Professor John Gibson
Professor of Economics
About John
Professor John Gibson previously taught at the University of Canterbury, and the Economics Department and Center for Development Economics at Williams College. Since receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University he has worked in the following countries: Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Vietnam. His teaching and research interests are in microeconomics and in the micro econometric aspects of development, labour and the international economy. His other research interests include poverty measurement, where he was a member of an expert group advising the United Nations Statistical Division,and the design and analysis of household survey data, and economic development, especially in China and other Asian and Pacific economies.
Papers Taught
Research Supervised
Research Interests
Development, labour and the international economy,
Microeconomics,
Panel econometrics,
Poverty analysis.
Recent Publications
Gibson, J., Olivia, S., & Boe-Gibson, G. (2020). Night lights in Economics: Sources and uses: CSAE Working Paper (WPS/2020-01). Centre for the Study of African Economics, University of Oxford.
Deng, X., & Gibson, J. (2020). Sustainable land use management for improving land eco-efficiency: a case study of Hebei, China. Annals of Operations Research, 290, 265-277. doi:10.1007/s10479-018-2874-3
Olivia, S., Gibson, J., & Nasrudin, R. (2020). Indonesia in the time of Covid-19. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 56(2), 143-174. doi:10.1080/00074918.2020.1798581
Gibson, J. (2020). Aggregate and distributional impacts of China’s household responsibility system. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 64(1), 14-29. doi:10.1111/1467-8489.12329
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Keywords
Development Economics,
Economic Modeling and Econometrics,
Industrial Economics,
Information and communication technology,
Labour Economics,
Macroeconomics,
Microeconomics,
Qualitative Research,
Urban and Regional Economics.
Contact Details
Email: [email protected]Room: MSB.2.15
Phone: +64 7 838 4289