All seminars - Business School - The University of Auckland

On the determinants of fiscal consolidation success: A Bayesian approach (All seminars, Economics)

24 May 2013 12pm- 1pm

A variety of fiscal, macroeconomic and political factors influences the success of fiscal adjustment attempts. This seminar analyses 31 of these potential factors' influence on a binary dependent success variable within a Bayesian framework. >>

Business educators on stage (All seminars, Management and International Business)

23 May 2013 10.05am- 10.55am

This seminar provides you the opportunity to familiarize with ongoing scholarship at across the Business School, cross-fertilize ideas, and share scholarly experiences. >>

Malaysian Borneo’s indigenous communities employing ICTs for rural socio-economic transformation and influencing policy development (All seminars, Information Systems and Operations Management)

22 May 2013 12pm- 1pm

The Kelabit indigenous community in the remote rainforests of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo has benefited in numerous ways from working with Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) on its first bridging digital divide project, eBario in 1999. >>

Design thinking = Service-dominant logic in practice? Lotta’s iterative journey through teaching, research and practice (All seminars, Marketing)

22 May 2013 12pm- 1pm

Arguably, there are clear links between the "new" service logic and design thinking. In this seminar we will explore these links between service marketing theory and design thinking practice. >>

The trouble with billionaires: How the super-rich hijacked the world (and how we can take it back) (Commercial Law, All seminars)

21 May 2013 5pm- 6pm

Professor Neil Brooks speaks about themes based in his book “The Trouble with Billionaires” (2010). >>

Ethical issues in business and information systems curriculum (All seminars, Information Systems and Operations Management)

TODAY 12pm- 1pm

Often ethical issues are ignored in the design and implementation of business and information systems curriculum; hence students graduating from this programme do not have the proper intellectual framework to deal with these issues. >>

The US obesity opidemic: New evidence from the Economic Security Index (All seminars, Economics)

17 May 2013 12pm- 1pm

While most obesity research has focused on dietary quality or the implicit price of a calorie, a growing body of evidence suggests economic insecurity may be an important causal factor. >>

Characteristics of non-audit services and financial restatements in Malaysia (Accounting and Finance, All seminars)

17 May 2013 11am- 12.30pm

This study examines whether the provisions of non-audit fees affects the likelihood of financial restatements. >>

Academic research meets business practice: Radical market innovation in traditional industries (All seminars, Marketing)

15 May 2013 12pm- 1pm

This seminar gives an overview of a major research program deliberately designed to bridge concerns that have been raised over the growing disconnect between academic marketing research and business practice. >>

Household foreclosure probabilities (All seminars, Property)

15 May 2013 12pm- 1pm

In the context of the recent housing crisis, Professor Edward Coulson will discuss estimating foreclosure probabilities based on individual household characteristics. >>

Disclosure and an investor relations option: Evidence from open briefings (Accounting and Finance, All seminars)

10 May 2013 11am- 12.30pm

Open Briefings are question and answer documents that are announced on the Australian Stock Exchange. They serve to heighten the attention and effectiveness of firm news. >>

Burma/Myanmar, China and India (All seminars, New Zealand Asia Institute)

8 May 2013 4pm- 5pm

After that Myanmar leaned towards China and recent events, including the abandoning of a major dam project, surprised many observers. Should they have done so? Will the changes endure? >>

Strategy-proofness makes the difference: Deferred-acceptance with responsive priorities (All seminars, Economics)

3 May 2013 12pm- 1pm

The admission decision at colleges and schools can be thought of as assigning indivisible objects with capacity constraints to a set of students such that each receives at most one object and monetary compensations are not allowed. >>

Social norms and CSR performance: An examination of positive screening and activism by norm-constrained institutional investors (Accounting and Finance, All seminars)

3 May 2013 11am- 12.30pm

This seminar investigates the investment portfolio forming decisions and shareholder activism of institutions that are exposed to social norms. >>

Contracting between firms: Empirical evidence (Accounting and Finance, All seminars)

23 April 2013 2pm- 3.30pm

A study showing how economic problems that arise between suppliers and buyers affect the types of contracts they write. >>

Occupational mismatch and social networks (All seminars, Economics)

19 April 2013 12pm- 1pm

A labour market model with heterogeneous workers and jobs is used to investigate the effects of social networks as a job information channel regarding the level of mismatch between workers and firms. >>

Optimal hedging when the underlying asset follows a regime-switching Markov process (Accounting and Finance, All seminars)

19 April 2013 11am- 12.30pm

A flexible discrete-time hedging methodology is developed to miminise the expected value of any desired penalty function of the hedging error within a general regime-switching framework. >>

The Alesco decision: New wine in old skins? (Commercial Law, All seminars)

18 April 2013 6pm- 7pm

The Court of Appeal has yet again found in favour of the Commissioner on a significant tax avoidance case in Alesco NZ Ltd v CIR. >>

The role of immigrants in the US and other wealthy economies (All seminars, Economics)

16 April 2013 10am- 11am

A focus on the large economic and demographic forces driving migration to the United States and other wealthy countries and discuss how these forces interact with legal immigration regimes to either foster or discourage illegal immigration. >>

What drives the variation in takeover contracts: The economics or the lawyers? (Accounting and Finance, All seminars)

15 April 2013 2pm- 3.30pm

This paper uses proprietary access to 151 takeover contracts to empirically study the provisions that are being used to sell privately held targets. >>