Research Projects

Professor Kym Anderson and Professor Adrian Bradbrook and Professor Judith Gardam, collectively secured almost $650,000 in ARC Discovery Grant funding on research topic “Political economy of distortions to global agricultural markets”, with funding over three years.

Professor Gardam and Professor Bradbrook's four-year project is titled “Creating a Comprehensive International Law of Sustainable Energy: The Contribution of Law to Sustainable Development and Climate Change”.

A/Prof Alfred Yawson, Prof Ralf Zurbrugg, Mr John G Tretola - The adequacy and sustainability of self-managed superannuation funds: Governance, performance, asset allocation, fee structure and compliance.

Prof Z Michalewicz; Prof Ralf Zurbrugg; Mr A Ghandar - Computational Intelligence Methods for Financial Applications

A/Prof PJ Wilson; Prof Ralf Zurbrugg; Dr R Gerlach - The implications for greying Australia of international property market interlinkages.

Professor Christopher Findlay from the School of Economics and Hussain Rammal from the Business School are participants in a 2009 ARC Linkage project: “Approved Australia and the European Union: A study of a Changing Trade and Business Relationship”. The project is led by ANU with $175,000 over three years.

Congratulations to Indrit Troshani and Cate Jerram, both from the Business School, who were awarded a Qantas Research Travel Support Grant in round 1, 2008.

Associate Professor Bryan Howieson from the School of Commerce is part of a cross-University team that has won a Carrick Institute Grant for $217,000 to investigate ‘Enhancing Assessment Feedback Practices in Accounting Education: Issues, Obstacles and Reforms’.

There are currently no research projects listed for this School.

Professor Jiti Gao grant for project topic 'new estimation and testing issues in nonlinear time series econometrics' worth $650,000 over 5 years.

Prof Mark Weder; Assoc Prof Fabrice Collard and Dr Jacob Wong - Understanding the Effects of News Shocks on Macroeconomic Fluctuations.

Professor Christopher Findlay from the School of Economics and Hussain Rammal from the Business School are participants in a 2009 ARC Linkage project: “Approved Australia and the European Union: A study of a Changing Trade and Business Relationship”. The project is led by ANU with $175,000 over three years.

Professor Findlay is also a participant in “Australia’s Baby Boomer Generation, Obesity and Work: Patterns, Causes and Implications”. This University of Adelaide study will receive $641,000 over three years, in conjunction with the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Research Foundation and Workcover SA Council on the Aging and SA Health.

There are currently no research projects listed for this School.