2008 Seminar Series
Visiting Scholars
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
| 6-Mar | Susi Sarumpaet |
School of Accounting and Business Information Systems, The Australian National University and Lecturer, Department of Accounting Faculty of Economics, University of Lampung Indonesia |
Environmental Disclosures and Earnings Management by Environmentally Visible Indonesian Corporations (PPT 199kb) |
| 13-Mar | Rakesh Gupta | School of Commerce and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Informatics, Central Queensland University | Portfolio Optimisation in the Indian Stock Markets: Industry Sector Analysis, co-authored with Dr. P. K. Basu (Word 189kb) |
| 20-Mar | Paul Frijters | Queensland University of Technology, School of Economics and Finance | The causes and consequences of major business cycles: A production function approach PPT (198kb) |
| 27-Mar | Indra Abeysekera | University of Sydney, Department of Accounting | Narrative, visual and numerical intellectual capital disclosure as predictors of earnings per share (PDF 98kb) |
| 3-Apr | Huifa Chen | PhD Student, University of Western Sydney, School of Accounting | A Global Investigation of Financial Reporting Quality (PDF 330kb) |
| 10-Apr | Tue Gorgens | ANU Research School of Social Sciences, Economics Group | Testing a parametric function against a nonparametric alternative in IV and GMM settings (PDF 238kb) |
| 17-Apr | Lorriane Nicol | University of Lethbridge, Department of Economics | Improved Technologies and Management Practices in Private Irrigation - Implications for Water Savings in Southern Alberta (Word 12kb) |
| 1-May | Michael Shields | Melbourne University, Department of Economics | Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures of Health: Evidence from Hypertension for the Income/Health Gradient |
| 8-May | Ahmed M. Khalid | Bond University, School of Business | Does Financial Market linkages Cause shocks to Spillover? Results of Mean and Volatility Transmission Using Data from Asian Crisis (Word 32kb) |
| 15-May | John Nowland | Queensland University of Technology, School of Economics and Finance | Optimal Monitoring in Family-Owned Companies? Evidence from Asia (PDF 196kb) |
| 22-May | Russell C. Smandych | University of Manitba, Department of Sociology | Ecocidal Criminology? Recasting the Role of Criminology in Responding to Humanly Created Ecological Harm (Word 26kb) |
| 29-May | Jaai Parasnis | Monash University, Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics | Immigration and the Australian labour market (Word 202kb) |
| 5-Jun | Mario Fiorini | University of Technology Sydney, School of Finance and Economics | The Effect of Home Computer Use on Children's Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills (PDF 276kb) |
| 12-Jun | Michael Grayson | Texas A&M International University, Division of International Banking and Finance Studies | why post-earnings-announcement drift occurs, why stock prices tend to rise after a stock split, and some reasons why managements smooth earnings (PDF 2MB) To watch a video of the presentation, please click here |
| 16-Oct | Garry Carnegie | University of Ballarat, Professor of Accounting, School of Business | The portrayal of Accounting and Accountants following the Enron Collapse.(Word 31kb) |
| 23-Oct | Reza Monem | Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Griffith Business School, Griffith University | CEO Characteristics, Corporate Governance and CEO Compensation (PDF 140kb) |
| 29-Oct | John Holland | Professor John Holland, Professor of Accounting, Glasgow University | Corporate Disclosure, the Financial Communications Function, and the Learning Organisation (word 31kb) |
| 30-Oct | Scott Prasser | University of Sunshine Coast, Faculty of Business | TBA |
| 6-Nov | Duncan Currie | Globelaw -International Environmental and Transnational Law | Australian Liability for Damage Caused by Genetically Modified Crops |
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Research Lunch
| 29-Jul | Peter Rossini | Automated Valuation Model Accuracy: Some Empirical Testing (Word 22kb) |
| 5-Aug | Sukhbir Sandhu | A view from the top and the bottom of the pyramid: What drives corporate environmentalism in business organizations in developing and developed countries? (PDF 19.51kb) |
| 12-Aug | Dale Blackmore | A study of the factors influencing the use of financial statements for economic decision making within small business |
| 19-Aug | Susan Lambert | Classification systems (Typologies and Taxonomies)for business models |
| 26-Aug | Scott Copeland | Making the link between tutorials and other assessment. Does what students do each week really help them understand? (Word 41kb) |
| 2-Sep | Xin Deng | Ownership Structure, Performance and Determinants of Share Diffusion in Family Businesses: Evidence from China. (Word 279kb) |
| 9-Sep | Elvia Shauki | Corporate Social Responsibility and Poverty Alleviation: Social performance indicators in the Indonesian companies (Word 104kb) |
| 16-Sep | Rick Sarre | Tips on how to get published. (The easy way) |
| 7-Oct | Tony Cavoli | Extent and Determinants of Monetary Sterilisation Policies in Asia – Some Preliminary Observations |
| 14-Oct | George Bredon | Quantitative Literacy in First year Economics Courses |
| 21-Oct | Ratnam Alagiah and Elvia Shauki | The effects of learners' perceptions of ethnicity gender and qualifications on academic performance evaluation: some quantitative evidence.(Word 42kb) |
| 28-Oct | **Note special presentation by John Holland** | TBA |
| 4-Nov | Ahmed Salim. Al-Marshoudi | An analysis of institutional arrangements of the traditional-indigenous falaj systems in Oman |