Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by title
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Anatomy of State Failure
Published 2007-12-19Abstract In the 1990s, failed states emerged as a pernicious threat to both regional security and the wellbeing of millions of people worldwide. While this phenomenon has been welldocumented, explaining why and how states ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Anthropomorphism Is Not Always A Marketing Panacea: How Anthropomorphism Shapes Product Durability Perception.
Published 2023-02-01This research examined anthropomorphism as a marketing tool in the new paradigms of green and online merchandising. Two experiments tested how product anthropomorphism affects consumers' product durability perception. Study ...Open AccessThesis -
Asset Prices, Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Stability
Published 2009-01-01A focal point of macroeconomic policy analysis over the past decade has been whether central banks should respond to changes in asset prices. This thesis addresses the question from the distinct perspective of equilibrium ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Biopiracy and Native Title: An Exploration of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) and Indigenous Knowledge Protection
Published 2023-02-13The exploitation of Indigenous Knowledge is pervasive and widespread. Despite its significance and value however, the current legal frameworks available for its protection fail to offer a comprehensive regime which ...Open AccessThesis -
Colour My World: The Effect of Colour and Context on Brand Personality
Published 2023-02-01Colour has inherent meaning that evokes strong associations and is used by brand managers to capture the consumers attention and convey the brand's personality. Despite the importance of colour as a communication cue ...Open AccessThesis -
Commitment Mechanisms and Blood Donation
Published 2009-10-01The Australian Red Cross Blood Service (ARCBS) recently introduced a policy of compulsory appointments for blood donations. This thesis examines the effect of these appointments on donor satisfaction and donation behaviour. ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
"Dangerously Radical?" - Explaining the position of the Revolutionary Association of Women in Afghanistan in Post Taliban Afghanistan
Published 2007-12-21ABSTRACT The Revolutionary Association of Women in Afghanistan is an organisation that provides a fascinating insight into understandings of gender, national identity and universal human rights. In its construction of a ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
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, Honours -
Development of a Forecasting Model for Hedge Fund Failure: A Survival Analysis Approach
Published 2009-02-26Well-known biases associated with hedge fund data have created difficulties in analysing the factors behind the failure of hedge funds. This study was interested in quantifying the factors influencing hedge fund failure ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Disposition Effect and the Ability of Investors to Learn
Published 2009-02-26This paper provides an in depth analysis of investors’ reluctance to crystallise losses and propensity to realise gains, a behavioural bias dubbed the disposition effect. We examine a comprehensive data set comprised of ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Does FOMO Mediate the Effects of Time-Limited Scarcity Promotions for Material and Experiential Purchases?
Published 2023-02-22Scarcity tactics have been used extensively in marketing, largely because such appeals signal the current or potential unavailability of a product which enhances its perceived value and desirability. Such perceptions ...Open AccessThesis -
Does market depth concentration matter? Evidence from the Australian Stock Exchange
Published 2009-02-26In considering the behaviour of market participants, this paper introduces a new variable into the model for the determinants of institutional trading costs. By using an ex-ante measure of the concentration in the opposite-side ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Drama, Narrative and Charismatic Leadership
Published 2009-03-11Since the 1970s, management scholars have been captivated by the emotional and symbolic aspects of leadership, particularly charismatic leadership — a form of influence independent of tradition and formal authority. More ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Dynamics of Bid and Ask Quotes Set by a Heterogeneously Informed Market Maker
Published 2009-02-26This paper studies the effects superiorly informed market makers have on the price formation process. Two models are developed in which the market maker receives some informative signal. In one version, the market maker ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Effects on Fragmentation and Market Quality When ASX Moves Towards a More Anonymous Market
Published 2009-02-26This thesis addresses the question of whether the anonymization of broker identifiers has an effect on market quality through the natural experiment on the Australian Securities Exchange. We show that the removal of broker ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Equilibrium Price Dispersion: A Model of Intermediated Search with Repeated Interaction
Published 2008-01-01This thesis develops a model in which homogeneous producers and merchants interact repeatedly in a search market. Merchants are able to reduce the cost of search by o ering trading certainty to pro- ducers with whom they ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Ethnic Conflict: A Model of Concessions
Published 2008-01-01The Coase Theorem suggests that the ability of completely informed agents to make transfers should generally avert conflict. This thesis considers a complete information model of ethnic conflict where the dominated group ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Examining the Influence of Mentoring on Job Performance in MNEs: Unravelling the Gender Moderation Effect
Published 2024-02-08This study identified four possible mediators in the relationships between various mentoring functions and various individual performance dimensions: knowledge and skills, POS, self-efficacy and sense of identity. It also ...Open AccessThesis -
Exploring the Liquidity of NFT Collections
Published 2024-02-12This paper provides the first analysis of non-fungible token (NFT) collection liquidity by applying a suite of widely used proxies that capture different dimensions of liquidity. Using transaction-level data from the OpenSea ...Open AccessThesis -
Facing the music: Strategic leadership in Australian opera
Published 2024-02-12The Australian opera industry faces entrenched business challenges in an increasingly volatile, uncertain and complex world; challenges that both impede its ability to deliver an in-demand contemporary art form and that ...Open AccessThesis