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Monash University

Research degrees - Faculty of Business and Economics

    Program structures

Higher degrees by research are available: PhD, DBA and MPhil.

See `Outline of courses' for the list of courses offered in 2008.

    Research discipline areas

The following provides information on the principal areas of research in each of the departments of the faculty.

Accounting and Finance

Accounting information systems; Asian capital markets; banking; corporate finance; corporate governance; derivative securities; financial accounting; financial institutions and markets; financial reporting and auditing; institutional treasury operations; investment management; management accounting; and regulatory policy and risk management.

Business Law and Taxation

Asian business law; banking law; business law; capital gains tax; company law; corporate accountability; corporate social responsibility; consumer law; contract law; goods and services tax; finance law; income tax law; intellectual property law; marketing law; media law; securities law; stock exchange law; superannuation and taxation law; and workplace relations law.

Econometrics and Business Statistics

Applied econometrics; Bayesian econometrics; business statistics; constrained statistical inference; financial econometrics; forecasting and modelling; hypothesis testing; microeconometrics; macroeconometrics; theoretical econometrics; and time series analysis.

Economics

Asian business and economic development; South Asian studies; development economics; economic history, including Australian urban history; environmental economics; foreign direct investment; health economics and health program evaluation; international trade and capital movements; labour economics; macroeconomic theory and application; mesoeconomics; microeconomic theory and application; new classical economics; economics of institutions, organisations and public choice; public policy; economics of transport and tourism; welfare economics; applied economic research and economic modelling; behavioural economics; experimental economics; financing and organisation of health systems, health service evaluation, priority setting and allocative efficiency, and outcome measurement.

Management

Research in the Department of Management is represented by five research groupings: ACREW (human resource management, international human resource management and industrial/employee relations); SEIRnet (general management, public sector management and public policy, parliamentary studies, organisational behaviour, strategic management, change management, systems and actions research, knowledge management, leadership, diversity and cross-cultural management, emotions research, human value and development, social inclusion and well-being, positive psychology); TRU (tourism management and tourism economics; ASCMRU (operations and technology management, quality management, supply chain management, total quality management and processes, family and small business management); and IBRU (international business, international management.

Marketing

Brand positioning; business marketing and technology; consumer behaviour; electronic marketing; international marketing; marketing theory and models; market communications; non-profit and social marketing; product development; relationship marketing; retailing; services marketing; strategies and policies in marketing; supply chain management; interactive marketing; and sport marketing.

    Faculty research centres and units

  • Asian Business and Economics Research Unit
  • Australian Centre for Research in Employment and Work
  • Australian Supply Chain Management Research Unit
  • Banking and Finance Unit (Sunway campus)
  • Business and Economic Forecasting Unit
  • Centre for Health Economics
  • Centre for Increasing Returns and Economic Organisation
  • Centre for Modelling of Stochastic Systems
  • Centre of Policy Studies
  • Consumers and Retail Research Unit
  • Economic and Business Modelling Unit (Sunway campus)
  • Family and Small Business Research Unit
  • Malaysian Business Unit (Sunway campus)
  • Monash Tourism Research Unit
  • Taxation Law and Policy Research Institute
  • Work and Employment Rights Research Centre