Research degrees - Faculty of Business and Economics

Program structures

The following research degrees are available: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Master of Philosophy (MPhil). See the Outline of courses for further details.

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