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Presentation from Academic Advice Day (January, 2010) for newly enrolling students - PDF
Subject (Finance 1) Orientation Session Slides - PDF
Finance at Melbourne
The Department of Finance is one of the leading finance departments in Australia, offering world-class academic and professional programs at the Bachelor, Honours, Masters and PhD levels.
We pursue excellence in research and teaching; and foster strong links with other universities, industry bodies and professional associations.
From Professor Paul Kofman, Head of Department:
"In Finance, students and scholars work together to address important financial issues that face us today and in the future; and we are committed to supporting and working with Melbourne's finance industry and the wider community."
News
Casual Tutor applications for Semester 1, 2010 have closed.
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Publication Alerts
27-Jan - Congratulations to Howard Chan whose paper "Tangibility and Investment Irreversibility in Asset Pricing" (co-authored with Paul Doherty and Steve Easton) was accepted for publication in Accounting and Finance.
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Publication Alerts
27-Jan - Congratulations to J. Spencer Martin whose paper "Time-Varying Short-Horizon Predictability" (co-authored with Sam Henkel and Federico Nardari) was accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics.
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General Info
23-Dec - We are pleased to announced that Professor J Spencer Martin, formerly of Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, has joined us as a full professor of finance.
Professor Martin holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and has previously held positions at the Wharton School, Ohio State University and Arizona State University.
He has published in leading academic journals in the area of finance, including the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Banking and Finance, which are generally recognised as the top journals in the discipline. His papers have been cited many times and appear on the reading lists of PhD programs at many of the world's leading business schools. Professor Martin's papers on the determinants of credit spreads, debt defaults and hedge fund trading have been presented at the prestigious AFA, WFA and EFA finance conferences. Professor Martin has won numerous teaching awards and is particularly commended for his research-led teaching philosophy. His current research includes hedge funds' use of derivatives, corporate governance issues and insider trading.
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