Qualifications
B Econ, MA, PhD (Economics)

Biographical note
Having served as the Founding Deputy Director for ten years (1993-2003), Professor Bhajan Grewal is currently a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, where he is also Director of the research program Governance and Regional Economies.

His research interests are in the areas of public finance, governance, institutional capacity building, fiscal federalism, and regional inequalities. He has published widely, including ten books and numerous research articles. His latest publication is a book titled Engaging the New World: Responses to the Knowledge Economy, published by the Melbourne University Press in July 2006. He is has also been invited by the journal Public Finance and Management to be the guest editor of an international symposium on China’s public finances, to be published in 2007.

Professor Grewal has visited China and Japan many times and has been invited by the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo to speak at its international seminars on public finance and fiscal management. In 1992-93, he was awarded by invitation JSPS Fellowship by the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, to conduct research and give seminars in several Japanese universities.

In 2003-04, he was Team Leader of an Asian Development Bank (ADB) funded project on China’s fiscal management reforms, which involved working closely with the Ministry of Finance in Beijing. The report of this project was published by the ADB, in 2005 in both English and Chinese languages. In China, he has given seminars at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fiscal Science Research Institute of Ministry of Finance and the Chinese academy of Social Sciences. He has also been an honorary Visiting Professor at the Shanxi University of Finance and Economics in Taiyuan since 2004.

In addition to the publication noted above, his major books include:
China’s Future in the Knowledge Economy: Engaging the New World;
The Public Sector in Jeopardy: Australian Fiscal Federalism from Whitlam to Keating;
Dialogues on Australia’s Future: In Honour of the Late Professor Ronald Henderson; Taxation and Fiscal Federalism: Essays in Honour of Russell Mathews;
The Economics of Federalism; and
Centre-State Financial Relations in India.

Professor Grewal has previously held lecturing and research positions at the Punjabi University, India; the Australian National University; and James Cook University (where he was also Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Economics). Between 1983 and 1993, he was also appointed Director of Revenue Policy and Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in the Treasury Department of Government of Victoria.

Born in India, Professor Grewal has been living in Australia with his wife and two children since 1973.
 

Publications

Books and reports

Engaging the New World: Responses to the Knowledge Economy (in Honour of Peter J. Sheehan), Bhajan S. Grewal and Margarita Kumnick (eds), Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, forthcoming 2006.

'Strengthening Fiscal Management and Policy Coordination in China', Final Report of ADB TA 3979: Fiscal Management Reforms in People’s Republic of China, January 2005, ADB, Manila.

'Strengthening Macroeconomic and Fiscal Coordination', Interim Report of Asian Development Bank TA3979: People’s Republic of China; Fiscal Management Reform, Component A, CSES, Melbourne.

'Management of Public Expenditure: International Experience', Paper prepared for the Ministry of Finance, People’s Republic of China, May 2004, (unpublished).

China’s Future in the Knowledge Economy: Engaging the New World (Editors: Bhajan Grewal, Lan Xue, P. Sheehan and F. Sun), Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, and Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2002.

The Public Sector in Jeopardy: Australian Fiscal Federalism from Whitlam to Keating, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne, 1997, 856 pp, (Russell Mathews and Bhajan Grewal).

Conference Report Crisis in East Asia: Global Watershed or Passing Storm? Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University and Australian Centre for Innovation and International Competitiveness, the University of Sydney, 10-11 March 1998.

Dialogues on Australia’s Future: In Honour of the Late Professor Ronald Henderson, (with co-editors Peter Sheehan and Margarita Kumnick), Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne, 1996, 416pp.

Review of Methodology for the Distribution of Funding under the National Equity Program for Schools, (jointly with Peter Davenport, Fred Puno, Peter Sheehan and Margarita Kumnick), Report of a review conducted for the Australian Department of Employment, Education and Training, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1996, 80 pp.

Journal articles and book chapters

Grewal, B. 2007, ‘Public finance’, entry in B. Galligan and M. Roberts (eds), Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford University Press, Sydney.

Grewal, B. 2007, ‘Taxation’, entry in B. Galligan and M. Roberts (eds), Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford University Press, Sydney.

“Are China’s Regions Converging , At last?”, in Grewal and Kumnick (eds), Engaging the New World: Responses to the Knowledge Economy, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne (forthcoming 2006).

‘Evolution of Federal Constitutions: An Incomplete Contracts Perspective’, Public Finance and Management, 2004 (forthcoming).

‘Examples of’ Social Measurement in International Economics, Finance and Trade’, an entry in the Encyclopaedia of Social Measurement, Academic Press, San Diego, 2005.

'National and Regional Economic and Administrative Challenges: Always Emerging but Never the Same’, Paper presented at OECD-UNDP International Symposium on WTO and Re-innovating China’s Public Administrative System, Beijing, 5-6 December, 2002.

'Foreign Markets and Foreign Capital: The Role of Trade in China’s Economic Transformation”, in China’s Future in the Knowledge Economy: Engaging the New World (Co-editor with P. Sheehan, Lan Xue, and F. Sun), Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, and Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2002.

'Extending the Frontier of High Growth Inland: Implications for China’s Regional Policy”, in China’s Future in the Knowledge Economy: Engaging the New World (Co-editor with P. Sheehan, Lan Xue, and F. Sun), Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, and Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2002.

“Institutional Framework for Intergovernmental Relations and Coordination: Relevance of Australia’s Experience for China”, Paper presented at AusAID sponsored International Symposium on Public Administration Reforms, Chongqing, January 15-20, 2002, as a part of an AusAID supported China Capacity Building Program.

"Impact of the High Court of Australia's Decisions on the Economy", A. Blackshield et al (eds.), The Oxford Companion to The High Court of Australia, Oxford University, Press, Oxford, UK, 2001, (with R Mathews).

'Russell Lloyd Mathews: an Appreciation", The Economic Record, Vol. 76, No. 235, December 2000, 401-411 (with A. D. Barton).

'Australian Loan Council: Arrangements and Experience with Bailouts", Inter American Development Bank, Research Network Working Paper R-397 Washington DC, November 2000.

'Subnational Government Bailouts in OECD Countries: Four Case Studies", Inter American Development Bank, Research Network Working Paper R-399, Washington DC, November 2000 (with Juergen von Hagen et al).

'Firms, Regions, and Strategy in a Diverging World: The Australian Case", in John. H. Dunning (Ed.), Regions, Globalization and the Knowledge-Based Economy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2000, pp. 303-327, (with P. Sheehan).

'Impact of the High Court of Australia's Decisions on the Economy", A. Blackshield et al (eds.), The Oxford Companion To The High Court Of Australia, Oxford University, Press, Oxford, UK, 2001, (with R Mathews).

'The Global Economy and Regional Concentration of Manufacturing in Australia", Working Paper No 19, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne, July 2000 (with P. Sheehan).

'Governance deficit: A Fundamental Challenge to Australia’s Economic Future”, The Otemon Gakuin Bulletin for Australian Studies, Vol. 25, December 1999, pp. 11-33.

'Regional Divergence: A Challenge to Australia’s Approach to Fiscal Equalisation”, The Otemon Gakuin Bulletin for Australian Studies, Vol. 25, December 1999, pp. 35-57.

'Regional Diversity in Industrial Structure: Policy Implications for China”, paper presented at an international conference The Knowledge Economy and China’s Development: Analysis and Policy, sponsored under the AusAID Australia-China Institutional Links Program, Hall of Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 8-10 July, 1999, (with F. Sun).

'The Shifting Boundaries of Social Welfare in The Australian Federation”, Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, Vol. 5 No. 1, 1999, (with P. Davenport).

‘The IMF and the Asian Crisis’, Committee for Economic Development of Australia Bulletin, October 1998, pp. 14-16.

‘State Taxation and the High Court: Whither Australian Fiscal Federalism’, in C. van Wel and J. Quiggin (eds.), Contemporary Issues in Australian Economics: Essays in Honour of Professor Percy Harris, Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton, 1998.

“Privatisation of Infrastructure: A Review of the East Asian Experience and Some Lessons for India”, Paper presented at the 53rd Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance. Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, 25-28 August 1997, (with F. Sun).

“Crisis in East Asia: National Government and International Agency Responses”, in the Conference Report Crisis in East Asia: Global Watershed or Passing Storm?, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria, Melbourne, March 1998.

“New Light in the High Court Ruling”, The Australian Financial Review, 12 August 1997.