Summer Research Scholarships

2018/19 Program

Scholars and Projects

• Conor Clune and Paul Andon: Governing the Governors: A Comparative Study of the Corporate Governance Practices of Professional Bodies (ACCT01)
• Roger Simnett and Jenny Yang: The Information Value of Auditing in Charitable Organisations (ACCT02)
• Bernard Wong and Benjamin Avanzi: Application of Data Analytics in General Insurance: Pricing, Reserving, and Claims Management (ACTL01)
  
• Qihe Tang and Jinxia Zhu: A Probabilistic Understanding of Bankruptcy Procedures (ACTL02)
  
• Kristle Romero Cortés: Rebuilding after Disaster Strikes: How Local Lenders Aid in the Recovery (BFIN01)
• Carole Comerton-Forde: Evaluating ASX Market Quality (BFIN02)
  
• Isabella Dobrescu; Pauline Grosjean and Alberto Motta: Gender Difference in Groups (ECON01)
• Pauline Grosjean and Sarah Walker: Allomaternal Care and the Evolution of Cooperation (ECON02)
• Keiichi Kawai and Pei-Cheng Yu: Fool Me Once, Fool Me Twice: Learning Self-Control Through Repeated Interactions (ECON03)
• Gigi Foster: Quantifying the Endowment Effect for Power (ECON04)
• Yenni Tim: Bridging the Missing Link between Analytics and Business Values (ISTM01)
• Carmen Leong and Felix Tan: The Values of User-Generated Digital Content in Businesses (ISTM02)
• Nitika Garg and John Roberts: Social Influence in Emotion Contagion (MARK01)
• Veronica Jiang: Can Digital Community Offer Disabled People Free Rideshare Services? (MARK02)
• Adrian Payne: Customer Value Propositions: Their Use in Large Companies (MARK03)
• Gavin Schwarz: Repositioning Organizational Failure to Change: A Configurations-Based Approach (MGMT01)
• Hugh Bainbridge: Combining Work and Family Productively. Identifying Ways That Organisations Can Help Employees Manage Work and Family Responsibilities (MGMT02)
• Jenny Buchan and Rob Nicholls: Are Franchisors Monopolists in their Franchise System from the Perspective of their Franchisees? (TABL01)
• Ann Kayis-Kumar; Chris Evans and Youngdeok Lim: Evaluating the Costs of Tax Advice: Value Added or Added Burden? (TABL02)
• Ann Kayis-Kumar: Doing the BEPS We Can? A Worldwide Survey of thin Capitalisation and Other Interest Limitation Rules (TABL03)
• Dale Boccabella: Companies with Discretionary Dividend Shares: Technical Income Tax Analysis and What Long-term Policy Approach Should be Taken to Such Companies? (TABL04)
• Katja Hanewald: Life-cycle Modelling for Optimal Retirement Spending in Countries with Less Developed Social Security Systems (CEPAR01)
• Pengyu Wei and Mengyi Xu: Mortality Modelling and Forecasting Based on Internet Data (CEPAR02)
• Mengyi Xu; Jonathan Ziveyi and Michael Sherris: Economic Scenario Generators for Modelling Retirement Income Product Cash Flows (CEPAR03)
• Abigail Powell and Megan Weier: Financial Inclusion and Resilience in Australia (CSI01)

Contact

Please contact Jenny Hislop at business.researchdegree@unsw.edu.au for any questions you have regarding the scheme or application process.