Research seminars - Department of Finance

Find out about the Department of Finance's previous seminars, guest speakers and topics. Our range of speakers share insights and encourage debate on issues that interest the department and our students.

Upcoming seminars

Seminar date/time	Presenter and affiliation	Topic
25 Jan 2018	Mr Anton Hasselgren Stockholm School of Business	Speculator activity and cross-asset predictability of FX returns
29 Jan 2018	Associate Professor Xiaoyang Li Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance	Board diversity, inventor collaboration, and corporate innovation
1 Mar 2018	Professor Joseph Fan Chinese University of Hong Kong	Family Monitoring the Family
13 Mar 2018	Associate Professor Yangyang Chen Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Executive Equity Risk-Taking Incentives and Firm's Choice of Debt Structure
22 Mar 2018	Professor Tarun Chordia Emory University	P-hacking: Evidence from two million trading strategies
5 Apr 2018	Associate Professor Xin (Simba) Chang Nanyang Technological University	TBC
12 Apr 2018	Dr Kentaro Asai Australian National University	TBC
19 Apr 2018	Assistance Professor Kwanok Lee National University of Singapore	TBC
3 May 2018	Associate Professor Jin Yu University of New South Wales	TBC
10 May 2018	Assistant Professor Hao Liang Singapore Management University	TBC
17 May 2018	Professor David Mauer University of North Carolina at Charlotte	TBC
31 May 2018	Associate Professor Roger Loh Singapore Management University	TBC
7 Jun 2018	Dr Alexander Vadilyev Australian National University	TBC

Past seminars

Seminar	Presenter	Topic
21 Nov 2017	Professor Thomas Lux University of Kiel	Network formation in the interbank money market: An application of the actor-oriented model
17 Nov 2017	Professor Vidhan Goyal Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Compensation Differences and Merger Outcomes
9 Nov 2017	Dr Henry Jung The University of Melbourne	Watch your basket – to determine CEO compensation
26 Oct 2017	Dr Phong Ngo Australian National University	Geopolitics and international bank flows
19 Oct 2017	Assistant Professor Chen Zhanhui Nanyang Technological University	In search of Preference Shock Risks: Evidence from Longevity Risks and Momentum Profits
18 Oct 2017	Associate Professor Wenlan Qian National University of Singapore	Dragon Babies
11 Oct 2017	Associate Professor Yulia Veld-Merkoulova Monash University	Why do individuals not participate in the stock market?
5 Oct 2017	Dr Daisy Doan Deakin University	A Sovereign Risk-Based Approach to Implementing Countercyclical Capital Buffer Schemes
28 Sep 2017	Associate Professor Jun Tu Singapore Management University	Purging Investor Sentiment Index from Too Much Fundamental Information
21 Sep 2017	Professor Jun-Koo Kang Nanyang Technological University	Geographic Concentration of Venture Capital Investors, Corporate Monitoring, and Firm Performance
7 Sep 2017	Dr Zhou Zhong The University of Melbourne	Inverted Fee Venues and Market Quality
31 Aug 2017	Dr Emma Li Australian National University	The Usual Suspects: Experienced Backers and Early Stage Venture Success
23 Aug 2017	Professor Bruce Grundy The University of Melbourne	The External Financing of Investment
10 Aug 2017	Mandy Tham Wealth Management Institute	Do security analysts learn from their colleagues?
3 Aug 2017	Dr Vincent Xiang Deakin University	Risk Neutral Skewness and the Cross-section of Stock Returns: Mispricing or Information
27 Jul 2017	Prof Andrew Winton University of Minnesota	Do Banks Still Monitor When There is a Market for Credit Protection?
26 Jul 2017	Associate Professor Michael Chng Deakin University	Factor-of-factors and stock returns
20 Jul 2017	Fengfei Li University of Hong Kong	The 52-week high stock price and analyst recommendation revisions
29 Jun 2017	Dr Tze Ang Deakin University	The Multidimensional Pricing of Firm Productivity
22 Jun 2017	Mike Mao - Erasmus University	How do bank policies affect equity risk and cost of capital?
16 Jun 2017	Professor Sumit Agarwal Georgetown University	Cash demand and consumption response to unanticipated monetary policy shock: evidence from Turkey
9 Jun 2017	Dr Christopher Ratcliffe Deakin University	The Performance of REIT Acquirers in the Post-Merger Period
18 May 2017	Dr Juan Sotes-Paladino Melbourne University	The Invisible Hand of Internal Markets in Mutual Fund Families
11 May 2017	Dr Huson Ahmed Deakin University	What Drives Bank Lending behaviour in Australia? Co-integration Analyses by Integrated Modified Least Square (IM-OLS) Approach
4 May 2017	Professor Abe de Jung Erasmus University	Managing for Performance: The VOC Insurance Contract of 1613
27 Apr 2017	Gary Tian Macquarie University	Political Connections as an Endorsement Device: The Impact of Political Connections on Corporate Decision-making
20 Apr 2017	Professor David Reeb National University of Singapore	The Extreme Control Choice
13 Apr 2017	Professor Tarun Chordia (Equis) Emory University	Rent Seeking by Low Latency Traders: Evidence from Trading on Macroeconomic Announcements
6 Apr 2017	Dr George Wong (Equis) The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Corporate Environmental Liabilities and Capital Structure
30 Mar 2017	Professor Stephen Brown Monash University / Emeritus Professor at NYU	Sensation Seeking, Sports Cars, and Hedge Funds
28 Mar 2017	Professor Avanidhar Subrahmanyam UCLA	The Information Role of Index Option Trading
27 Mar 2017	Professor Tse-Chun Lin The University of Hong Kong	Yesterday once more: Short selling and two banking crises
20 Mar 2017	Dr Mong Shan Ee Deakin University	Shadow Banking and Economic Development in Developing Countries: Evidence from China
16 Mar 2017	Professor Simba Chang Cambridge University/Nanyang Technological University	Does Financial Innovation Affect Technological Innovation? Evidence from Credit Default Swaps Trading
9 Mar 2017	Professor Jack Cooney Texas Tech University	Investor Demand for Information in Newly Issues Securities
16 Nov 2016	Prof Vidhan Goyal Hong Kong University	Index Membership and Capital Structure: International Evidence
27 Oct 2016	Dr Li Ge Monash University	The Effect of Stock Market Indexing on Option Latent Trading Cost
6 Oct 2016	Dr Pedro Barroso UNSW	Using Out-Of-Sample Errors in Portfolio Optimization
29 Sep 2016	Dr Phong Ngo Australian National University	Access to Finance: The Impact on Compulsory Education
15 Sep 2016	Prof John Wei HKUST	Demand Shock, Speculative Beta, and Asset Prices: Evidence from the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect
1 Sep 2016	Dr Le Zhang University of New South Wales	Protection of Intellectual Property Rights and Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
31 Aug 2016	Dr Angie Low Nanyang Technological University	Rookie Directors
25 Aug 2016	Professor Nadia Massoud, University of Melbourne	Who Benefits from Bank Trading Activity: Shareholders or Employees?
18 Aug 2016	Dr Oleg Chuprinin, UNSW	Bandwagon Effect in Peer-to-Peer Finance: Is Access to Credit a Matter of Luck?
11 Aug 2016	Dr Will Gornall, University of British Columbia	How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?
4 Aug 2016	Dr Adrian Lee, University of Technology Sydney (UTS)	Melting Pot or Salad Bowl: Cultural Difference and Housing Investment Decisions
25 Jul 2016	Prof Joseph Fan, Chinese University of Hong Kong and ANU	Family Ownership Structures and Corporate Policies: The Case of Family Trusts
21 Jul 2016	Prof Chris Veld, Monash University	Household Debt and Stock Market Participation
11 Jul 2016	Associate Professor Roy Kouwenberg, Mahidol University, Erasmus University	"Currency Wars": Who gains from the battle
6 Jul 2016	Associate Professor Paul Hsu, Hong Kong University (pending confirmation)	The Oscar goes to…: Takeovers and Innovation Envy
27 May 2016	Associate Professor Mujtaba Mian Zayed University UAE	Do managers use share prices to mitigate investor short-termism?
26 May 2016	Professor Doug Foster, Sydney University	Options on Options, Tradeoffs, Technology and Algorithms:My How Times Have Changed*
19 May 2016	Dr Stefan Petry, University of Melbourne	Determinants of Secondary Market Prices for Structured Products During the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis
12 May 2016	Professor Peter Bossaerts University of Melbourne	Neural Mechanisms Behind Identification of Leptokurtic Noise and Adaptive Behavioral Response
5 May 2016	Dr Steven Riddiough, University of Melbourne	Currency Premia and Global Imbalances
28 Apr 2016	Dr Kanh Mo Koo National University of Singapore	Consumption response to temporary price shock: Evidence from Singapore’s annual sale event
14 Apr 2016	Dr Jane Luo, University of Adelaide	Short seller’s view on fair employee treatment
8 Apr 2016	Professor Ghon Rhee, University of Hawaii	Does Better Corporate Governance Encourage Higher Payout? Risk, Agency Cost, and Dividend Policy
7 Apr 2016	Associate Professor Xianming Zhou, Australia National University	Newly Listed Firms as Acquisition Targets: The IPO Debutant effect
10 Mar 2016	Dr Shams Pathan, University of Queensland	Investor Horizons and Bank Risk-taking
1 Mar 2016	Dr George Wong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Corporate Environmental Risk and the Customer-Supplier Relationship
22 Oct 2015	Associate Professor Cameron Truong, Department of Banking and Finance, Monash University	Earnings announcement idiosyncratic volatility and the Cross-section of stock returns
16 Oct 2015	Dr Eric Lam, Hong Kong Baptist University	On the positive relation between cash holdings and stock returns
15 Oct 2015	Professor Robert Faff, Business School, Queensland University	The labor-leverage relation: new firm-level evidence and a quasi-natural experiment
8 Oct 2015	Dr Phong Ngo, Australian National University	Local bank access, financial flexibility and corporate liquidity management
1 Oct 2015	Dr Andrea Lu, Department of Finance, University of Melbourne	A market-based funding liquidity measure
24 Sept 2015	Andrew Ainsworth, Business School, University of Sydney	Can dividend schedules predict abnormal returns? International evidence
10 Sept 2015	Dr Ali Akyol, Department of Finance, University of Melbourne	Director skill sets
7 Sept 2015	Jerry Cao, Singapore Management University	Institutional bidding in IPO allocation: evidence from China
3 Sept 2015	Professor Carole Comerton-Forde, Department of Finance, University of Melbourne	Regulating dark trading: order flow segmentation and market quality
27 Aug 2015	Dr Zhuo Zhong, Department of Finance, University of Melbourne	The risk sharing benefit versus the collateral cost: the formation of the Inter-dealer network in over-the-counter trading
20 Aug 2015	Dr Minh Do, Department of Banking and Finance, Monash University	The dividend month premium uncovered
13 Aug 2015	Dr Frank Liu, University of Western Australia	Model-free risk-neutral moments and proxies
12 Aug 2015	Associate Professor Michael Chng, Department of Finance, Deakin Business School	Arbitrage activity and price discovery across spot, futures and ETF markets.
30 Jul 2015	Dr Le Zhang, University of New South Wales	Who captures the power of the pen?
23 Jul 2015	Dr Tze (Chewie) Ang, Deakin University	DRIP arbitrage and externalities
16 Jul 2015	Dr A.S.M. Sohel Azad, Deakin University	Why interest free Islamic banking is not free from interest?
11 Jun 2015	Professor Ed Lin, Deakin University	Portfolio risk and investment horizon of institutional investors
4 Jun 2015	Professor Garry Twite, Department of Finance, University of Melbourne	Ownership structure and the public/private equity choice
21 May 2015	Professor Takeshi Yamada, Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies & Applied Statistics, Australia National University	Employee inside debt and firm risk-taking: evidence from employee deposit programs in Japan
7 May 2015	Debarshi Sanyal	Dynamics of household leverage in Australia: is macro-prudential regulation missing a key point?
16 Apr 2015	Dr Edward Podolski, Department of Economics and Finance La Trobe Business School	Free cash flow and the unproductive inventor
2 Apr 2015	Van Vu (student), Department of Banking and Finance, Monash University	How do firms cope with bank credit contraction? Evidence of the substitution between financial markets
26 Mar 2015	Professor Rhon Rhee, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii	Stock liquidity, managerial short-termism, and corporate earnings management
19 Mar 2015	Professor Gary Tian, University of Wollongong	How do political connections affect M&A decisions and post-M&A performance? A comparison between SOEs and non-SOEs
12 Mar 2015	Richard Zhang (Deakin student)	The impact of investor sentiment on financial market: from the perspective of both market and firm.
26 Feb 2015	Professor Wei (Victor) Huang, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii	Residual correlation, active management, and fund performance
19 Feb 2015	Professor Patrick Verwijmeren, Department of Business Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam	Security design from a buyer's perspective