Lecturer
Phone: (07)
3138 5389
Fax: (07) 3138 2129
E-mail: bl.lee@qut.edu.au
Room: Z846, Level 11, Z Block, GP
Staff CV (PDF, 24KB)
Qualifications
BEcon(Hons) PhD UNE
Career Summary
Boon Lee commenced his career in the School of Economics and Finance in 1999, having completed his PhD from the University of New England in the same year. He primarily lectures introductory economics and in 2002, wrote the Instructors Manual for ‘Economics for Today’, authored by fellow academic colleagues Allan Layton and Tim Robinson. His research primarily focuses on comparisons of output and productivity.
Boon has published in international journals including Development Economics, Economics of Education Review and Asian Economic Journal. His research on Efficiency and productivity change in Australian Universities published in Economics of Education Review has been discussed in ‘The Australian’.
Fields
- Economics
Areas of expertise
- International comparisons of output and productivity, decomposition of income inequality
Professional Memberships
- Member of Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC), Member of Economics Society of Australia (QLD)
Selected Journal Articles
- Worthington, A. and Lee, B. (2008), “Efficiency, technology and productivity change in Australian universities, 1998-2003”, Economics of Education Review, Vol 27, 285-298.
- Lee, B., Rao, D.S.P. and Shepherd, W. (2007), “Comparisons of Real Output and Productivity of Chinese and Indian Manufacturing, 1980-2002”, Journal of Development Economics, Vol 84 (1), pp. 378-416.
- Lee, B. (2008), "Output and Productivity Performance of Hong Kong and Singapore's Transport and Communications Sector, 1990 to 2005", (In press, accepted manuscript: Asian Economic Journal).