Call for Applications are invited for PhD Scholarships. There will be around 15 Scholarships for 2012 at $50000 per annum tax free.
The Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC) is a highly outstanding research centre that has won prizes for its research and has already spun-off several businesses. The CMCRC’s research is supported by government, security exchanges, industry partners, and regulators in Australia, the UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, Scandinavia, and North America. Students are based both in Australia and overseas and have some opportunity to travel.
Graduates are required with qualifications in one, or more of:
- Finance / Capital Markets
- Econometrics / Actuarial Studies
The CMCRC offers highly excellent, high caliber as well as well resourced research environment for work in capital markets. The research objective is to create better capital markets locally, regionally and globally. CMCRC research is about offering a better understanding of financial markets (their operation and their price behaviour) and research which facilitates the provision of advances in technology to capital markets. In the CMCRC there is a particular emphasis on the enhancement of market integrity and security. CMCRC research is to realize commercial benefits from innovation and the CMCRC offers direct participation in commercial results for PhD Students.
Programmes currently operate under the following research themes:
- Market design and market behaviour
- Investment management
- Surveillance and compliance
- Data mining/ text mining and language technology
- The analysis of accounting and audit data relevant to security markets (not recruiting in 2012)
Interdisciplinary research is encouraged. Applications are invited for full-time scholarships to support PhD studies. We seek highly motivated and enthusiastic scholars from the disciplines above, who wish to work in the area of financial markets.
Deadline: 15 June, 2012
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