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Nicolaas Groenewold is a Professor and Senior Honorary Research Fellow in the UWA Business School at the University of Western Australia. He has been part of the Economics Discipline since 1997, initially appointed as Senior Lecturer, following earlier roles as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the Economics Department at the University of Tasmania.
His main research interests are in regional economics, financial economics, and the economics of China. Groenewold is active in research topics including macroeconomics, regional economics, China, and financial economics. His expertise covers applied econometrics, financial economics, international finance, macroeconomics, quantitative economics, and regional economics. He has produced 72 articles, 30 discussion papers, 4 conference papers, and 2 books. Key publications include 'Regional Resilience in China: The Response of the Provinces to the Growth Slowdown' (with A. Chen, 2022, Review of Regional Studies); 'China’s growth slowdown: Labor supply, productivity, or what?' (with A. Chen, 2021, Frontiers of Economics in China); 'The response of the Australian states to a national economic shock: A statistical analysis of regional economic resilience' (2020, Australasian Journal of Regional Studies); 'China's ‘New Normal’: Is the growth slowdown demand- or supply-driven?' (with A. Chen, 2019, China Economic Review); 'Macroeconomic shocks in China: Do the distributional effects depend on the regional source?' (with A. Chen, 2019, Annals of Regional Science); 'Stock Prices and Exchange Rates in Australia: Are Commodity Prices the Missing Link?' (with J.E.H. Paterson, 2013); 'The US-China trade imbalance: Will revaluing the RMB help (much)?' (with L. He, 2007); 'Regional output spillovers in China: Estimates from a VAR model' (with G. Lee and A. Chen, 2007); 'Time-varying estimates of CAPM betas' (with P. Fraser, 1999); and 'US share prices and real supply and demand shocks' (with P. Fraser, 2006). These works address macroeconomic volatility, regional spillovers, asset pricing, trade imbalances, and growth dynamics in Australia and China.
Professional Email: nic.groenewold@uwa.edu.au