2007 Seminar Series
Visiting Scholar Series
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
| 1st March | Alison Wakefield | City University, London, Department of Sociology | When Security Fails: The Impact of Human Factors on the Deployment of Retail Security Personnel |
| 8th March | Supriya Eliezer | University of Sydney, Faculty of Economics & Business |
Corporate governance in India: impact on/of the software industry |
| 15th March | Roger Bowden | Victoria University of Wellington, School of Economics & Finance |
Chasing the right tail: Portfolio enhancement and the economic value of speculative information (full paper) |
| 22nd March | Janice Loftus | University of Sydney, School of Business | The Role of Accounting in Product Life-Cycle Analysis (full paper) |
| 27th March |
Damien Eldridge | La Trobe University, Department of Economics & Finance |
Shirking theory of referrals with exogenous prices |
| 29th March | John Collinge | Barrister and Patron of the British New Zealand Trade Council | Observations on Competition Policy |
| 26th April | Manisha Shah | University of Melbourne, Department of Economics | Sex work and Infection: What's Law Enforcement Got to Do with it? |
| 3rd May | Andrew J. Clarke | University of Melbourne, Department of Economics | Learning-by-Doing in Manufacturing Establishments: An Euler-Equation Approach |
| 10th May | Peter Boxall | University of Alberta, Visiting Scientist CSIRO Land & Water |
The Role of Sensory Attributes and Information on the Willingness to Pay for Organic Wheat Bread |
| 17th May |
Kieran James and Setsuo Otsuka
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University of Southern Queensland,
Department of Accounting and Charles Sturt University, School of Education
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| 24th May | Keturah Whitford | Australian National University, School of Accounting & Business | Are real estate agents obliged to disclose psychological defects in the property?: Exposing Ghosts, Goblins, Axe Murderers and the Skeleton in the Closet |
| 31st May | Sara Hughes | University of California, Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and University of South Australia, Centre for Comparative Water Policies and Laws | Exploring Alternative Explanations for Institutional Structure and Change in Water Management |
| 7th June | Lokman Mia | Griffith University, School of Accounting, Finance and Economics | The Interactive Effect of Market Competition and Use of MAS Information on performance: Evidence From the Upscale Hotels |
| 27th June |
Li Yuansha (Annie) | Hong Kong Baptist University, School of Business | Earnings Management by Misclassification and Corporate Governance Mechanisms in East Asian Economies |
| 26th July |
Gary Monroe | Australian National University, School of Accounting and Business Information Systems | Third-party Perceptions of an Acceptable Level of Independence Risk |
| 2nd August |
Anna Rowe | Curtin University of Technology, Graduate School of Business | Corporate Environmental Reporting: Informal Institutional Chinese Cultural Norms (PDF 217kb) |
| 9th August | William E.Becker | Indiana University, Department of Economics |
Economics in
Education (PPT 18kb) Chapter 11 - Quantitative research on teaching methods in tertiary education. (word doc 608kb) |
| 16th August | John J. Siegfried | Vanderbilt University, Department of Economics | Fraudulent Exaggeration: Economic Impact Studies of Universities |
| 23rd August |
Stephen Taylor | University of New South Wales, Faculty of Business, School of Accounting | Identifying Earnings Overstatements: A Practical Test (word doc 1592kb) |
| 30th August | Michael James | Chair, Royal Adelaide Hospital research ethics committee | The rise and fall of Vioxx: Biology, ethics, law and a failure to deal with uncertainty |
| 6th September |
Ted Watts | University of Wollongong, Faculty of Commerce, School of Accounting and Finance | Double vision: The theory of mutual causality and the strategic Balanced Scorecard (880kb Word) |
| 4th October | Michael Francis | Bank Canada | The effect of China on global prices |
| 11th October |
Lee Parker | University of Adelaide, School of Commerce | Universities redefined (Word 165kb) |
| 18th October | Mike Tretheway | Executive Vice President, InterVISTAS Consulting and Adjunct Professor, Sauder Business School, University of British Colombia | Assessing competitive impacts in airline markets with price discrimination (Word 24kb) |
| 25th October | Sumit Lodhia | Australian National University, School of Accounting & Business | The World Wide Web and environmental communication: A longitudinal study into companies in the Australian minerals industry |
| 1 November |
Vincent Chong | University of Western Australia, Department of Accounting and Finance | Negotiated Budgets: The Influence of Outcome Accountability and Subordinates' Attitudes on Budgetary Slack and Performance (Word 332kb) |
Research Lunch Series
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 27th February | Alec Zuo |
Manufacturing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China: Where and Why Does It Occur? |
| 6th March | Xin Deng | |
| 13th March | Elvia Sunityo-Shauki | The Worst and Best Scenario in Corporate Governance |
| 20th March |
Roundtable Discussion | "Graduate Qualities" |
| 3rd April | Dale Blackmore |
Is a critical mass required before the use of financial reports are perceived to be beneficial? A study aimed at small businesses |
| 24th April | Abu Mollik |
Taxes, leverage and firm value in Australia: An empirical analysis |
| 1st May | Rick Sarre |
The Rule of Law and some modern
contradictions
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| 8th May | Pauline Halchuk | The economic motivators of divorce |
| 15th May | Martin Shanahan | The Coal Vend Case and Australias Antitrust History: An Examination of What Might Have Been |
| 22nd May | Dennis Taylor | Relationships between management control systems and accountability in local government |
| 29th May | Shane Zhang | Do Concentration and Multimarket Contact Matter: Evidence from Chinas Airline Markets |
| 5th June | Achmad Shauki | Estimating Competition using Lower Bound Function |
| 12th June | George Shan | What drives the fledgling practice of social and environmental reporting by Chinese companies listed in Hong Kong? |
| 24th July | Henning Bjornlund | Exploring the feasibility of using water entitlements as an investment vehicle |
| 31st July | Jing Wang
and Lan Nguyen |
Jing Wang: The Credit Reputation and Financial Support System of Chinese Agricultural Economic Organizations |
| 7th August | Ian Scarman | TBA |
| 21st August | Steven Clark | Ramifications of the Access Card System |
| 28th August | Mohammad Azim | Board Monitoring and Firm performance: Controlling for Endogeneity and Multicollinearity (321kb Word) |
| 4th September | Ron McIver | Has commercialisation of chinas national banking system removed lending biases to the state-owned enterprise sector? |
| 11th September | John Wilson | Influencing public policy: direct lobbying and signalling (24kb Word) |
| 2nd October | Zen Lu | Finite mixture of binary logistic regression analysis on labour supply of mothers with disabled children (Word 24kb) |
| 9th October | Professor Erik Meyer | Threshold Concepts (Word 24kb) |
| 16th October | Ron Donato | Transaction cost economics and beyond: towards a complementary approach for analysing contracting in the Australian private health care system setting. (Word 21kb) |
| 23rd October | Sarah Wheeler | Is there a link between gambling and crime? (Word 23kb) |
| 30th October | Gigi Foster | Discovery Project |