PUBLIC TALK: The Global Financial Crisis

The financial crisis, an event scarcely comprehensible in the speed of its unfolding and severity, is likely to have significant knock-on effects on the WA economy, amongst others. In view of widespread community interest the UWA Business School’s highly regarded experts in their fields, Professor Ken Clements and Professor Raymond da Silva Rosa, will discuss the crisis and what it may mean for the local, national and international economy with the intention of informing and broadening public debate.

Professor Ken Clements is winner of a UWA Award for Excellence in Supervision and Head of Discipline/Professor of Economics. He is an economist with expertise in international finance, demand analysis and index numbers. Examples of Ken’s research include purchasing power parity and equilibrium exchange rates; the income and price sensitivity of the consumption of alcohol and drugs; cross country consumption comparisons, to name some.

Professor Raymond da Silva Rosa is Head of Discipline/Professor of Accounting and Finance at the UWA Business School and is Director of the WA Centre for Capital Markets Research. He is on the editorial board of the Australian Accounting Review and is co-author of the textbook named ‘Investments’. Raymond's key research areas are Mergers and Acquisitions Funds, Management Corporate Governance and Behavioral Finance.