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Academic Unit |
Research Strength |
Areas of Research Interest/Expertise
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Accounting and Finance |
Finance, especially asset pricing and market efficiency |
- Testing the Fama-French three-factor model
- The role of liquidity in asset pricing
- Efficiency and pricing of options and the futures
- Relationship between equities and derivative pricing
- Managed fund investment performance
- Risk and volatility modelling
- Interest rate modelling
- Impact of deregulation on financial markets, and the impact of taxes on asset pricing
- Modelling interest rate risk, and modelling foreign exchange risk
- Issues in international asset pricing
- Integration of financial markets
- Asset pricing and risk in emerging markets
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Management accounting |
- Innovations in management control systems
- Strategic planning systems
- Dimensions of capital budgeting, and operational budgeting; generic dimensions of information
- Performance measurement systems
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Management of financial statement presentations, measurement and disclosure |
- Analysis Issues
- Management of Earnings and Presentations; Assessing Quality of Earnings
- Managerial Accounting Choices and Capital Market Implications
- Incentives for Disclosure and Signalling
- Auditing Practices, Judgements and Related Research
- Corporate Governance
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Islamic banking, financial institutions, and capital markets research |
- Asian capital market research
- bank risk management bank share price behaviour
- Islamic banking and finance
- fixed income & money markets in markets in Asia
- derivative & share market behaviour
- investment management
- term structure of interest rates in Asia
- Taxation impact on share prices & compliance costs
- Privatization and performance measurement
- Corporate performance using production efficiency
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Business Law and Taxation |
Banking, consumer and commercial law |
- competition law
- contract law
- class actions
- intellectual property law
- marketing law
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Corporate law and corporate social responsibility |
- corporate governance
- corporate crime
- environmental law
- securities and stock exchange law
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Taxation law and policy |
- GST
- income tax
- state taxes
- superannuation
- tax administration
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Workplace and industrial relations law |
- employment law,
- collective labour law
- equal opportunity law
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| Asian-Pacific business regulation |
- commercial regulation: effectiveness and compliance in Australia and Asia
- International courts and organisations
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Comparative business law with a focus on the Asian-Pacific region |
- Asian business law
- Private and public international law
- International trade law
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Econometrics and Business Statistics |
Econometric and statistical theory and methods |
- Distribution theory
- Asymptotic theory
- Conditional inference
- Hypothesis testing
- Semiparametric inference and constrained statistical inference
- Structural equation models
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Time series methods |
- Inferential methods for fractionally integrated models
- Bootstrap methods for time series models
- Inferential methods for integer time series models
- Inferential methods for non-Gaussian time series models
- Non-parametric methods for time series models
- State space models and filtering methods
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Bayesian econometrics |
- Bayesian methods of estimation
- Bayesian forecasting methods
- Bayesian analysis of non-Gaussian state space models
- Bayesian models of income distribution
- Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation algorithms
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Financial econometrics |
- Analysis of ultra-high frequency data
- Estimation of stochastic volatility models
- Statistical analysis of option pricing models
- Asset pricing
- Estimation of long memory volatility models
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Forecasting |
- Demographic forecasting
- Density forecasting
- Bootstrapping of forecast distributions
- Exponential smoothing and inventory control
- Tourism forecasting
- Nonparametric forecasting
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| Applied statistics |
- Cluster analysis
- Experimental design
- Path analysis
- Pattern recognition
- Quality improvement
- Breast cancer incidence and mortality
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Applied econometrics and microeconometrics |
- Health economics
- Demand systems
- Discrete and limited dependent variable models
- Consumer choice
- Welfare economics
- Agricultural and resource economics
- Intertemporal optimization
- Panel data models
- Poverty and income distribution
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Economics |
Asian business and economics |
- Social Protection in China and India
- State-owned Enterprise Reform and Development of the Non-state Sector in China
- Internal Migration in China
- Efficiency of Stock Markets in Asia
- Integration Between Stock Markets in Asia and Between Asia and the Rest of the World
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Increasing returns and economic organization |
- Inframarginal General Equilibrium Theory of International Trade
- Increasing Returns and Economic Efficiency
- Valuing Life and Time in the Knowledge Economy
- Inframarginal Economics
- General Equilibrium Models of the Division of Labour
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Development and transitional economics |
- Migration and Development
- Immigrants and Labour Market Performance
- Health and Development
- Microfinance
- Finance and Development
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Economics of transport and tourism
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- Economics of air transport and tourism
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Law and economics |
- Decision Making on the High Court of Australia
- Judging and Economic Behaviour
- Explaining Dissent Rates on the U.S. Supreme Court
- Game Theoretic Explanations for the Interaction Between Legislature and the Judiciary
- Economic Analysis of Criminal Behaviour
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| Applied economics |
- Health Economics
- Sports Economics
- Industrial Organization
- Economics of Institutions
- Applied Macroeconomics
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Behavioural/experimental economics |
- Framing and Economic Behaviour
- Emotions and Rationality
- Internal Motivation and Entrepreneurship"
- Coordination and Communication in Public Goods Experiments
- Political Economy of Dissent
- Analysing Risk aversion using Lab and Field Experiments
- An Experimental Analysis of Alternative Microcredit Programs
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Management |
Employment and work |
- Human Resource Management
- International Human Resource Management
- Industrial Relations
- Employee Relations
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Supply chain management |
- Planning and implementation of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
- Total Quality Management and Organisational Performance.
- Operations and technology management.
- Supply chain management
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International business |
- Internationalisation strategy and its components
- Foreign direct investment
- Trade policy
- Global business regulation
- Globalisation and economic security
- Mode of entry
- International relations
- Business to government relationships
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Social and economic interface |
- Organisational behaviour
- Action research and systems
- Emotions management
- Social inclusion and diversity
- Leadership
- Governance
- Public sector management
- Wine, food and agribusiness
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Tourism |
- Tourism Planning and Management in Protected Areas
- Strategic Communication in Tourism (including marketing, interpretation, and guiding)
- Tourism Economics
- Tourism Training and Education
- Tourist Behaviour
- Tourism, Image and Media
- Tourism Business, Attractions and Events Management
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Marketing
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Advertising and brands |
- Brands, brand relationships and brand management
- Integrated marketing communications (IMC)
- Advertising
- Direct marketing
- Public relations
- Sponsorship
- Technology-enabled
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Marketing capabilities |
- Customer relationship management (CRM)
- Business-to-business exchanges and relationships (B2B)
- Services marketing
- Service quality
- Strategic marketing
- Market orientation
- Organisational learning
- Marketing performance, measurement and implementation
- Competition and cooperation
- Internal customer orientation
- Innovation
- Resources and capabilities research
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Retailing and consumer services |
- Consumer shopping behaviour
- Assortment management
- Store location and agglomeration effects
- Retail branding
- Store atmosphere and the retail experience
- The role of personal selling
- Consumer channel choice
- Loyalty programs in retail
- Distribution issues in the automotive sector
- Franchising in retail
- Corporate social responsibility in retail
- Consumers’ perceptions of international retailers
- Customer satisfaction
- Customer loyalty
- Online services and online customer value analysis
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Centre of Health Economics |
Social objectives and utility measurement |
- AQoL, VisQoL, PsQoL
- Empirical ethics
- Public opinion and health
- Inequality/equality
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Improving and informing decision making |
- Economic evaluation
- Priority setting
- Costing health services
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Health systems |
- Health services reform
- Funding mechanisms
- Modelling supply and demand
- Production of health care
- Econometric evaluation
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Population health |
- Obesity prevention
- Determinants of health in Australia
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Centre of Policy Studies |
Economic modelling/forecasting |
- Computable general equilibrium modelling
- Forecasts of the Australian economy
- Labour market forecasting
- Income distribution
- Globalization
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