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0000-0002-0405-2989
Current Organisations
University of Adelaide
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University of South Australia
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Flinders University
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Environment And Resource Economics | Natural Resource Management | Economic History | Applied Economics | International Economics And International Finance | Historical Studies | History and Theory of the Built Environment (excl. Architecture) | Environmental Science and Management | Mortality | Economic History | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | Political Economy | Sociology | Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation And Social Impact Assessment | Social Change |
Land and water management | Microeconomic issues not elsewhere classified | Demography | The distribution of wealth | International trade issues not elsewhere classified | Understanding Australia's Past | Environmental and resource evaluation not elsewhere classified | Trade policy | Work not elsewhere classified | Evaluation of Health Outcomes | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 28-04-2011
Publisher: MIT Press - Journals
Date: 07-2001
DOI: 10.1162/00221950152103900
Abstract: Probate and succession-duty records are a rich source of information about the living standards and material wealth of past communities. According to these records, the small, mainly rural, and comparatively egalitarian population of South Australia held a erse array of personal assets at the beginning of the twentieth century. Despite the strong British influence on the former colony's culture, however, South Australia's distribution of wealth before World War I was more similar to that of the United States fifty years earlier than to that of contemporary Great Britain.
Publisher: JSTOR
Date: 08-1995
DOI: 10.2307/2598214
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-1970
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 21-03-2023
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 19-05-2022
Abstract: As Australian cities face uncertain water futures, what insights can the history of Aboriginal and settler relationships with water yield? Residents have come to expect reliable, safe, and cheap water, but natural limits and the costs of maintaining and expanding water networks are at odds with forms and cultures of urban water use. Cities in a Sunburnt Country is the first comparative study of the provision, use, and social impact of water and water infrastructure in Australia's five largest cities. Drawing on environmental, urban, and economic history, this co-authored book challenges widely held assumptions, both in Australia and around the world, about water management, consumption, and sustainability. From the 'living water' of Aboriginal cultures to the rise of networked water infrastructure, the book invites us to take a long view of how water has shaped our cities, and how urban water systems and cultures might weather a warming world.
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 30-08-2018
Publisher: CAIRN
Date: 2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2001
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-2134(01)00225-3
Abstract: The principal objective of this paper is to identify the economic costs and benefits of pedophile treatment programs incorporating both the tangible and intangible cost of sexual abuse to victims. Cost estimates of cognitive behavioral therapy programs in Australian prisons are compared against the tangible and intangible costs to victims of being sexually abused. Estimates are prepared that take into account a number of problematic issues. These include the range of possible reci ism rates for treatment programs the uncertainty surrounding the number of child sexual molestation offences committed by reci ists and the methodological problems associated with estimating the intangible costs of sexual abuse on victims. Despite the variation in parameter estimates that impact on the cost-benefit analysis of pedophile treatment programs, it is found that potential range of economic costs from child sexual abuse are substantial and the economic benefits to be derived from appropriate and effective treatment programs are high. Based on a reasonable set of parameter estimates, in-prison, cognitive therapy treatment programs for pedophiles are likely to be of net benefit to society. Despite this, a critical area of future research must include further methodological developments in estimating the quantitative impact of child sexual abuse in the community.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 02-02-2023
DOI: 10.1108/CCIJ-05-2022-0049
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to explore whether the level of language content matching (LCM) between the chair and the CEO varies with their firm's financial performance. This study examines a s le of 119 Australian firms and 476 annual letters to shareholders produced by the firms' chairs and CEOs over a four-year period. Chair–CEO LCM is measured by calculating the similarity score between the chair's and CEO's written text to shareholders within each firm year, while firm profitability is measured by return on assets. Univariate analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests as well as three multivariate linear models are used to examine the research question. The results show that the profitability of the firm is significantly associated with the level of chair–CEO LCM. When a firm is profitable, there is a lower level of chair–CEO LCM than when the firm is unprofitable and that profitability is related to a lower level of chair–CEO LCM. Firm size is positively and significantly related to the level of chair–CEO LCM. These findings are supportive of the view that the written communications of the chair and CEO are the outcome of strategic considerations and depend on a firm's specific economic situation. Future studies may consider alternative approaches to measure textual similarity. LCM may provide insights into management techniques that may be used to explain firm performance and provide a signal to external stakeholders, such as shareholders and fund managers. This study provides new insights into the letters written by the chair and the CEO to explain or justify their firm's financial performance. Rather than focus on a single letter, this study examines the level of LCM between the shareholder letters of two different people in a firm (the chair and CEO) and finds that the extent of chair–CEO LCM is varying with firm performance and size. The findings of this study suggest that LCM is an important dimension of the communications of a firm's chair and CEO.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-12-2015
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-06-2022
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 08-02-2021
Abstract: Previous research suggests that a CEO’s attitude can impact a firm’s performance. More particularly, there appears to be a link between the CEO’s revealed level of optimism and firm’s market value. The purpose of this paper is to measure the level of optimism revealed by Australian CEOs in their shareholder letters and compares this with their firms’ current and future valuations. This study assesses the CEO’s level of optimism using text analysis of the annual letters to shareholders in 180 Australian-based firms from 2010 to 2013. The market valuation of their companies over the same period is calculated using Tobin’s Q, and the results compared with the level of CEO optimism. Comparing the level of revealed optimism with their firms’ valuations over four years, CEO optimism is positively correlated, both currently and prospectively with firm valuation. Given the period under study immediately followed the global financial crisis (GFC), the results suggest CEO optimism may be an important factor in adding to firm’s market resilience. The study examines the link between revealed CEO optimism and firm valuation over a turbulent period of the business cycle. While the s le period follows the GFC, and Tobin’s Q has some known deficiencies, the results imply that further research should be undertaken to examine the importance of CEOs tone and communicated attitudes on their firms’ financial outcomes. The link between CEO optimism and the firm’s valuation suggest that shareholders and boards should pay particular attention to the values, cognitions and psychological and demographic characteristics of top executives when selecting CEOs. In particular, the results suggest that given two otherwise similar CEOs the one whose record of communication is optimistic should be preferred over a similarly qualified but less sanguine in idual. The paper represents the first study demonstrating the link between CEO’s communicated optimism and Australian firms’ valuations. The study uses three different measures of optimism to improve the robustness of its conclusions, and a comprehensive measure of firm value – Tobin’s Q. It is the first to quantify the association between CEO optimism and firm value shortly after a period of financial upheaval (the GFC). The findings indicate that CEO optimism contributes significantly to firm value. The study also tests whether “excessive” optimism negatively impacts firm performance and conclude there is no evidence of this in the s le period. The study suggests that more research should be done to examine the contribution of positive business attitudes to periods of economic stress.
Publisher: CAIRN
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.3917/EH.076.0072
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-11-2010
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-09-2006
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-06-2016
DOI: 10.1111/AEHR.12102
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2020
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-01-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2001
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-1999
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2005
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 2013
Publisher: WIT Press
Date: 11-12-2012
DOI: 10.2495/SI120391
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2010
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-06-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2009
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 2001
DOI: 10.1111/J.1939-0025.2001.TB04450.X
Abstract: In a 1990 article in this journal, Prentky and Burgess examined cost-effectiveness of the rehabilitation of child molesters. Their estimates were based on the tangible costs of incarceration and particular reci ism rates. This paper extends those findings by estimating the intangible costs of child sexual abuse and a range of reci ism rates. The result is to focus greater attention on the efficacy of treatment programs and the potential economic damage done to children by child molesters.
Publisher: WIT Press
Date: 27-05-2008
DOI: 10.2495/SI080071
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2003
Publisher: JSTOR
Date: 2001
DOI: 10.2307/25149190
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1017/S0007680518001058
Abstract: Legislation that required the registration of firms’ anticompetitive agreements (cartel registers) to reveal, and sometimes regulate, anticompetitive behavior was relatively common in many nations before 1975. Examining the introduction of these registers in sixteen mostly OECD countries between 1920 and 2000 reveals which industries and sectors appeared to minimize successfully the impact of the legislation in their jurisdiction. We find considerable variation, but in most countries, the agriculture and export sectors were especially successful in avoiding or delaying the application of a register in their areas of interest.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2006
Publisher: CAIRN
Date: 2019
Publisher: CAIRN
Date: 2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-10-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2004
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-06-2022
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2002
Publisher: JSTOR
Date: 2001
DOI: 10.2307/1183383
Publisher: American Economic Association
Date: 11-2000
DOI: 10.1257/JEP.14.4.225
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-09-2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-09-2015
Abstract: The article by Aileen Fyfe (this issue) raises a number of important issues about academic identity and the importance of the disciplinary community in the creation and maintenance of that identity. It also discusses some of the additional difficulties faced by interdisciplinary disciplines lack of recognition (and thus institutional support), isolation of in idual academics in ‘foreign’ communities and a general anxiety and lack of self-confidence by the practitioners in that discipline as to the worth of their field. Finally, the article hints at the dangers these difficulties pose for the sustainability of the discipline – as lack of a clear identity and an institutionally marginal existence can make developing and attracting future practitioners difficult. In Fyfe’s article, the focus was on the history of science. This article explores some of the many similarities, and differences, that exist for in iduals in the field of economic history. For many economic historians, locating themselves within their discipline is still a major issue.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2007
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2003
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-08-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-01-2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-10-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-08-2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2016
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 05-08-2022
DOI: 10.1108/CCIJ-12-2020-0169
Abstract: This study examines the association between firm profitability and the “voice” of the CEO measured through tones they convey in their annual letter to shareholders. The paper examines whether the tones corresponds to a firm's profitability and the extent to which CEO tone varies with changes in profitability. The authors analyze 187 Australian CEOs communications in 748 annual letters to their shareholders between 2010 and 2013. Two-word lists created by previous researchers are used to assess tones for their positive-negative plurality, uncertainty and use of modal words. Firm profitability is identified using return on assets. The authors examine the relationship between profitability and tones using simple ANOVA as well as a linear mixed model and then a change (differences) model. The change model captures any inertia or genre effect in the CEO letter to shareholders. Using both the level and change model, the authors find that firm profitability is associated with CEO's tones that are more optimistic and less pessimistic. The authors also find that the use of negative words has more communicative value than positive words or “net” positive words. The authors also observe some genre effect when CEOs use strong modal words. The s le is restricted to a selection of Australian firms that had the same CEO for the fiscal years 2010–2013 which reported in each financial year and which survived the global financial crisis. Generalizing the findings to other periods, types of firms, or to CEOs with shorter tenure, might be questionable. This study was conducted in Australia, which may limit the applicability of the findings to other jurisdictions. The significant link between firm profitability and CEOs' use of positive, net positive and negative words implies that investors may place reliance on the use of these tones in the CEO's annual letter to accurately reflect the profitability of the firm. The study extends the existing literature by examining whether a change in firm profitability is linked to a change in CEO tone. It concludes that even in periods of general financial stress, shareholders should be confident that CEOs' letters to shareholders provide credible information that corresponds to firm performance.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 04-09-2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 08-10-2014
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 2001
DOI: 10.2307/27516783
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 13-06-2016
Abstract: – The purpose of this paper is to examine threshold concepts in the context of teaching and learning first-year university economics. It outlines some of the arguments for using threshold concepts and provides ex les using opportunity cost as an exemplar in economics. – The paper provides an overview of the theoretical literature around threshold concepts in economics and provides exemplars from previous research, and current practice, to illustrate how they might be applied in economics. – The notion of threshold concepts such as opportunity cost can be extremely useful in pedagogic design. They focus on how learning concepts changes student thinking, rather than the standard approach which treats many concepts as equal in importance. Designing appropriate instructional materials around threshold concepts is time consuming and this may prove a barrier to the notions widespread adoption. – This paper contributes to the literature discussing the practical application of threshold concepts in teaching first-year economics as well as identifying possible reasons for its relatively slow adoption as a teaching tool in university.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 10-2002
DOI: 10.1017/S0147547901214537
Abstract: An objective of this collection is to bring the history of the Australian labor movement to international attention. The editors introduce the collection with a brief overview of Australian labor history, emphasizing differences between the Australian and American experiences. The introduction argues that a unique aspect of Australian labor history is “laborism,” which is defined as the central place of the labor movement in Australian culture, as compared with the more marginal position of the labor movement in America. In Australia, this centrality is reflected in the embedding of trade unions and labor in the state through wage-fixing tribunals, a social security system designed to support the families of male wage earners, and the Australian Labor Party's strong links to the trade union movement. The introduction is informative and especially benefits from the insights of David Palmer, an American historian teaching at Adelaide's Flinders University. However, the introduction was apparently written later at the suggestion of an American reader and has thus not been fully integrated into the structure of the book.
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End Date: 06-2007
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Funder: Australian Research Council
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