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November
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Publication Alerts
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.
October
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General Info
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).
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Les Coleman whose new book: Risk Strategies -- Dialling Up Optimum Firm Risk has just been published by Gower Publishing.
Congratulations to Patrick Verwijmeren whose paper "Agglomeration Effects and Financial Performance" (co-authored with Maarten Jennen) was accepted for publication in Urban Studies.
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.
September
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Events
Sixth Annual Finance Down Under Conference - 25 March 2010
Call for Papers
Registration
Organized by:
The Melbourne Derivatives Research Group
Department of Finance
The University of Melbourne
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Jonathan Dark, whose paper "Estimation of Time Varying Skewness and Kurtosis with an Application to Value at Risk" has been accepted for publication in Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics.
Congratulations to Chander Shekhar, whose paper Payout Initiation by IPO Firms: The Choice Between Dividends and Share Repurchases" (co-authored with Bharat Jain and Violet Torbey) has been accepted for publication in The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance.
August
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Knowledge Transfer Alert
Sean Pinder was interviewed on Gen Y’s investment philosophy by a Fairfax journalist leading to quotations in the Fairfax stable of papers on 18th August:
http://www.businessday.com.au/business/meltdown-y-the-markets-no-fun-anymore-20090818-eoan.html
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Patrick Verwijmeren whose paper “To have a target debt ratio or not: What difference does it make?” was accepted for publication in Applied Financial Economics.
Congratulations to Jon Dark whose paper “How do patients aged 85 and older fare with abdominal surgery?” (co-authored with Naseem Mirbagheri and T. Watters) was accepted for publication in The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Congratulations to Les Coleman and Sean Pinder whose paper: What were they thinking? Reports from interviews with senior finance executives in the year preceding the GFC has been accepted for publication in Applied Financial Economics.
July
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Knowledge Transfer Alert
Harry Scheule appeared last night on ABC's 7.30 Report: "Legal action hopes to rescue councils from toxic debt"
Transcript on http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2009/s2618440.htm
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Teaching/Learning Award Alert
Congratulations to Sean Pinder for receiving the 2009 Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning awarded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. Sean’s citation is: for the development and implementation of numerous effective innovations in teaching finance and the successful engagement with practitioners in these innovations.
June
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Chander Shekhar whose paper "Compulsory or Voluntary Pre-merger Notification? Theory and Some Evidence" (co-authored with Chongwoo Choe) has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Industrial Organization.
May
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General Info
University of Melbourne becomes a CFA Program Partner
- Media Release announcing the CFA partnership
- Information session invitation to BCom(Finance major) and MFin students
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Jonathan Dark whose paper "Wavelet Estimation of Asymmetric Hedge Ratios: Does Econometric Sophistication Boost Hedging Effectiveness?" (co-authored with Imad Moosa, Elizabeth A. Maharaj, and Param Silvapulle) was accepted for publication in the International Journal of Business and Economics.
Congratulations to Howard Chan whose paper “The effects of forecast specificity on the asymmetric short-window share market response to management earnings forecasts” (co-authored with Rob Faff, Yew Kee Ho and Alan Ramsay)
was accepted for publication by the Accounting Research Journal.
April
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Events
Fifth Melbourne Derivatives Research Group Conference - 7 April 2009
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Organized by:
The Melbourne Derivatives Research Group
Department of Finance
The University of Melbourne
March
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Howard Chan whose paper “Default Risk and the Cross-Section of Equity Returns” (co-authored with Philip Gharghori and Robert Faff) was accepted for publication in the Pacific Basin Finance Journal!
February
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Christine Brown, whose paper “Keiretsu Affiliation and Stock Market Driven Acquisitions” (co-authored with Carlson Fung) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Research.
Congratulations to Kevin Daviswhose paper “Infrastructure Trust Financial Management” has been accepted for publication in JASSA
Congratulations to Kevin Davis whose paper “Protecting Employee Entitlements: An Assessment of the Maximum Priority Proposal” (co-authored with Jeannette Anderson) has been accepted for publication in the Australian Journal of Management.
January
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Howard Chan and Rob Brown (with their colleague from NUS, Yew Kee Ho) whose paper "Analysts’ Recommendations: From Which Signal Does the Market Take Its Lead?" has been accepted for publication in the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting.
2008
December
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Andre Gygax, Kim Sawyer and Matthew Hazledine whose paper “Pricing Errors and Estimates of Risk Premia in Factor Models” has been accepted for publication in the Annals of Finance.
Congratulations to Patrick Verwijmeren whose paper “Testing the Pecking Order Theory: The impact of financing surpluses and large financing deficits” (co-authored with Abe de Jong) has been accepted for publication in Financial Management.
Congratulations to Howard Chan whose paper “Fund size, transaction costs and performance: Size matters!” (co-authored with Rob Faff, David Gallagher and Adrian Looi) was accepted for publication in the Australian Journal of Management
Congratulations to Xin Chang whose paper “The Effect of Auditor Choice on Financing Decisions” (co-authored with Sudipto Dasgupta and Gilles Hilary) has been accepted for publication in The Accounting Review.
November
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PhD Completions
Congratulations to Mahmoud Agha (and his supervisors, Paul Kofman and Bruce Grundy) upon the successful completion of his PhD thesis, entitled Investment, Dividends, Firm Performance and Managerial Incentives: Another Insight into the Value of Corporate Governance.
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Liang Zhang whose paper “Return Reversals, Idiosyncratic Risk, and Expected Returns" (co-authored with Wei Huang, Qianqiu Liu and Ghon Rhee) has been accepted for publication in The Review of Financial Studies.
Congratulations to Howard Chan with two forthcoming publications!
"Trading Volume and Information Asymmetry: Routine Versus Non-Routine Earnings Announcements in Australia" (coauthored with Rob Faff and Tus Mahipala) will appear in Applied Financial Economics while "The relationship between director independence, reputation and management earnings forecasts” (with Rob Faff, Paul Mather and Alan Ramsay) will appear in Corporate Ownership & Control.
October
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PhD Completions
Congratulations to Michael Hui Li (and his supervisors, Bruce Grundy and Simba Chang) upon the completion and final submission of his PhD thesis, entitled Investor Sentiment, Institutional Ownership, Executive Compensation, and Corporate Investment.
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Michael Chng whose paper “Economic linkages across commodity futures: Hedging and trading implications” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Banking and Finance.
Congratulations to Christine Brown and Kevin Davis whose paper “Capital Management in Mutual Financial Institutions” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Banking and Finance
July
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PhD Completions
Brett Shanahan (and his supervisors Professor Paul Kofman, Dr John Handley and Dr Roberto Raimondo) for successfully completing all requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy with his thesis Multi Dimensional Stochastic Volatility and its Application to Option Pricing.
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Publication Awards
At the AFAANZ conference dinner – the winner of the Peter Brownell Award for best publication in Accounting and Finance for 2007 was announced:
Chang X, Tan TJ, Wong G & Zhang HF. 2007. Effects of financial constraints on corporate policies in Australia. Accounting and Finance. 47 (1): 85-108
Congratulations to Dr Sean Pinder (co-authored with Dean Hanlon) "Capital Gains Tax, Supply-Driven Trading, and Ownership Structure: Direct Evidence of the Lock-in Effect" received a Best Paper award at the AFAANZ conference.
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Successful Grants
Dr Carsten Murawski who was awarded an MCFS grant for his project: Financial innovation, bank default risk and banking system stability.
Dr Harry Scheule who was awarded an MCFS grant for his project: The relation between asset volatility, credit quality and recovery.
Dr Callum Scott, A/Prof Greg Schwann, Prof Rob Brown and Dr Rayna Brown who were awarded an MCFS grant for their project: The impact of tax provisions on the probability of investment in residential real estate by private investors.
June
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Knowledge Transfer Alert
From July, Dr Les Coleman has been appointed to the Board of Australian Ethical Investment Ltd (a funds manager specializing in ethical funds management).
May
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Dr Harry Scheule whose paper “Rating Impact on CDO Evaluation” (co-authored with Daniel Roesch) was accepted for publication in the Global Finance Journal. The research project was partially funded by the Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies.
Congratulations also to Professor Bruce Grundy whose paper “Combining Skill and Capital: Alternative Mechanisms for Achieving an Optimal Fund Size” was accepted for publication in the Pacific Basin Finance Journal.
April
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Deans Awards
Congratulations to Jessica Curtis for winning the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Tutoring for 2007. Jessica Curtis has tutored a large number of classes in the first year subject – Finance 1- and the third year subject - Corporate Finance. As indicated by her excellent QoT scores in both subjects, Jessica actively engages her students by encouraging questioning, proposing alternative solutions and suggesting examples and applications in the real world. Jessica has been instrumental in the successful implementation of FinanceNow! – a real time news source provided to students that has been directly linked to improved student learning outcomes.
Congratulations also to Les Coleman and Sean Pinder for winning the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching – Open Award for 2007. Given relatively limited financial resources, Dr Coleman and Dr Pinder have engaged their students in an area that is often viewed as technically challenging and have rigorously evaluated and published their work in a scholarly manner. They have developed a student learning tool FinanceNow! that has engaged students in application of theory in practice in first and third year finance subjects. The model is transferable to other subjects in the Faculty.
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PhD Completions
Congratulations to Tariq Haque who has completed his PhD. His thesis titled “Leader Stocks, Follower Stocks and Switching Effects in the Australian Market” received very positive reviews from the examiners.
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Dr Xin (Simba) Chang whose paper (co-authored with Sudipto Dasgupta) "Target Behavior and Financing: How Conclusive is the Evidence?" was just accepted for publication in the Journal of Finance. The research project was partially funded by the Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies.
March
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PhD Completions
Congratulations to Hong Feng Zhang (and his supervisors Rob Brown, Greg Schwann, and Xin Chang) for successfully completing all requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy with his thesis Shareholder Rights, Firm Performance and Information Flow.
Congratulations also to Kim Loong Choo (and his supervisors Kim Sawyer and Greg Schwann) for successfully completing all requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy with his thesis Information, Day Trading and Market Behavior.
February
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Assoc. Professor Christine Brown and Professor Kevin Davis whose paper “Distortions in the Tax Treatment of Rights Issues” has been accepted for publication in JASSA
January
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Professor Kevin Davis for his publication “Increasing Household Financial Risk – An Increasing Social Risk” in Dialogue, the quarterly publication of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
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Publication Awards
Congratulations to Dr Les Coleman, who was awarded one of three runner-up merit prizes in the JASSA Prize competition for best original article submitted for publication in JASSA.
2007
December
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Professor Kevin Davis whose paper “Financial Sector Reform: Longer-run Policy Responses to the Asian Crisis” has been selected for publication in a volume of the Series: Advancing East Asian Integration, published by Routledge in collaboration with the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research.
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Tutor Awards
It is with great pleasure that the Department of Finance announces its annual Outstanding Tutor Awards. The two awards recognize the significant contribution of our tutors to the overall teaching performance of the department and are awarded annually by semester to the tutor with the highest score in the Department of Finance Quality of Teaching questionnaire. The 2007 Outstanding Tutor Awards are awarded to Ms Jessica Curtis and Ms Elaine Oon.
Congratulations to both and a BIG THANK YOU to all our tutors for another great year!
November
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Sean Pinder whose paper (co-authored with Steve Easton) “A Refutation of the Existence of the Other January Effect.” was accepted for publication in the International Review of Finance
Congratulations to Harry Scheule (and his co-author Daniel Roesch) whose paper ‘Multi-Year Dynamics for Forecasting Economic and Regulatory Capital in Banking’ has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Credit Risk.
October
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Patrick Verwijmeren whose paper "Agglomeration Effects and Financial Performance" (co-authored with Maarten Jennen) was accepted for publication in Urban Studies.
Congratulations to Simba Chang, André Gygax, Elaine Oon, and John Zhang whose paper “Audit Quality, Auditor Compensation and IPO Underpricing” was accepted for publication in Accounting and Finance.
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Successful Grants
Congratulations to Michael Chng, Chander Shekhar and Harry Scheule for being awarded MCFS research grants.
September
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Successful Grants
Congratulations to Department of Finance staff who have secured two ARC Discovery Grants. Lead investigator Associate Professor Christine Brown received a grant for the project: Share buybacks and information asymmetry: winners and losers. Lead investigator Professor Paul Kofman received a grant for the project: Three decades of financial distress and corporate restructuring in Australia.
August
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Promotion Alerts
The Department of Finance is pleased to congratulate Dr Rayna Brown and Dr Les Coleman with their well deserved promotions to Senior Lecturer.
July
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Awards Alert
Congratulations to Sean Pinder who was awarded the Pearson Education Accounting/Finance Lecturer of the Year Award, endorsed by AFAANZ and judged by the Education Directors of CPA Australia, the ICAA and the NZICA. The announcement was made at the recent AFAANZ meetings in Brisbane.
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PhD Completions
Congratulations to Iain Maclachlan (and his supervisors Christine Brown and Kevin Davis) for being awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy without further examination or amendment. In the words of one of the examiners, Iain's thesis, An empirical study of corporate bond pricing with unobserved capital structure dynamics "...is the first study to demonstrate that the implicit estimation of firm solvency and model parameters improves the predictive accuracy of credit risk structural models."
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Chander Shekhar whose paper (co-authored with Geof Stapledon) "Governance Structures of Initial Public Offerings in Australia" has been accepted for publication in Corporate Governance: An International Review.
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Successful Grants
Congratulations to Simba Chang who was awarded a Hong Kong RGC research grant (of HK $524,000) for his project Financing and market activity.
June
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Les Coleman for his forthcoming publication in the Monash Business Review: the cover story "A lot of hot air?".
Congratulations to Jessica Curtis and Sean Pinder whose paper "Why Break Fee Restrictions May Harm Target Company Shareholders" has been accepted for publication in AGENDA.
May
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Howard Chan whose paper with Rob Faff and Philip Gharghori entitled "Are the Fama-French Factors Proxying Default Risk?" was accepted for publication in the Australian Journal of Management.
Congratulations to Harry Scheule whose paper Stress-Testing Credit Risk Parameters – An Application to Retail Loan Portfolios (co-authored with Daniel Roesch) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Risk Model Validation. The research is funded by the Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies.
Congratulations to Asjeet Lamba whose paper The valuation effects of prime rate revisions: Is there an advantage of being first? (co-authored with Mohamed Ariff) has been accepted for publication in the International Review of Finance.
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Successful Grants
Congratulations to Les Coleman and Sean Pinder who were awarded a 2007/2008 AFAANZ Research Grant for their project “Managerial Perspectives on Corporate Finance Decisions.”
April
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Rayna Brown, Greg Schwann and Callum Scott whose article Personal Residential Real Estate Investment in Australia: Investor Characteristics and Investment Parameters has been accepted for publication in Real Estate Economics.
Congratulations to John Handley, whose paper A Measure of the Efficacy of the Australian Imputation Tax System (co-authored with Krishnan Maheswaran) has been accepted for publication in The Economic Record.
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Publication Awards
Congratulations to Harry Scheule (and his co-author Daniel Roesch) whose paper Credit Rating Impact on CDO Evaluation won Best Paper Award at the Global Finance Conference.
March
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Deans Awards
Professor Rob Brown was awarded the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching (Open Award) at the 2007 Faculty of Economics and Commerce Dean's Awards Ceremony held on Tuesday 27 March.
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to John Handley whose paper A Re-Examination of the Historical Equity Risk Premium in Australia (co-authored with Tim Brailsford and Krishnan Maheswaran) has been accepted for publication in Accounting and Finance.
Congratulations to Les Coleman who has three papers forthcoming this year:
Measurement of insider trading in wagering markets in Applied Financial Economics;
Risk and decision making by finance executives: a survey study in the International Journal of Managerial Finance; and
Just how serious is insider trading? An evaluation using thoroughbred wagering markets in The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics.
Congratulations to Howard Chan whose paper Management earnings forecasts in a continuous disclosure environment (co-authored with Rob Faff, Yew Kee Ho and Alan Ramsay) was accepted for publication in Pacific Accounting Review.
Congratulations to Christine Brown, whose paper The Announcement Effects of Off-Market Share Repurchases in Australia was accepted for publication by the Australian Journal of Management.
Congratulations to Christine Brown and her co-author Ana Belén Alonso Conde, whose paper Public Private Partnerships: Incentives, Risk Transfer and Real Options was accepted for publication in the Review of Financial Economics.
February
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Awards Alert
Congratulations to our Honours alumni, Sabriyah Denham, Eugene Fung and Amy Zhu, who were awarded a Kinsman Studentship.
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to John Handley whose paper Dividend Policy: Reconciling DD with MM has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics.
January
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Howard Chan, whose paper "Asymmetric Market Reactions of Growth and Value Firms with Management Earnings Forecasts"
co-authored with Robert Faff, Yew Kee Ho and Alan Ramsay has been accepted for publication in the International Review of Finance.
Congratulations to Chander Shekhar, with two publications forthcoming: "Shell Companies as IPO Alternatives: An Analysis of Trading Activity around Reverse Mergers" (with Murat Aydogdu and Violet Torbey) - in Applied Financial Economics, and "Product Modularity and the Product Lifecycle" (with Peter Cebon and Oscar Hauptman) - in International Journal of Technology Management).
Congratulations to Professor Kevin Davis whose paper "Australian Credit Unions and the Demutualization Agenda" was accepted for publication in the Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics.
Congratulations to Professor Paul Kofman, whose paper (co-authored with Rachel Campbell, Catherine Forbes and Kees Koedijk) "Increasing Correlations or Just Fat Tails?" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Empirical Finance.
Congratulations to Associate Professor Kim Sawyer, whose paper "The Necessary Illegitimacy of the Whistleblower" has been accepted for publication in the Business & Professional Ethics Journal.
Congratulations to Dr Rayna Brown. Her paper "The effect of CEO overconfidence on corporate acquisition: Australian evidence." (co-authored with Neal Sarma) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Economics and Business.
2006
November
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Associate Professor Howard Chan, for his paper with Rob Faff, Phil Gharghori and Yew Kee Ho - "The Relation between R&D Expenditure and Future Market Returns - Does Expensing versus Capitalization Matter?" accepted for publication in the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (RQFA).
Congratulations to Dr Callum Scott for his publication Measuring Contagion in the South-East Asian Economic Crisis: An Exploration using Artificial Neural Networks in the Accounting Research Journal.
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Tutor Awards
It is with great pleasure that the Department of Finance announces its inaugural Outstanding Tutor Awards.
The two awards recognize the significant contribution of our tutors to the overall teaching performance of the department, and are awarded annually by semester to the tutor with the highest score in the Department of Finance quality of teaching questionnaire.
The 2006 Outstanding Tutor Awards are awarded to Mr Neil Ziniu Luo and Mr Wai Man Maurice Ng.
Congratulations to both and a BIG THANK YOU to all our tutors for another great year!
October
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to André Gygax , whose paper (co-authored with Anna Griffiths) " Do Venture Capitalists Imitate Portfolio Size?" has been accepted for publication in Financial Markets and Portfolio Management.
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Successful Grants
Congratulations to A/Prof Greg Schwann, Prof GC Lim and Dr Q Zeng whose project," Consumption, Financial Wealth and Housing Wealth over the Long Run", has been approved for funding of $194,000 over 3 years starting in 2007. Project Summary: The research gives economic policymakers a better understanding of the linkages between housing and financial market fluctuations and economic stability in Australia.
Congratulations to Prof Bruce Grundy and Prof RA Heanney, whose project "Storage and the Hotelling Valuation Principle: Understanding the Dynamics of the Oil Industry" has been approved for funding of $345,000 over 3 years starting in 2007. Project Summary: Understanding the economics of the oil market is important for understanding the shift toward smaller, more fuel-efficient motor vehicles and less fuel-intensive farming techniques.
September
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Ian O'Connor whose paper (co-authored with Michael Johnson and Bill Malcolm), " The Role of Agribusiness Assets in Investment Portfolios",
was published in the Australian Agribusiness Review, Vol 14, 2006.
August
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Awards Alert
Congratulations to Rob Brown and Sean Pinder, who were awarded the Australian Publisher's Award for excellence in tertiary publishing for their Business Finance text book (co-authored with Graham Peirson, Peter Howard and Steve Easton).
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Dr Harald Scheule. His paper 'Forecasting Credit Event Frequency - Empirical Evidence for West German Firms' has been accepted by the Journal of Risk. It is written in collaboration with Deutsche Bundesbank and looks at the implications of systematic risks on credit risk forecasts.
Congratulations to Sean Pinder and Steve Easton, whose paper "Predicting Reserve Bank of Australia Interest Rate Announcements using the 30-Day Interbank Cash Rate Futures Contract: Beware of the Target Rate Tracker" was accepted for publication in the Australian Economic Review.
Congratulation to Christine Brown and Katrina Efthim whose paper "The Effect of Taxation on Equal Access Buybacks in Australia" has just been published in the International Review of Finance.
Congratulations to Christine Brown and Kevin Davis, whose paper " Shareholders or Unsecured Creditors? Credit Markets and the Sons of Gwalia Judgement" has been accepted for publication in Agenda, A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform.
Congratulations to Rob Brown, Howard Chan and Yew Kee Ho (NUS) whose paper "Initiating coverage, broker reputation and management earnings forecasts in Australia" has been accepted for publication in Accounting and Finance.
Congratulations to Howard Chan and his co-authors for their publication: ' Factors or Characteristics? That is the Question' in the Pacific Accounting Review.
July
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Successful Grants
Congratulations to Christine Brown, Kevin Davis and Les Coleman on gaining an ARC linkage grant for their project: Risk management policies and practices of major Australian firms.
June
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Publication Alerts
Congratulations to Xin Chang, Lewis Tam, Tek Jun Tan and George Wong with their forthcoming publication: The Real Impact of Stock Market Mispricing - Evidence from Australia, in the Pacific Basin Finance Journal.
Congratulations to Les Coleman. His book Why Managers and Companies Take Risks has just been published by the prestigious Physica-Verlag publishing house.
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Successful Grants
Congratulations to Sean Pinder and Asjeet Lamba who were awarded a $11,400 teaching grant from the Faculty of Economics and Commerce for their project: The development of flexible assessment tools for quantitative-based finance subjects.
May
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Publication Alerts
Paul Kofman's research article, "Migration of price discovery in semiregulated derivatives markets" (Anthony D. Hall, Paul Kofman, Steven Manaster) is available in the Journal of Futures Markets Vol 26, Issue 3.
Congratulations to Simba and his co-authors George Wong, John Zhang and Tek Jun Tan, whose paper: "The Effects of Financial Constraints on Corporate Policies in Australia" was accepted for publication in Accounting and Finance.
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Successful Grants
Congratulations to Qi Zeng, awarded a Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies grant for his project "Dividend Strip and Information Revelation".
April
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General Info
The Department of Finance has subscribed to the Wharton Research database Service (WRDS) to provide a range of financial databases to researchers in the Department. The range of databases available has also increased. See the Financial Databases webpage for more information
March
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PhD Completions
Congratulations to En-Te (John) Chen for being awarded his PhD for his thesis To Invest or not to Invest? Theory and Evidence on Stock Holdings over the Life-Cycle