The Symposium will bring together environmental economists from Australia and the Asia Pacific region. It will provide a venue for reporting key findings from projects supported under the Environmental Economics Research Hub as well as other research initiatives. Papers should address current...

A strong interdisciplinary program of research papers and forums addressing the relationships between accounting, auditing and accountability and their social, institutional, economic and political environments will be included in the program.

In this Forum, the current situation and the major challenge of ensuring adequate funding of retirement for an ageing population into the future will be discussed by Dr Yi Ping Tseng from the Melbourne Institute, Dr David Knox from Mercer, and Professor Ross Guest from Griffith University.

Key themes: • The history of the interface of environmental and union campaigns. • How can working people and unions contribute to environmental campaigns? • How can the environment movement engage more meaningfully with unions? • What kinds of red/green activism could be helpful for the...

TOPIC AREAS: 1 Asset Pricing 2 Banking / Financial Institutions 3 Financial Accounting 4 Financial Statement Analysis 5 Equity Valuations 6 Earnings Quality 7 Financial Economics 8 Financial and Economic Integration 9 Capital Markets 10 Corporate Finance 11 Corporate Governance 12 Derivative...

Topics: - Crisis topology; asset pricing bubbles, mispricing, contagion, counterparty risk, transparency. - Prediction of crises, indicators, risk measures, ratings, performance measures. - Market regulation, transparency, innovation, disclosure, liquidity, global regulation, governance...

The conference will explore the regional and global market integration in trade and industry in Asia Pacific in the context of major changes in the global economy and its historical, institutional and political economy aspects. In particular the conference will explore the following themes, with...

The overall theme of the conference this year will be Green Mileage in the Global Meltdown: An Ecological Economics Way Forward. This has been chosen to encourage discussion and ideas on how ecological economics can help provide both economic and sustainability solutions in the wake of the...

Biosecurity and policy actions to protect plant and animal health and the environment are among the highest concerns of government. This Symposium brings together key policy makers and researchers in biosecurity, with a focus on appropriate policy actions against invasive species and the...

The Symposium will seek to provide an honest assessment of the impact of the Free Trade Agreement as a platform from which to think about how the trade relationship between Australia, the United States and third party countries in the Asia-Pacific region is likely to evolve over the next few...