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Annual Report 2005 – Outlook 2006
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Message from the Dean The University of Melbourne Faculty of Economics and Commerce 2005 Faculty Highlights Academic Programs Research and Research Training Internationalisation Staffing Distinctions and Awards Business and Community Statistical Tables Research Grants Awarded for 2005 Departmental Profiles Centres in the Faculty Graduates of the Faculty Commerce Alumni Society Report 2005 People in the Faculty Contact the Faculty
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2005 was a year of challenges and achievement for the Faculty. We were active participants in the University’s strategic consultation process that resulted in ‘Growing Esteem,’ a document that outlines the University’s future goals. ‘Growing Esteem’ reaffirms our intention to be among the finest universities in the world. Three equal priority areas of activity were outlined – research, teaching and learning and knowledge transfer. Knowledge transfer provides a new dimension to the teaching-research nexus and it is intended that these priorities should form a tightly-wrapped spiral of distinct but related activities that together define the institution’s character. www.unimelb.edu.au/vc/consultation/strategy.html
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The past year also provided an opportunity to reflect on the nature of Australian universities today and as the new Vice-Chancellor, Professor Glyn Davis observed:
‘The University remains public-spirited, but is now a large, complex organisation set precariously between the worlds of regulated public responsibility and market-driven private income. It balances a traditional mission of teaching and research with new expectations to meet economic, professional and community priorities.’ Glyn Davis, Growing Esteem, November 2005
Given our history of pioneering business education in Australia, we are confident in our ability to continue to make significant contributions to research, teaching and learning and knowledge transfer. We are currently reviewing the curriculum of the Bachelor of Commerce to ensure that we provide the highest quality education for students wishing to pursue a career in industry and government. The Bachelor of Commerce will continue to meet accreditation requirements for
the professional bodies. At the same time we are fully embracing the move to graduate school education for those with generalist undergraduate degrees. The demand from students with non-commerce backgrounds to undertake postgraduate professional degrees continues to increase as does the demand for postgraduate specialist degrees in finance, marketing, economics, human resource management, accounting and information technology.
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Achievements in 2005 that demonstrate our capacity to meet the challenges facing world class universities:
– Excellent graduate outcomes for undergraduates and postgraduates with high employer demand and salaries well above the national average.
– Our contribution to knowledge through our research activities continues to be recognised nationally and internationally. The Department of Economics was ranked #1 in a survey of economics departments in Australia and New Zealand, with eight University of Melbourne economists being identified as star performers and named in a Hall of Fame
In 2006 we will continue to implement initiatives to become the leading Economics and Commerce Faculty in the region and one of the best in the world by:
– Nobel Laureates, Professor Sir Clive Granger from University of California (San Diego) and Professor Sir James Mirrlees from Cambridge University continued to participate in our research activities and in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs – New building works for the 13 storey Economics and Commerce Building located at 198 Berkeley Street in Carlton commenced. The building will offer state-of-the-art facilities and services for the Economics and Commerce student body and also the wider University community – The Faculty became a foundation member of the Association of Asia Pacific Business Schools, providing leadership and representation in order to advance the quality of business and management education in the Asia-Pacific Region – Expansion of the scholarship program for international students and domestic students experiencing financial difficulties
– Developing strategies to improve research quality – Funding more PhD scholarships – Building state-of-the-art infrastructure – Enhancing the student experience by initiatives which increase student engagement with the University and the community, increasing support for student learning through the Teaching and Learning Unit and departments – Diversifying our student mix – Building additional links with industry, government and the community. We hope that you will find this report on the activities of the Faculty in 2005 and the profile of the academic and professional staff of interest. Please do not hesitate to contact the Faculty if you would like more information. Professor Margaret A. Abernethy Dean
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The University of Melbourne
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The University of Melbourne is among the best-performed and most highly innovative of Australia’s universities. It is the largest in terms of both research expenditure and income and is the second largest research and development organisation in Australia. Our impact on Australia’s research activity is enhanced by our strategic location in Parkville, where so many of the nation’s independent medical research institutes are also located. The University’s research culture infuses, informs and enhances all aspects of our postgraduate teaching and learning. You will be inspired by the quality of our staff: Nobel laureates, eminent scholars, award-winning researchers and other internationally renowned academics. Our programs open doors to an international network of scholarship, offering excellent academic and research prospects.
Science; Veterinary Science and Land and Food Resources. Each faculty conducts courses for various degrees of bachelor, masters and postgraduate diplomas. The majority of undergraduate students take subjects from more than one faculty and many are concurrently enrolled in degrees from two faculties. The University also confers the Doctor of Philosophy degree and higher doctorates.
Ranked the 19th university in the world by the Times Higher Education Supplement (UK) in October 2005, the University of Melbourne is a vibrant institution with a reputation for excellence built over 150 years. Our success has been achieved by insisting on international excellence. Our researchers are also dedicated teachers and supervisors.
The University is a member of the Group of Eight leading comprehensive research-intensive universities in Australia. In addition, the University is a member of the international network Universitas 21. Universitas 21 is an international network of leading research-intensive universities. Its purpose is to facilitate collaboration and cooperation between the member universities and to create entrepreneurial opportunities for them on a scale that none of them would be able to achieve operating independently or through traditional bilateral alliances.
The University community is made up of 40,000 students including more than 9,000 international students from a least 100 different countries. There are more than 6,500 staff. The Faculty of Economics and Commerce is one of 11 faculties. The others are the faculties of Architecture, Building and Planning; Arts; Education; Engineering; Law; Medicine; Music;
The main University campus covers 20 hectares and is located at Parkville, two kilometres north of Melbourne’s city centre and financial district. A number of residential colleges and student apartments are located close to the campus.
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Faculty of Economics and Commerce History Economics has been taught at the University of Melbourne since its foundation. W.E. Hearn was appointed as a professor of history and political economy in 1855. The Faculty was established in 1924 with teaching for the Bachelor of Commerce degree commencing on 2 March 1925. The foundation Dean of the Faculty was Professor Sir Douglas Copland who remained a leading figure in Australian economics and politics until his death in 1971. The Faculty’s 500-seat main lecture auditorium is named after him. The Faculty has always been a pioneer in business education in Australia. Marketing has been taught since the 1930’s; in 1954 it appointed A.A. Fitzgerald as the first full-time professor of accounting in Australia; the MBA degree was introduced in 1963 (now taught in the Melbourne Business School). The Faculty has introduced Masters degrees in business and IT, applied finance, international business, applied commerce and accounting.
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The student population has changed from an initial intake in 1925 of predominantly part-time students working in commerce in the city of Melbourne to full-time students drawn from Australia and overseas who are amongst the most able of their generation.
Since 1925, over 25,000 students have graduated from the Faculty. Many of these graduates now occupy senior positions in business, government and academia, both within Australia and internationally.
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Current Profile The Faculty is a leading centre of business education, research and innovation. Our academic staff often make key contributions to professional and public debate through conferences, lectures and short courses. They are also regularly asked to provide expert advice to the highest levels of industry and government, both nationally and internationally and have won numerous awards in teaching and research excellence. The aims of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the University of Melbourne are to: – Conduct and disseminate research of international standing in the disciplines of accounting, actuarial studies, economics, econometrics, finance, human resource management, business information systems, international business, management and marketing – Provide the highest quality of teaching and training to students drawn from the uppermost cohort in Australia and overseas – Develop close and mutually beneficial relationships with business, government, the not-for-profit sector and the professions, both nationally and internationally. Teaching and research is undertaken by four Departments: Accounting and Business Information Systems, Economics, Finance and Management. The Centre for Actuarial Studies is located in the Department of Economics. The Department of Management includes marketing and international business. The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research is also located within the Faculty. Close collaboration exists between departments in both teaching and research.
Some 7,000 students are enrolled in the various degrees and diplomas offered by the Faculty. Approximately 6,400 students, representing a quarter of undergraduates in the University, are enrolled in the Bachelor of Commerce degree, either as a single degree, or more commonly in combination with another degree such as Arts, Law, Engineering, or Science. Over 1,400 students are enrolled in postgraduate diplomas and degrees, including 150 in the PhD. The Faculty teaches subjects to around 4,900 equivalent full-time students. Of this load, 42 per cent are Australian students paying under an income contingent loan scheme (HECS) with some government subsidy, 46 per cent are international students and 12 per cent are full fee-paying Australian students. There are 131 full-time staff employed in the Faculty at the rank of lecturer and above. The Faculty prides itself on its international reputation, which is fostered by staff and student interchanges with overseas universities. Staff publish in leading international journals and contribute to applied research and policy within Australia.
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2005 Faculty Highlights
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The Faculty has established an international reputation as a preferred choice for study and research. In addition to four teaching departments, the Faculty has 10 research centres or institutes. In all of the major areas of Faculty activity including research, community engagement, teaching, and quality infrastructure, the Faculty made significant progress in 2005. Key achievements for the Faculty in 2005 included: – Ground breaking for the new 13 storey Economics and Commerce building to be located at 198 Berkeley Street. The new building will include lecture theatres, teaching laboratories, general access student laboratories, student services and facilities and staff accommodation. The building is expected to be completed by 2008.
– New student access computer lab facility opened in April 2005. This facility provides an additional 143 computers for undergraduate students. – The Faculty joined the newly formed network, the Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools. The mission of the AAPBS is to provide leadership and representation in order to advance the quality of business and management education in the Asia-Pacific Region. – Graduate outcomes: the 2004 Graduate Destination Survey results show that the undergraduate and postgraduate students are successful in securing employment, getting higher than average salaries and report high satisfaction rates with their current occupation. – In 2005 the Faculty made a major investment in careers services with the appointment of a specialist careers management consultant.
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Academic Programs The Faculty again experienced growth in the number of students enrolled in undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Our students are selected from the top performers in Australia and internationally and high entrance standards are rigorously maintained. Students come from over 60 countries and bring a wide range of international, academic, professional and industry experience to the Faculty. Teaching strategies tap into the depth and diversity of this experience. Students have benefited from the appointment of two Nobel Laureates and University of Melbourne Visiting Eminent Scholars to the Faculty. Professor Sir Clive Granger and Professor Sir James Mirrlees participated in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs of the Faculty during 2005. Sir James spoke in several special lectures to groups of economics students as well as presenting seminars in the Department of Economics. Sir Clive discussed research with econometricians in the Department, talked about ‘The Noble Laureate experience’ with graduate and honours students, and gave a seminar on ‘The Future of Forecasting.’ The Faculty undertook quality assurance and review of programs through the Teaching and Learning Quality Assessment Committee processes and completion of the Bachelor of Commerce review. An outcome of the BCom review was to introduce an additional compulsory subject into the degree.
> In addition, the support services through the Teaching and Learning Unit were further enhanced: – “Transition to Commerce” subject gives undergraduate students a clear understanding of how to approach learning effectively and efficiently, and to indicate what is expected in each of the Faculty’s departments. Transition to Commerce aims to develop learning strategies that are appropriate to university study. – In 2005, the TLU supported the University’s move to incorporate Academic Orientation as part of Orientation Week. This day and a half programme introduces students to the format of lectures in each of the disciplines of the faculty and provides them with a practice tutorial so that students obtain a clear idea of what to expect when the semester begins. – Commerce Research Learning Skills (CRALS) Program was offered by the TLU for the first time as a bridging program for postgraduate students in academic literacy, mathematics and information literacy. The program was offered as a two-week intensive course prior to the start of both semesters. Research students were also able to participate.
Undergraduate The Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) is a flexible degree allowing students to shape the course to suit their interests. The degree is designed to develop powers of critical thinking and analysis that can be applied to many fields and equip graduates to enter the world of business.
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The BCom degree comprises 24 semester-length subjects or the equivalent, taken over three years (full-time) or six years (part-time). There are five compulsory subjects and students are able to select the remaining 19 subjects from the full range of commerce related subjects and have the opportunity to study non-commerce subjects. The clearly-in ENTER for the Bachelor of Commerce degree was 93.4, representing the top seven per cent of students in the State with comparable levels for interstate and international students. Standards of entry for combined degrees were even more competitive. The total number of students enrolled in the Bachelor of Commerce, either as a single degree or as a combined degree, was 6,419 a substantial increase on the previous year’s figure of 5,923. Faculty engagement in the regional schools community, via rural outreach, continued to increase with visits to Ballarat, Bendigo, Albury, Wodonga, Wagga Wagga, Griffith the Wimmera and Gippsland. Other community engagement activities included the VCE Lecture Series; Master Class; UniSummit; school visits and Faculty representation at expos in Victoria, Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland; as well as on campus activities promoting the Melbourne Experience. The VCE Lecture Series attracted some 2000 VCE students studying Accounting, Economics and Business Management. In 2005, 560 highachieving Year 10 students representing 104 schools participated in the Master Class. Over 6,000 VCE students and parents visited Faculty staff and facilities during Open Day in August. Twenty-six of the Faculty’s students also engaged with community through the University’s Student Ambassador Leadership Program. As part of this program, each student volunteered 40 hours in the community with organisations including: Australian Red Cross, Edmund Rice Camps, Interchange, Melbourne City Mission, Starlight Children’s Foundation, Sudanese Australian Integrated Learning (SAIL), Victorian Law Foundation and Wesley Mission Australia. The guest speaker at the annual prize-giving ceremony was Ms Natasha Mandie, Managing Director, Hindal Ventures Pty Ltd. Faculty employer groups continue to generously support students with sponsorship of prizes and scholarships. The Faculty’s seven student societies were again very active offering opportunities for students to network with employers, professional associations and to develop friendships. The Financial Management Association of Australia held a very successful forum in October 2005 entitled ‘Be Inspired.’ The event was attended by over 100 participants
and featured high achieving business women from a range of industries who shared their challenges and successes. Results of the 2004 Graduate Destination Survey were released in 2005, showing Faculty graduates continue to perform well. A snapshot of outcomes were: – Of those available for full-time work, 91% were working full-time; – Work sector destination: 90.4% private sector, 8.6% government; – Mean salary $40,000 (national average for graduates in the field – $35,000); – Mean hours of work per week was 42.5 and mean age at employment was 23 years; – 75.2% of Bachelor respondents said they had a paid job in their final year of study; – 10.5% of Bachelor respondents engaged in paid or unpaid career related work as part of their course, while 50.6% completed work related to their career, outside of their course; – Approximately 90% of both Bachelor graduates surveyed described their current position as either directly related or somewhat related to their completed course. The following undergraduate courses are offered by the Faculty of Economics and Commerce: Bachelor of Commerce Bachelor of Commerce (Management) Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) The Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) is a three year full-time program. The honours degree requires a further one year of full-time study. The Bachelor of Commerce aims at developing powers of critical analysis that can be applied in many fields, and provides professional training for a wide variety of professions. The honours program allows students to further develop the specialisation they have undertaken as part of the pass degree. The Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Commerce (Management) are also offered as a combined degree with each of the following: Bachelor of Agriculture Bachelor of Agricultural Science Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications) Bachelor of Engineering Bachelor of Engineering (Information Technology) Bachelor of Information Systems Bachelor of Laws Bachelor of Music Bachelor of Property and Construction Bachelor of Science Each combined course is a five year full-time program after which students graduate with two degrees.
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Postgraduate Programs Postgraduate student numbers continue to increase, total enrolments in graduate diploma, masters, and PhD programs increased to 1,475 up from 940 students in 2004. Enrolments in the Master of Applied Commerce suite of programs contributed most to the increase. Factors driving growth are a recent study by consulting group Access Economics who found that postgraduate business qualifications generate an estimated net economic benefit of $660,000 per graduate more than any other type of graduate. Australian Financial Review, 20 June 2005.
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Because of the interest in career advancement and change expressed by postgraduates, the Faculty implemented a comprehensive Career Program for postgraduates in 2005. The program includes: – Career Minutes – Career Hours – Career Day – One to one consultations – eAdvising – Career Mentoring Program – Online CV book – Career Visits – Career Positioning System All postgraduate students have access to this innovative, user friendly and relevant service that complement and adds value to other career related services and resources offered at the University. The goal is to facilitate high standard career outcomes and enable to students to broaden knowledge of networks, job search and workplace skills as well as self-awareness. In 2005, the Faculty developed additional flexible delivery modes including the option of completing part of their studies online with global online education provider Universitas 21 Global (U21G). In addition, more summer school and intensive subjects were offered to postgraduate students. The A.G. Whitlam Trust funded outstanding postgraduate scholars from 13 countries.
The following graduate programs are offered by the Faculty of Economics and Commerce: Graduate Diploma in Actuarial Studies Graduate Diploma in Management Studies Graduate Certificate in Business Forensics Graduate Diploma in Economics Postgraduate Diploma in Economics Postgraduate Diploma in Finance Master of Accounting Master of Applied Commerce Master of Applied Commerce (Accounting) Master of Applied Commerce (Business Analysis and Systems) Master of Applied Commerce (Human Resource Management) Master of Applied Commerce (International) Master of Applied Commerce (Marketing) Master of Applied Commerce (Operations Management) Master of Applied Commerce (Organisational Change) Master of Applied Finance Master of Business and Information Technology Master of Financial Management Master of Human Resource Management Master of International Business Master of Commerce in Management (by Advanced Seminar and Shorter Thesis) Master of Commerce (coursework) Master of Commerce (by thesis) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) PhD with Coursework (Accounting and Business Information Systems) PhD with Coursework (Economics) PhD with Coursework (Finance)
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The Faculty continued to perform well in attracting research income, producing research publications and in PhD completions during 2005. Research achievement was recognised in a study that placed the Department of Economics as the top economics department in Australian and New Zealand. Eight University of Melbourne economists – the most from any university in the study – have been identified by the researchers as ‘star performers’ over the period 1988 to 2002 and named in a 30-member ‘Hall of Fame’. The University of Melbourne economists who feature in the research ‘Hall of Fame’ are Professor John Creedy, Professor Jeff Borland, Professor Stephen King, Associate Professor Nilss Olekalns, Professor Vance Martin, Professor Peter Bardsley, Professor Ian McDonald and Professor Guay Lim. Melbourne’s strength was further demonstrated by the number and breadth of its academic economists named in the individual rankings under the various criteria. They included Dr Michael Shields, Associate Professor Lisa Cameron, Professor John Freebairn, Dr Suren Basov, Dr Lisa Farrell, Dr Robert Dixon, Dr David Harris, Dr Chris Skeels, Associate Professor Joseph Hirschberg and Associate Professor Donald Maclaren.
In addition to four teaching departments, the Faculty has 10 research centres or institutes. An ongoing major research enterprise conducted within the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research is the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. The HILDA Survey was initiated and funded by the Commonwealth Government through the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and is a householdbased panel study which began in 2001. A HILDA Survey Research Conference 2005 was held at the University of Melbourne 29-30 September 2005. The Conference highlighted information about economic and subjective well-being, labour market dynamics and family dynamics.
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During 2005 the Faculty continued to pursue its vigorous internationalisation program. As well as working to maintain links with traditional partner countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, the Faculty intensified its efforts in new regions. In particular, we sought to strengthen links in India, Latin America and Europe as a means to ensure diversity in our student body, to offer students a wider range of opportunities for exchange and to provide staff with research and teaching opportunities in new regions.
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Internationalisation Staff of the Faculty made an unprecedented number of overseas visits during 2005 to profile the Faculty and University, pursue institutional links and to recruit students. New agreements were signed with the European Business School, Manchester Business School and the Wharton School of Business, providing new opportunities for staff and student exchange. Students and staff are now able to collaborate with over 100 institutions worldwide. In June, the Faculty sent seven postgraduate students to the European Business School in Germany for an intensive summer school on global governance. The Faculty also hosted a number of high-profile visitors including Professor Prakash Apte, Director, Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore) and Professor Carlos Davila, School of Management, Los Andes University, Colombia. These visits formed part of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce’s International Visitor Scheme, and furthered the relationship with the two prestigious institutions.
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As a means to provide more support for international students the Faculty revitalised the Whitlam Scholarships program and instituted a new large-scale program of international and domestic scholarships valued at one million dollars per year. This latter program is particularly focused on assisting students from developing countries who might not be able to study at Melbourne without support from the Faculty. Research collaboration with overseas scholars continues to grow in importance. Each department has an active seminar series featuring international researchers and all hosted numerous visitors during 2005.
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Study Abroad and Exchange Opportunities An important part of the Faculty’s and University’s internationalisation agenda is ensuring that our students have a genuinely international experience, by being exposed to international students in Melbourne and having the opportunity to visit partner institutions overseas. The Faculty welcomed over 75 students from study abroad and exchange partners in 2005. Scholarships were made available for students from Melbourne to study at partner institutions overseas and 70 students went on exchange to countries including the UK, USA, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands.
Growing interest in Latin America was assisted through a University of Melbourne delegation visit to Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Chile and Brazil. The Faculty of Economics and Commerce currently has exchange programs with the institutions listed on page 14. Students from these institutions are invited to apply to study within the Faculty. Opportunities exist for current students of the Faculty to study at these institutions also. Students of institutions not listed are invited to apply for the Study Abroad program within the Faculty. Applications for exchange or study abroad programs should be made through the University of Melbourne’s International Admissions Office.
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Partner institutions for exchange programs Austria
India
New Zealand
University of Vienna
Indian Institute of Science
University of Auckland
Canada
Indonesia
Norway
McGill University Queen’s University University of British Columbia University of Toronto
University of Indonesia Gadjah Mada University
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration University of Oslo
Chile Pontifical Catholic University Adolfo Ibanez University
China (People’s Republic of)
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Fudan University Nanjing University Peking University Shantou University Tsinghua University University of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology of China
Denmark University of Copenhagen France Bordeaux I – University, Sciences, Technologies Bordeaux II – Victor Segalen University Bordeaux III – Michel de Montaigne University Bordeaux IV – Montesquieu University Lyon II – Lumiere University Lyon III – Jean Moulin University Paris VII – Denis Diderot University
Germany Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg Free University of Berlin Humboldt University University of Heidelberg
Ireland University College, Dublin
Singapore
Italy
Nanyang Technological University National University of Singapore
University of Bologna University of Commerce ‘Luigi Bocconi’
Japan Doshisha University Hitotsubashi University Keio University Kobe University Kyoto University Ritsumeikan University Sophia University Tokyo Institute of Technology
Korea Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Korea University Pohang University of Science and Technology Seoul National University
Lithuania
Sweden Lund University Umeå University Uppsala University
Taiwan National University of Taiwan National Tsing Hua University
Thailand Chulalongkorn University Prince of Songkla University Thammasat University
United Kingdom Heriot-Watt University University of Birmingham University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow University of Manchester University of Nottingham
Vilnius University
United States of America Malaysia University of Malaya
Mexico Monterrey Institute of Technology & Higher Education (ITESM)
The Netherlands Erasmus University of Rotterdam, School of Management Leiden University University of Amsterdam
Boston College Georgetown University New York University (Stern Business School) Pennsylvania State University University of California – Berkeley – Davis – Irvine – Los Angeles – Riverside – San Diego – Santa Barbara – Santa Cruz University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign University of Pennsylvania University of Southern California University of Texas at Austin University of Virginia University of Washington Washington University in St Louis (Olin School of Business)
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Former Director of the Melbourne Institute, Professor Peter Dawkins took up the position of Deputy Secretary (Economic and Financial Policy), in the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance in April 2005.
Dr Martin Davies, Teaching and Learning Unit, and Dr Catherine De Fontenay Economics and Dr Bradley Potter, Accounting and Business Information Systems, were promoted to senior lecturer in 2005.
Professor Ray Zammuto joined the Faculty in 2005 and will lead the Department of Management from 2006.
Dr Maria Kraimer, Department of Management, promoted to Reader and Associate Professor.
Professor Kostas Mavromaras was appointed as Head of the Labour Economics and Social Policy area in the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research. Professor Kevin Davis was appointed Director of the Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies Consortium. The Centre is comprised of the University of Melbourne, Monash University, RMIT, supported by the Victorian Government and the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. Dr Penelope Smith, MIAESR was appointed as a Research Fellow. Dr Umut Oguzoglu, Dr Julia Whitt and Ms Alison Goode were appointed to MIAESR
Dr Christina Cregan and Dr Ying Zhu, Department of Management, promoted to Associate Professor. Dr Beth Webster was promoted to Principal Research Fellow. Dr David Aldridge left the Faculty to take up a position within the University Information Services Division. Mr Alister Air joined the Faculty in October as the Information Services Unit Manager. Dr Elizabeth Kent, Transition Officer left in October to take up a position at the University of New England. Ms Nooi Chang was promoted to Manager (International).
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Mr Phyl Georgiou was one of four Goldman Sachs Foundation Global Leaders from Australia selected to travel to New York to join 46 others in meeting prominent leaders from the private, public and non-profit sectors to learn more about leadership and global issues.
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The University of Melbourne’s inaugural ANZ Group Strategic Development (GSD) Scholarship for academic excellence and leadership potential has been awarded to Ezinne Udeh (pictured right), an International student from Mexico in her final year of a Bachelor of Commerce. Bachelor of Commerce student Alicia Xiang Li, a Faculty Student Ambassador was selected as one of 100 outstanding young people of Chinese origin from across the world to attend the 2005 Dragon 100 Forum in Shanghai. Professor Joe Isaac, Department of Management was awarded a LLD Honoris Causa by Macquarie University in October. Alfred Sham, a 2004 Bachelor of Commerce Graduate, placed in the top 10 in the BRW National Student Share Investment Competition for 2004/05. Dr Asjeet Lamba in the Department of Finance won the academic portion of the competition. Professor of Management Cynthia Hardy was awarded the University’s Woodward Medal in Humanities and Social Sciences for 2005. The Woodward Medal is awarded to University of Melbourne staff for research in the preceding three years which is considered to have made the most significant contribution in its field.
Associate Professor Anne-Wil Harzing was appointed to editorial boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, European Management Review, Human Resource Management and the Australian Journal of Management. Dr Stewart Johnston and Dr Angela Paladino were awarded the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management’s best paper award at the annual conference. Ms Pauline Sinel received the General Staff Scholarship for 2005.
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Dr Lea Waters was announced as the 2004 winner of the Pearson Education ANZAM Management Educator of the Year Award during 2005. Professor Kostas Mavromaras – Academy of Athens 2005 Award for ‘Best Scientific work in the area of Economics’ in Greece between January 2003 and December 2005. Dr Richard Fitzherbert was awarded the 2005 JASSA Prize by the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. Eddie Leung who completed his PhD in 2005 was awarded the 2005 A.M. Parker Prize by the Institute of Actuaries of Australia. Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching were awarded to Dr Isabel Metz and Professor Nasser Spear. Exceptional Distinction in Research and Research Training were awarded to Professor David Dickson and Professor Cynthia Hardy. Associate Professor Howard Dick, Department of Management was appointed convenor of the Melbourne Asia Coordinating Committee. A portrait of Professor Ross Williams, Dean of the Faculty from 1993-2002 was unveiled (pictured above). The portrait is by Sydney artist, Evert Ploeg.
Dr Sharafali Mossa’s paper titled ‘Production Scheduling in a Flexible Manufacturing System under Random Demand’ was listed in the top 25 Hottest Articles in the journal European Journal of Operational Research. Mr Philip Shum, a second year doctoral student of the Marketing Group, was offered a Visiting Scholar’s position in the School of Business at Columbia University in New York for five months between July and December 2005. His research proposal has also recently been awarded two industry grants. Associate Professor Milé Terziovski was appointed to the editorial review board of Quality Management Journal. The Board of the Global Manufacturing Research Group appointed Professor Danny Samson President Elect of that organisation. ‘The Handbook of Organizational Discourse’ edited by David Grant, Professor Cynthia Hardy, Cliff Oswick and Linda Putnam won the 2005 Outstanding Book Award for the Organizational Communication Division of the USA’s National Communication Association. Dr Michael Beverland was the inaugural winner of the ‘Emerging Researcher of the Year’ award given by the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy.
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Faculty members contribute to professional and public debate through a range of conferences, lectures, short courses and in the print media. In turn, representatives of the business community, government and non-profit bodies provide major input into the activities of the Faculty through membership of advisory boards, and participation in conferences and seminars. Some of the Faculty’s 2005 activities are listed below.
Industry links The Economics and Commerce Career Mentor Connection (CMC) program linked postgraduate students with industry mentors based on degree specialisations. Successful mentor-mentee relationships enable students to gain insights into specific industries and begin to develop personal and professional networks. Many mentors are alumni of the University working in a broad range of professional fields with both the public and private sectors well represented including Melbourne City Council, Ford Motor Company, State Trustees, JP Morgan, Chase Bank, Berhad, Ericsson, CSL Ltd, The Nous Group, and Urban Maintenance System. Business sponsored scholarships awarded in 2005 included Horwath Final Year Accounting Scholarship and Deutsche Bank Final Year Scholarships.
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Business and Community Conferences and Workshops Quantitative Analysis of Teaching and Learning Forum, February 2005. A joint forum conducted by the TLU and the Department of Economics. Over 100 delegates attended the forum designed to showcase quantitative research in the teaching and learning of the disciplines in the Faculty. The 10th Australasian Macroeconomic Workshop was held at the University of Melbourne on 30-31 March 2005. It was organised by the Department of Economics and the Centre for Macroeconomics at the University of Melbourne. A two day conference by the Melbourne Institute and The Australian newspaper ‘Sustaining Prosperity: New Reform Opportunities for Australia’, was held 31 March – 1 April 2005. ‘The Next Generation: Building a bridge between microsimulation, life-cycle, and macroeconomic models’ Monday, 9 May 2005 – The aim of the workshop was to bring together a technical audience of micro and macro economists from academia and government, to share existing expertise and help accelerate the development of the next generation of Australian models needed to address tomorrow’s questions.
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The Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems hosted the First Asia-Pacific Research Symposium on Accounting Information Systems. The symposium provided a forum for leading international and local academics and Australian PhD students to discuss research focusing on the nexus between accounting and business information systems, held 2 July. A Business Economics Forum on Innovation, Intellectual Property Rights and Australian Productivity Growth was held 6 September and repeated on 8 September. The Department of Economics hosted the 34th Australian Conference of Economists (ACE 05) held at the University of Melbourne from 26 – 28 September 2005. One hundred and eighty seven papers were presented at the conference. Plenary sessions were given by Olivier Blanchard (MIT), Peter Lloyd (Melbourne), Hugo Sonnenschein (Chicago) and John Sutton (LSE). Two symposia and a business dinner were also held in conjunction with ACE 05 on 28 September 2005. One symposium was on ‘Cartels and the Law’ the other was on ‘Basel II’. The Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Ian Macfarlane was the guest speaker at business dinner. HILDA Conference 2005, Thursday 29 and Friday 30 September 2005 – A two day conference that provided a forum for the discussion of research based on the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey.
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The Faculty was co-sponsor of the AsiaConnect Conference held in November 2005. The Melbourne Institute ran quarterly forums in Melbourne and Canberra – the Melbourne Institute Business Economics Forum and the Melbourne Institute Public Economics Forum. Topics in 2005 included: ‘Pre-Budget Assessment of the Economy and the Reform Agenda’; ‘Where Will Our Workers Come From?’; ‘Innovation the Key to Productivity Growth’; and ‘Poverty and Opportunity: Measurement and Policy Issues.’ 13 seminars were held in 2005 as part of the Melbourne Institute Seminar Series 15 workshops were held in 2005 as part of the Melbourne Institute Workshop Series Asialink and Asian Economics Centre presented ‘Labor Rights in Asia: The ILO’s Decent Work Agenda.’
Public Lectures The 18th Downing Lecture ‘The Economics of Immediate Gratification’ was delivered by Professor Matthew Rabin, University of California Berkeley on 8 March. Asian Economics Centre jointly with Asialink presented public lecture by Professor Ross Garnaut on ‘The US and China Free Trade Agreements and the Future of Regionalism’, held 22 March. The Max Cordon lecture was delivered by Professor Jeffrey Williamson, the Laird Bell Professor of Economics at Harvard University on 23 May 2005. Professor Williamson spoke on the ‘Third World De-Industrialisation, Then and Now: Has the Old Economic Order Vanished?’ A Dean’s Lecture was delivered by Professor J Freeman, the Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University on 20 June 2005. Professor Freeman spoke on ‘Doubling the Global Workforce: The Challenge of Integrating China, India, and the Former Soviet Bloc into the World Economy.’ Professor Robert Gregory, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU gave a Dean’s Lecture on 12 August entitled ‘The Haves and the Have Nots. Why are we splitting into two nations?’ Professor Gregory received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Melbourne on 13 August. QANTAS Chairperson Margaret Jackson presented ‘Obligation, Responsibility and Respect’, the 20th Foenander Lecture, held 23 August. 2003 Nobel Prize winner Professor Sir Clive Granger presented a public lecture on ‘The Economics of Peace’ held 15 September.
Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission for the Government of India, delivered the David Finch Lecture ‘The Transition to International Financial Integration: India’s Experience’, held 22 September. Professor Peter Lloyd presented the 2005 Stan Kelly Memorial Lecture at the Australian Conference of Economists, held 26 September. The 66th Annual CPA Lecture was delivered by Professor D Larry Crumbley, KPMG Endowed Professor in the Department of Accounting at Louisiana State University. Professor Crumbley spoke on ‘Corporate Fraud and Financial Abuse: The Current and Future Role of Forensic Accounting’, held 5 October. Professor Gavin Jones of the University of Singapore gave a pubic lecture on the 20 October 2005 entitled ‘A Demographic Perspective on the Muslim World.’
Inaugural Lectures Professor David Merrett, Department of Management gave his Inaugural Professorial Lecture on 20 September, on the topic ‘Did Business Matter: Australia in the 20th Century.’
Media Coverage Members of the Faculty are regularly featured television and radio guests, participate in public debate through contribution to newspapers, journals and business magazines. An on-line expert guide is available at http://www.research.unimelb. edu.au/mediacontact. In 2005, the University’s Media Office published a report on 2004 media activity. The report found that the Faculty received 189 mentions in the media, including print, radio and television. The media was overall favourable at 99%. 44 commentators from the Faculty attracted coverage; the most prominent commentators were Professors Peter Lloyd, John Freebairn and Peter Dawkins. Peter Lloyd’s report for the Victorian Government into the commercial planting of genetically-modified canola was the biggest story of the Faculty. Other issues that faculty members participated in were: the federal election, Australia’s Free Trade Agreement with the USA and the ageing population crisis. Stories most often appeared in broadsheet newspapers and the business press, with the Australian Financial Review providing the most coverage.
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Statistical Tables
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Table 1 Numbers of Unique Students Enrolled in a Faculty Course in 2005 Course
International Students
Total Enrolments
BCom BCom (Hons) BCom (Hons)/LLB BCom (Hons)/Other* BCom/BA BCom/LLB BCom/BIS BCom/BEng BCom/BEng (IT) BCom/BSc BCom/ BPC BCom/BAgrSc BCom/BAgr BCom/BMus
1770 30 1 0 2 153 65 126 45 24 14 0 0 2
2922 105 45 17 880 779 439 567 158 371 97 22 5 12
Total Undergraduate
2302
6419
Postgraduate Certificate Diploma Masters (Coursework) Masters (Research) PhD
0 8 644 2 60
6 32 1272 15 150
Total Postgraduate
706
1475
3008
6997
Total
* Students combining BCom (Hons) with a degree other than Law. Combined degree students taking honours in other faculties are included in the relevant BCom combined degree figures.
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Table 2 Full-Year Teaching Load by Nature of Enrolment, 2005 Australian subsidised
International fee-paying
Australian fee-paying
Total
Bachelors (Pass) Bachelors (Honours) Diploma Masters (Coursework) Masters (Research) PhD
1926 88 – 24 6 59
1663 40 5 492 2 57
258 3 14 301 – –
3847 131 19 817 8 116
Total
2103
2259
576
4938
Level
Table 3 Full-Year Teaching Load by Department, 2005
Undergraduate
Diplomas
Higher Degrees (Coursework)
Accounting & BIS Economics Finance Management
967 1353 893 746
3 8 4 5
262 107 144 305
13 43 11 54
1245 1510 1053 110
Total
3978
19
817
124
4938
Department
Higher Degrees (Research)
Total
Notes: Components may not add to totals owing to rounding Higher Degrees (Research) total includes 3 in MIAESR Undergraduate total includes 19 “Faculty general”
Table 4 Teaching Load, 1992-2005
Year
Other than Higher Degree
Higher Degree
Total
2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992
3997 3840 3793 3570 3264 3073 3147 2864 2621 2330 2124 2022 1737 1602
941 727 571 419 331 266 256 220 174 152 103 79 72 59
4938 4567 4364 3989 3595 3439 3403 3084 2795 2482 2227 2101 1809 1661
Table 5 Total Operating Revenue by Source Other 5% Research income 19%
Student fee income 58%
DEST Operating Grant 18% The Faculty continues to rely heavily on student fee income to support its operating activities. Total student fee income receipted to the Faculty after the deduction of central overheads in 2005 was $32.4m, $1.3m short of our 2005 target.
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Table 6 Number of Academic and Professional Staff by Department (equivalent full-time as at 31 March 2005) Department
Teaching & Research Full-time Casual
Accounting & BIS Economics Finance Management MIAESR Faculty General Total
Research only Full-time Casual
Professional Staff Full-time Casual
28.0 38.4 23.3 39.0 3.0 5.0
5.6 10.6 9.1 9.7 0 0.1
0 1.6 0 0.4 22.9 0
1.0 1.3 0.2 1.3 0.2 0.1
9.6 14.8 6.8 11.1 8.7 61.9
4.9 0.9 2.0 3.7 1.2 3.7
136.7
35.1
24.9
4.1
112.9
16.4
Full-time includes fractional full-time
Table 7 Teaching-and-Research Staff by Category (full-time and
Table 8 Total Operating Expenditure 2003-2005 Total operating expenditure for the Faculty increased to $50m in 2005. 66% of this represents salary expenditure with other significant investment in the purchase of capital equipment for the new under60 graduate computer 50 laboratory that opened in 2005. 40
fractional full-time as at 31 March 2005)
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Category
Number
Professor Associate Professor / Reader Senior Lecturer Lecturer Other Total
22.7 26.6 35.1 47.0 5.3
30 20
136.7
Non-salary
10
Salary
0 2003
2004
Table 9 % Change in Student Fee Revenue 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 2003
2004
2005
The decline in overseas demand is starting to be realised within the Faculty. Growth in our student fee income is declining as the market for undergraduate programs plateaus. The Faculty has invested heavily in its postgraduate programs to assist in further diversifying its revenue streams, however it is unlikely that revenue growth is going to increase in the short to medium term.
Table 10 Sources of Revenue 2003-2005 100%
8.4%
5.1%
5.2%
80%
18.9%
19.1%
19.3%
Other
60% 40%
52.9%
57.2%
57.4%
Research income Student fee income
20% 19.8%
18.6%
18.2%
2003
2004
2005
0%
DEST operating grant
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Research Grants Awarded for 2005
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Australian Research Council – Discovery Project Scheme
Australian Research Council – Linkage Grants
Administered by the University of Melbourne
Designing Innovative Allocation Mechanisms for Public Policy Professor P Bardsley, Sir J Mirrlees, Dr L Gangadharan, Dr N Erkal (with Professor C R Plott, Mr G C Stoneham; Ms C C Thomas; Mr P Hughes and Mr C Beverly) Industry Partner: Victorian Departments of Primary Industries; Treasury and Cabinet; Sustainability and Environment
New Statistical Procedures for Analysing Dependence in Non-Gaussian Time-Series Data Dr D Harris (with Dr G Martin, Monash University) Measuring the Effects of Interest Rate Volatility Associate Professor O T Henry, Associate Professor N Olekalns, Dr K Shields (with Associate Professor M D McKenzie and Dr S Suardi) The Psychological Contract: Bridging Human Resource Management Practices and Organisational Effectiveness Professor C Kulik, Dr C Cregan, Dr M Brown and Dr M I Melz Labour Market Transitions and Dynamics in Australia: An Analysis of Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australian Survey Professor M P Wooden, Professor J L Borland and Professor K Mavromaras
Employment Systems and Organisational Outcomes: Managing Employee Expectations through HRM Practice Professor C Kulik, Dr M Brown, Dr C Cregan and Dr M I Metz Industry Partner: Australian Human Resource Institute Experimental Evaluation of YP4 – Is ‘Joining-up’ services for homeless and jobless people a net benefit to Society? Professor JL Borland, Dr Y Tseng, Dr R K Wilkins Industry Partners: Hanover Welfare Service, Melbourne City Mission, Brotherhood of St.Laurence, Loddon Mallee Housing Services Uncertainty and the Success of Innovation Dr E M Webster, Dr J Yong, Dr P H Jensen, Dr A Palangkaraya (with Ms K C Collins) Industry Partner: IP Australia
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Work and Social Cohesion Under Globalisation Professor D Samson, Associate Professor J Benson (with Mr R Gough, Dr J Doughney, Professor A Rainnie, Dr M MacIntosh) Industry Partners: National Australia Bank Limited, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Members Equity, Multiplex Constructions Pty Ltd, Schneider (Australia) Consulting, Ernst & Young, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Linfox
The University of Melbourne Early Career Grants Accounting and Business Information Systems A Cross-cultural Study of Factors Determining the Design, Implementation and Use of Enterprise Systems in Global Organizations, Dr Gary Pan
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Economics Knowledge Sharing in Dynamic Research and Development Competition, Dr Nisvan Erkal Structural Estimation of a Model of Heterogenous Firms and International Trade, Dr Russell Hillberry Finance Determinants of the Risk Appetite of Australian Oil Companies, Dr Les Coleman Management Understanding the Nature and Consequences of Corporate Ethics Training, Dr Adam Barsky Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research Examining the Impact of Health on Labor Supply and Wages, Dr Lixin Cai Modeling Changes in Output Volatility in the Global and Domestic Economies, Dr Penelope Smith
Finance The Effects of Business Methods Patents Approvals on Grantees and Their Industry Rivals, Dr Asjeet Lamba, Dr Andre Gygax Management Female academics in editorial boards of management journals (supplementary application) Associate Professor Anne-Wil Harzing, Dr Isabel Metz An Empirical Study on the Implementation and Practice of TQM and Six Sigma in Australian Industry, Associate Professor MilĂŠ Terziovski, Dr Sharafali Moosa Measuring Brand Authenticity, Dr Michael Beverland, Dr Julie Napoli Understanding Supervisory Deviation from Corporate Policy: The Role of Participative Decision Making Among Chinese Supervisors, Associate Professor Ying Zhu, Dr Adam Barsky The role of career identity and adaptability during unemployment and upon re-employment, Dr Lea Waters, Dr Douglass (Tim) Hall Content and Contextual Interference: The Whole is Less Than the Sum of Its Parts, Mr Anish Nagpal, Dr Elison Lim Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research Testing for a unit root in short rate jump diffusion process, Dr Michael Chua Teaching and Learning Unit An investigation into the interrelationship of work, learning and identity in professional practice, Dr Gayle Morris
Faculty Research Grants Accounting and Business Information Systems A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Personalization on User’s Information Processing and Decision-Making, Dr Susanna Ho
Faculty Early Career Researcher Grants Accounting and Business Information Systems Information Systems Decision Making During Mergers and Acquisitions, Dr Manjari Mehta
Economics Individual and Aggregate Behaviour of Consumers with Habit Persistence, Dr Peter Stemp
Economics Job Duration and Immigrant Labour Market Assimilation, Dr Andrew Clarke
Approximations to the Sampling Behaviour of the IV Estimator in Dynamic Simultaneous Equations Models, Dr Chris Skeels
Finance Emerging Markets: index construction and the impact of legal code, Dr Bonnie Buchanan
Nonparametric Bayesian Assessment of Lorenz and Stochastic Dominance in Income Distributions, Professor Bill Griffiths
Modelling Approaches for Credit Risk of Collateralised Debt Obligations, Dr Harald Scheule
School Principals and Education Outcomes of Youth, Dr Mick Coelli
Management The Changing Face of Non-Profit Organisations: reconciling the tensions, Dr Jennifer Frahm
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Competitive Crossovers: evidence from the music and broadcasting industries, Dr Joeri Mol Internationalisation and Firm Performance: an empirical test of the stages model, Dr Tatiana Zalan
PhD Theses Completed Rosanna Scutella, Indirect & Direct Tax Incidence in Australia Edward Leung, Long Term Care in Australia Veronika Nemes, Electronic Trading for Resources Emayenesh Seyoum-Tegegn, The Impact of the Current Round of WTO Negotiations on Australian Dairy Industry: The potential effects of officially supported export credit Amalia Widyasanti, Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rates in Small Emerging Economies Fan Liang, Foreign invested enterprises in a transitional economy of China
Economics T Betts, Equity Prices and the External Finance Premium R Humberstone, Unemployment in the Job Contact Network I Linsley, Over-education in the Australian Labour Market: Incidence, Effects and Causes S Killimer, Exploring Unknown Quantities: Development and Application of a Stochastic Catastrophe Model with Output and Sensitivities B Westmore, Allowing for Durable Goods in Estimating the Inter Temporal Elasticity of Substitution for Australia Finance T J Tan, An Empirical Assay into Investment Sensitivities in Australia Using Panel Data J O’Day, Are Firms Substituting Share Repurchases for Dividends? Australian Evidence
John Van Beveren, The influence of online flow and involvement on information search
Management J Russo, Workaholic Worker Type Difference in Work-family Conflict: the Moderating Role of Supervisor Support and Flexible Work Schedule
Andre Spicer, Making a world view? Globalisation Discourse in a Public Broadcast
S Domberger, An Empirical Investigation of the Protean Career Orientation in a Graduate Context
Danielle Chmielewski, Antecedents and Consequences of the Timing of New Brand Introduction: a firm based and market based perspective Johanna Macneil, An investigation of the nature of complementary work practices in Australian organisations Matthew Cairns, The Economics of Multinational Investment: learning, knowledge and transition economies Krishnan Maheswaran, Some international evidence on the impact of liquidity constraints on consumption smoothing Wai Man Liu, Monitoring and limit order submission risks
Faculty Honours (Research) Scholarships In 2005, nine Honours students were awarded studentships to work with academics to develop their research essays into publishable journal articles.
Visiting Research Scholar Grants The following international visitors were supported in 2005. Accounting and Business Information Systems Professor J Sutton (University of Connecticut) Professor P Easton (University of Notre Dame) Professor J Francis (University of Missouri) Professor S. Anderson (Rice University) Economics Professor R Kali (University of Arkansas) Professor G Jones (National University of Singapore) Professor J Powell (University of California, Berkeley) Management Professor G Jones (National University of Singapore) Professor C Snow (Pennsylvania State University) Professor J Wacker (Arizona State University) Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research Professor A Drago (Pennsylania State University)
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Professor Stewart Leech Head, Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems
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Professor Jeff Borland Head, Department of Economics
Departmental Profiles Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems The Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems, long-established as a premier educator in the field of accounting, offers an integrated approach to the teaching of accounting and the newly-emerging discipline of business information systems. The focus of many existing subjects is being changed to compliment the interrelationship between the two disciplines. With a student load of over 1000 full-time equivalent students, the Department has a substantial undergraduate and postgraduate program, teaching across all areas of managerial and financial accounting, auditing and business information systems. The Department’s core undergraduate subjects are fully accredited by the professional accounting bodies. Formal agreement has been reached with a number of Universitas 21 universities for the transfer of credits for subjects in accounting. The Master of Applied Commerce (Accounting), introduced in 2003, is also fully accredited by the professional accounting bodies. The Department has a strong research profile. Its PhD program, comprising one year of coursework and two-year full-time thesis, is one of the most active and respected in the region. Several of the Department’s 30 academic staff currently hold ARC grants and serve on the editorial board of a number of leading international academic journals.
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The Department of Economics The Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne is the leading Economics department in Australia. It is a large Department – with 44 teaching and research staff. The Department includes the Centre for Actuarial Studies. The Department is committed to achieving the highest standards in research in economics and econometrics: by making contributions to international knowledge that are publishable in leading international journals, and undertaking international quality research on the Australian economy and economic policy issues. There is a strong emphasis within the Department on encouraging a good research culture and promoting collaboration. Major areas of research are: Economic theory; Econometric theory; Microeconomic analysis and policy design; The Australian macro-economy; Operation of financial markets; Health and well-being; Asian economies and the economics of international trade and development; and Economics of education. The Department places a high value on its teaching program and the quality of that program. Its objectives are to offer excellent teaching in both undergraduate and graduate programs, to offer a set of subjects that meet the requirements of students and are up-to-date with developments in the disciplines of Economics and Econometrics, and to be innovative in methods of teaching. Teaching covers the core areas of microeconomics, macroeconomics and quantitative methods/
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Professor Paul Kofman Head, Department of Finance
Professor Ray Zammuto Head, Department of Management
econometrics, as well as most other specialist areas such as monetary economics, game theory, development economics, environmental economics, and economic history.
The Centre’s purpose is to help develop the reputation of Melbourne as a centre of financial research, education and practice. It is a joint venture of a consortium of Melbourne, Monash and RMIT Universities, together with Financial Services Institute of Australasia, who have all committed financial and in-kind support.
There is a long tradition within the Department of providing policy advice and expert opinions to government and private organisations. Members of the Department serve on government inquiries and boards, and undertake work for a wide variety of international agencies.
Department of Finance The Department of Finance was formally established in July 2001, although finance subjects had been taught at the University of Melbourne for several years prior. The Department has grown substantially since its establishment, from just over 700 full-time student units in 2002 to approximately 1050 units in 2005. There is a strong honours program with intake restricted to around 40 students. A suite of postgraduate programs is offered, ranging from the practitioner-oriented Master of Applied Finance and Master of Financial Management to the more specialised Master of Commerce in Finance and PhD with coursework component. Current research interests of department staff span the field of finance and include asset pricing, derivatives, corporate finance, market microstructure, financial institutions, real estate finance and international finance. To support its research activities, the Department has access to a large number of financial databases, including Datastream, Bloomberg and IRESS. In 2005, the Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies was created pursuant to an initiative of, and seed funding by, the Victorian Government.
The Department hosts international visiting academics from all over the world. Department staff are involved in continuing education and executive programs and have strong links with practitioners and financial institutions. Finance hosted 23 research seminars in 2005, presented by academics from overseas and interstate as well from within Victoria.
The Department of Management Programs in the Department of Management provide an integrated management education and develop specialised knowledge in the subdisciplines of management. The sub-disciplines within the Department include Human Resource Management, International Management, Marketing, Organisational Studies and Operations Management. The Bachelor of Commerce (Management) provides a special opportunity for undergraduate students to concentrate on management studies. This and our professional Masters level courses prepare people for careers as managers. The Department aims to develop in students, staff and other stakeholders, an understanding and capability in Leadership and Management processes in a variety of different organisations and sectors. Our teaching and research is of a high standard.
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Professor John Freebairn Director, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
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The student load in the Department is about 1000 full-time equivalents, with about 750 undergraduate and 250 postgraduate students. There are over 20 honours students and over 60 students undertaking a PhD in a wide range of areas reflecting the diverse theoretical traditions and methodologies which comprise the discipline of management. Full-time academic staff currently number 39.
The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research The Melbourne Institute is a research department of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce. It was established in 1962 under the leadership of Professor Ronald Henderson, as the first research institute of its kind in Australia. It has had five Directors: Ronald Henderson, Peter Dixon, Richard Blandy, Peter Dawkins and John Freebairn (from April 2005). In its 43 year history it has made many major contributions to economic and social research on Australia and contributed strongly to economic and social policy analysis and development. Under its previous Director, Professor Peter Dawkins, the Institute’s annual income increased from just over $1m in 1996 to a budget of $10m in 2005. In 2005, it now has a staff of about 42 as well as 15 Adjunct Fellows. It operates in four research areas: – Labour Economics and Social Policy – Applied Macroeconomics – Applied Microeconomics including: – Industrial Economics – Economics of Health – Household Income and Labor Dynamics Survey
As well as contributing strongly to the academic literature in economics, both in Australia and internationally, the Melbourne Institute has a long-standing tradition of working closely with business, government and community groups by providing research and consultancy services. Over 2005, major clients of the Melbourne Institute included the Australian Government Departments of Family and Community Services (FaCS) and Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR), Victorian Departments of Treasury and Finance and Human Resources, Westpac Banking Corporation, William M. Mercer Pty Ltd, ING DIRECT, TD Securities and the Reserve Bank of Australia as well as the University of Melbourne. The Melbourne Institute has also been successful in winning substantial ARC funding, both Discovery and Linkage grants. Currently, the Melbourne Institute has a major research contract for social policy research with DEWR. The Melbourne Institute is also the home of Australia’s major household longitudinal survey of Household Income and Labour Dynamics (HILDA), which is led by the Institute’s Deputy Director, Professor Mark Wooden, under a contract with the Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services. The Melbourne Institute also provides postgraduate education at the Masters and PhD levels. The Melbourne Institute is the home of one of Australia’s leading academic journals in Economics, the Australian Economic Review, which has a strong policy focus and is of widespread interest beyond the academic community as well as inside academia. It also publishes the Mercer-Melbourne Institute Quarterly Bulletin of Economic Trends a quarterly journal focussing on the Australian economy and aimed at broad audiences. The Melbourne Institute publishes regular economic indicator reports such as the Westpac–Melbourne Institute Indexes of Economic Activity; the Westpac–Melbourne Institute Consumer Sentiment Index; the ING DIRECT–Melbourne Institute Household Saving and Investment Report; and the TD Securities– Melbourne Institute Monthly Inflation Gauge.
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Centres in the Faculty
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The Centre for Actuarial Studies The Centre for Actuarial Studies is located in the Department of Economics within the Faculty of Economics and Commerce. The Director of the Centre is Professor David Dickson. The Centre offers students a professionally accredited actuarial program and is designated as a Centre of Excellence by the Institute of Actuaries of Australia. Graduates who obtain marks above prescribed levels in certain subjects can receive exemptions from the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and/or the Institute/Faculty of Actuaries (UK). The Centre also offers distance education. Staff within the Centre are active researchers with actuarial interests ranging from the more theoretical to the practical. Staff interests necessarily span the full spectrum of expertise required for professional accreditation, but the Centre is internationally known for its research in the areas of ruin theory and financial mathematics. The Centre’s research is highly recognised on the international scene and adds strongly to the reputation of the Centre. The international links of the Centre are also evident with regular visits from leading academics and a number of students involved in exchange programs. The Centre maintains strong links with the actuarial profession and related areas within Australia.
Professor David Dickson, Director, Centre for Actuarial Studies
These links are highlighted by the presence of high profile actuaries on the Centre’s Advisory Board and the University of Melbourne Actuarial Foundation.
The Asian Economics Centre The Asian Economics Centre is located within the Department of Economics and serves as a forum for bringing together those with an interest in research on Asian economies and economic development issues. The Centre’s objectives are: – To initiate and develop research into Asian economies and Australia-Asia economic relations, and build collaborative links and partnerships with Australian and international research groups engaged in similar research.
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– To foster and promote informed discussion on the economics of Asian countries within academia, business and industry, the government sector and the wider public. – To encourage and provide advice on the teaching of subjects related to economics of Asian countries at the undergraduate, graduate and continuing education levels. The Director of the Centre is Associate Professor Sisira Jayasuriya. The Centre has a distinguished Research Advisory Board.
The Economic Theory Centre The key objectives of the Centre are to facilitate international affiliations and international research linkages, including for research training, and to be a focus for external research funding in economic theory.
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The Director of the Centre is Professor Peter Bardsley. The Centre has a distinguished international Advisory Board.
The Centre for Microeconometrics Located within the Department of Economics, the Centre for Microeconometrics is a focal point for research in microeconometrics. Its members, staff and PhD students drawn from the Department and the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, are concerned with the development, evaluation and application of microeconom-etric methods. Branches of economics currently researched by the Centre include consumer expenditure analysis, environmental economics, labour economics, health economics, transport economics, measurement of inequality and poverty, and measurement of productivity and efficiency. Methodological research includes panel data methods and discrete choice modelling and estimation. The Centre hosts national and international visitors, holds regular workshops to discuss work in progress, and holds occasional conferences involving other researchers from within and outside Australia, including groups from industry and government departments. In 2005 the Centre held two one–day workshops. Visitors to the first one on 17 November 2005 were Gary Barret (UNSW), James Power (University of California, Berkley) and Keith McLaren (Monash). The second was held jointly with the Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre on 30 November 2005. The Centre sponsored a session on Applied Bayesian Microeconometrics at the Australian Conference of Economists held at the University of Melbourne on 26-28 September 2005.
Visitors to the Centre The Centre hosted the following visitors in 2005: Philip Clarke, University of Oxford Luke Connelly, Queensland University Denise Doiron, University of NSW Claire Finn, University College, Dublin Norman Gemmell, University of Nottingham Tue Gorgens, Australia National University James McKinnon, Queens University Christopher O’Donnell, University of Queensland Abigail Payne, McMasters University Wolfgand Polasek, Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna James Powell, University of California, Berkley Nancy Qian, Brown University The Director of the Centre is Professor Bill Griffiths.
The Centre for Macroeconomics The Centre for Macroeconomics is a joint centre of the Department of Economics and the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research. The main objective of the Centre is to foster research, research training, and teaching in macroeconomics at the University of Melbourne. The Centre seeks to: – facilitate international affiliations and international research linkages – facilitate the training of research students – be a focus for external research funding – organise conferences and workshops – encourage research-based policy advice The Centre has been involved in the organisation of the Australasian Macroeconomics Workshop, has hosted international and Australian visitors and has a weekly seminar series. Members of the Centre research topics such as monetary and fiscal policies, the analysis of business cycles, interactions between the labour market and the economy, and the linkages between the domestic and world economies. The Director of the Centre is Associate Professor Nilss Olekalns (right).
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The Australian Centre for International Business The Australian Centre for International Business began in 1998 as a collaborative venture between the University of Melbourne and the University of New South Wales. From 2003 the management of the Centre reverted to the University of Melbourne. The mission of the Centre is to conduct leading edge research in international business, educate future international business leaders and consult with business and government. The Centre is eclectic in its interdisciplinary areas, studying the international aspects of strategy and management, human resource management, industrial relations, corporate history, accounting, finance, information systems, organisational behaviour and marketing. Members of the Australian Centre for International Business have published over 20 books and 200 research papers, conference proceedings, chapters in books and consulting reports spanning all fields of international business research.
Centre for Global Innovation Management (Incorporating the Euro-Australian Cooperation Centre and the Australian CRC for Interaction Design) The Centre for Global Innovation Management is located in the Department of Management. The Centre is concerned with research on global innovation management and sustainable development. The Director of the Centre is Associate Professor MilĂŠ Terziovski. The Centre has an Advisory Board drawn from industry and has strong links with Australian government departments and the private sector. The Centre carries out research funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the Department of Education Science and Training (DEST), and undertakes contract and joint project research with collaborators through the European Union research framework programme. The Centre has been successful in becoming a core partner in the Australian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID).
Foundation for Sustainable Economic Development The Operations Management area also hosts the Foundation for Sustainable Economic Development. The Foundation was established in 2000 with a mission to create and disseminate research to increase the awareness and effectiveness of management practices that deliver better organisational performance and less wasteful products and processes.
The Foundation has produced a number of research papers and commissioned reports. The Foundation published The Collaborative Games in 2001. In this book, author Tony Webb analysed the organisation of the Sydney Olympics, uncovering the collaboration and frameworks which ensured this massive project was a success. A significant new project has been on corporate sustainable development, funded by the Australian Business Foundation.
The Centre for Human Resource Management The Centre researches Human Resource Management and Employment Relations in the Asia-Pacific region, North America and Europe. In line with its international outlook, the Centre encourages collaborative research projects with leading overseas universities and arranges research of international scholars in the fields of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations. The Centre also works with Australian businesses and government institutions on both collaborative and consultative projects and facilitates research opportunities with the professions, employers, trade unions and governments (including government departments). Research findings are disseminated through academic publications, working papers, seminars and conferences.
The International Centre for Research in Organizational Discourse, Strategy and Change The International Centre for Research in Organizational Discourse, Strategy and Change was launched in 2001 with the aim of establishing itself as a world leader in organizational discourse. The Centre is located in the Department of Management and headed in Melbourne by Professor Cynthia Hardy (pictured below). From the original four institutional partners – the University of Melbourne, the University of Sydney (Department of Work and Organizational Studies), McGill University (Centre for Strategy Studies in Organizations) and King’s College, University of London (The Management Centre), the Centre has grown to include the Judge Institute at the University of Cambridge, Leicester University and the University of Lund and Texas A & M University.
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The Centre’s objectives are:
The strategic positioning of the Centre is based on:
– to establish a leading group of world class scholars in organizational discourse in order to facilitate research on organizational discourse, strategy and change
– increasing general awareness of the extent of the overlap in research interests between ‘town and gown’
– to encourage collaborative research projects among leading universities in the field of organizational discourse – to disseminate research findings on discourse analysis and its applications through academic publications, seminars and conferences – to facilitate research and teaching interchanges among scholars who work in this area – to increase opportunities for researchers interested in discourse analysis to interact through specific initiatives, such as workshops, conferences, etc.
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– to facilitate collaborative links regarding research and postgraduate training in the field of organizational discourse.
– encouraging further development of that overlap in Melbourne – identifying mutually beneficial opportunities for town and gown by developing superior knowledge about research interests and needs and the location of skills and information necessary to meet those needs. The Melbourne Centre activities include: – identifying and communicating information about research opportunities for mutual benefit for town and gown – developing a database of knowledge and skill sets available – facilitating interaction (matching demand for and supply of specific research activities) between town and gown
Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia
– publicising outcomes from such interaction to increase awareness of the potential benefits
The Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia is a collaborative centre of the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, and the Melbourne Business School. It has core funding from IP Australia.
– developing and exploiting commercial opportunities arising from research activities facilitated and from its positioning in the market for financial research
The Director of the Institute is Professor Andrew Christie, Faculty of Law and the Associate Director from the Faculty of Economics and Commerce is Dr Elizabeth Webster.
The Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies The Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies has been created to help develop the reputation of Melbourne as a centre of financial research, education and practice. It is the result of an initiative of, and seed funding by, the Victorian Government. It is a joint venture of a consortium of Melbourne, Monash and RMIT Universities, together with Finsia, who have all committed financial and in-kind support.
– funding high quality academic research which will enhance the international reputation of Melbourne as a centre of financial research, practice and education. The research agenda of the Melbourne Centre involves an emphasis on innovative, cutting edge research which provides opportunities for the further development of the Melbourne finance industry as a result of the accumulation of knowledge capital. Identifying areas of potential strengths which can be capitalised upon, and new and emerging markets where opportunities exist is crucial to this role. In that regard, the Melbourne Centre has established an Industry Advisory Committee of prominent finance industry practitioners to provide input and advise on the direction of its research agenda. Professor Kevin Davis was appointed as the Centre’s inaugural Director in July 2005. More details about the Melbourne Centre’s activities can be found at www.melbournecentre.com.au.
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Graduates of the Faculty over the last 75 years have been leaders in business, public policy and academia. Below is a list of current prominent alumni.
Business Ms Elizabeth Alexander, Chairperson, PSL Limited Mr Philip Brass, Non-Executive Director, Globe International Mr Tony Burgess, Head of Mergers + Acquisitions Europe, Deutsche Bank, United Kingdom Mr Terrence Campbell, Chairman & CEO, Goldman Sachs JB Were Pty Ltd Mr Mark Chiba, Chairman, Longreach Group, Hong Kong Ms Penny Chong, Program Manager, Marketing Operations, IBM, Malaysia Mr Dick Chan Teik Huat, Executive Chairman, Anglo Eastern Platation PLC, United Kingdom Mr Esmond Choo, Executive Director, RHB-Cathay Securities, Singapore Mr Bill Conn, Company Director Mr Laurie Cox AO, Executive Director, Macquarie Bank Limited / Chairman Transurban Group Mr David Crawford, Allens Arthur Robinson Ms Gloria Ewe Gim Goh, Ernst & Young, Malaysia Mr Charles Goode AC, Chairman, ANZ Bank, Woodside Petroleum Ltd.
Ms Merran Kelsall, Director, Melbourne Water and others Mr David Kingston, Executive Director, N.M. Rothschild Mr Ananda Krishnan, Company Director, Malaysia Mr Leon L’Huiller, Non-Executive Director, Woolworths Limited and Repco Corporation Limited Mr Alwyn Lim, Principal, Alwyn Lim & Co, Republic of Singapore Dato’ Jimmy T.C. Lim, CEO, AMCORP, Malaysia Mr Alastair Lucas, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs JBWere Mr Gary Morgan, Executive Chairman, Roy Morgan Research Mr Hugh Morgan, AC, Principal, First Charnock Mr James Riady, Deputy Chairman, LIPPO, Indonesia Professor Paul Rizzo, Director, National Australia Bank Limited Mr Irving Rockman, Chairman, Northrock Group Pty Ltd
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Mr Irving Saulwick, Principal, Irving Saulwick and Associates
Ms Nicola Scott, Manager, Financial Accounting, ANZ
Professor Max Corden AC, Emeritus Professor of International Economics, Johns Hopkins University, and Professorial Fellow Department of Economics, University of Melbourne
Mr Asgari Stephens, Executive Director, iSpring Capital, Malaysia
Mr Robert Champion de Crespigny AC, Chancellor, University of Adelaide
Ms Tan Lei Cheng, CEO, Tan & Tan Developments Berhad, Malaysia
Professor Jayne M Godfrey, Deputy Dean (Research), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
Mr Peter Scanlon, Chairman, Patrick Corporation
Mr Christopher Thomas, Partner and Global Head of Board Consulting Practice Group, Egon Zehnder International
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Professor Robert Gregory AO, Head, Division of Economics and Politics, RSSS, Australian National University
Mr Brian Watson, Founder and Executive Chairman Georgica Associates Pty Limited (formerly Chairman, JPMorgan Australia)
Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Harcourt. AO, FASSA, ACSS, Cambridge University
Mr Peter Yates, Managing Director, Allco Equity Partners Ltd
Professor Joe Isaac AO, Department of Management, University of Melbourne
Mr Eu Ming Yeow, Minolta Marketing, Malaysia
Professor Bill Norton, Director, Centre for Money, Banking and Finance, Macquarie University
Public Service The Hon John Brumby, Treasurer, Department of Treasury and Finance Mr Michael Carmody AO, Commissioner of Taxation, Australian Taxation Office Senator Rod Kemp, Minister for the Arts and Sport, Australian Government Ms Jenny Macklin, Shadow Minister for Education, Training, Science and Research Datuk Dr Mustapa Mohamed, Minister, Prime Minister’s Department, Malaysia Mr Nuhkul Prachuabmoh, Minister for Communications, Thailand Professor Susan Richardson, President, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia Dr Garry Sampson, Senior Advisor, World Trade Organisation, Geneva Professor Judith Sloan, Commissioner, Productivity Commission Khun Mechai Viravaidya AO, Founder & Chairman, Population and Community Development Association, Thailand Mr Ian Watson, Senior Deputy President, Australian Industrial Relations Commission Dr Lynne Williams, Deputy Secretary, Victorian Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development Professor Ross Williams, Commonwealth Grants Commission
Professor Stuart Leech, Head, Department of Accounting, University of Melbourne Professor Terry Shevlin, Professor of Accounting, University of Washington Professor Rae Weston, Professor of Management, Macquarie University Professor David Vines, Department of Economics, Oxford University The Hon David White, Council, University of Melbourne, and Director, Hawker Britton
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The year 2005 was another eventful one for the University of Melbourne Commerce Alumni Society (UMCAS). UMCAS operates as a means for former Commerce students to keep in contact with each other, with the Faculty, and with the wider university community. UMCAS committee members are elected to office and work closely with the Faculty to develop networks and connections through mailouts, programs and events that are open to all Commerce alumni.
Commerce Alumni Society Report 2005 Highlights included: – Young Alumni Function featuring George Megalogenis (BCom 1985), senior writer for The Australian newspaper and sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers at their new premises at Southbank. Another function for Young Alumni was sponsored by KPMG and featured Mr Simon Hammond from SEE Communications. – Two alumni reunion events were held at University House during 2005. The annual reunion for commerce alumni who graduated more than 45 years ago and a 20 year reunion, held for Commerce Alumni that commenced at the University in 1985. – A yearly barbecue for final year commerce students is held in October each year. The barbecue is a great opportunity for students that are about to leave the University to hear about the Alumni Society, with members of the UMCAS committee on hand to answer questions. – UMCAS held the annual general meeting in the Woodward Centre on 28 July and featured Grants Commissioner and former Dean Professor Ross Williams as the keynote speaker.
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Information on developments in the Faculty and news of alumni events are included in the newsletter Alumni Matters which is mailed by the Faculty twice a year to all Commerce graduates who have elected to receive it. UMCAS also provides a $2000 scholarship each year to a final year Commerce student through the generous donations of alumni. Congratulations are given to Sophie Ferris (pictured above), the 2005 winner. If you would like to make a donation for the scholarship, find out more about UMCAS, or would like to contribute to or receive the Alumni Matters, please contact: Ms Amanda Stanger Alumni Advancement Officer Faculty of Economics and Commerce 7th Floor, Alan Gilbert Building The University of Melbourne Victoria 3010 Phone: +61 3 8344 2128 E-mail: astanger@unimelb.edu.au Various functions for alumni, friends and final year students are held throughout the year. Details appear on the www.ecom.unimelb.edu. au/business/alumni.html web site, and in the Alumni Matters. Look out for opportunities to be involved in 2006. Steven Zigomanis President UMCAS
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People in the Faculty Dean and Associate Deans Dean Professor Margaret Abernethy
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Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems
Deputy Dean Professor Ian McDonald (to December 2005)
Head of Department and Professor of Accounting
Professor Bruce Grundy (from 2006)
(to January 2006)
Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) Associate Professor Greg Whitwell Associate Dean (International) Associate Professor Bill Harley Associate Dean (Research) Professor Guay Lim
G.L. Wood Professor of Accounting SPEAR, NASSER: BEc (Acct) Syria, MS (Acct), PhD N Texas, FCPA, CMA Research Interests: Capital markets-based research, international financial reporting, contracting research, initial public offerings, security valuation, accounting for extractive industries. Professor of Accounting and Business Information Systems (from February 2006)
Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies) Professor William Griffiths
LEECH, STEWART: BCom, MEc Tas, FCA, FCPA, MACS, PCP Research Interests: Accounting information systems, decision making in corporate recovery, intelligent decision aids, enterprise resource planning systems.
Dean of Economics and Commerce and Professor of Accounting ABERNETHY, MARGARET: BEc PhD LaTrobe Research Interests: Strategy and design of control systems, management control in hospitals, costing and performance measurement systems in manufacturing and service industries Professor of Accounting and Business Information Systems FERGUSON, COLIN: BBus Swin, DipEd SCV, MEc NE, GradDipComp Deakin, ACA, FCPA, AAIM, MACS Research Interests: Business information systems, business forensics, economics of auditing and auditor behaviour. Fitzgerald Chair of Accounting LYON, JOHN: PhD Ohio, MFin Mgmt UQ, BCom (Hons) UQ Research Interests: Empirical methods in accounting and finance, earnings announcements and the pricing of audits
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Associate Professors DAVERN, MICHAEL: BCom (Hons) Tas, PhD Minnesota Research Interests: Information valuation and use, decision technologies, revenue yield management, behaviour in information environments. LILLIS, ANNE: MCom, PhD Research Interests: Performance management in complex settings including health care networks and flexible manufacturing firms, performance impact of corporate downsizing. PINNUCK, MATTHEW: BCom (Hons), PhD Research Interests: Financial accounting, behaviour of fund managers. SCHULZ, AXEL: BCom (Hons), MCom, PhD UNSW Research Interests: Management accounting, behavioural accounting. Senior Lecturers COBBIN, PHILLIP: BBus RMIT, MCom (Hons), BEd, MEd, DipEd SCV Research Interests: Market for audit services, history of accounting and audit, accounting education history. CORAM, PAUL: BEc(Acc) Flin, GradDipEd Adel, MAcc UWA, CA Research Interests: Audit quality, behavioural research in assurance and financial accounting, accounting education. DILNUTT, ROD: BA, DipEd LaTrobe, PGradDip (Computer Science) Monash, MBA Deakin, DBA Southern Cross Research Interests: Knowledge management, enterprise content management. POTTER, BRAD: BCom (Hons), PhD Deakin, CPA Research Interests: Contracting research, accounting for public sector entities, international financial reporting, the development of financial reporting regulation.
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SMITH, DAVID: BCom (Hons) LaTrobe, PhD Monash Research Interests: Management accounting, behavioural accounting. WISE, TREVOR: MCom Auck, PhD, CPA ACA NZ, CMA NZ Research Interests: Accounting theory, financial accounting. Lecturers DOWLING, CARLIN: BCom (Hons) Tas Research Interests: The effect of organisational factors on decisionaid use; the impact of information technologies on organisational and individual behaviour, accounting education.
MEHTA, MANJARI: PhD (Mgmt Info Sys) University of Houston, MScTech (IS) BITS, India (from July) Research Interests: Management of IS, information systems, organizational impacts. PAN, GARY: BBA NU Singapore, MPhil (IS) Manchester, PhD (IS) Manchester (from July) Research Interests: Project management, escalation theory, dynamic capability development, enterprise systems and management information systems. PARKES, ALISON: BCom W’gong, MBS (Hons) Massey Research Interests: Decision support, reliance measurement.
GRAFTON, JENNIFER: BCom (Hons), PhD Research Interests: Management control system design and use in the not-for- profit sector, the design and control of interorganisational networks, performance management and research methods.
THOMSON, GENEVIEVE: BA, BBus Bendigo, MBA Deakin, PhD, CPA Research Interests: Strategy and design of management control systems, performance measurement in knowledge creation firms.
HO, SUSANNA: BEng, MPhil (CS), PhD (IS), HKUST Research Interests: Technology adoption, electronic commerce and personalization technology.
VASSALLO, PETER: BAppSci, BArch Canberra, MCom Syd Research Interests: Corporate governance, real investments, financial statement analysis, financial choice.
HRONSKY, JANE: BBus, MCom (Hons), PGradDipBus Curtin Research Interests: Audit judgement, communication issues in financial and audit reporting.
Teaching Scholars BOYS, NOEL: BBus RMIT, GradDipEd HawInst, GradDipEd
LEE, MICHAEL: BEc (Hons), MCom (Hons) Monash, GradDipAppFin& Invest SIA, FSIA Research Interests: Enterprise resource planning systems, performance management design, business case evaluations, project management implementation.
STAMATELATOS, ANNA: BSc, DipEd, BEc, BBusAcc (Hons) Monash, CMA, CPA Research Interests: Management accounting, financial accounting – capital markets, accounting education.
LEE, RICHARD: BEc Monash, DipEd SCV Research Interests: Financial reporting, accounting policy choice, executive compensation, accounting education. LIM, NENA: PhD (Info Sys), UQ, MSci (Comp Info Sys) Georgia State USA, MArts (Ac & Fin), Lancaster UK Research Interests: Electronic commerce, technology and innovation.
LINGGO LIONG, JOANA: BCom
Professors Emeritus NICOL, ROBERT: BEc Syd, MBA, PhD California, FCPA WRIGHT, KENNETH: BMetE, DCom, FASA, FASSA, FAIM Professorial Fellows EASTON, PETER: BAgSc, BEc Adel, DTTech Torrens, DFinMgmt New England, PhD California Research Interests: Financial statement analysis and equity security valuation and the estimation of the expected rate of return on equity investments.
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FRANCIS, JERe: BSc Drake, MSc Minnesota, PhD, DEcon New England Research Interests: Economics of auditing, the effect of auditing on the quality of financial reporting, corporate governance, international accounting. SUTTON, STEVE: BSA, MA, PhD Missouri Research Interests: Accounting information systems and assurance, impact of KBS on individual decision making and on user knowledge acquisition/ learning, IS assurance, business risk in B2B e-Commerce relationships, risk analysis in supply chains.
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Principal Fellows ANDERSON, SHANNON: BSE (Civil Engin) Princeton, PhD Bus Eco Harvard ARNOLD, VICKY: BA, MBA, PhD Arkansas Research Interests: Individual decision making; accounting information systems; use of decision aids; expert systems and KBS on decision making; assurance services. BURROWS, GEOFFREY: MCom, DipEd, FCPA Senior Fellows ALFREDSON, KEITH: BCom Qld BOUWENS, JAN: MFin, PhD Tilburg Research Interests: Performance measurement systems. Fellows LESLIE, STEWART: BCom, FCA POUND, HAYDN: BBus MBA Deakin CPA Professional Staff ANDERSON, SHERRYL: MBA Deakin, MCom Law Deakin Position: Department Manager BERNARDE, RENATA: BCom (to July) Position: Research Administrative Officer CROSER, REBECCA: BDes USthAust, GradDipArts Position: Student Administrator
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DECOLONGON, JENNIFER: DipDramArts VCA BA (Hons) (from October) Position: Research Administrative Officer KING, CHRISTINE: BCA Deakin (from October) Position: Front Office Administrator KOVACEVIC, NATASHA: BBus RMIT Position: Budget & Resources Officer MCGRATH, JAMES Position: Software Engineer MCNAMARA, KERRY Position: Front Office Administrator MUIR, LORIS Position: Personal Assistant to Head of Department PEDLEY, SARAH: BA (Hons), DipItal (Teaching) Perugia Position: Student Administrator VASSILEV, SPASSIMIR: BSc Bulgaria, GradDipCompSci VUT Position: Systems Support Officer WONG, BILLY: BInfoTech, MinfoSys CQU Position: Systems Support Officer
Department of Economics Head of Department and Professor of Economics BORLAND, JEFF: MA, PhD Yale, FASSA Research interest: Operation of labour markets in Australia, theories of labour markets activity, economics of sport, program and policy evaluation and design, Australian Economic history. Professors of Economics BARDSLEY, PETER: BSc (Hons) ANU, PhD Durh Research Interests: Economic theory, mathematical economics, game theory, information and strategic behaviour, organisational design and theory of the firm, theoretical finance. FREEBAIRN, JOHN: MAgrEcon NE, PhD Davis, FASSA Research Interests: Taxation reform, labour economics, especially employment, infrastructure pricing and investment.
McDONALD, IAN: BA (Hons) Leic, MA Warw, PhD SFraser, FASSA Research Interests: Macroeconomics, labour economics. TOURKY, RABEE: BEc (Hons), PhD Qld Research Interests: Economic theory, general equilibrium theory, economic behaviour under uncertainty. Truby Williams Professor of Economics CREEDY, JOHN: BSc Brist, BPhil Oxf, FASSA Research Interests: Income distribution, public economics, labour economics, history of economic analysis. Professors of Econometrics GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM: BAgEc (Hons) UNE, PhD Illinois, FASSA Research Interests: Markov chain monte carlo techniques, imposing inequality constraints in systems of equations, finite sample inference for nonlinear functions of parameters, and model selection. MARTIN, VANCE: BEc (Hons), MEc, PhD Monash Research Interests: Econometrics, time series analysis, monetary economics, macroeconomics. Professorial Fellow LIM, GUAY: MEc Adel, PhD ANU Research Interests: Modelling the behaviour of exchange rates, risk and volatility, estimating option pricing models, financial econometrics, international monetary economics. Readers/Associate Professors CAMERON, LISA: BCom (Hons), MCom (Hons), PhD Prin Research Interests: Development economics, Asian economics, applied econometrics, experimental economics. DIXON, ROBERT: BEc (Hons) Monash, PhD Kent Research Interests: Macroeconomics, industrial economics, Marxian economics, regional economics. GANGADHARAN, LATA: BA Hindu College, MA Delhi School of Eco, PhD SCalif Research Interests: Environmental economics, experimental economics, applied econometrics, applied microeconomics.
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HARRIS, DAVID: MEc James Cook, PhD Monash Research Interests: Time series analysis. HENRY, OLAN: BA (Hons) Dub, MA, PhD Reading Research Interests: Econometric modelling and forecasting of asset market volatility, term structure modelling, the inflation hedging characteristics of property and property serviced in the U.K. HIRSCHBERG, JOSEPH: MA Calif, PhD, SCalif Research Interests: Electricity demand/rates, labour discrimination, demand analysis, cluster analysis. JAYASURIYA, SISIRA: BEc (Hons) Ceylon, MEc, PhD ANU Research Interests: Macroeconomics, agricultural economics, development economics, international trade and capital, and international political economy. LYE, JEANETTE: MA, PhD Cant Research Interests: Non normal distributions, applications of multimodality, modelling of exchange rates, theory and application of non linear models, general applied econometrics. MacLAREN, DONALD: BSc(Agr) (Hons) Aberd, MS, PhD Cornell Research Interests: Agricultural trade policy, agriculture and the World Trade Organisation, the I-O structure of international commodity markets. MAGEE, GARY: BA Monash, BEc (Hons) LaTrobe, DPhil Oxford Research Interests: Economic history, industrial economics, the determinants and nature of entrepreneurship and innovation, economics of technological change, international economics. NORMAN, NEVILLE: BCom (Hons) MA, Melb, PhD Camb Research Interests: Industrial pricing as influenced by tariffs, exchange rates and world price movements; health economics; trade practices economic issues and the economics of e-commerce.
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OLEKALNS, NILSS: BEc (Hons) Adel, MEc ANU, MA WOnt, PhD LaTrobe Research Interests: Macroeconomics, applied econometrics. SHIELDS, MICHAEL: BA (Hons) Staffordshire, MSc Health Uni of NY, PhD Leicester Research Interests: Economics of immigration, economics of labour market discrimination, labour market for medical professions. Senior Lecturers DE FONTENAY, CATHERINE: BA (Hons) McGill, PhD Stanford Research Interests: Development economics, industrial organisation, theoretical and empirical bargaining theory. HARDING, DON: MEc ANU PhD Yale Research Interests: Macroeconomics. HILLBERRY, RUSSELL: BS Minnesota PhD Indiana Research Interests: Economic geography, international trade RAIMONDO, ROBERTO: Laurea Milan, PhD Mathematics State University of New York, PhD Berkeley Research Interests: Economic theory, financial economics. SHIELDS, KALVINDER: BA (Hons), MA Reading, PhD Leicester Research Interests: Econometric modelling of the dynamics of emerging Eastern European financial markets, survey-based expectations in macroeconomic models forecasting, sectorial disaggregation data in applied macroeconomics. SKEELS, CHRISTOPHER: BEc (Hons), PhD Monash Research Interests: Econometric theory. SMITH, RHONDA: BCom (Hons), MA (Hons) Research Interests: Economics of trade practices, economic policy towards industry. STACHURSKI, JOHN: MA Tokyo, BA PhD Melb Research Interests: Stochastic dynamics (stability, estimation, optimization development and growth, statistical learning theory).
STEMP, PETER: BA (Hons), PhD ANU Research Interests: Macroeconomics, monetary economics, economic policy issues, financial economics. WILLIAMS, JENNY: BEc ANU, MEc PhD Rice Research Interests: Microeconometrics, health economics. Lecturers and Research Staff BASOV, SUREN: MA New Economic School (Moscow), DipEng (Physics), PhD Boston Research Interests: Economic theory, mathematical economics, contract theory, industrial organization, labor economics. CLARKE, ANDREW: BA MEc University of Sydney, PhD McMaster Research Interests: Labour economics, macroeconomics, econometrics. COELLI, MICHAEL: BCom (Hons) NSW, MA PhD, British Columbia Research Interests: Labour economics, applied microeconometrics, public economics, education economics. ERKAL, NISVAN: MA Macalester College, MA, PhD Maryland Research Interests: Industrial organisation, microeconomic theory. LI, SHUNYUN (MAY): BS MA Renmin, MS PhD Texas at Austin Research Interests: Macroeconomic implications of financial frictions, business cycle modelling, monetary policy transmission mechanism, venture capital, contract theory. JACOBI, LIANA: DipEco OttoFriedrich, MA St Louis Research Interests: Econometrics, applied econometrics, labour economics, macro and monetry economics. UREN, LAWRENCE: BEc (Hons) ANU Research Interests: Macroeconomics, labour economics. Professorial Fellows CORDEN, WARNER MAX: BEc, PhD LSE FASSA
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GANS, JOSHUA: BEc Qld, PhD Stanford WILLIAMS, PHILIP: MEc Monash PhD LSE Principal Fellows IRONMONGER, DUNCAN: MCom, PhD Camb JENNINGS, VICTOR: BEng, OBE NIEUWENHUYSEN, JOHN: MA Natal, PhD London, FASSA Senior Fellows CHOE, HYUNCHA: BS MS Seoul PhD Purdue HAQUE, OHIDUL: BSc MSc Rajshahi PhD Syd MITRA, SIDDHARTHA: PHD Maryland
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MOORE, TIM: Turning Point Drug and Alcohol Centre WILLIAMS, LYNNE: BA, MA, MSc LSE, PhD Monash Fellows HARPER, MARGORIE: MA JAFFER, SUE: BSc, MA JONES, ANNA: BA, MEc KATES, STEVEN: BA Toronto, MA Western Ontario, PhD La Trobe MORRIS, GAYLE: Med Glasgow PhD MORRIS, NICK: MA (Hons), MPhil Oxford PORTER, MICHAEL: BEc (Hons) Adelaide PhD Stanford SHIVELY, GERALD: BA, MA Boston PhD Wisconsin-Madison TERRILL, DANIEL: BA, PhD Professors Emeritus LLOYD, PETER: MA Vic NZ, PhD Duke, FASSA PERKINS, JAMES: MA, PhD Camb, MCom FASSA Professional Staff MILLERICK, CHERIE: BA Syd Position: Department Manager BANFORD, ALISON Position: Manager, Academic Support Services
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DANG, BAO: BAcc, BComp Monash Position: Manager, System Support DEGENHARDT, SUZANNE: BEd Position: General Front Office Support and Actuarial Studies Distance Education Administrator GOULETSAS, PERSEFONI Position: Coordinator Administrative Support Services HADDAD, LEONIE: AdvDipBus Position: Financial and HR Operational Support KHAN, NAHID: MCom, MSocSci (Econ) University of Dhaka, BSocSci (Hon Ec) University of Dhaka Position: Tutor Coordinator and Undergraduate Support Officer LEONG, COLEMANN: CBE&ACE RMIT, PGradDipCompSci Swin Position: Web and System Support Officer LO, VICTOR: BEng (Geomatics) UNSW, GradDip (IT) Swin Position: Web Development Officer LOCHRAN, MARGARET Position: Department Web Page Administrative Support LOMBARDO, ROSEMARY Position: Front Office Supervisor PHILIP, PREETA: MBA Spicer Position: Departmental Financial Manager SCHERER, HEIDI: AssDipBus Homesglen Position: Academic Support Services Officer VANCUYLENBURG, SANJEEVA: DipTech (Computing) Homesglen Position: Web and Systems Support Officer MACKINNON, LESLEY: RN, RM NNPC, DipSocSci (Welfare), BHealthSci (Nursing Post Registration) Position: Administrative Support Officer, Distance Education NEWELL, COLIN: BA Deakin Position: Administrative Assistant to the Head of Department
Centre for Actuarial Studies Director and Professor of Actuarial Studies DICKSON, DAVID: BSc (Hons), PhD Heriot-Watt, FFA FIAA Research Interests: Aggregate claims distributions, renewal risk processes, recursive methods in risk theory. Professorial Fellow DUFRESNE, DANIEL: BSc (Hons) Montreal, PhD London, FSA Research Interests: Financial mathematics, actuarial science and probability. Associate Professor JOSHI, MARK: BA (Hons) Oxford, PhD MIT Research Interests: Financial mathematics Senior Lecturers FITZHERBERT, RICHARD: BSc (Hons) Syd, FIAA, FIA, ASIA Research Interests: Stochastic investment models, investments. LI, SHUANMING: BSc Tianjin, MEc Renmin, PhD Concordia Research Interests: Risk and ruin theory, stochastic modelling in insurance and finance, actuarial science. PITT, DAVID: BEc, BSc Macquarie, PhD ANU, FIAA Research Interests: Analysis of disability income insurance portfolios, stochastic modelling in actuarial science. Lecturer WU, XUEYUAN: BS, MS Nankai University China, PhD Hong Kong Research Interests: Risk and ruin theory. Professorial Associate TAYLOR, GREG: BA, PhD, FIA, FIAA, FIMA, CMath, AO Research Interests: Modelling in general insurance. Honorary Senior Fellows GRIBBLE, JULES: BSc (Hons), PhD St Andrews, FIAA, FCIA, FSA HARSLETT, GRANT: BSc (Hons) Adel, FIA, FIAA, ASA TRUSLOVE, ALLEN: BSc(Hons), PhD Monash, MBA Deakin, FIAA, FIA
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Department of Finance Head of Department and Professor of Finance (to December 2005) BROWN, ROB: MEc Syd, FCPA, F Fin Research Interests: Interest rate swaps, management and regulation of financial intermediaries. (from January 2006) KOFMAN, PAUL: MEc, PhD Erasmus Research Interests: Price discovery in regulated financial markets, extreme value analysis and financial applications, insurance rate making. Deputy Head of Department and Associate Professor BROWN, CHRISTINE: MSc, DipEd, PhD Research Interests: Pricing of derivative securities and the efficiency of the markets in which they trade, valuation of real options, modelling credit risk, financial institutions management, capital budgeting; pricing innovations in financial markets, share buybacks; bank regulation and implementation of Basel 2. Commonwealth Bank Group Professor of Finance DAVIS, KEVIN: BEc (Hons) Flin, MEc ANU, F Fin, FFTP Research Interests: Financial institutions management, treasury management, financial engineering, corporate financial policy, financial markets. Professors of Finance GRUNDY, BRUCE: BCom (Hons) Qld, PhD Chic Research Interests: Corporate governance, the valuation and exercise of real options and the funds management industry. WHEATLEY, SIMON: MA (Hons) Aberdeen, MA S. Fraser, PhD Rochester Research Interests: Investments, international finance.
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Associate Professors CHAN, HOWARD: BCom (Hons) Melb, MEc, PhD Monash, CPA Research Interests: Asset pricing, funds management, market efficiency and the role of financial analysts in financial markets. HANDLEY, JOHN: BCom, BMath Newc, MCom (Hons), PhD, ASIA Research Interests: Corporate finance, security design, cost of capital, corporate valuation. LAMBA, ASJEET: BA (Hons) Delhi, MBA Mich, PhD Wash, CFA Research Interests: Market structure, liquidity and efficiency, Australasian markets, valuation, insider trading. SAWYER, KIM: BSc UWA, MEc, PhD ANU Research Interests: Finance theory, quantitative finance. SCHWANN, GREG: BA (Hons) Queens, MA (Ec), PhD British Columbia Research Interests: Real estate finance, real estate economics, real estate backed derivatives. Senior Lecturers PINDER, SEAN: BCom (Hons) Monash, PhD Newc, SA Fin Research Interests: Issues relating to the valuation of derivative securities and the analysis of corporate financial decisionmaking. SCHEULE, HARALD: DipKfm, Dr rer pol Regensburg Research Interests: Financial risk measurement and management. SHEKHAR, CHANDER: BS Pujab, MS Virginia, PhD Penn State Research Interest: Corporate finance. Lecturers BROWN, RAYNA: BA Macq, MCom (Hons), PhD Melb, SA Fin Research Interests: Management of financial intermediaries, regulation, measurement of efficiency. BUCHANAN, BONNIE: BSc (Hons) NSW, MAppSc RMIT, PhD Georgia Research Interests: Corporate governance, financial fraud, law and economics. CHANG, XIN: BA Tsinghua, MPhil PBOC, PhD HKUST Research Interests: Corporate finance, investment
COLEMAN, LES: BEng (Hons) Melb, BSc (Econ)( Hons) London, MEc Syd, PhD, CFTP (Snr) Research Interests: Risk strategy, behavioural finance, wagering markets, expertise, applied corporate finance, agricultural and resources finance, corporate crises and practical applications of academic research. GYGAX, ANDRE: lic oec HSG St. Gallen, MSc, MBA Colorado, PhD Research Interests: Industrial organization, entrepreneurial finance, decision analysis. HUI, SANDRA: BCom ANU, MFin RMIT, CPA Research Interests: Credit risk modelling and valuation; interest rate modelling and financial mathematics.
41 MAHESWARAN, KRISHNAN: BEc (Hons) LaTrobe, MCom (Hons), PhD Research Interests: Asset pricing and consumption, term structure of interest rates. O’CONNOR, IAN: BBus Chisholm, MBus RMIT, PhD, CPA, SA Fin Research lnterests: Bank efficiency, derivative securities, volatility forecasting. SCOTT, CALLUM: BSc (Hons) Edin, BA Open UK, GradDipEd Dundee, GradDipCInfSc, MSc VUT, PhD, AFPA (Academic) Research Interests: The application of artificial neural networks in modelling financial markets. ZENG, QI: BS SJTU, MS Academia Sinica, MS UIC, PhD Penn Research Interests: Asset pricing. Tutors HAQUE, TARIQ: BSc, BCom (Hons) Research Interests: Investments; corporate finance. PANCHAL, KUNAL: BCom (Hons) Research Interests: Mergers and acquisitions. Research Assistant TANG, WILLIAM: BCom, GradDip (Data Processing) Monash Research Interests: e-Solutions to business enterprise and academic research.
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Senior Fellows COCKS, GRAHAM: MEc Syd, MStat Flor, MSc Brad INGWERSEN, MICHAEL: BEc Monash, MBA Fellows ERREY, ROBERT: BBus SAIT, GradDipStats Canberra CAE, MBA UWA, MCom Research Interests: Financial aspects of marketing management. HART, KEITH: BSc (Hons) Sussex, MSc PhD Vic ROBERTSON, DAVID: BA (Eco), LLM ROBINSON, DAVID: BAdmin(Ec) (Hons) (Griffith)
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Visiting Academics BROWN, STEPHEN: BEc Monash, MBA, PhD Chicago LOEB, DAVID S: Professor of Finance, Leonard Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, NY, USA Research Interests: Empirical finance, asset pricing theory, performance measurement, Japanese equity markets. KESTER, GEORGE: BBA Wake Forest, MBA UNC, DBA Darden Martel Professor of Business Administration / Finance, Williams School of Commerce, Economics and Politics, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, USA Research Interests: Applied corporate finance. STAPLETON, RICHARD: BA (Hons) Sheffield, BA (Mathematics) Open UK, PhD Sheffield Professor of Finance, Manchester Business School, Manchester, UK Research Interests: Interest rate models and the pricing of interest rate derivatives, portfolio theory given background risk, option pricing theory and techniques. SUBRAHMANYAM, MARTI: BTech IIT, PGDBA IIM, PhD MIT Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance, Leonard Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, NY, USA Research Interests: Corporate finance, market microstructure, derivatives.
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Professional Staff KREITNER, JASON: BA NM State, MPA, JD South Dakota Position: Department Manager BARBEROGLOU, SILVIA Position: Academic Liaison Officer CAREY, ROBIN: BSc (Econ), MA (Econ) UC – Riverside Position: Executive Assistant & Financial Services Officer DALVEAN, JO: BAppSc Monash Position: IT Manager DIXON, HELEN Position: Student Services Officer MOIR, WENDY: BAppSc (InfoTech) (Hons) CSturt Position: IT Support and Web Developer MURRAY, ANNMAREE: BAppSci (PhysEd) VUT Position: Academic Liaison Officer VELLA, JULIEANNE: Position: Administrative Assistant
Department of Management Professor and Head of Department (to December 2005) MERRETT, DAVID: BEc (Hons), MEc Monash Research Interests: Internationalisation of Australian firms, evolution of ‘big business’ in Australia, headquarter-subsidiary relations in multinationals, principalagent issues within firms. (from January 2006) ZAMMUTO, RAYMOND: PhD Illinois Research Interests: Organisational adaptability to changing industry conditions. Professors HARDY, CYNTHIA: BSc (MgtSc), PhD Warwick Research Interests: Organisation theory, strategy power and politics in organisation, strategic change, Interorganisational collaboration, organisational discourse theory. KULIK, CAROL: PhD Illinois Research Interests: HR management, workforce diversity, fairness in organisations.
SAMSON, DANNY: BE (Chem) UNSW, PhD AGSM, UNSW Research Interests: Business competitiveness drivers, operations strategy, risk management, sustainable development, e-business, decision making under uncertainty. Associate Professor and Reader BENSON, JOHN: BEc, MEd Monash, MA, PhD Research Interests: HRM HRM/ employment relations in Japan and China, Japanese management, trade unions, enterprise restructuring and outsourcing, employee commitment, knowledge workers. Associate Professors DICK, HOWARD: BEc (Hons) Monash, MEc, PhD ANU Research Interests: Asian business, corruption and governance, institutional development, global logistics, urbanisation in the Asia-pacific, maritime history and policy. Country expertise: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Japan. HARLEY, WILLIAM: BA (Hons), PhD Qld Research Interests: Industrial relations, HRM, work organisation, high performance work systems, teamwork, precarious employment, trade unions. HARZING, ANNE-WIL: BA Hogeschool Enschede, MA Maastricht, PhD Bradford Research Interests: HQ-subsidiary relations, international HRM, crosscultural management, the role of language in international business, the impact of culture on student learning styles. LUKAS, BRYAN: MBA Nebraska, PhD Memphis Research Interests: Strategic marketing (brand strategy & product innovation strategy), brand valuation, marketing-finance interface, international marketing. SEWELL, GRAHAM: BSc (Hons), PhD Wales Research Interests: Workplace surveillance, teamwork, business ethics, recent developments in organisation and management theory, qualitative research methods, evolutionary psychology, sociology of work and organisations.
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TERZIOVSKI, MILE: BE (Hons), ME (Hons) W’gon), MBA RMIT, PhD Research Interests: Operation management, quality management, value of ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 certification, continuous improvement and innovation management, e-commerce – Euro-Australian collaboration in SMEs, organisational performance, International best practice, reengineering. WHITWELL, GREGORY: BEc Monash, PhD Research Interests: Environmental uncertainty, the marketing/finance interface, the role of real options thinking in marketing strategy, marketing’s contribution to business strategy and the role of intangible marketing assets, international marketing, especially exporting, understanding customer needs through techniques such as ZMET, social capital and its relevance to marketing activities, electronic marketing. ZHU, YING: BEc Peking, PhD Research Interests: HRM; international HRM; international business management; economic development in Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam); political economy of globalisation.
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Senior Lecturers BEVERLAND, MICHAEL: BCom, DipCom, MCom (Hons) Auckland, PhD Bus and Man Univ SA Research Interests: Values-based branding, brand management over the long run, luxury branding, the marketing of authenticity, relationship transformation and trajectories over time (both business-to-business and businessto-consumer), implementing marketing programs, how consumers respond to design aesthetics, value creating processes in industrial firms. BROWN, MICHELLE: BCom (Hons), MA, PhD Wisconsin Research Interests: Human resource management/industrial relations, pay systems – performance based pay and its implications for employees, unions and organisations, employee participation and its consequences. CREGAN, CHRISTINA: BA Leeds, DipEd Oxford, MSc, PhD (LSE) Research Interests: Trade union membership, young people in the labour market, internal labour markets, industrial democracy. JOHNSTON, STEWART: BA Well, MSc Lond, PhD Research Interests: All aspects of management in multinational corporations – strategy, structure, control, innovation, HQ-subsidiary relations, Japanese management and Japanese business groups.
KRAIMER, MARIA: PhD (Illinois) Research Interests: Managing expatriate employees, career issues, and the employeeemployer relationships. Teaching interests include human resource management, compensation, and international management. MOOSA, SHARAFALI: BSc, MSc Madras, PhD NUS and Madras Research Interests: Supply chain management, reverse logistics, warehousing queues, inventory and reliability. MORGAN, STEPHEN: BA Monash, MA HK, PhD ANU Research Interests: Foreign direct investment and international business, business economic and social history of China, 19th and 20th centuries, the history of management and organisation in China in the 20th century, anthropometric history of China and Taiwan (stature, health and nutrition). NAPOLI, JULIE: BBus (Hons) MCom (Marketing) Curtin, PhD Monash Research Interests: Creating and managing brand meaning, brand management across contexts and cultures, brand orientation and performance, music effects in advertisting and marketing. POWER, DAMIEN: BBus, MBus, PhD Monash, CFPIM Research Interests: Business to business e-commerce, supply chain systems/virtual integration, business process redesign, operations strategy.
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SARGENT, LEISA: BA, MOrgPsych Qld, PhD Toronto Research Interests: The effects of job changes on identity and career related outcomes, stress and stress management strategies, team interventions and team effectiveness. WATERS, LEA: BA (Hons), PhD Deakin Research Interests: The psychological consequences of unemployment and retrenchment, training and development programs for unemployed people, occupational stress, work-family conflict, mentoring.
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ZALAN, TATIANA: BEd (Hons) Moscow, MBA Adelaide, PhD, South Australia Research Interests: Failure of firms in international markets, International diversification and firm performance, international competitiveness of firms from smaller economies, knowledge management in multinational firms. Lecturers BARSKY, ADAM: BA (Psychology and Sociology) Wisconsin-Madison, Masters in I/O Psychology, PhD Tulane Research Interests: Social issues in management, business ethics, workplace fairness, discrimination, job related effects and work stress, personality and well being, research methodology and statistics. BOVE, LILIANA: BAgSci (Hons) LaTrobe, BBus (Marketing) RMIT, PhD Monash Research Interests: Services marketing, relationship marketing, customer loyalty, customer citizenship behaviour. BRATTON, VIRGINIA: BA Moorhead, MA Florida, PhD Florida Research Interests: Impression management, business ethics, organisational identity and politics. CHMIELEWSKI, DANIELLE: BA/BCom (Hons), PhD Candidate Research Interests: Strategic marketing, strategic management, timing of entry, brand introduction strategy, resource-based view and capabilities, strategic orientation.
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DAVIES, JENNIFER: BBus Mgt (Hons), PhD Pending Qld Research Interests: Interorganisational relationship, strategic networks, rivalry, strategic groups, knowledge and innovation. FRAHM, JENNIFER: BBus Communication (Hons) PhD QUT Research Interests: Organisational change and development, organisational communication, workplace communication, employees experience of change, innovation, strategic change, process researchmethods, mixed methodology. GUNAWARDANA, SAMANTHI: BCom (Hons) Research Interests: Asian labour studies and industrial relations, human resource management, export processing zones, gender, labor and the working class, ethnographic research methods. HANNA, VICTORIA: B Eng (Hons) Sheff, PhD Lboro Research Interests: Small firm innovation, operations management – applications in health care. LIM, ELISON: BBA (Hons), PhD NUS Business School Singapore Research Interests: Information processing, language effects in advertising, cross-cultural consumer differences, behavioural decision theory. MAGUIRE, CATHERINE: BCom (Hons) PhD Candidate Research Interests: Strategic human resource management; high performance work systems; managing intellectual capital; strategic and operational outcomes, alternative work arrangements; flexible and knowledge-based work; information technology; networked organisations: collaborative ties across geographic boundaries; communication; organisational justice and trust; collaboration and performance for young high-tech organisations; absenteeism and turnover. METZ, ISABEL: BSc South Africa, MBA, PhD Monash. Research Interests: Gender, managerial advancement in male dominated versus non-male dominated industries, workplace diversity, work and family, internal labour markets, well-being and work-related stress, organisational culture and performance, human resource management.
MOL, JOERI: MSc Erasmus PhD Groningen Research Interests: Strategic management, organisational and institutional change, entrepreneurship and innovation and industrial organisation. NAGPAL, ANISH: MSc (Hons) Eco BITS Pilani PhD (Marketing) Houston Research Interests: Impact of task frames and information frames on decision making, interference effects in advertising, health decision making. NEVILLE, BEN: PhD (Marketing) OSEGOWITSCH, THOMAS: AssocDegree Mech&AutoEng Austria, BCom (Hons) Austria, MCom, PhD UWA Research Interests: Mulitinational corporations strategy, HQsubsidiary relations and organisational boundaries. PALADINO, ANGELA: BCom (Hons), PhD Research Interests: Resourcebased view, capabilities strategies, market orientation, strategic management, strategic marketing, consumer behaviour, environmental marketing SAMMARTINO ANDRE: BCom (Hons), PhD Research Interests: Business strategy, diversity management in a strategic context, personnel economics, quantitative aspects of HRM, internal labour markets, Australian economic history SINGH, PRAKASH: BE (Hons), BBus Qld, PhD Research Interests: Strategic operations management, quality improvement methods, supply chain analysis, innovation management, project planning and implementation. YUKONGDI, VIMOLWAN: BBA (Magna Cum Laude) Assumption, Thailand, MBA Pitt, PhD Research Interests: HRM, employee participation, electronic business and HR practices, cross-cultural management. Professorial Fellow ISAAC, JOSEPH AO: HonDEcon Monash, BA, BCom, HonDCom, FASSA, PhD Lond, LLD Honoris Causa Macquarie Research Interests: Labour market institutions, industrial relations, wages policy, small business
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Professional Staff SHORT, WENDY: AssDipApSci (Sci Lab) Swin, GradDipEdAdmin HIE, MEdAdmin UNE Positon: Department Manager BISHOP, LIZA: BBus Mgt Pending RMIT Position: Executive Assistant / Acting Undergraduate Coordinator BROWN, OLGA Position: Front Office Administrator COX, MARY: A.L.A.A. Position: Administration Services Manager GILBERT, KERRIE Position: Executive Assistant GLASS, BERNARD: BA Position: Front Office Administrator HALL, BRADLEY Position: Budgets and Resources Administrator HEDDLE, NICOLE: AdvDip (Photography) Chch Position: Front Office Administrator / Acting Undergraduate Coordinator JENKINS, RACHEL: GradCertBus Swin Position: Undergraduate Coordinator KENTON, SUSAN: BA, DipEd, BEd LaTrobe Position: Postgraduate Coordinator KLAUS, MICHAEL Position: System Administrator McCORMICK, CHRISSY Position: Front Office Administrator NUGENT, EMILY: BA Positon: Front Office Administrator PALMER, KIRSTI: BA, BMus Position: Undergraduate Coordinator PEARDON, PRUDENCE: BApSc Tourism Mgt RMIT Position: Front Office Administrator PHAM, MAGGIE: BBusComp VUT Position: Information Systems Manager PHAN, VAN: BSc VUT Position: Software Developer / Acting IS Manager SHEPHERD, ALISTAIR: BA (Hons), MA Position: External Relations Coordinator
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TELFER, ELIZABETH Position: Budgets and Resources Administrator TRUONG, LINH: BSc, BEng, Security Analyst, CIW Position: System Administrator / Acting IS Manager
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
HEADEY, BRUCE: BA Oxf, MA Wisc, PhD Strath Research interests: Welfare and distributional issues and social welfare policies in Western Europe and North America. WEBSTER, ELIZABETH: BEc (Hons), MEc Monash, PhD Camb Research interests: Industrial economics, innovation and intellectual property, labour markets.
Director FREEBAIRN, JOHN: MAgEc NE PhD Davis FASSA Research interests: Taxation reform, labour economics, especially employment, infrastructure pricing and investment, and microeconomic reform.
Senior Research Fellows WILKINS, ROGER: BCom (Hons), MCom, MSc Wisc, PhD Research interests: Labour Economics, income inequality and poverty, microeconomics, applied microeconometrics.
Deputy Director and Professorial Fellow WOODEN, MARK: BEc (Hons) Flin, MSc Lond Research interests: Labour economics, industrial relations and survey methodology.
YONG, JONGSAY: BA BSocSc (Hons), MSocSc, NUS, MA, PhD Brit Col Research interests: Health economics, industrial organisation, competition policy and regulatory economics, transport economics, applied game theory.
Director, Applied Macroeconomics Research Program and Professorial Research Fellow LIM, GUAY : BEc, MEc, PhD ANU Research interests: Modelling the Australian economy, macroeconometrics, exchange rates. Director, Labour Economics and Social Policy Research Program and Professorial Research Fellow MAVROMARAS, KOSTAS: BSc (Hons), DPhil York Research interests: Labour markets, econometrics, social policy and health economics. Professorial Fellow SCOTT, ANTHONY: BA (Hons) Newcastle, MSc York, PhD Aberdeen Research Interests: Health economics – organisation and financing of health care, labour markets of health care professionals. Principal Research Fellows GUYONNE, KALB: MEc Erasmus, PhD Monash Research interests: Applied microeconom(etr)ics in particular, labour and household econom(etr)ics, social policy issues, microsimulation modelling.
Research Fellows BUDDELMEYER, HIELKE: MSc Vrije/Am, MA, PhD NYU Research interests: Applied microeconomics, labour supply, applied econometrics. CAI, LIXIN: BEd Henan, MA Renmin, MEc, PhD ANU Research interests: Labour economics, social policy, social security reforms in transitional economies. CHUA, MICHAEL: BEc (Hons), PhD UNE Research interests: Bayesian inference, forecasting, applied macroeconomics. DAVERN, MELAINE: BSc (Hons) Melb/Deakin, PhD Deakin Position: HILDA Survey Analyst FREIDIN, SIMON: BBSc (Hons), GradDipCompSc LaTrobe Position: Survey Research Database Manager and Analyst – HILDA GOODE, ALISON: BA (Hons) Newcastle Upon Tyne, MSc Aberdeen Position: HILDA Survey Analyst HARDING, GLENYS: BEc ANU, GradDipEc Position: Database Manager and Analyst
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JENSEN, PAUL: BEc Syd, PhD UNSW Research interests: Microeconomic reform, industrial organisation, intellectual property. LEAHY, ANNE: BCom GradCertClassics Position: Survey Data Analyst OGUZOGLU, UMUT: MA, PhD Guelph Research Interests: Dynamic panel data models, spatial panels, empirical likelihood. PALANGKARAYA, ALFONS: BSc UMo, MA Penn St, PhD Ore St Research interests: Industrial organisation, health economics, econometrics.
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SMITH, PENELOPE: BEc (Hons) UWA, MCom PhD Research interests: Business cycles, open economy macroeconomics, applied econometrics. SONG, LEI LEI: BA EChina, MSc Wuhan, MEc W’gong PhD Research interests: Applied macroeconomics, exchange rate economics, the Chinese economy. TSENG, YI-PING: BEc Taiwan, PhD ANU Research interests: Labour economics, applied microeconometrics, economic and social policy. VAN DYKE, NINA: BA Stanford, MA, PhD UCalif Research interests: Health, education, disadvantaged and at-risk youth, public opinion. WATSON, NICOLE: BSc UWA, GradDipMgtSc Canb, MMedStat Newcastle Position: Survey Manager – HILDA WITT, JULIA: HonBA Toronto, MA, PhD Guelph Research Interests: Health economics, microeconomics. Research Officers BLACK, DAVID: BCom (Hons) Research interests: Labour economics, government policy, applied econometrics. VU, THI HONG HA: BEc Newcastle (Hons), ANU Research interests: Macroeconomics, applied econometrics, social policies and welfare economics.
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WARREN, DIANA: BCom, MCom (Hons) W’gong Research interests: Labour economics, mature age labour force and the transition to retirement. Research Assistant WARE, KERRY Professional Staff DERHAM, RACHEL: BSc Position: Business Manager HOPE, PENELOPE: BA LaTrobe Position: Functions Manager LENTINI, NELLIE: BA Monash Position: Publications Manager BOWDEN, CHRIS: BA/BSc Monash, MCom Deakin Position: Finance Officer LIEW, WOEI TIAN: BSc, MSc LaTroben GradDipEc Position: Computing Systems Officer A’BELL, LAURA Position: Communications and Publicity Coordinator MCLEAN, HEIDI: BA (Hons) UTas, MCom Position: Executive Assistant to the Director BARRON, DUANE Position: Administrative Assistant, HILDA BEST, MICHELLE: BEnvSc LaTrobe Position: Administrative Assistant QIN, ROSY: BCom, DipEd Position: Administrative Assistant Adjunct Professors BORLAND, JEFF: MA, PhD Yale FASSA Head, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne Research interests: Operation of labour markets in Australia, theories of labour markets activity, economics of sport. CREEDY, JOHN: BSc (Eco with Stats) Brist, BPhil (Eco) Oxf, FASSA Truby Williams Chair of Economics, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne Research interests: Income distribution, public economics, labour economics, history of economic analysis.
GRIFFITHS, BILL: BAgEc (Hons) UNE, PhD Illinois, FASSA Professor of Econometrics, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne Research Interests: Markov chain monte carlo techniques, imposing inequality constraints in systems of equations, finite sample inference for nonlinear functions of parameters, and model selection. SAMSON, DANNY: BEc, PhD UNSW Department of Management, The University of Melbourne Research interests: Operations management, business competitiveness, strategy and e-commerce. Professorial Fellows CHAPMAN, BRUCE: BEc (Hons) ANU, PhD Yale Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, RSSS, The Australian National University Research interests: Labour economics, the economics of education, applied econometrics, industrial relations and economic policy issues. DRAGO, ROBERT: BS Tulsa, MA, PhD Mass/Am Professor of Labour Studies and Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University Research interests: Economics of work and family. DUNCAN, ALAN: BA (Hons) Manc, DPhil York Professor of Microeconomics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham Research interests: Welfare program evaluation, analysis of work incentives, static and behavioural tax microsimulation, econometric models of labour supply, and labour market and welfare program participation. KELLEY, JONATHAN: BA Camb, PhD Berkeley Director, International Survey Project, The Australian National University Research interests: Quantitative sociology and social economics.
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SCHEDVIN, BORIS: BEc, PhD Syd, FASSA Research interests: Economic history with particular interests in the transformation of the Australian economy and of Australian economic and scientific institutions during the course of the twentieth century. WILLIAMS, ROSS: BCom, MScEc, PhD Lond, FASSA Research interests: Economics of education, household consumption and saving, federal–state finance, and the allocation of time by households. Principal Fellows BOEHM, ERNST: AUA BEc (Hons), MEc Adel, MCom, DPhil Oxf Research interests: The measurement and dating of the business cycle, and the economic history of Australia.
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ROGERS, MARK: BSc Lond, MSc Warw, PhD ANU Tutor in Economics and Management, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University Research interests: Economic growth and industrial organisation with a particular focus being on firm-level performance using Australian data.
DO, NGHIA: BElectEng RMIT Position: Computer Systems Officer
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FELDTMANN, AMY: BA (Public Rels) RMIT Position: Executive Officer (Schools Liaison)
General Manager DIXON, SUZANNE: BCom, DipEd Hawthorn Institute, MBA VUT Professional Staff ALDRIDGE, DAVID: BSc(Hons), PhD Position: Faculty IT Manager AIR, ALISTER: BAppSc (Information), MIT UTS Position: Faculty IT Manager
EDWARDS, LARISA: BBus Swin Position: Student Adviser and Special Projects ELLIS, TRACY: BA (Lit&Soc) SUT Position: MBIT Program Coordinator
FITZGERALD, GERALDINE: BA (Hum&SocSci) LaTrobe Position: Student Advisor/Administrative Assistant Undergraduate GEORGESZ, MARK: BEc LaTrobe Position: Executive Officer (Resources) GILLEARD, RACHEL: BA Position: Executive Officer (Undergraduate)
MARKS, GARY: BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD Qld Research interests: The youth labour market; unemployment, earnings, pathways to full-time work; and education/early school leaving, achievement in literacy and numeracy, and educational participation.
AYRES, ANDREW: BEng (Software Eng) Position: Desktop Support Officer
SHIELDS, MICHAEL: BA (Hons), Stafford, MSc Health UNY, PhD Leic Associate Professor and Reader, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne Research Interests: Economics of immigration, economics of labour market discrimination, labour market for medical professions.
BANYASZ, AGNES: MA, DipEd ELTE Budapest, GradDip (Careers) Deakin Position: Careers Management Consultant
HILL, ADRIAN: CertBasicElect, CertIVCompSys, DipCompSys, MCSE Position: System Support Officer
BELFORD, DOUG: BAppSc Swin Position: Systems Administrator
JENKINS, ALISON Position: MBIT Program Coordinator
Senior Fellows DOIRON, DENISE: BA Monc, MA, PhD UBC Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales Research interests: Industrial relations and bargaining theory, labour economics and labour and social policy. EVANS, MARIAH: BA Reed MA, PhD Chicago Research interests: Poverty, inequality, attitudes to welfare, family issues, ageing and retirement, social capital, labour market and work issues.
BANKI, JACQUELINE: DipAdvMgmt (Prof Writing), BA Monash Position: Executive Officer (Marketing)
BENJAMIN, GLYN: BDigSys (Comp Sci), MIT, Monash Position: Desktop Support Officer CHANG, NOOI: BA (Hons) Malaya, MEPA Monash Position: Manager (International) CHOONG, EDDIE: BBusStud VU CPA Position: Executive Officer (International Programs) COLLIS, STEPHEN Position: Manager, Professional Programs COX, CHANTELLE: BA RMIT, MT (Web and Internet Computing) RMIT Position: Web Developer DELBRIDGE, ANNABELLE: BA LaTrobe, Grad Cert HRM, TAFE Position: Administrative Assistant (Professional Programs)
HAMILTON, AMANDA: BA Deakin Position: Enquiries Officer HERCZEG, MARGARET: BCom (Writing & Contemp Cultures), US Position: Application Officer (Professional Programs)
JENZEN, RACHEL: BA (Hons), MA Position: Administrative Officer (Professional Programs) JOSE, SABINA Position: Co-ordinator MAC Programs JOVANOVSKI, SOKOLA Position: Administrative Officer (International) KARIBIAN, ROCIO: Translating & Interpreting Cert, RMIT Position: Executive Officer (International Programs) KARTALIS, BILL: BBus, VUT Position: IT Resources Manager KENT, ELIZABETH: BA (Hons) UNSW, PhD Position: Transition Officer
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RODRIGUEZ, FERNANDO: DipIT, Box Hill TAFE, MCP Position: Desktop Support Officer
LASCELLES, SCOTT: BBus, LaTrobe Position: Administrative Officer (MBIT Programs)
RYCROFT, ANNA: BA VU Position: Accounts Processing Officer
LAUGHLIN, KYLIE: BA, PGradDip (Criminology) Position: Student Liaison Officer
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LLOYD, AMANDA: BBus VUT Position: Systems Support Officer
SHARMA, SANJAY: MSc (India), PGradDipCompSysEng’g RMIT Position: Web Developer
LOI, AILEEN: BCom, MIB NZ, Chartered Accountant (ICANZ) Position: Financial Controller
SHEARS, MONIQUE Position: Student Support Officer, Undergraduate
MAJCZAK, DANIEL: DipHospMgmt, William Angliss Position: Trainee Support Assistant
SHEPHERD, ALISTAIR: BA (Hons), MA Position: Executive Officer (Postgraduate Marketing)
MCPHARLIN, SUSAN: BA, BCom Adel Position: Executive Officer (Development)
SINEL, PAULINE: DipBS (NZ), Accounting Technician (ICANZ) Position: Management Accountant
MONG, CATHERINE: BBus (Singapore), GradDipSoftwareDev RMIT Position: Course Adviser MUIR, SUE: BEd, Southern Queensland, GradCert TESOL, New England, NSW Position: Student Adviser NGUYEN, TRUMAN: BComSc, MCSE, CCNA Position: Systems Support Officer NGUYEN, TRUNG: BAppSc FIT, MSc VUT Position: Laboratory Manager NUSKE, CARLENE: BA, PGradDipCommunications UniSA Postition: Community Relations Officer PECORARO, FRANCESCA: BA (Media Studies) RMIT Position: Manager, Undergraduate PELUSO, DANIEL: BBus (Info Systems) VUT Position: Desktop Support Officer PHAM, QUYNH Position: Systems Support Officer PRIESTLEY, CHRISTINE: BA Position: Course Adviser RITTER, ANNE Position: Database Support Officer ROBERTSON, KATE: DipSocSci (Justice), DipAppSc Box Hill Inst Position: Student Adviser
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