13 events Coming up
12 Jun 2012
Ethics in Accounting: Can corporate culture reduce accounting manipulation?
The worldwide ripple effects of the 2002 Sabranes Oxley Act have led to a stronger attempt to tackle unethical behaviour within companies. However, such behaviour is difficult to eradicate completely, as evidenced by the recent global financial cr...
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Free Public Lecture02 Aug 2012
The Hon. John Brumby on The World in Transition
The Faculty of Business and Economics invites you to attend a special instalment of the Creating Future Leaders Series, featuring The Honourable John Brumby, who will share his insights into the major challenges and opportunities for businesses to...
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Free Public Lecture09 Aug 2012
The World in Balance Sheet Recession: What Post-2008 US, Europe and China can learn from Japan 1990-2005
There is considerable confusion in policy circles as to how to respond to the postGFC recession. Drawing parallels with the Japanese economic crisis of the 1990s, Richard C. Koo, senior advisor to leading fiscal bodies in both the US and Japan, wi...
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Free Public Lecture16 Aug 2012
The Fair Work Act: Review and implications
Over the last twenty years there have been four major revisions of the legislation governing the federal workplace relations system. The last was the Fair Work Act 2009. The current review of the operation of that Act is expected to lead to propos...
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Free Public Lecture21 Aug 2012
How can instinctive preferences improve policy outcomes?
In this seminar John Daley will discuss with Donald Low and George Argyrous how behavioural economics can be applied to the design of public policy. Why do people in some countries donate organs more than in others? Why do we not save enough for ...
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Seminar/Forum06 Sep 2012
The Downing Lecture 2012
Do bad ethics lead to bad economic outcomes? Bad ethics are defined hedonically as the infliction of pain for private advantage. The infliction of pain is often justified by "Just World Theories", which state that everyone gets what they deserve. ...
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Free Public Lecture02 Oct 2012
Public Policy Lecture - Tax Reform with a Larger GST
Professor Freebairn will discuss ways of making Australia’s taxation system more efficient with reforms which broaden the GST tax base and increase the GST rate. A larger GST could replace inefficient state stamp duties and fund a lower income tax...
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Free Public Lecture17 Oct 2012
Corden Lecture 2012
"How the Financial Crisis has Changed the World." The great financial crisis that began in 2007 has left behind a transformed world economy: the debtfuelled spending of the precrisis era is over, while the Eurozone is in a longrunning, possibly t...
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Free Public Lecture31 Oct 2012
Australia India Institute Annual Oration: Reasoning Beyond the Past
Professor Glyn Davis, Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne will deliver the Australia India Institute’s Annual Oration on the topic: Reasoning Beyond the Past. The Oration is part of the Institute’s conference 'The Argumentative Indian:...
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Free Public Lecture
The Argumentative Indian, Critical Debates in the World’s Largest Democracy & Perspectives from Australia
Registration is now open for the Australia India Institute's conference: The Argumentative Indian, Critical Debates in the World's Largest Democracy & Perspectives from Australia. The Australia India Institute will hold its third conference in Me...
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Conference08 May 2013
12:00–2:00PM
Fair Trade Fair
Join us to celebrate the one year anniversary of the Uni's Fair Trade Accreditation. Freebies, samples and stalls from companies and NGOs committed to spreading the word about fair trade products. Learn about how the consumer choices we make on ...
24 May 2013
Monetary Policy and the Exchange Rate at the End of the Mining Boom: Two Different Views
Two speakers, Professor Ross Garnaut AO and Dr Peter Jonson will each present their views followed by panel discussion and questions.
04 Jun 2013
Demystifying the Chinese Economy - The David Finch Lecture 2013
China’s rise is the most intriguing economic phenomenon of our time. One of the world’s poorest economies at the end of the nineteenth century, China has, for over three decades, been experiencing average annual growth of over 9 percent, with grow...