demand on resources, Edward Elgar Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 129-144.
- Bao, Q, Chen, Y & Song, L 2011, 'Foreign direct investment and environmental pollution in China: a simultaneous equations estimation', Environment and Development Economics, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 71-92.
- Song, L 2011, 'The steel industry development in China', APEC Economies Newsletter, vol. 15, no. 10.
- Golley, J & Song, L, eds, 2011, Rising China: Global Challenges and Opportunities, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia.
- Sun, S, Song, L & Drysdale, P 2011, 'The role of geographical proximity in FDI productivity spillovers in China', in Lilai Xu (ed.), China's Economy in the Post-WTO Environment: Stock Markets, FDI and Challenges of Sustainability, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, pp. 142-156.
- Li, K & Song, L 2011, 'The Technological Content of China's Exports and the Need for Quality Upgrading', in Jane Golley and Ligang Song (ed.), Rising China: Global Challenges and Opportunities, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 69-83.
- Golley, J & Song, L 2011, 'China's Rise in a Changing World', in Jane Golley and Ligang Song (ed.), Rising China: Global Challenges and Opportunities, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 1-8.
- Song, L 2011, China (Asia's Economic Transformation: Implications for Australia).
- Golley, J & Song, L 2011, 'Rising China: global challenges and opportunities', East Asia Forum Quarterly (or Online).
- Song, L, J. Yang and Y. Zhang, 2011, 'State-owned enterprises' Outward investment and the structural reform in China', China and World Economy, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 38-53.
- Song, L & McKay, H 2010, 'China as a global manufacturing powerhouse: Strategic considerations and structural adjustment', China and World Economy, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 1-32.
- Golley, J & Song, L 2010, 'Chinese economic reform and development: achievements, emerging challenges and unfinished tasks', in Ross Garnaut, Jane Golley and Ligang Song (ed.), China: The Next Twenty Years of Reform and Development, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 1-15.
- Garnaut, R, Golley, J & Song, L, eds, 2010, China: The Next Twenty Years of Reform and Development, ANU ePress, Canberra.
- McKay, H, Sheng, Y & Song, L 2010, 'China's metal intensity in comparative perspective', in Ross Garnaut, Jane Golley and Ligang Song (ed.), China: The Next Twenty Years of Reform and Development, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 73-98.
- Song, L & Zhang, Y 2010, 'Will Chinese growth slow after the Lewis turning point?', China Economic Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 209-219.
- Song, L, jiang, Wu & Zhang, Y 2010, 'Urbanization of migrant workers and expansion of domestic demand', Social Sciences in China, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 194-216.
- Song, L 1996, Changing global comparative advantage : evidence from Asia and the Pacific, Addison-Wesley, Unknown.
- Song, L 1994, 'Trade-revealed factor abundance: further evidence', Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, vol. 9, pp. 278-289pp.
- Song, L 2010, 'The scale of China's economic impact', East Asia Forum Quarterly (EAFQ), vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 6-8.
- Song, L & Sheng, Y 2009, 'Linking economic development with demand for energy: a discontinuous estimation of energy demand elasticity', in Chunlai Chen (ed.), China's Integration with the Global Economy: WTO Accession, Foreign Direct Investment and International Trade, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, pp. 204-220.
- Song, L 2009, 'Let the stimulus package work in China', in Barbara Nelson & Andrew MacIntyre (ed.), Capturing the year 2009: Writings from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, pp. 115-118.
- Song, L 2009, 'Let the stimulus package work in China', APEC Economies Newsletter, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 1-2.
- Song, L & McKay, H 2009, 'China as a manufacturing powerhouse', APEC Economies Newsletter, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 1-2.
- McKay, H & Song, L 2009, 'Global implications of China as a manufacturing powerhouse', in Ross Garnaut, Ligang Song and Wing Thye Woo (ed.), China's New Place in a World in Crisis: Economic, Geopolitical and Environmental Dimensions, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 261-302.
- Garnaut, R, Song, L & Woo, W, eds, 2009, China's New Place in a World in Crisis: Economic, Geopolitical and Environmental Dimensions, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia.
- Garnaut, R, Song, L & Yao, Y 2008, 'Impact and significance of state-owned enterprise restructuring in China', in B M Fleisher, N C Hope, A A Pena and D T Yang (ed.), Policy Reform and Chinese Markets: Progress and Challenges, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, pp. 38-70.
- Song, L & Woo, W 2008, 'China's dilemmas in the 21st century', in Ligang Song & Wing Thye Woo (ed.), China's dilemma: economic growth, the environment and climate change, ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia, pp. 1-12.
- Song, L, Bao, Q & Chen, Y 2008, 'The environmental consequences of foreign direct investment in China', in Ligang Song & Wing Thye Woo (ed.), China's dilemma: economic growth, the environment and climate change, ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia, pp. 243-264.
- Song, L & Sheng, Y 2008, 'Comparative advantage and Australia-China bilateral trade', Economic Papers, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 41-56.
- Song, L & Woo, W, eds, 2008, China's Dilemma: Economic growth, the environment and climate change, ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L, eds, 2007, China: Linking Markets for Growth, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia.
- Song, L & Sheng, Y 2007, 'China's demand for energy: a global perspective', in Ross Garnaut & Ligang Song (ed.), China: Linking Markets for Growth, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 225-247.
- Song, L & Pangestu, M, eds, 2007, Japan's Future in East Asia and the Pacific, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra Australia.
- Song, L, Li, K & Zhao, X 2007, 'Component trade and China's global economic integration', in Ross Garnaut & Ligang Song (ed.), China: Linking Markets for Growth, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 71-94.
- Song, L, Chen, T & Zhao, S 2007, 'The dynamic in East Asia trade', in Mari Pangestu and Ligang Song (ed.), Japan's Future in East Asia and the Pacific, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra Australia, pp. 166-194.
- Song, L 2007, 'The East Asian experience: the People's Republic of China', in Arsenio M Balisacan and Hal Hill (ed.), The Dynamics of Regional Development: The Philippines in East Asia, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham UK and Northampton USA, pp. 93-122.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L 2006, 'China's resources demand at the turning point', in Ross Garnaut & Ligang Song (ed.), The Turning Point in China's Economic Development, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 276-293.
- Garnaut, R, SONG, L & Yao, Y 2006, 'Impact and Significance of State-Owned Enterprise restructuring in China', The China Journal, vol. 55, pp. 35-63.
- Song, L & Yao, Y 2006, 'The impact of privatisation on firm performance in China', in Yang Yao and Linda Yueh (ed.), Globalisation and Economic Growth in China, World Scientific Publishing Company, London, pp. 59-115.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L, eds, 2006, The Turning Point in China's Economic Development, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L 2006, 'Truncated globalisation: the fate of the Asia Pacific economies?', in Christopher Findlay and Hadi Soesastro (ed.), Reshaping the Asia Pacific Economic Order, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, UK, pp. 46-81.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L 2006, 'Rapid industrialization and market for energy and minerals: China in the East Asian context', Frontiers of Economics in China, vol. 3, pp. 373-394.
- Song, L & Sheng, Y 2005, 'Rapid urbanisation and implications for growth in China', in Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (ed.), The China Boom and its Discontents, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 105-127.
- Li, K & Song, L 2005, 'China's Trade Expansion and the Asia Pacific Economies', in Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (ed.), The China Boom and its Discontents, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 240-262.
- Garnaut, R, Song, L, Tenev, S et al 2005, China's Ownership Transformation: Process, Outcomes, Prospects, International Finance Corporation and The World Bank, Washington, USA.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L 2004, China's Third Economic Transformation: The rise of the private economy, Routledge Curzon, London.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L 2004, China: Is Rapid Growth Sustainable?, Asia Pacific Press, ANU, Canberra.
- Li, K & Song, L 2004, 'Exchange rate determination and implications', in Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (ed.), China: Is rapid growth sustainable?, Asia Pacific Press, ANU, Canberra, pp. 77-93.
- Song, L 2004, 'Emerging private enterprise in China: transitional paths and implications', in Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (ed.), China's Third Economic Transformation: The rise of the private economy, Routledge Curzon, London, pp. 29-47.
- Sheng, Y & Song, L 2004, 'Privatisation, incentive effects and sustainability of growth', in Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (ed.), China: Is rapid growth sustainable?, Asia Pacific Press, ANU, Canberra, pp. 212-231.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L 2004, 'Private enterprise in China: development, constraints and policy implications', in Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (ed.), China's Third Economic Transformation: The rise of the private economy, Routledge Curzon, London, pp. 1-15.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L 2004, 'Correcting constraints to private enterprise development: lessons from a private sector survey', in Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (ed.), China's Third Economic Transformation: The rise of the private economy, Routledge Curzon, London, pp. 225-235.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L 2003, China: New Engine of World Growth, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra.
- Song, L 2003, 'The State of the Chinese Economy: structural changes, impacts and implications', in Deborah Z. Cass, Brett G. Williams, George Barker (ed.), China and the World Trading System: Entering the New Millennium, Cambridge University Press, London, pp. 83-92.
- Song, L & Sun, S 2003, 'A changing role in world trade', in Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (ed.), China: New Engine of World Growth, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, pp. 151-175.
- Song, L 2002, 'Entry to the WTO and the domestic private economy', in Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (ed.), China 2002: WTO entry and world recession, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, pp. 97-110.
- Song, L 2002, 'Conditions and prospects for sustaining China's economic growth', in Ligang Song (ed.), Dilemmas of China's Growth in the Twenty-First Century, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 1-10.
- Song, L & Huang, Y 2001, Applied Quantitative Economics, Shanghai People?s Publishing House, Shanghai.
- Garnaut, R, Song, L, Yao, Y et al 2001, Private Enterprise in China, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra and Beijing.
- Huang, Y & Song, L 2001, 'Why was China different?', in Dipak Dasgupta, Mar Uzan and Dominic Wilson (ed.), Capital Flows without crisis? Reconciling Capital Mobility and Economic Stability, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 278-289.
- Drysdale, P & Song, L 2001, 'Evidence of Shifts in the Determinants of the Structure of Japanese Manufacturing Trade, 1970-95', Pacific Economic Papers, vol. 321, no. November, pp. ??.
- Song, L & Zhang, Y 2000, 'Exchange rate changes, trade development and structural adjustment in the East Asian economies', in Drysdale, P.; Zhang, Y.; Song, L. (ed.), APEC and Liberalisation of the Chinese Economy, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, pp. 243-258.
- Garnaut, R, Drysdale, P & Song, L 2000, 'Introduction: China's interests in APEC', in Drysdale, P.; Zhang, Y.; Song, L. (ed.), APEC and Liberalisation of the Chinese Economy, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, pp. xv-xxv.
- Drysdale, P & Song, L 2000, 'China's entry to the WTO: An overview', in Drysdale, P.; Song, L. (ed.), China's Entry to the WTO: Strategic issues and quantitative assessments, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, pp. 1-6.
- Song, L 2000, 'State-owned enterprise and bank reform in China: conditions for liberalisation of the capital account', in Drysdale, P.D. (ed.), Reform and Recovery in East Asia: The Role of the State and Economic Enterprise, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, pp. 214-228.
- Xu, X & Song, L 2000, 'Regional Cooperation and the Environment: Do Dirty Industries Migrate?', Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv-Review of World Economics, vol. 136, no. 1, pp. 137-157.
- Xu, X & Song, L 2000, 'Export similarity and the pattern of East Asia development', in Lloyd, P; Zhang, X-g (ed.), China in the Global Economy, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, pp. 145-164.
- Song, L 2000, 'Trade liberalisation and development of China's foreign trade', in Drysdale, P.; Song, L. (ed.), China's Entry to the WTO: Strategic issues and quantitative assessments, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, pp. 66-85.
