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About the School
Chinese Commerce Research Centre (CCRC)
Aims
The primary aim of the newly established CCRC is to undertake research in the areas of finance, accounting, and business by using the Chinese dataset with its seemingly unique institutional settings. These projects include corporate governance, ownership structure, CEO compensation, earnings management, market microstructure and inside trading.
Research collaboration
Recently, the Faculty of Commerce signed a Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with the School of Business at the Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) in China for research collaboration particularly between the CCRC and the Finance Department at the SYSU. The centre also has on-going joint research projects with the following universities:
- Nanyang Technological University
- Singapore Management University
- Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
- Sun Yat-Sen University
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
PhD student supervision
The centre currently has about ten PhD students funded by different institutions including the Chinese Scholarship Council, UOW scholarship as well as industry fundings.
Refereed journal articles
Since the estalishment of the CCRC, PhD sduents with their supervisors have already published their research in various international refereed finance journals.
Prestigious conferences
Many papers were accepted for prestigious international conferences, such as Financial Management Association (FMA), in Reno, Nevada, USA 21-24 October 2009 and China International Finance Conference, Guangzhou, 2009, 10-13, July.
CCRC News
Contact:
Associate Professor Gary Tian
Director, Chinese Commerce Research Centre,
School of Accounting and Finance,
Faculty of Commerce,
University of Wollongong,
Tel: 61 2 4221 4301
Email: gtian@uow.edu.au
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Faculty of Commerce project, "Acknowledgement of Dharawal Country" (a film), receives one of the University’s 2009 Community Engagement Grants. Further information and contact details here
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