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Dr Elizabeth Manning

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Position

Casual Sessional Academic

Faculty

Faculty of Business and Law

Department

Deakin Business School

Campus

Geelong Waterfront Campus

Qualifications

Graduate Certificate of Higher Education, Deakin University, 2007
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Adelaide, 2004
Bachelor of Economics (Hons), Monash University, 1992

Contact

elizabeth.manning@deakin.edu.au
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Biography

Dr Elizabeth Manning is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics in Deakin Business School. She received her B.Ec (H1) from Monash University, then her PhD (on international trade policies, particularly local content policies) from The University of Adelaide in 2004. Joining Deakin University in 2005, Elizabeth received a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education in 2007.

Her research interests and publications include trade policy and development. More recently she has become interested in the economics of disability service provision and has been undertaking research in this area, particularly into new and innovative ideas around a sustainable disability housing scheme.

As well as her academic publications, she has had a number of articles published in The Age and The Conversation on disability issues.

Elizabeth is also a passionate teacher and enjoys innovating in her teaching. She restarted the Economics and Finance European Study Tours, and lead very successful tours in 2011 and 2013.

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Career highlights

  • Running a very successful International Study Program and tour for economics and finance students.

Research interests

  • International Trade Policy
  • Public Finance
  • Choice and Welfare
  • Economics of Disability

Affiliations

  • Member, The Economic Society of Australia.
  • Director,  Board of Scope Victoria.
  • Member, Disability@Deakin.

Teaching interests

  • International Trade
  • First year and intermediate level microeconomics
  • Public policy

Units taught

  • MAE782 - Macroeconomics
  • MAE203 - The Global Economy
  • MAE201 - Competition and Industry
  • MAE101 - Unit Champion
  • MAE213 - International Trade

Conferences

  • Hristos Doucouliagos and Elizabeth Manning, " The Allocation of Development Aid Assistance: Do new donors have old motives?", Australian Public Choice Conference, December 2009.
  • Elizabeth Manning, "Effective Marginal Benefit - the peculiar case of the Australian armed forces and the Medicare levy", The Australian Conference of Economists, September 2006.

Professional activities

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=-wT-VUQAAAAJ&hl=en

Media appearances

  • 'Still a long way to go for families trying to cope with disability', The Age, July 2012. 
  • 'If you think the disability insurance scheme is not your problem, think again', The Age, April 2012.
  • 'Disability funding is no charity – it’s an investment', The Conversation, December 2013.
  • 'Increasing income tax the right choice for a sustainable NDIS', The Conversation, May 2013.
  • 'Premiers, put politics aside and get serious about disability reform', The Conversation, July 2012.
  • 'NDIS funding a start but limited trial means a long wait for most', The Conversation, May 2012.
  • 'The NDIS is worth the investment - here’s why', The Conversation, May 2012.

Awards

  • Faculty of Business and Law Award for Effectiveness, Excellence and Exemplar Practice in Teaching and Learning 2016 (joint with Prof Chris Doucouliagos and Shaun Stevenson.
  • Excellence in Teaching: Cloud Concepts. School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, 2013.
  • Excellence in Teaching, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, 2012.
  • National Finalist, UniJobs Lecturer of the Year 2008.
  • Excellence Award: Best Teaching across the School 2008.
  • Excellence in Teaching, Faculty of Business and Law, 2006.
  • Australian Postgraduate Research Award, Monash University, 1992.
  • Many commendations for outstanding and excellent Student Evaluation of Teaching scores.

    Publications

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    2021

    Effective Marginal Tax or Benefit? The Medicare Levy and Australian Defence Personnel

    E Manning

    (2021), Vol. 40, pp. 167-172, Economic Papers, C1

    journal article
    2015

    Does education reduce income inequality? A meta-regression analysis

    A Abdullah, H Doucouliagos, E Manning

    (2015), Vol. 29, pp. 301-316, Journal of economic surveys, London, Eng., C1

    journal article

    Are regional incomes in Malaysia converging?

    A Abdullah, H Doucouliagos, E Manning

    (2015), Vol. 94, pp. S69-S94, Papers in Regional Science, C1

    journal article

    Is there a Kuznets' process in Southeast Asia?

    A Abdullah, C Doucouliagos, E Manning

    (2015), Vol. 60, pp. 1-22, Singapore economic review, Singapore, C1

    journal article
    2007

    Do MBA degrees matter? A study of boards of directors in Australia's top 200 companies

    E Manning, W Dimovski

    (2007), Vol. 14, pp. 1-5, International journal of learning, Altona, Vic., C1

    journal article
    2006

    Effective marginal benefit-the peculiar case of the Australian armed forces and the medicare levy

    E Manning

    (2006), Proceedings of the Australian Conference of Economists, 2006, Perth, Western Australia, E1

    conference
    2005

    Local content policy in the Australian television industry

    E Manning

    (2005), pp. 1-18, COE/JEPA Joint International Conference : The 4th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association, Program, abstracts and full papers (excluding COE plenary and special sessions) and program : Towards a new economic paradigm, declining p, Kobe, Japan, E1

    conference

    Funded Projects at Deakin

    No Funded Projects at Deakin found

    Supervisions

    Associate Supervisor
    2013

    Abdul Jabbar Abdullah

    Thesis entitled: Inequality, Education and Growth in Malaysia

    Doctor of Philosophy, School of Accounting, Economics & Finance