Current Research Students Projects, Business and Economics, Macquarie University

Accounting and Corporate Governance

Student	Thesis Title
Noura Abdullah	Accounting Professionalization and education in emerging economies: the case of Kuwait
Sharaf Alajmi	Does the tenure and structure of the board of directors affect earnings management?
Christofer Adrian	Are interlocking directorates good for shareholders, creditors, and consumers?
Hope Ashiabor	Tax Expenditures and the Implementation of Environmental Policy
Andy Bawono	Activity Based Costing and Performance Based Budgeting Approach in the Analysis of Public Expenditure in Education Service (Research in Education Service in Indonesian Local Government)
Asit Bhattacharyya	CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: Attitude, Performance Measurement and Disclosure - A Cross Country Comparison
Zahra Borghei	Determinants and Consequences of Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosure: Evidence from Australia
Jin Hua Chen	Self Identity and Accountability in the Not-for-Profit Sector in Australia
Nicole Chen	An Investigation of Factors Influencing the Success of Organisational IT Governance Frameworks adoption in the Australian Context
Xiaomeng Chen	Workers under market transition: the new urban poverty in China’s northwestern cities
Esther Cheung	Readability of financial reports and AIFRS
Ka Wai (Stanley) Choi	Analyst Forecast during CEO changes
Shrutika Chugh	The Regulation of Disclosure and the Competitiveness of Securities Exchanges
Gabriela Damiani	Factors Influencing the Accreditation Process for Australian Residential Aged Care Homes: An Institutional Theory and Quality Perspective
Sany Dwita	Ethical judgments of professional accountants in Indonesia
Seyedezahra Shadi Erfani	Social networks business perspective
Narelle Gordon	Investor Recognition, Firm Visibility and Equity Returns
Karen Handley	Complex problems - simple solutions: The introduction of reduced disclosure reporting for SMEs in Australia
Dahliana Hasan	Environmental related taxes on manufacturing industries in Indonesia: developing an effective framework for environmental sustainability and revenue raising
Stephen Haswell	Political Factors in the Development of International Accounting Standards
Liyu He	The Usefulness of Fair Value Accounting: Evidence from the Agricultural Sector
Angela Hecimovic	The Evolution of the Sustainability Assurance Framework and Methodology in a Specific Australian Organisational Context
Philip Heinz	Ethical judgments with respect to earnings management using Germany as a case study
Emmanuel Lyabora	Corporate governance challenges of state-owned enterprises in the developing countries: The case of Solomon Islands
Alicia Jiang	The impact of large accounting firms selling non-audit consulting arms on market for audit services
Lusiana Kanainabogi	Exploring the use of performance measurement systems in Fijian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the tourism industry
Md.Habib-Uz-Zaman Khan	An Empirical Study on the Use of Integrated Performance Measures of Commercial Banks applying Contingency, New Institutional Sociology(NIS) and Weberian (1978) Framework : The case of Bangladesh.
Chun (James) Lau	Founding family ownership and dividend smoothing
Shane Leong	The Potential of Central Database Regimes to provide Social and Environmental Accountability
Liang Low	Relationship of High Work Performance Systems, Procedural Fairness and Behavioural Outcome on Organizational Commitment
Rajni Mala	Problems in Accounting Convergence: A Comparative Study of Australia and Malaysia
Julie Mcelroy	A study of environmental accounting disclosures within NSW Local Government
Brian Millanta	Investigation of aspects of earnings management by listed Australian companies
Ade Palupi	The Transformation of Indonesian Accounting during the reform period; in government, higher education institutions and accounting profession
Peipei Pan	A comparative study of cultural impact on financial reporting in China and Australia
Thanh Phan	Environmental Management Accounting in Australia
Aleksandra Pop-Vasileva Dilernia	Organisational Culture, Gender Systems and Associated Costs in Accounting Organisations
Tri Jatmiko Wahyu Prabowo	Performance Management, New Public Management and Organisational Culture
Alexander Proimos	Is Default Risk Priced? Empirical Evidence in the Presence of Fat Tails
Ruoyu Qi	Empirical Evidence on Accuracy in Forecasting Bank Trading Risks
Dominic Soh	Internal assurance and consulting on non-financial information
Xia Su	The Adoption and Use of Management Control Systems at Different Organisational Life Cycle Stages, and Employee Organisational Commitment
Edward Paul Tello Melendez	Accounting for Sustainable Management of Water Resources
Fengfei Wang	Sustainability and Supply Chain Management: Evidence from Australia
Mary Ayad	Informing the 1958 New York Convention, the UNCITRAL and Model Law Plus Articles: Integrating General Principles of Civil, Common, and Islamic Law in Foreign Investment and Oil Concession Arbitrations to Draft a Harmonised International Commercial Arbitration Law Code
Patricia Blazey	A Global Approach to the Mitigation of Climate Change through Controlling Deforestation and Forest Degradation
Bryan Mercurio	Public Health and the TRIPS Agreement: Opportunities and Alternatives
Anna Mortimore	The Use of Economic Instruments in Managing the Environment Externalities of Road Transport
Hitoshi Murakami	Development of Japanese Studies in Hong Kong
Amy Tung	The association between the use of environmental measures and environmental performance
James Turton	Protection of Geographical Indications: One Goal – Two Systems?
Xiaoyan Ying	The Concept and Operation of Professional Scepticism in Auditing: An Empirical Investigation in China
Xijin Zhong	IT Success in China: Toward a Holistic Model of IT, business, and culture alignment
Yuchuan Zhou	Political struggle, firm behaviour and economic growth: a critical analysis on contemporary corporate governance

Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies

Student	Thesis Title
Nurin Haniah Asmuni	The Retirement-Annuity Option Valuation for Defined Contribution Plan Members
Nicholas Addai Boamah	Risk-return Characteristics of the Ghana Stock Exchange
Weihao Choo	General risk framework
Deborah Cotton	Analysis of the Relative Efficiencies of Alternative Trading Architectures/ Platforms in Terms of GHG Emissions Valuation
Amogh Deshpande	Regime switching models in finance
Farzad Alavi Fard	Analysis of pricing securities in incomplete markets
Rangga Handika	Energy Risk Management: Spot Futures, Convenience Yield, and Derivative Pricing
Siti Norafidah Mohd Ramli	An application of copula in the dependence structure of default intensity with jump diffusion process
Rabihah Md.Sum	Enterprise Risk Management
Julio Sarmiento-Sabogal	The Cost of Equity for Non-traded firms in Emerging Markets: A Latin-American Perspective
Liang Wang	Using Morality Swaps to Hedge the Longevity Risk in Reverse Mortgages
Haijie Weng	An Analysis of the Performance and Risk of Hedge Funds
Jianhui Xu	Joint Mortality Modelling
Shen Yang	Pricing Dynamic Fund Protection with Regime Switching

Applied Finance Centre

Student	Thesis Title
Anthony Carlton	Investigating the Discount on Trade Sales
Kevin Jameson	Evaluation of trading

Student	Thesis Title
Jashim Uddin	Consumer purchase intentions based on country of origin(COO). Its antecedents ann casual relationships
Yousef Alnamlah	A Strategic Resolution of Cultural Conflict in the Workplace (Muslim Employees as Case Study)
Amanda Bruinwold Riedel	Leadership, Women and Gender Equality in the Boardroom: Considering the Australian Case in International Context
June Buchanan	The Marketing of Legal but Potentially Harmful Products and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Gaming Industry View
Dominik Chahabadi	The Internationalisation Strategies of German Renewable Energy Firms into Developing and Emerging Markets: An Interdependency Model
Frances Chang	Creating purposeful networks when entrepreneurs internationalise.
Joe Damrongphiwat	Eating with your eyes first: Towards a visual narrative persuasion theory of appetite appeal for food marketing and communications
Graham Evans	Facilitating employee efficiency: The role of Statutory Individual Agreements in Australia
Adam Gaskill	Marketing performance measurement as a moderator of CFO satisfaction with the marketing function
Lauren Gellatly	Internal Market Orientation, Internal Marketing Practices and the Link with Employee Motivation, Persistence and Performance
Jonathan Hamberger	Workplace Grievance and Disputes Procedures in Australia
Bron Harrison	The role of awards
Jasmina Ilicic	Celebrity Co-Branding Partners as Irrelevant Information: Dilution of Consumers’ Attachment, Beliefs, Attitudes and Intentions
Zhou Jiang	A Cross-Cultural Study of the Relationship between Organizational Justice and Organizational Commitment
Hassan Kharroubi	Is Offshoring decision a Strategic Orientation for growth or a Strategic Response to declining Firm Performance?
Ali Khosravi	Impact of process orientation on the export performance in Australian firms
Diane Kirby	Teamwork as a Generic Skill for Business Students
Klaudia Kowalewska	An exploration of tertiary degree graduates (business discipline) preparedness for entry level roles in corporate organisations.
Choon-Hwa Lim	Cultural intelligence in the cross-cultural selection interview
Dedar Mahmud	The Role of Leaders Personality Image in the Marketing of a Political Party
Lucy Miller	Exploring Consumer Motivations for Content Creation, Friending and Attitude to Advertising in Online Social Networking Sites
Abas Mirzaei	Quantifying measures of electronic supply chain management and assessing its impact on customer loyalty process in digital environment
Mike Mustafa	Succession in Ethnic Enterprises: Australian, Malaysian and Singaporean Perspectives
Nam Nguyen	Marketing Strategy For Retail Banking Service. Case Study in the Vietnamese Commercial Banks
Albert Nugraha	TBA
Marjorie O'Neill	The Life Cycle of a Sales Representative
Jerico Pardosi	Health Equity Analysis for Early Age Mortality in Ende, Nusa Tenggara Timur Province, Indonesia
Monica Ren	Internationalisation Strategies for Chinese Mining Enterprises: The Enterprise Perspective
Anna Rowe	University student and teacher perceptions of the role of emotions in learning
Jennifer Ruskin	Social Entrepreneurship from an Exchange Theory Perspective: Motivation, Value Creation and the Pure Gift
Eun-Kyung Seo	The Influence of Korean Culture on Reward Practices: A Comparative Study of Korean Companies and U.S.Based MNC Subsidiaries in Korea The Impact of Culture on Equity Sensitivity Perceptions and Work Outcomes in Australia
Sonal Singh	Tobacco Marketing Strategies in Developing Countries
Susan Stewart Loane	Creating value through social capital within online social networks for people with disabilities or chronic illness
Gong Sun	A Study on Face - Conspicuous Consumption Intermediate Linkages
Mark Tayar	International Business Models for International Universities
Murray Taylor	The Effect of Product Characteristics on the Internationalisation Process on Born Global Firms: A Pace, Pattern & Scale Perspective
Daniel Townsend	On-boarding: the Employee Perspective
Hector Viveros	Stakeholder Interactions and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Mining Industry
Haining Wang	Work, Wage and Welfare Entitlement: Migrant Workers in Urban Labor Market in China

Current PhDs in Economics

Student	Thesis Title
Somayeh Alizadeh	Exploring the efficacy of cultural competence in Australia’s healthcare system
Onur Ates	Investment Appraisal in the Cultural Sector: Accounting for Economic and Cultural Value
Osmat Azzam	Administration of Health Accounts to Evaluate Health Sector Changes - Low and Middle Income Countries
Jared Bissinger	Firm Performance and the Business Environment in Myanmar
Katrin Bock	Appraisal of Intergovernmental Financing Institution Projects in the Presence of Uncertainty and Risk
Colin Bowers	Modelling High Frequency Financial Time Series
Anh Tuan Bui	Financial Markets
David Carroll	The Australian Graduate Labour Market: Features; incidence and determinants of under-utilisation; and returns to university quality
Yuling Cui	The Role of Regional Labour Markets in Explaining Regional Migration Patterns: The Case of Northwest China
Peter Davey	An analysis of government pharmaceutical pricing policies to determine their value for use in Australia.
Jie Ding	Retirement Financial Planning
Sarah Hossain	Is ICT gender neutral?
Abdel Joubaili	An Empirical Investigation into Dynamic Allocation Strategies
Prashan Karunaratne	Credit Markets and Business Cycles
Rudi Kurniawan	Essays on the public debt of Indonesia
Wei Li	Water Abstraction Charge: A Study on its Application and Impacts on Water Resource Protection in China.
Chamadanai Marknual	Inflation Targeting Response to Asset Price Misalignment: a Comparison Study between Asian Small Opened-Economies
Tim Neal	The determinants, effects, and management of top income shares in developed countries.
Jung Soo Park	An Econometric Assessment of Technical Trading Rules
Md. AI-Amin Pramanik	Economic Effects Of VAT In Bangladesh And Other Asia Pacific Countries
Ruben Mendez Reategui	Institutional Innovation, Deregulation and Competition in a structures Society
Ning Rong	Real Estate Finance
Yousun Shin	Is Cultural Diversity Taking Place in International Trade in Arts?
Lindsay Stubbs	Burma's Role as a Regional Energy Exporter
Sigit Triandaru	The Role of Altruism in Wellbeing
Toomas Truuvert	Irving Fisher’s Separation Theorem: A Review Of Its Interpretation And Application In Corporate Finance.
Matias Vaira Lucero	Migrants' Remitting and Saving Behaviours
Zhe (Ben) Wang	Optimal monetary policy and macroeconomic dynamics
Anita Zednik	Taste and Consumers’ Demand for Music
Peng Zhou	Non-Stationary Time Series and Panel Data

Current Research Students Projects

Accounting and Corporate Governance

Accounting and Corporate Governance

Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies

Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies

Applied Finance Centre

Applied Finance Centre

Marketing and Management

Economics

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