HDR Supervisors

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Accounting and Finance

Name Research areas
Professor Leopold Bayerlein Financial Reporting, Financial Reporting Quality (Including Earning Management/Smoothing, Value Relevance, Disclosure Quality), Communication Processes in Financial Reporting, and Environmental Reporting.
Professor Gabriel Donleavy Cash flow statements, academic accounting management structures, the origins of fair value accounting, criticisms of stakeholder theory, accounting measurement and alternatives to subjective estimation, evolving a general theory of accounting, third sector management. To date, I have published 40 refereed articles, many papers and 6 books.
Dr Ashfaq Khan Institutional theory and organisational change dynamics, small business management, microfinance, poverty, and poverty alleviation strategies.
Dr Kamaljeet Sandhu Information Systems Adoption, Management Accounting and Corporate Governance Adoption, and E-Learning Acceptance at Universities.
Dr Subba Reddy Yarram Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Financial Services, Financial development of emerging markets.
Professor Omar Al FarooqueCorporate governance (including board diversity; executive compensation); Auditing; CSR/ESG/sustainability; Earnings quality/financial reporting/disclosure quality; Banking ; Finance; Economics/institutional quality; Waste management/circular economy; Public policy
Dr Supawadee (Bee) MossEarnings management, earnings manipulation, earnings quality and income smoothing; Corporate governance; Auditing and audit quality; Tax avoidance and tax planning; Contemporary Financial reporting issues; Forensic accounting, accounting fraud and corporate fraud
Dr Priyantha Mudalige Capital market microstructure; Corporate finance; Environmental finance

Economics

Name Research areas
Professor Derek Baker Measurement and analysis of food industry performance, particularly in the development of empirical value chain analysis.
Emeritus Professor Oscar Cacho

Economics of Biosecurity, Climate change adaptation and mitigation, Bioeconomics of agriculture and natural resources, Risk analysis.

Associate Professor George S. Chen New Economic Geography. Specifically, empirical investigations of the applications of New Economic Geography in areas such as social welfare, trade policy, tax policy and regional policy.
Emeritus Professor Brian Dollery

Topics for Research for Economics, Finance and Structure of Australian Local Government:

  1. Is bigger better? As the biggest council in Australia, how does Brisbane City Council performance compare with other large Queensland councils?
  2. Are there economies of scale in NSW local government service provision?
  3. Are there economies of scope in NSW local government service provision?
  4. Analyze the relationship between financial sustainability ratios and local government size (by population) in an Australian state local government system.
  5. Did the Queensland amalgamation program improve the financial sustainability of Queensland councils?
  6. Analyze the impact of the establishment of the forcibly amalgamated Tamworth Regional Council on small centres which used to have their own councils, like Manila and Nundle.
  7. Why is the Hunter Regional Organisation of Councils so successful?
  8. How should local government services be provided in western NSW?

Topics fo Research for Public Finance:

  1. On current trends, the proportion of Commonwealth outlays on health welfare and related 'social expenditure' will inevitably absorb all revenues. What are the trends in Australian Government outlays and how do they compare with other comparable OECD countries?
  2. A small literature exists on Australian Government failure, which has examined the home insulation program, the Greens Loans scheme, the Building the Education Revolution (BER) program, and the like. This research topic will examine further programs initiated by the Commonwealth Government, such as its subsidies to domestic motor manufacturers and the 2008 stimulus program.
Dr David Hadley

My principal research areas are concerned with the valuation of ecosystem goods and services and economic assessment methodologies that incorporate these valuations (predominately cost-benefit analysis). My focus has been on 'wet' ecosystems; wetlands, river water quality and marine and coastal environments. I also have a further strand of research based in efficiency and productivity analysis; particularly with respect to agricultural production, and with the incorporation of environmental externalities into measures of productivity. I am also involved in several projects that measure efficiency and productivity in more conventional ways.

Associate Professor Susan Hester Biosecurity Economics.
Associate Professor Nam Hoang Econometrics, Time-Series and Panel Data Modelling, Macroeconomics.
Dr Shawn Leu Applied macroeconometrics, international finance, monetary economics, and open economy macroeconomics.
Associate Professor Stuart Mounter Impact assessment and the distribution of benefits from technological change, advertising programs and government policies; price formation in food and fibre markets; value chain analysis; wine economics.
Dr L. Emilio Morales

Lecturer in Agribusiness/Agricultural Economics, Value Chain Analysis, Agricultural Markets Modelling, Marketing Systems and Trade Policies Analysis, Consumer Preferences and Willingness to Pay.

Dr Jonathan Moss Agricultural and resource economics, spatial econometrics, wine economics, bioeconomics, spatial optimisation of managed ecosystems and the emerging carbon markets.
Dr Tony Ramsay

International political economy; labour market economics and employment output; socialised investment and infrastructure renewal; history of international economic policy change; and, business, labour and governmental relations.

Emeritus Professor Mahinda Siriwardana Economics, especially in the fields of Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling and trade policy analysis.
Professor Rene Villano

Agricultural economics, applied econometrics and development economics. Current and previous higher degree research supervisions include efficiency and productivity analyses in agriculture, local government, health services, and education; adoption studies, impact assessments; value chain analysis; poverty and food security analyses.

Dr Subahini AhangamageComputable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling _ Global Trade, Energy and climate change

Management

Name Research areas
Professor Sujana Adapa

Corporate social responsibility, Communication Information, Systems research, Destination branding, Cross-cultural studies.

Dr Simon Burgess My general areas of research interest are business ethics, leadership, ethical leadership, and sustainability.
Dr Subas DhakalCommunity-Based Solutions; Education, Employment & Employability; Fourth Industrial Revolution; and Socially Responsible Businesses in the Asia Pacific
Dr Lucie Newsome

Dr Newsome's research interests and experience spans politics,  policy and business, with a particular focus on agribusiness, the influence of gender and regional economies. Her previous research students have investigated changes in the agricultural labour market, cross-national comparisons of policies to support women's entrepreneurship and access to superannuation for independent contractors in the arts sector. Her own research focuses on the development of paid parental leave policy, policy to support women's representation on corporate boards, women's entrepreneurship in agribusiness, women in sustainable agriculture and initiatives to support women's employment in regional areas.

Emeritus Professor Alison Sheridan Regional governance, gender and leadership, business in a regional context and regional development.
Dr Matthew Wysel

Economic optimisation of data-sharing platforms, regional entrepreneurship and technology commercialisation

Dr Andrea WallaceLocal government economics and policies including amalgamations, and public inquiries.
Economic History and Organisational communication.