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they redistribute income and secure high living standards, that they prevent a deterioration of the terms of trade, and that they lead to āexternal economiesā that promote economic growth. The study put these arguments to theoretical and empirical tests and concluded that only the last is likely to hold.
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Reitsma was an active researcher at the
University of Queensland and contributed to a major study of the Australian banking sector. He also researched Australia's trade policy and prepared a book-length study. During a year of sabbatical leave in 1960, Reitsma defended this study as a doctoral thesis
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The study was milestone in the analysis of trade policy in
Australia, where the need for trade protection of manufacturing industry had become a widely shared article of faith since the 1920s. Reitsma's study probed the efficacy of some of the main arguments in support of trade tariffs, such as that
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that created a 10-year time table to put this aspiration in effect. In his publications, Reitsma outlined some of the economic advantages of monetary integration and minimisation of exchange rate fluctuations across EC member countries, but he queried whether all of the EC member countries together
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The publications on both the
Australian tariff and on monetary integration demonstrate Reitsma's ability to bring together the main writings in either field ā both theoretical and applied ā present and contrast the arguments succinctly, and relate them to empirical research, before offering a
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Reitsma's study was one of the first shots across the bow of trade protection in
Australia. It took until later in the 1960s for other economists to unleash a barrage of arguments against trade protection, and until the early-1970s before the Australian government started to dismantle trade
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Reitsma, A.J. (1973) āHet probleem van de taakverdeling tussen de instrumenten van economische politiek in verband met het interne en externe evenwicht, vaste koersen en mobiel kapitaal: Enkele kanttekeningenā , in L.H. Klaassen, J. R. Zuidema, W. Begeer (eds.)
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Reitsma was promoted to Senior
Lecturer in 1958. He accepted a professorship in international economics at the NEH in Rotterdam, starting in 1963. During 1964-1980, he was also Professor in international economics at the Royal Military Academy (KMA) in
164:(Australia) where it prepared for the Dutch return to Indonesia during 1944-1945. Her work at NICA took her to Makassar. In 1949, the pair married, spent a 3-month honeymoon in the Netherlands, and had their first son, Dirk Jan, in Makassar.
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Following
Indonesia's independence, Reitsma and his family moved to Coulter's hometown of Brisbane in 1950, where Reitsma took the position of Associate Lecturer in economics at the
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in August 1950. He was one of the first Dutch nationals to be appointed at an
Australian university. He lectured in the relatively new subject of international economics.
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In
Makassar, Reitsma became engaged to Dorothy Margaret Coulter (25 September 1927 ā 4 September 1983) in 1946. Coulter had worked at the NICA in her hometown of
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Reitsma was socially active in the Dutch-Australian
Society in Queensland. In Brisbane, Reitsma and Coulter had three more children; Coby, Pim and Miranda.
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Economics at The
University of Queensland, 1912-1997: Written on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Department of Economics, 1947-1997.
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493:, 5(1) 137-153; Jones E. (2016) āAustralian Trade Liberalisation Policy: The Industries Assistance Commission and the Productivity Commissionā,
102:(The Netherlands) as the son of Alexander Jan Reitsma (1888-1973) and Jacoba van der Meulen (1887-1987). His father was co-owner of the
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Reitsma, A.J. (1963) āRecente ontwikkelingen in de theorie van de betalingsbalansā [Recent advances in balance of payments theory,
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Reitsma focused his research on international monetary economics, particularly the process towards monetary integration in the
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Reitsma, A.J. (1972) āDe monetaire crisis, het vraagstuk van het optimale valuta-areaal en de Europese Monetaire Unieā ,
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After completing high school in Dordrecht, Reitsma studied economics at the Netherlands University for Economics (
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Conlon, R.M. (1994) āAn Overview of Protection of Australian Manufacturing: Past, Present and Futureā,
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Reitsma, A.J. (1958) āTrade and the redistribution of income: Is there still an Australian case?ā,
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De Europese Monetaire Unie; Preadviezen van de Vereniging voor de Staathuishoudkunde
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Reitsma, A.J. (1962) āAustralian policy of tariff protection and primary industryā,
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Reitsma, A.J. (1972) āDe Europese Monetaire Unieā The European Monetary Union] in
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Internationale Monetaire Ontwikkelingen in de Jaren Zeventig: Afscheidscollege.
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Reitsma, A.J. (1961) āThe "excess costs" of a tariff and their measurementā,
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Reitsma passed away after a short illness on 25 May 1981 at the age of 61.
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Reitsma, A.J. (1969) āWisselkoersvariaties en economische integratieā ,
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Leiden: H.E. Stenfert Kroese; St.Lucia: University of Queensland Press.
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Reitsma, A.J. (1970) āProblemen rond een E.E.G. monetaire unieā ,
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Rotterdam: Institute for Economic Research, Erasmus University.
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at the NEH in Rotterdam. It was published that year as a book.
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Reitsma, A.J. (1981) āMonetaire unie en monetaire theorieā .
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Reitsma, A.J. (1969) āInternationale monetaire problemenā ,
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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Reitsma, A.J. (1972) āCurrency areas and all thatā,
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