News
- Distinguished research scholars promoted to full Professors
- Leading research professors join Melbourne's Faculty of Economics and Commerce
- Case Competition teams top students with Procter and Gamble
- New issue of Insights now available online
- Associate Professor Asjeet S. Lamba joins the CFA Institute’s Disciplinary Review Committee
- Ernst and Young, Deloitte, KPMG and others snap up top international students
- Now Recruiting - Industry professionals wanted for career mentor roles
Audio now online: Recent Public Lectures
- Inaugural lecture by Professor Bryan Lukas
- Lecture by Professor Charles R. Plott
- David Finch Lecture by Professor Richard Cooper
- Lecture by Professor Robert E. Lucas Jr (University of Chicago)
- Inaugural Lecture by Professor Nilss Olekalns, Department of Economics
Distinguished research scholars promoted to full Professors
Three distinguished research scholars, Professor Greg Whitwell, Professor Robert Dixon and Professor Bill Harley, have been promoted to full Professors in Melbourne’s Faculty of Economics and Commerce. All three are distinguished research scholars and have provided significant inputs to leadership and teaching for a number of years. Read more.
Leading research professors join Melbourne’s Faculty of Economics and Commerce
Professor Greg Clinch, Professor Harry Paarsch and Professor Ian King have been appointed in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne.
Professor Margaret Abernethy, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce has stated that “We are very pleased to have attracted such eminent academics. I think it is indicative of the reputation our Faculty has in Australia and internationally.” Read the Media Release. (PDF 31KB)
Case Competition teams top students with Procter and Gamble
A knowledge transfer partnership between Procter and Gamble and the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the University of Melbourne has generated innovative solutions to complex marketing problems in Australia.
Teams of undergraduate and postgraduate marketing students recently presented their marketing research reports to a panel of experts consisting of marketers from P&G and leading marketing research professors from the University of Melbourne.
The top three teams from the undergraduate class and those from the graduate class were selected to compete in the Case Competition Finals on Saturday 31st May. Read more (PDF 75 KB)
New issue of Insights now available online
The third issue of Insights, our public interest business journal, is now available online. This issue features articles on the global cost of borrowings, the role of economic research in determining drug policy and the importance of vision and people. You can also read James T Riady's call for graduates to focus not simply on the acquisition of skills and talents, but also on the impact they would like to have on society.
Insights is produced by the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, and publishes condensed and edited versions of public lectures held at conferences and seminars connected with the faculty. These are valuable and accessible contributions to current debates and issues and they offer the latest thinking on business and economics. Insights provides business and community leaders, alumni, students and researchers with easy access to contemporary material, keeping professionals up to date with new findings and key ideas relevant to their profession.
Insights is available online at http://insights.unimelb.edu.au
Read the Media Release (PDF 20KB)
Associate Professor Asjeet S. Lamba joins the CFA Institute’s Disciplinary Review Committee
Associate Professor Asjeet Lamba (Department of Finance) has been selected to serve on the Disciplinary Review Committee of the CFA Institute from September 2008.
With a membership of over 93,000 the CFA Institute is the global association of investment professionals offering the three-year Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Program to over 70,000 candidates in over 150 countries every year. The Disciplinary Review Committee (DRC) is the main body responsible for enforcing the CFA Institute’s Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct among its members and exam candidates. Its responsibilities include adjudicating alleged infractions of the Code and Standards, reviewing appeals of CFA Program candidates from sanctions imposed under the CFA Institute’s Rules of Procedure, and refining the Rules of Procedure and other operational policies of the DRC.
Associate Professor Lamba is one of only two academics to serve on this twenty-person committee and the only person representing Australia and New Zealand. For more details see: www.cfainstitute.org.
Ernst and Young, Deloitte, KPMG and others snap up top international students
Career opportunities for international students in Australia have received a major boost this year, with some of the nation’s biggest companies relaxing their permanent residency requirements for graduate intakes.
International students who were formerly bound by strict residency guidelines can now compete directly with local applicants for some of the most desirable jobs in the country.
Ernst & Young, Deloitte and KPMG as well as other employers are inviting applications from students who can demonstrate eligibility to apply for Australian permanent residency. This marks a significant shift from previous years, in which all applicants needed permanent residency before applying for jobs.
Professor Margaret Abernethy, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, said “the global skills shortage and subsequent intense competition to recruit top graduates has created exciting new opportunities and demand for international students who increasingly are receiving offers before they secure permanent residence status in Australia”. Read the Media Release (PDF 27KB).
Now Recruiting - Industry professionals for career mentor roles
Do you have a background in business or consulting? Would you like to be a career mentor for one of our graduate students? Our Career Mentoring Program is seeking individuals with experience in diverse fields, including accounting, economics, finance, business/IT, HR or org development, international business or marketing.
The mentors in our Career Mentoring Program make a huge contribution to the professional development of our graduate students. They gain professional and career insights and valuable preparation for their careers after graduation. Student places in the program are keenly sought after and are allocated on a competitive basis. This means our mentors are assigned a student who is bright and highly motivated, with career aspirations matched to your experience. Our mentors report that they derive great satisfaction from their participation in the program and many come back to mentor a new student each year.
For more information visit the Become a Career Mentor page on the Graduate Careers Centre website or contact the Mentoring Co-ordinator, on 8344 1693.
University News and Events
News and Events around the University of Melbourne. This includes media releases and the weekly university newspaper, Melbourne University Voice.
Audio now online: Inaugural lecture by Professor Bryan Lukas
Professor Lukas, Head of the Department of Management and Marketing, gave his inaugural professorial lecture on Tuesday, 10 June 2008, entitled "Market Competitiveness and Market-oriented Product and Brand Management".
Download the lecture (MP3 10.3MB)
Audio now online: Lecture by Professor Charles R. Plott (California Institute of Technology)
Early in the 1970s Professor Charles Plott began to explore the use of laboratory experimental methods. His research has led to some of the most fundamental discoveries in economics and political science. Professor Plott was recently visiting the University and gave a free public lecture on the topic of "Economics as an Experimental Science".
Download the lecture (MP3 16.9MB)
The Economics department has its very own state-of-the-art experimental laboratory, which was opened last year by Professor Nilss Olekalns, Head of the Department of Economics. It is jointly funded by the Faculty of Economics and Commerce and the Department of Economics, as well as the Victorian Government. Professor Plott is an affiliated member of the lab team.
Audio now online: David Finch lecture by Professor Richard Cooper (Harvard University)
The annual David Finch Lecture, established through the generosity of distinguished alumnus C. David Finch, was given this year by Professor Richard Cooper on 28 March, entitled "Understanding Global Imbalances".
Download the lecture (MP3 15.7MB)
Richard N. Cooper is Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University.
Audio now online: Public lecture by Professor Robert E. Lucas Jr (University of Chicago)
Visiting academic Professor Robert E. Lucas Jr was at the University recently and gave a lecture titled " The Industrial Revolution and the Macroeconomics of Ricardo and Marx."
Download the lecture (MP3 13.2MB)
Professor Lucas is often said to be the most important figure in macroeconomics – and, some would argue, in economics overall – over the last 25 years. He is the John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, a Nobel laureate (1995), and is credited with revolutionizing the approach taken to modelling macroeconomics.
Audio now online: Inaugural Lecture by Professor Nilss Olekalns, Department of Economics
Professor Nilss Olekans’ has presented his inaugural lecture titled ‘We know there are known unknowns’: policy making in an uncertain world. Policy makers operate in a world of uncertainty, for example, not knowing the current state of the economy. This lecture discussed recent research that aims to understand how the economy evolves in response to uncertainty and how various scores of information can be brought together to shed light on the reality of current economic conditions.
Download the lecture (MP3 16.4MB)
Nilss Olekalns (PhD, LaTrobe University) is currently the Head of the Economics Department and has published on a variety of macroeconomic topics including fiscal and monetary policies, exchange rates, output and inflation volatility, and interest rates.