Corporate law, climate change, and financial risk -- Corporate law history, hubris, and failing to assess risk : trends from the East India Company to Kodak -- The corporate climate I : coal and politics, the Adani Group of Companies, and the emergence of stranded assets -- The corporate climate...

We study the impact of language deficiency on the health production of childhood migrants to Australia. Our identification strategy relies on a quasi-experiment comparing immigrants arriving at different ages and from different linguistic origins by utilising a measure of differences along a...

We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and weekly earnings of male university-educated immigrants in...

Summarizes the Industry and Parliament Trust’s Study Group survey of 40 Trust member companies which together employ over a million people and have a cumulative turnover of more than £100,000 million. The respondents were all at least at senior management level. The study group found that the...

Firm level empirical research on the impact of financing decisions on small business performance is scarce in the Australian context. This study adopts an instrument variable (IV) approach to analysis the impact of financing decisions, in particular, equity or debt obtained, on the performance...

We develop a comprehensive performance determination framework for small businesses; provide a broad overview of recent firm-level research on firm performance; classify the performance determinants into three categories: (1) immediate factors, i.e. production, operation, marketing, R&D, and...

Small corporations are the engine room whilst the forgotten corner of the Australian economy. Regulatory burdens are hampering the small corporations from performing to their optimal, which consequently impairs the economic growth of the nation. For policy decision makers, quantifying the...