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Staff Achievements

Felix Chan

Senior Lecturer Felix Chan


This year Senior Lecturer Felix Chan has had five of his papers, coauthored with various people, accepted by good journals. The details of the papers are:

"An Econometric Analysis of Asymmetric Volatility: Theory and application to patents", Journal of Econometrics, 139, 259 - 284 (with M. McAleer and D. Marinova).

"Structure and Asymptotic Theory for Multivariate Asymmetric Conditional Volatility", to appear in the Econometric Reviews (with M. McAleer and S. Hoti).

"Evaluating the impact of market reforms on Value-at-Risk forecasts of Chinese A and B shares", to appear in the Pacific Basin Finance Journal (with B. de Veiga and M. McAleer).

"Generalized autoagressive conditional correlation", to appear in Economteric Theory (with M. McAleer, S. Hoti and O. Lieberman).

"Finite sample properties of Quasi-Maximum Likeihood Estimator for the Log-ACD Model with applications to Australian stocks", to appear in Journal of Econometrics (with D. Allen, M. Mc Aleer and S. Peiris). Apart from the Econometric Reviews, the other journals are either A* or A journals in the BRADsNET List.

Professor Anthony Owen

Professor Anthony Owen and Co-Director of AOREs Oil and Gas Management was appointed in October for a 2 year term as a member of the CSIRO Energy and Transport Sector Advisory Council.

Barry

Lecturer Barry O'Grady

The Finance (Honours) programme continues to grow under the direction of Lecturer Barry O'Grady. This year, 11 students will graduate from the Department of Finance and Banking. There are also four more students who have enrolled in July 2007 who will graduate in the middle of 2008. Demand has increased for places commencing in 2008

 

Professor Phil O'Hara

Professor Phil O'Hara has had an article of his translated into Spanish for publication in a special issue of the Spanish Journal of Economics on "Recent Trends and Developments in the Global Political Economy". His paper is titled: "Uneven Development, Global Inequality and Ecological Sustainability: Recent Trends and Patterns. Phil also participated in a Curtin Business School Research & Development: Research Forum, in which his talk was titled: "Analysis of Curtin's Research Strategy".

Phil O’Hara presented three papers at the biggest (annual) economics conference in the world – the ASSA conference; New Orleans, 3-6 January 2008:

1-“Uneven Development, Global Inequality and Ecological Sustainability:Recent Trends and Patterns” presented at a joint session of the Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE) and the Association for Social Economics (ASE)This paper was especially well received.

2-“Social Structures of Accumulation Theory and Empirics: Reassessment, Reconstruction and Future Research”, presented at a Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) meeting.

3-“Principle of Circular and Cumulative Causation: Fusing Myrdalian and Kaldorian Growth and Development Dynamics”, presented at an AFEE session.

Phil also chaired a session of AFEE on “Institutions, Markets and Knowledge”,which went very well; attended the editorial board meeting of the Review of Social Economy; and also went to the Veblen-Commons Award luncheon. This conference was very good for networking.

 

 

Professor Harry Bloch, Professor Anthony Owen, Post Doctoral Research Fellow Hiroaki Suenaga and Research Associate Dawn Noelle Leonard

Professor Harry Bloch, Professor Anthony Owen, Post Doctoral Research Fellow Hiroaki Suenaga and Research Associate Dawn Noelle Leonard from the Oil anad Gas Management AORE have been awarded a Curtin Linkage Grant for "Price Impacts of the Domestic Reservation Policy for Natural Gas in Western Australia". They have also finalised arrangements for hosting an international academic conference next November - for the International Association for Energy Economics (Asian Region), entitled "Energy Security and Economic Development under Environmental Constraints in the Asia Pacific Region". Professor Anthony Owen will be the Conference Chair.

Harry Bloch


Anthony Owen

Hiroaki Suenaga

 

Noelle Leonard

Professor Harry Bloch
Professor Harry Bloch has been appointed to the Australian Research Council College of experts for a three year term beginning in 2008. The College of Experts provide strategic advice and play a key role in the indentification of research excellence. It's members are experts of international standing drawn from the Australian research community: from higher education, industry and public sector research organisations. College of Experts members are approved by the minister for appointment of periods of between one and three years.

john simpsonAssociate Professor John Simpson
Congratulations to John Simpson who has just been promoted to Associate Professor.

John also attended and presented a paper on "The influence of Country Risk Changes on Global Gas Returns; Implications for Export Pricing" at the 20th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, at the Shangri-La Hotel, presented by the School of Banking and Finance, University of New South Wales from the 12-14th December 2007.

Lecturer Steven Rowley

Senior Lecturer Steven Rowley will have two papers presented between January and February at the following conferences: -

PRRES (Pacific Rim Real Estate Society) conference Kuala Lumpur, "The impact of Landscape Quality on Land Values and Development/Investment decisions.”
The paper describes the impact of improving the quality of the landscape environment on the demand for, and value of, brownfield regeneration sites in North West Europe. It also describes how investors and developers factor the quality of the environment into their decision making processes. 

European Commission National Housing Conference in Sydney "The Provision of Affordable Housing in the UK: Developer Contributions through Planning Policy”. This paper describes the UK policy on providing affordable housing through the planning system. Developers provide a proportion of a new residential development as affordable housing, up to 50% in some cases but more typically 30-40%. The paper explains how the policy has evolved over the last 10 years and now provides an estimated $10bn pa in
affordable housing contributions in England.  This material in this paper is drawn from of a number of research projects undertaken for the UK Government during the last 5 years.