Faculty of Economics and Commerce Department of Finance

Seminars & Conferences

2008 Semester Two - Weekly Research Seminars

The Department of Finance holds Research Seminars during semester. Please take note of the Date, Time and Venue for each seminar as they vary this semester.


Derivatives Down Under - Fourth Annual MDRG Conference
Wednesday 19 March 2008 at the University of Melbourne

Derivatives Down Under 2008 is an all-day event held at the Melbourne Business School. A full program includes a choice of three afternoon streams: Pricing Credit Risk, Co-movement of the Derivatives and the Spot and Computational Finance
Places are strictly limited, with preference given to MDGRG members.

Go to the DDU webpage for programme and speaker information


Correlations and Copulas - Risk Management Conference
Friday 21 September 2007 at the University of Melbourne

A successful one-day conference was co-hosted by Professor Paul Kofman (The University of Melbourne) and Professor Ross Maller (Australian National University)

Go to the Conference webpage for programme and speaker information


NYU Downunder Conference
Friday 29 March 2007 at the University of Melbourne

The Department of Finance's Melbourne Derivatives Research Group (MDRG) hosted the NYU Down Under Derivatives Conference on the 29th of March (co-sponsored by the Financial Integrity Research Network (FIRN).

The conference keynote speaker was Professor Rob Engle (Nobel Prize for Economics, 2003) of New York University.  Three of the department's visiting Professorial Fellows, Richard Stapleton (University of Manchester), Marti Subrahmanyam (New York University) and Menachem Brenner (New York University) were amongst the six speakers. The conference was well received and well attended, the audience including a substantial number of alumni, research students and academics from Monash and RMIT.

Download the brochure promoting the seminar


Contacts

If you require additional information or would like a copy of a seminar paper please contact:

Seminar Administrator
Robin Carey
(03) 8344 9755
r.carey@unimelb.edu.au

Visitors attending a seminar can contact Robin two business days before the seminar to arrange parking.

Seminar Convenor
Professor Bruce Grundy -
(03) 8344 6912
bruceg @unimelb.edu.au

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