2006 Seminar Series
External Scholars
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
| 2 March | Michael Francis | Bank of Canada (International Department) | "Institutional Quality, Trade and the Changing Distribution of World Income" (paper) (presentation) |
| 9 March | David O. Friedrichs | University of Scranton (Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice) | "White Collar Crime in a Globalized, Postmodern World" |
| 16 March | Vanessa Ratten | Queensland University of Technology (School of Management) | "Policies Driving International Entrepreneurship in Europe" (abstract) (paper) (presentation) |
| 23 March | Elizabeth Savage | University of Technology Sydney (Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation) | "Do Financial Incentives for Supplementary Private Health Insurance Reduce Pressure on the Public System? Evidence from Australia" (paper) (presentation) |
| 30 March | Reg Coutts and Janice Gaffney | University of Adelaide (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) | "Spectrum Auctions: the Australian Experience in an International Context" |
| 6 April | Tom Madell | Umea University (Department of Law) and Visiting Fellow, Flinders University | "From the Citizen's Charter to Public Service Guarantees - The Swedish Experience" (paper) (presentation) |
| 13 April | Liam Lenten | LaTrobe University (Department of Economics and Finance) | "Unobserved Components in Competitive Balance and Match Attendances in the Australian Football League, 1945-2005: Where is All the Action Happening?" (paper) |
| 27 April | Paul Frijters | Queensland University of Technology (School of Economics and Finance) | "From Golden Age to Golden Age: Australia's 'Great Leap Forward'?" (presentation) |
| 4 May | Elliott Fan | The Australian National University (Research School of Social Sciences - Economics Program) | "Public Pensions, Income Security and Consumption" (paper) |
| 11 May | Chikako Yamauchi | The Australian National University (Research School of Social Sciences - Economics Program) | "Governance and Delivery of Anti-Poverty Program" (paper) (presentation) |
| 25 May | Vijaya Gupta | National Institute of Industrial Engineering(NITIE) | "An Economic Analysis of Indian Cellular Services and the Impact of Deregulation" |
| 1 June | Zahirul Hoque | Deakin University (School of Accounting, Economics and Finance) | "Radical Change and Management Control in a Not-for-Profit Organization: A case study using grounded theory approach in conjunction with institutional theory of change" (paper) (presentation) |
| 8 June | Larry Hinman | University of San Diego (Values Institute) | "Why Google Matters: implications for privacy and markets" (prcis) |
| 27 July | Elias Khalil | Monash University (Department of Economics) | "Making Sense of Behavioural Anomalies" (paper) (presentation) |
| 3 August | Lorne Cummings | Macquarie University (Department of Accounting and Finance) | |
| 10 August | Jenny Williams | University of Melbourne (Economics Department) | |
| 17 August | Robert Owen | Universit de Nantes (Economic Sciences) | "Irreversibility, Sunk Costs, News, and Evolutionary Economic Methodology: Generalizations from a trade theorem" (paper) (abstract) |
| 24 August | Stephen King | Australian Competition and Consumer Commission | "Reforming the Merger Guidelines: some preliminary thoughts and issues" |
| 31 August |
Denzil Fiebig |
University of New South Wales (School of Economics) |
"Misclassification, multiple recall periods and modelling choices" (abstract) |
| 7 September | Stephen Whelan | University of Sydney (Economics Department) | |
| 14 September | Tony Cavoli | Queensland University of Technology (School of Economics and Finance) | "Fear of Floating and Optimal Monetary Policy" |
| 5 October | Kamran Ahmed | LaTrobe University (School of Business) | "Effects of International Financial Reporting Standards on the Accounts and Accounting Quality of Australian Firms" |
| 12 October |
Shengjun Guo |
University of Adelaide | |
| 19 October | Andrew Taylor | United Kingdom Competition Commission | "The International Experience with Water Services Contracts: Lessons for South Australia?" |
| 26 October |
Randy Stringer |
University of Adelaide (School of Agriculture, Food and Wine) | "The economics of environmental services in developing countries" |
| 2 November | Bernard Van den Berg | University of Technology Sydney (Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation) | |
| 9 November | Jenny Stewart | Griffith Business School (Department of Accounting, Finance, and Economics) | "The Role of the Audit Committee in Auditor-Client Negotiations" |
Research Lunch
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 28 February | Suzanne Lockhart | "Community Perceptions of Biometric Technology: Diffusion theory and human factor issues" |
| 7 March | Dennis Taylor | "Legitimacy and Corporate Governance Determinants of the Disclosure of Executives' Share Rights, Options, and Termination Benefits" (presentation) |
| 14 March | Jeremy Tustin | "On Optimal Regulation of False Advertising of Credence Goods: Some (very) preliminary observations" |
| 21 March | Rob Kooymans | "An Effective Service Life, Asset Management, and Forecasting Model" |
| 28 March | Bronwyn Gallacher | "The Empirical Measurement of Productive Efficiencies in the Regulation of Competition Law: The Australian and New Zealand Authorisation Experience" (presentation) |
| 4 April | Pauline Halchuk | "Measuring Employment Outcomes for Indigenous Australians" (paper) (presentation) |
| 25 April | PUBLIC HOLIDAY | |
| 2 May | Rick Sarre | "What do we need to do to bring the law up to date to accommodate the pluralisation of policing?" (presentation) |
| 9 May | Tapan Sarker and Roger Burritt | "Effects of Regulation and Information on Managers' Environmental Investment Decisions: An experimental study" (abstract) |
| 16 May | Martin Shanahan |
"Measuring inequality trends in colonial Australia using factor price ratios: the importance of boundaries" |
| 23 May | Peter Rossini |
"Developing a weekly residential price index using the Sales Price Appraisal Ratio" |
| 30 May | Alec Zuo/Shane Zhang |
"Did Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Augment the Backward Linkages? An Empirical Study of Fourteen Chinese Industrial Sectors"/"Airline Mergers and Market Power: Cases in China" (Alec's presentation) |
| 25 July | John Wilson | "Influencing Public Beliefs and Environmental Policy Outcomes: The use of signalling by rival lobby groups" (abstract) |
| 1 August | Daniel Nagin (Carnegie Mellon University) |
"Origins and consequences of physical violence during adolescence" (abstract) |
| 8 August | Ian Scarman | "What is this thing called risk?" |
| 15 August | Glen Lehman |
"Perspectives on Accountability: Retirement Village Accounting" |
| 22 August | David Round |
"Competition policy in international airline markets: An agenda and a proposed solution" |
| 29 August | Making research happen: an informal staff discussion | |
| 5 September | Sarah Wheeler | "The Benefits and Costs of Organic Agriculture: A Case Study of Viticultural Production at Penfolds Clare Valley Estate" |
| 12 September | Ian Scarman and Rob Kooymans | "A critical analysis of the Student Evaluation of Teaching" |
| 3 October | Daniel Pallaras |
"Certification Effects in the IPO Setting" (paper) (presentation) |
| 10 October | Elvia Sunityo-Shauki | "The Impact of Student Perceptions and Expectations on Learning Outcome: A Case Study in Teaching the Introductory Accounting Course in the University of Indonesia" (paper) |
| 17 October | George Shan/Lan Nguyen | "Corporate Disclosures of Related Party Relationships and Transactions in China: Agency, Governance, Legitimacy and Signalling Influences"/"Foreign Direct Investment and Trade: A First Look at the Vietnamese Host Country Experience" (George's abstract) (George's presentation) (Lan's paper) |
| 24 October | Ron Donato |
"The Political Economy of Health System Reform: recent private health insurance regulation in Australia in the context of a universal health system" |
| 31 October | Gavin Sanderson | "Examining a Profile of an Ideal Lecturer for Teaching International Students" (abstract) |