Deakin Business School

Department of Finance

Learn all about financial markets, commodities and derivatives – as well as banking and property – through Deakin’s Department of Finance. 

We use the latest teaching and learning technologies and specialise in bank regulation, financial stability and real estate.

Our renowned research centre also supports academic research in banking and corporate governance.

Areas of specialisation

Our research centre, the Centre for Banking and Financial Stability, focuses on applied and commercial research that is relevant to the broader community. Our areas of specialisation include:

  • derivative assets and markets
  • emerging markets
  • initial public offerings
  • international bond and equity markets
  • market micro-structure and market design
  • mergers and acquisitions
  • portfolio theory
  • quantitative finance
  • financial econometrics
  • empirical finance
  • international finance
  • applied finance.

Prospective HDR students

Get ready for research-level study and you could gain the skills you need to get ahead in your workplace or kickstart your research or academic career.

Find out how to become a research degree student

Grant success

Members of the finance discipline have been have been successful in obtaining competitive research income including ARC Linkage grants.

PhD program

The Department of Finance is seeking intellectually curious doctoral applicants with a strong academic track record who are interested in undertaking rigorous, theory-advancing research.

Learn more about our PhD program

Research seminars

Find out more about our recent seminar presenters and topics.

Learn more about our research seminars

Conferences 2019

Learn more about the conferences hosted by the Department of Finance which attract both overseas and interstate visitors.

Upcoming conferences 2019

Centre for Banking and Financial Stability Workshop

27–28 February 2019

Please email bl-bs-finance@deakin.edu.au if you would like to attend.

Past conferences 2019

International Research Forum on Multi-owned Properties

The forum brings together Australasian and international academics and researchers to share their knowledge and research on multi-owned properties (strata title, unit title, high rise, subdivisions with owners' corporations, private housing estates, condominiums, common interest developments, homeowner associations and other similarly structured properties).

Discipline and field of research areas may include, but are not limited to: Planning, Geography, Law / policy, Sociology, Built environment, Architecture, Construction studies, Tourism studies, Property and real estate studies, Economics, Social science, Environmental science, Management and Design.

Learn more about this event

Publications

Our researchers regularly publish in journals, such as:

  • Journal of Finance
  • Journal of Financial Economics
  • Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
  • Review of Finance
  • Management Science
  • Journal of Financial Intermediation
  • Financial Management
  • Journal of Financial Markets
  • Journal of Corporate Finance
  • Journal of Banking and Finance.

Past research

Learn more about our recent seminar presenters and topics presented by Deakin staff, visitors and research partners.

Find out more about our past research

Our staff

Our staff are dedicated to excellence in teaching and research in finance.

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