Category Archives: News

Tweaking China’s loan-deposit ratio rule – highlights the need to revamp the country’s outdated banking regulatory framework ahead of full interest rate liberalisation by Guonan Ma on 3rd September 2014 In the wake of the latest easing of Chinese monetary … Continue reading →

Are financial conditions in China too lax or too stringent? – could tighter financial conditions be another key factor contributing to China’s slowing economic growth? Probably. by Guonan Ma on 5th August 2014 The pronounced slowdown in China’s GDP growth … Continue reading →

China economy specialist Dr James Laurenceson has been appointed the Deputy Director of UTS’s recently-launched Australia China Relations Institute Dr Laurenceson joins former Australian Foreign Minister and Director of ACRI, Professor Bob Carr, leading Australia’s only independent think-tank devoted to the Australia-China relationship … Continue reading →

Media report of Prof Zhang Xiaobo’s keynote paper at the CESA annual conference at Monash University 2014. House prices in China have skyrocketed in the last decade, making the country one of the least affordable places in the world to … Continue reading →

Deepening Reform for China’s Long-term Growth and Development Edited by Ligang Song, Ross Garnaut and Cai Fang ISBN 9781925021769 (Print version) $50.00 (GST inclusive) ISBN 9781925021776 (Online) Published July 2014 The Chinese economy has entered a new phase of development … Continue reading →

  The lecture video can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo0Yg9pFZD1L1gbBjCClXngc79gMPkcxn

One of the world’s foremost experts on Asian economies says Australia risks being dragged into a cold war between China and Japan. Wing Thye Woo was born in Malaysia, has advised numerous governments on economic issues, and is now Professor … Continue reading →

Should China cut interest rates? By Guonan Ma, Bruegel Against a backdrop of weakening domestic demand, and in the slipstream of a major debate about whether Chinese monetary policy in the last year has been too restrictive, there have been … Continue reading →

How loose is China’s monetary policy? – has the People’s Bank of China outdone its major international peers in the latest global monetary easing game? The short answer is no. by Guonan Ma on 1st July 2014 On the contrary, … Continue reading →

How tight is China’s monetary policy? – has China’s monetary policy stance been too restrictive lately? If so, how should the PBC ease monetary policy? by Guonan Ma on 11th June 2014 There have been definite signs of monetary loosening … Continue reading →