Media Highlights – March 2024

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Media Highlights – March 2024

From funding your next postgraduate degree to 'nuisance' import tariffs, see where Macquarie Business School has been making headlines.

MQBS Media Highlights February 2023

Professor Eric Knight, Executive Dean of the Macquarie Business School, provided comment to The Sydney Morning Herald about employers paying for staff members to complete postgraduate studies.

Associate Professor Kompal Sinha and PhD candidate Mohammad Nure Alam, Department of Economics, contributed an article to The Conversation about the impact of hearing loss on Australians with lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Coverage of this work appeared on 720 ABC Perth.

Professor John Romalis, Head of the Department of Economics, provided comment to SBS TV on the impact of the Australian Government's decision to abolish certain 'nuisance' import tariffs.

Professor Jana Bowden, Department of Marketing, provided comment to Yahoo! Finance Australia on comparing supermarket prices.

Dr Jun Yao, Department of Marketing, provided comment to La Voce di New York, GO Banking Rates and The New Zealand Herald on 'shrinkflation' and consumers' dwindling patience.

Professor Jana Bowden, Department of Marketing, provided comment to Business News, Yahoo! Finance Australia and BNN Breaking on the consumer psychology related to tipping culture.

Professor John Dumay, Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance, was featured on ABC News and commented on the increasing cost of cocoa beans.

Adjunct Fellow Nick Garvin, Department of Economics, contributed an article to The Conversation and ABC Online about stamp duty and whether it stops people moving. This also appeared on Lifehacker Australia, 720 ABC Perth and ABC Northern Tasmania.

Professor Sean Turnell, Department of Economics, featured on ABC RN Breakfast and discussed a new alliance to assist Australians that have been wrongfully and arbitrarily detained.

Professor John Dumay, Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance, contributed an article to The Conversation Australia and The Conversation UK about the 2024 Chocolate Scorecard. Professor Dumay also featured on The Lighthouse,  ABC The Money, ABC Radio National and various other ABC radio programs.

Professor Jana Bowden, Department of Marketing, provided comment to The Australian Financial Review on the success of activewear retailer Lululemon.

Professor Jana Bowden, Department of Marketing, featured on ABC Online and was quoted about the fast fashion market.

A 2022 study into author income, led by Distinguished Professor David Throsby AO, Department of Economics, was mentioned in a piece in The Canberra Times (print version) reflecting on Canberra as the writers' capital.

Professor Jana Bowden, Department of Marketing, featured on The New Daily and was interviewed about shopping secondhand.