Dr. Bill Dimovski

Present Position:
Senior Lecturer in Finance

Phone: +61 3 5227 2560
Email: wd@deakin.edu.au

Campus: Geelong Campus at Waurn Ponds

Academic Qualifications: BBus Gordon I.T., MBA Georgia S.U., DBA RMIT

Commenced at Deakin: 1980

Books/publications/monographs
Reported in the Deakin University Annual Research Reports since 1995

Research interests:

Publication Highlights

Dimovski, W., and Brooks, R., (2006) Factors Influencing Money Left by Australian Property Trust IPOs, Journal of Property Research, Vol 26, No 3, 169-180, Routledge, United Kingdom.
Dimovski, W. and Brooks, R., (2006), The Pricing of Property Trust IPOs in Australia, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Vol 32, No 2, pp. 185-199, Springer New York LLC, United States.
Dimovski, W. and Brooks, R. (2004) Initial Public Offerings in Australia 1994 to 1999, Recent Evidence of Underpricing and Underperformance, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Vol 22, pp. 179-198, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands.
Dimovski, W. and Brooks, R. (2004) Do you really want to ask an underwriter how much money you should leave on the table?, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, Vol 14, pp. 267-280, Elsevier, Netherlands.
Dimovski, W. and Brooks, R. (2003) Financial characteristics of Australian initial public offerings from 1994 to 1999, Applied Economics, Vol 35, pp. 1599-1607, Routledge, United Kingdom.

Forthcoming

Dimovski, W., (2008), Analysis of IPO Dividend Forecasts for Australian LPTs, Pacific Rim Property Research Journal, Pacific Rim Real Estate Society, Sydney, Australia.
Brooks, R., Fry, T.,Dimovski, W. and Mihajilo, S., (2008) A Duration Analysis of the Time from Prospectus to Listing for Australian Initial Public Offerings, Applied Financial Economics, Routledge, United Kingdom.

Current research projects

Dimovski, W. Wolfram-Cox, J., and Brooks, R., (2008), Women Directors and Women Company Secretaries on the Boards of Australia's Top 200 Companies.
Kutsuna, K., Dimovski, W., and Brooks, R., (2008) The Pricing and Underwriting Costs of Japanese REIT IPOs.
Philavanh, S., Dimovski, W., and Brooks, R., (2008) Underwriter Reputation and Underpricing: Evidence from the Australian IPO Market.
Nguyen, H., Dimovski, W., and Brooks, R., (2008) Underpricing, Risk Management, Hot Issue and Crowding Out Effects: Evidence from the Australian Resources Sector Initial Public Offerings.

External Grants

Dimovski, W. and Brooks, R. 2005, The Percentage of Funds Lost Through Costs Associated with Capital Raising for Resources Exploration in Australia 2002 to 2004, Minerals Council of Australia, January-March 2005 - $7,700.

Higher Degree by Research supervision
Current

Shareholder returns in merges and acquisitions: The case of listed property trusts

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Teaching Interests/units taught at Deakin