NEWS & EVENTS
OUR EVENTS & CONFERENCES
The Department of Applied Finance holds a number of specialized events/conferences/workshops throughout the year bringing together academics, practitioners, alumni, students and interested members of the community.
These events attract some of the top researchers and industry practitioners from around the world to explore and discuss about various issues on the future of this profession.
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
| NAME | DATE | VENUE | DETAILS |
|---|---|---|---|
Target Zero: Zero Carbon, Zero Pollution, Zero Waste | Thursday 6th December - Friday 7th December, 2018 | Macquarie University City Campus, Angel Place Level 24/123 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2007 | Please Click Here |
| Financial Markets & Corporate Governance Conference - FMCG 2019 | Tuesday 16th April - Thursday 18th April, 2019 | Macquarie University City Campus, Angel Place Level 24/123 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2007 | Please Click Here |
RECENT EVENTS
| NAME | DATE & TIME | VENUE | DETAILS |
|---|---|---|---|
Climate Risk and Temperature Volatility: Implications for Financial Markets Presenters: Professor Martina Linnenluecke & Professor Ostap Okhrin Hosted By: | Thursday 18th October, 2018 Time: 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm | Macquarie University City Campus, Angel Place Level 24/123 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2007 | Please Click Here |
OUR SEMINARS
The Department of Applied Finance holds a number of specialized seminars for staff, students, alumni and other interested members of the community. These seminars attract some of the top researchers in Applied Finance both within Australia and internationally.
Our seminar is held every Friday from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm in Building 4ER, Finance Decision Lab Room 110.
Any changes to the Date, Venue & Time will be updated.
Kindly note all seminars precede with Reception & Morning Tea at 10:30 am.
Please contact Sri Modali via email on: sri.modali@mq.edu.au for any further details.
The 2018 seminar series has been completed.
SEMINAR SERIES 2018
RECENT
| DATE & TIME | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| Friday 16th November, 2018 Seminar Room 623 | Associate Professor Buhui Qiu The University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney | Inter-industry Labor Mobility and Corporate Performance Disclosures |
| Friday 9th November, 2018 | Professor Antje Berndt Australian National University | How Does Low for Long Impact Credit Risk Premia? |
| Friday 2nd November, 2018 | Professor Sue Wright University of Newcastle | The Effect of Sanctions on Continuous Disclosure under the Responsive Enforcement Strategy: Evidence from Australia |
| Friday 26th October, 2018 | Dr Xiaolu Hu RMIT | Shopping the rating: Evidence from Chinese Corporate bond market |
| Friday 19th October, 2018 | Dr Stanley Choi & Mr Wentao Ma Australian National University | CEO's Political Connections and the Detection of Corporate Frauds |
| Tuesday 9th October, 2018 Seminar Room 623 | Professor Ran Duchin University of Washington | Dissecting Conglomerates |
| Friday 5th October, 2018 | Dr Ostap Okhrin Technische Universitat Dresden | Flexible HAR Model for Realized Volatility |
| Friday 28th September, 2018 | Mr Andreas Schrimpf Banks for International Settlements (BIS) | Non-Monetary News in Central Bank Communication |
| Friday 14th September, 2018 | Dr Sean Wu Queensland University of Technology | Government Spending Shocks and Firm Innovation |
| Thursday 13th September,2018 Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm | Dr Lawrence Jin The California Institute of Technology | Efficient Coding and Risky Choice |
| Friday 7th September, 2018 | Petra Andrlikova The University of Sydney | Asymmetric Dependence of Returns, Habits and Heterogeneous Cash-flow Risk |
| Friday 31st August, 2018 | Dr Ruchith Dissanayake The Queensland University of Technology | Income Tax Shocks, Political Cycles and Asset Prices |
| Friday 24th August, 2018 Seminar Room 623 | Dr Ehud Ronn University of Texas Austin | Using Equity, Index and Commodity Options to Obtain Forward - Looking Betas and Conditional-CAPM Expected Crude-POL Spot Prices |
| Friday 17th August, 2018 Seminar Room 623 | Professor Takeshi Yamada Australian National University | The Impact of the BOJ Large-scale Purchases of ETFs: Reduction of Floating Shares and Market Quality |
| Friday 10th August, 2018 | Professor Xiangkang Yin Deakin University | Are Authorized Participants of Exchange Traded Funds Informed Traders? |
| Friday 3rd August, 2018 | Associate Professor Philip Gharighori Monash University | Internet search intensity and its relation with trading activity and stock returns |
| Friday 8th June, 2018 Seminar Room 623 | Dr Zhangxin (Frank) Liu The University of Western Australia | Cross-Listings and Dividend Size and Stability: Evidence from China |
| Friday 1st June, 2018 | Dr Juan Sotes-Paladino The University of Melbourne | Riding the Bubble with Convex Incentives |
| Friday 25th May, 2018 | Dr Vitali Alexeev University of Technology Sydney | Corruption-conscious international investment strategies |
| Friday 18th May, 2018 | Yang Hao & Henry Leung The University of Sydney | Partial Moment Momentum |
| Friday 11th May, 2018 | Dr Kai Li University of Technology Sydney | Extrapolative Asset Pricing |
| Friday 4th May, 2018 | Dr Le Zhang University of New South Wales | Monitoring the Monitor: Distracted Institutional Investors and Board Governance |
| Friday 13th April, 2018 Seminar Room 723 | Dr Chunhua Lan University of New South Wales | Cashflow timing vs discount-rate timing: An examination of mutual fund market-timing skills |
| Friday 6th April, 2018 | David Bell University of New South Wales | Value, Momentum and Multi-Period Portfolio Construction |
| Thursday 29th March, 2018 Seminar Room 523 | Associate Professor Lei Gao Iowa State University | Standing out from the crowd via corporate social responsibility: Evidence from non-fundamental-driven price pressure |
| Friday 23rd March, 2018 | Professor Bohui Zhang Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen | Panda Games: Corporate Disclosure in the Eclipse of Search |
| Friday 9th March, 2018 | Dr Alexander Vadilyev Australian National University | How Sensitive Is Savings-Cash Flow Sensitivity to Financial Development and Uncertainty Shocks? |
| Friday 2nd March, 2018 | Professor Marcel Prokopzcuk University of Hannover | High-Frequency Betas and the Conditional CAPM |
| Monday 12th February, 2018 Seminar Room 623 | Professor Nicole Darnall Arizona State University | Ecolabel Credibility and Sustainable Purchasing |