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International Research Alliances

The Faculty of Business and Economics' international linkages include comprehensive research and academic alliances. Academic members of the Faculty currently undertake research in a number of key areas, collaborating with a wide variety of partners in Australia and overseas. Our alliances with key institutions and government organisations in Asia, Europe and North America mean that Monash University is taking part in leading research collaboration and knowledge creation and exchange.

Department of Business Law and Taxation

  1. The Asia Pacific Business Regulation Group co-organised an International Conference on ‘Legal Development in East Asia: China - Vietnam Compared’ with the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. The conference was run over December 4 and 5, 2008 at the University of Hong Kong. Edited versions of the conference papers will be published by Routledge in 2010.
  2. The Asia Pacific Business Regulation Group co-organised an International Conference on ‘Pushing Against Globalisation: A Local Perspective on Regulation in Asia’ with the Faculty of Law, UCLA on 29 and 30 November 2007. Edited versions of the conference papers were published by Routledge in May 2009.

Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics

  1. Associate Professor Xueyan Zhao and Professor Brett Inder from the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics have collaborated with Professor Andrew Jones from the University of York, UK and Professor Cheng Hsiao from the University of Southern California, US in obtaining an ARC Discovery Grant entitled Impacts of Population Ageing
    and Prevalence of Chronic Illnesses on Labour Market Outcomes and Health Service Utilisation.  Using several national representative survey datasets, the project brought together a world leading health economist and an international eminent econometrician to build a suite of state-of-the-art econometric and simulation models to investigate the
    complex relationships between health status, chronic illnesses, labour market decisions, private health insurance status, and health service utilisations of older Australians.
  2. Joint with Professor Brendan McCabe (University of Liverpool, UK), who is an international expert in theoretical time series, staff in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics (Associate Professor Gael Martin, Dr Catherine Forbes and Professor Mervyn Silvapulle) have recently embarked on ARC-funded research into nonparametric estimation
    of forecast distributions in non-Gaussian state space models. This research will produce new, state-of-the-art statistical methods for generating accurate estimates of the probabilities attached to the future values of many different variable types. Although far-ranging in
    scope, the techniques advocated will have particular impact in the financial sphere, where the concept of future risk is inextricably linked to the probability of occurrence of extreme values and, hence, to the future probability distribution of the financial variable.
  3. Professor Rob Hyndman and Associate Professor Ralph Snyder (Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics) are involved with a long-term project developing new statistical modelling tools for forecasting business and economic data. Together with Professor Keith Ord (Georgetown Uni, USA) and Professor Anne Koehler (Miami Uni, USA), they have written a research monograph on "Forecasting with exponential smoothing: the state space approach" (Springer, 2008). The methodology developed in the book, and in many associated papers, is now used in many contexts around the world, and in Australia. For example, it is the basis of the annual estimates of government expenditure on the
    Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
  4. Associate Professor Ralph Snyder of the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, together with Professor Keith Ord (Georgetown University), Professor James Taylor (Oxford University) and Dr Michael Chua (The University of Melbourne)  have received an ARC grant for a research project titled: 'Forecasting with single source of randomness state space models'. The project entails the development of new theory,
    based on the single source of randomness approach to forecasting, for applications in macroeconomics, operations management and finance.

Department of Economics

  1. The Department of Economics has reached an agreement with Xiamen University’s Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (XMU WISE) to collaborate on an articulated program that will eventually lead to the Master of Business Economics at Monash.
  2. Monash ACES Ph.D program: Monash University with Renmin University offers students the opportunity to spend six months of their candidature in the Department of Economics at Monash University. During this period they receive guidance from a Monash supervisor and have access to Monash research facilities. The inaugural graduation ceremony was held in Beijing on 20 February 2009 and was combined with a workshop featuring lectures by Stephen King and Yew-Kwang Ng.

Department of Management

  1. Associate Professor Cherrie Zhu, Professor Helen De Cieri, Associate Professor Kate Hutchings, Professor Christopher Nyland, with Dr Jie Shen received an ARC Linkage grant in 2008 to research the development of human resource management policies and practices for CHALCO Australia which plans to invest $3 billion in Australia.
  2. Under a collaboration agreement signed between the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies and the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash in 2007, the following research projects have been undertaken:  Prof Julian Teicher, Department of Management, is leading collaborative research in planning and implementing public-private partnerships, with the Department of Public Management and Administration, Faculty of Management, ASE Bucharest.  Dr Cristina Neesham, Department of Management, is leading collaborative research in leadership, with the Faculty of International Business and Economics, ASE Bucharest.
  3. Monash University has a strategic collaboration agreement with Newcastle University, UK. This Faculty and Newcastle University Business School signed a Memorandum of Understanding as part of this agreement in 2004. Two of the Department of Management’s professors (Ian McLoughlin and Greg Bamber) are Visiting Professors at Newcastle University Business School. They and other members of the Department of Management are developing further links with Newcastle University Business School, including international collaborative research projects and workshops, together with Newcastle colleagues.
  4. Associate Professor Donna Buttigieg, Department of Management, has a long-standing collaboration with Professor Stephen Deery at Kings College and Professor Roderick Iverson at Simon Fraser University. Publications have included articles in: Journal of Applied Psychology, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations and Relations Industrielles.  Discussions are underway for further research grants.
  5. Associate Professor Anne Bardoel and Professor Helen De Cieri have recently completed a comparative study of work/life strategies in multinational corporations with the Society for Human Resource Management Research Foundation (USA).
  6. Professor Greg Bamber, Department of Management, teamed up with Professors Tom Kochan, MIT and Russell Lansbury, Sydney University to win a grant on Employment Relations and the Competitive Strategies of Airlines. One output is a book: Up in the Air: How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging their Employees, Cornell UP: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5284   - also see: www.footprint.com.au.  This productive research alliance includes other collaborators from Asia, Europe and North America, as well as Australia.

Department of Marketing

  1. Professor Harmen Oppewal from the Department of Marketing is undertaking this project in collaboration with Prof Ian Clarke (Newcastle University) and Malcolm Kirkup (Birmingham University). The project aims to develop novel consumer based measures for assessing the adequacy of retail provision, to complement existing economic approaches to local competition. The project is funded by the Advanced Institute of Management, a joint initiative of the ESRC and EPSRC Research Councils in the UK. The project builds on previous ESRC funded work by Professor Clarke and on Professor Oppewal's expertise in store choice modelling. The study involves an analysis of the retail provision and a large scale shopping survey of selected towns in the UK.
  2. Professor Steve Worthington and Dr David Stewart from the Department of Marketing are engaged in a research project in conjunction with the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China on the topic of The Adoption and Usage of Credit Cards in China. They are working with Dr Frauke Thompson, to replicate research carried out in 2005/6, which examined this topic with regard in particular, to the attitudes of the young urban affluent in China. Questionnaires are being completed by Master's students at Ningbo and at Fudan University in Shanghai and analysis of their responses will be carried out here at Monash
  3. China- motives for studying abroad: Professor Felix Mavondo and Dr Hanny Nasution from the Department of Marketing are conducting a study among Chinese Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students regarding their perceptions of and motives for studying abroad. The study is being conducted with colleagues from Renmin University

Centre for Health Economics

  1. Newcastle University, UK - Valuing Health Workshop series.  The first of these was in Newcastle in 2008, the next is planned for 2010 in Helsinki.  Major contributers are from the Centre for Health Economics, and the series is organised by Bruce Hollingsworth and Jenny Watts in the Centre. 
  2. New York University - Health Econometrics, work is underway with Professor Bill Greene at the Stern Business School, collaborators are Bruce Hollingsworth (Centre for Health Economics), Mark Harris (Econometrics), and Pushkar Maitra (Economics). 
  3. McMaster University, Canada; Warwick University UK - Productivity of Canadian Hospitals and Economies of Scale - Research underway, collaborators include Bruce Hollingsworth in the Centre for Health Economics.
  4. Asian Development Bank - Work on costs of Primary Care in PNG.  Collaborators include Brett Inder and other researchers in the Centre for Health Economics.