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Faculty Research Strengths

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