Centre Associates

Christine Brown BSc(Hons), MSc, Dip Ed, PhD Melb
Professor in Finance – Monash University
Research Interests: Corporate financial policy, bank regulation, risk management in financial institutions, financial and derivative markets, real options, infrastructure financing and PPPs.
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Keryn Chalmers BCom, PhD, Grad Dip Applied Finance and Investment
Head of Department of Accounting and Finance – Monash University
Research interests: Financial accounting and financial reporting matters including: examining firms’ discretionary accounting policies, accounting valuation methods, and disclosure choices; the impact of accounting regulation on firm value; executive remuneration and corporate governance.
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Gordon Clark AcSS, ASSA, FBA, DSc
Halford Mackinder Professor of Geograph and, Fellow at St Peter’s College – University of Oxford
Research interests: current research combines economic geography with financial markets and includes corporate governance, decision-making, pensions and government regulation.
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Bruce Grundy BCom (Hons) Qld, PhD Chic
Head of Department and Professor of Finance – University of Melbourne
Research interests: Momentum trading strategies; option pricing; corporate governance; the valuation and exercise of real options; the funds management industry; cost of capital.
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Terrence A. Hallahan
Associate Professor, Finance Markets – RMIT University
Research interests: In financial markets, with the primary research focus in the area of funds management, especially managed fund performance, with a secondary focus on investor risk tolerance.
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Paul Kofman MEc, PhD Erasmus
Deputy Dean – University of Melbourne
Research interets: Financial econometrics; Constrained portfolio allocation; Price discovery in regulated financial markets; Extreme value analysis and financial applications; Insurance rate making.
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Guay Lim
Head, Applied Macroeconomics Research Program,
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Faculty of Business and Economics – University of Melbourne
Research interests: Macroeconometrics, modelling the Australian economy, financial econometrics.
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Tony Naughton PhD, MBA
Head of School, Economics, Finance and Marketing – RMIT University
Research interests: Behaviour of security prices; corporate governance explanations of firm performance and the stock returns of IPOs and trading strategies. Much of the empirical work I do relates to the emerging markets of Asia.
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Chander Shekhar BS Pan, MS Virginia, PhD Penn State
Senior Lecturer – University of Melbourne
Research interests:Applications of Game Theory to Finance, Economic Models of Financial Markets, Corporate Control, Governance and New Issues, Technological Progress and the Evolution of Markets
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Harminder Singh PhD, (Int.Bus) Delhi School of Economics, MCom (Fin) Melb
Senior Lecturer in Finance – Deakin University
Research interests:Asian Capital Markets, Financial Derivatives, Behavioral Finance
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Michael Skully BS BA Arizona MBA Utah GradDipEc Stockholm SnFin FCPA
Professor, Chair in Banking – Monash University
Research interests: Financial institutions in the Asia Pacific development finance and microfinance financial/regulatory policy and prudential issues, dividend reinvestment plans and dividend policy, international banking and financial centres, corporate governance, Islamic banking and finance.
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Donald Stokes PhD (AGSM), M Com, B Com (Hons) (Newcastle)
Professor Department of Accounting and Finance – Monash University
Reserach interests:The economics of the markets for accounting and audit information and their interaction with capital markets.
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Dianne Thomson BEc (Hons) La Trobe
Senior Lecturer in Finance – Deakin University
Research interests:Prudential supervision of banks and non-banks in Australia, Structure and behaviour of financial institutions
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Madhu Veeraraghavan B.Com Bombay, MBA Griff, PhD Griff, Grad Cert in Higher Education Griff
Deputy Head, Finance – Monash University
Research interests: Asset Pricing (Empirical and Theoretical), Behavioural Finance, Corporate Governance, Evaluation of Mutual Fund and Hedge Fund Managers
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Steve Worthington
Professor, Department of Marketing – Monash University
Research interests: Distribution of financial services, developments in the use of plastic cards as a delivery mechanism for financial services, smart cards, affinity credit card and loyalty card schemes.
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