Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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What Determines Australia's Foreign Equity Investment?
Published 2008-03-12In light of the recent changes to superannuation policy in Australia, the corresponding heightened exposure to equity markets has highlighted the importance of portfolio diversification as a means to reduce income risk. ...Open AccessThesis -
A multi-case study of the ways music learning is used to meet the social, emotional and cultural challenges experienced by refugees and asylum seekers in Sydney
Published 2008-03-03This is a study of the ways in which refugee and asylum seeker learners benefit from engaging in community music programs during resettlement or detention. It explores the means by which music learning can address the ...Open AccessThesis -
A Longitudinal Study of Ngarrindjeri
Published 2004This thesis aims to follow the changes that occur in Ngarrindjeri, a language from South Australia, over a period of 130 years. Over this period of time the speakers underwent great social and cultural change, with the ...Open AccessThesis -
A deconstruction of Cox’s proportional hazards model and an inquiry into its ability to predict the outcome of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings
Published 2008-02-21Set against the backdrop of Chapter 11 proceedings in the United States, a specification of Cox’s proportional hazards model proposed by Partington, Stevenson, Russel and Torbey (2001) was examined for its stability over ...Open AccessThesis -
THE PREDICTION OF AUSTRALIAN TAKEOVER TARGETS: A BINOMIAL AND MULTINOMIAL LOGIT ANALYSIS
Published 2008-02-05This thesis provides the first attempt to predict takeover targets in the Australian context using binomial and multinomial logit models, extending the relatively small amount of work focused in the United States, Canada, ...Open AccessThesis