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 & EVENTS
| NAME | DATE | VENUE | DETAILS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 & CONFERENCES
| 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 |
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 |
| Join Us For A Movie Screening At Macquarie University Hosted by Macquarie University’s Centre for Corporate Sustainability & Environmental Finance! | Thursday 14th Mar 2019 5:00pm - 7:00pm | 12 WW 801 & 803, 12 Wally's Walk, Macquarie Park, NSW 2113 | 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 2019 seminar series will be commencing on Friday 1st March, 2019.
Upcoming seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 1st May, 2019 | Dr Sahil Raina from University of Alberta | TBC |
| Friday 3rd May, 2019 | Dr Le Zhang from ANU | Political Connections and Peers |
SEMINAR SERIES 2019
Upcoming seminars
| Date & Time | Name | Paper titles |
|---|---|---|
| 1st May, 2019 | Dr Sahil Raina from University of Alberta | TBA |
| 3rd May, 2019 | Dr Le Zhang from ANU | TBA |
| 17th May, 2019 | Dr Zhuo (Joe) Zhang from University of Melbourne | TBA |
| 31st May, 2019 | Professor Tony He from UTS | TBA |
Recent seminars
| Date & Time | Name | Paper titles |
|---|---|---|
| 25th February, 2019 | Charles M. Kahn, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Finance from the University of Illinois | Eggs in One Basket: Choosing the Number of Accounts |
| 1st March, 2019 | Nihad Aliyev from UTS | Learning about toxicity: Why order imbalance can destabilize markets |
| 6th March, 2019 | Assistant Professor Adonis Antoniades from National University of Singapore (Finance Decision Lab) | The Credit Concentration Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission |
| 8th March, 2019 | Jing Xu from UTS | The Gender Gap in Executive Promotions |
| 14th March, 2019 | Emeritus Professor Rajendra Srivastava from The University of Kansas | Text Mining for Financial and Non-Financial Information from SEC Filings, and Textual Analysis for Predictive Models and Risk Assessment |
| 15th March, 2019 | Associate Professor Benjamin Loos from UTS | Robo-advisers and Investor Behavior |
| 20th March, 2019 | Assistant Professor Lei Gao from Iowa State University | Count on your Subordinates for Innovation Efficiency |
| 22nd March, 2019 | Professor Ron Bird from Portfolio Construction Forum | Do Emotions Expressed in the Social and News Media Impact on Investor Behaviour? |
| 27th March, 2019 | Dr Wei Hu from Curtin University | Option implied jump risk and jump risk premium: An analysis based on dynamic arbitrage-free implied volatility surface models |
| 29th March, 2019 | March, 2019 Dr Abhinav Goyal from University of Liverpool & Monash University | Investment and Deleveraging Financed by Dividends: Evidence from Japanese Business Groups |
| 3rd April, 2019 | Professor Rene Bohnsack from Católica-Lisbon School of Business & Economics | Internationalization and business model innovation during the energy transition: An exploration of firms along the European electricity value chain |
| 5th April, 2019 | Dr Sigitas Karpavicius from University of Adelaide | Does mimicking peers enhance firm value? |
| 12th April, 2019 | Associate Professor Yaw-Huei Wang (Jeffrey) from UNSW | Implied Volatility Spreads and Future Options Returns around Information Events and Conditions |