Mark Holmes
Professor – Economics
Room: MSB.2.20Telephone: (64 7) 838 4454
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The University of Waikato
Private Bag 3105
Hamilton
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Mark Holmes joined the Management School as Professor of Economics in 2004 having arrived from Loughborough University, UK. Mark studied Economics as an undergraduate and postgraduate at the Universities of Essex and London, he obtained his Ph.D. on the Scottish financial sector from the University of Dundee. Following his employment as a Research Fellow funded by RTZ (researching into commodity substitution) and then the Halifax Bank (researching into the UK mortgage market), Mark then remained at Loughborough to pursue research interests largely concerned with applied macroeconomics, international finance and the economics of less developed countries. Recent studies have included the sustainability of current account deficits, nonlinearities in real exchange rate behavior, international real interest parity, and macroeconomic volatility.