Finance : Faculty of Economics and Commerce : The University of Melbourne

News and events

Publication Alerts
12-Nov - Congratulations to Associate Professor Christine Brown and Professor Kevin Davis, who have had a chapter entitled "Australia's Experience in the Global Financial Crisis" accepted for publication in Lessons from the Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Our Economic Future, ed. Robert Kolb, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Publication Alerts
28-Oct - Congratulations to Les Coleman whose new book: Risk Strategies -- Dialling Up Optimum Firm Risk has just been published by Gower Publishing.

Publication Alerts
26-Oct - Congratulations to Patrick Verwijmeren whose paper "Agglomeration Effects and Financial Performance" (co-authored with Maarten Jennen) was accepted for publication in Urban Studies.

Publication Alerts
12-Oct - Congratulations to Patrick Verwijmeren whose paper “Employee well-being, firm leverage, and bankruptcy risk” (co-authored with Jeroen Derwall) was accepted for publication in the Journal of Banking and Finance.

General Info
01-Oct - Congratulations to Greg Schwann who was invited to join the Editorial Board of Real Estate Economics, journal of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA).

Media Alerts
09-Nov -
Dr Sean Pinder was interviewed by Bloomberg for comment on capital management by Australian firms: http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=2601087&sid=aUdf.Nxw23dM&pos=1

Media Alerts
06-Oct - Les Coleman made the news this morning, with his Opinion Piece ”Investors need more data on business risk” appearing the Australian Financial Review.

Media Alerts
21-Jan - Les Coleman appeared in The Australian Business pages on the Wednesday 21st January with an article on bank margins: Banks salt away money to cover losses

27 Nov - Trust and Delegation
Stephen J. Brown
NYU Stern School of Business
11am to 12.30pm Prest Theatre
24 Nov - TBA
Mitchell Warachka
Sinagpore Management University
11am, Wood Theatre
13 Nov - Cash Flows, Equity Valuation, and Corporate Policies
George LB Wong
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
11am, Venue Economics & Commerce Theatre 1
30 Oct - Information Content of Public Firm Disclosures and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Jacob Sagi
Vanderbilt University
11am - 12.30pm Wood Theatre
23 Oct - Optimal Portfolio Choice and Inference when Asset Returns are Self-Exciting
Yacine Ait-Sahalia
Princeton University
11am - 12.30pm Wood Theatre