Forthcoming Conference

Globalisation and Business Challenges in the post-Financial Crisis World

28-29 September 2010, Prato, Italy

The global financial crisis from which the world's economy is slowly emerging has had a dramatic, and possibly permanent, impact on the process of globalisation and reform of market economy structures and regulations.The speed and magnitude of government responses to the crisis in every area of commercial law and regulation has no historical precedents and innumerable examples point to the changed international business,  investment and trade environment that may be possible in the post-crisis world.  Some of the world's largest manufacturers and financial institutions have crumbled and governments, corporations and labour are jockeying for position in this new economic world.

This conference brings together the cutting-edge research of emerging Australian scholars and counterparts from Europe and North America to provide an opportunity for international and inter-disciplinary critique and comment to provide scholars with the foundation for internationalising their work and recasting their research for the benefit of an international audience.

Speakers include:

• Subsidising small business
  Kim Brooks, McGill University

• How Soon Will the Next Crisis Come, and What Are We Doing Now That Will Hasten It?
  Neil Buchanan, George Washington University

• Taxpayers, Taxplayers and the Quest for a 'Global Standard'
  Marco Greggi, Università di Ferrara

• The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Broadly Based Indirect Taxation
  Professor Andrew Halkyard, University of Hong Kong

• Roadblocks to CEO Pay Regulation
  Abe Herzberg, Monash University

• Delivering personal social benefits through tax concessions: policy lessons from Canada
  Thaddeus Hwong, York University

• Attracting foreign investment in a global economy
  Werner Lotz, Monash University

• Regulatory prophylaxis for corporate failure: does one size fit all?
  Paul von Nessen, Monash University

• Using tax concessions to incentivise employees
  Ann O'Connell, University of Melbourne 

• The Global Financial Crisis and the World of Work: An Opportunity to Reinvigorate Workers' Rights"
  Anne O'Rourke, Monash Unviersity

• Ethics, corporate culture and whistleblowing in the post GFC environment
  Janine Pascoe and Michelle Welsh, Monash Unviersity

• Fiscal responses of developing countries to the global economic recession
  David Salter, University of Warwick

• Electronic Signatures and Resistance to Change
  Aashish Srivastava, Monash Unviersity

• Measuring Legal Complexity: A Computer-Assisted Content Analysis of Australian Collective Agreements
  Carolyn Sutherland, Monash Unviersity

• Regulatory challenges in the post financial crisis world: is there a correspondence between state enforcement and compliance?
  Michelle Welsh, Monash University

Institute Director

Professor Rick Krever