Upcoming seminars
The Department of Finance holds numerous Research Seminars during semester.
Upcoming seminars are listed in the table below.
Seminar Administrator:
Robin Carey - r.carey@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: (03) 8344 9755
Visitors may contact the Seminar Administrator at least two business days before a seminar to make parking arrangements.
Seminar Co-convenors:
Carsten Murawski -
carstenm@unimelb.edu.au
Bryan Lim - blim@unimelb.edu.au
View previous seminars 2000-2009.
Semester Two, 2009
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23 Jul -
J. Spencer Martin
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Carnegie Mellon
A Unique View of Hedge Fund Derivatives Usage: Safeguard or Speculation?
(11.30am Eco & Comm Theatre 3) -
31 Jul -
Renee Adams
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University of Queensland
Asking Directors about their Dual Roles
(11am Prest Theatre) -
07 Aug -
Simon Benninga
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Tel Aviv University and Wharton
Non-marketability and the value of employee stock compensation
(11am - 12.30pm Wood Theatre) -
14 Aug -
Jianfeng Shen
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UNSW
Information Markets, Analysts, and Comovement in Stock Returns
(11am - 12.30pm Wood Theatre) -
18 Aug -
Massimo Guidolin
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Manchester Business School and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Regime Shifts in Empirical Pricing Kernels: A Mixture CAPM
(12pm Seminar Room 1) -
21 Aug -
Mark Seasholes
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HKUST
Market Predictability and Non-Informational Trading
(11am - 12.30pm Wood Theatre) -
25 Aug -
Stuart Hyde
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Manchester Business School
Determining the Intensity of Buy and Sell limit Order Submissions: A look at the Market Preopening Period
(12pm Seminar Room 1) -
28 Aug -
Garry Twite
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ANU
Determinants of Dividend Policy in Chinese Firms: Cash versus Stock Dividends
(11am - 12.30pm Wood Theatre) -
04 Sep -
Marcin Kacperczyk
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New York University
Attention Allocation Over the Business Cycle: Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry
(11am - 12.30pm Wood Theatre) -
11 Sep -
Joseph Chen
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UC Davis
The Cross-Section of Foreign Exchange Return
(11am - 12.30pm Wood Theatre) -
18 Sep -
Ning Gong
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UNSW
Trade-off Theory of Capital Structure: The Case of Non-linearity
(11am - 12.30pm Wood Theatre) -
09 Oct -
Kerstin Preuschoff
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University of Zurich
Evaluating risks and benefits - a neural perspective
(11am - 12.30pm Wood Theatre) -
16 Oct -
Kasper Meisner Nielsen
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Chinese University of Hong Kong
Why Do People Shy Away from the Stock Market
(11am - 12.30pm Wood Theatre) -
23 Oct -
Yacine Ait-Sahalia
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Princeton University
Optimal Portfolio Choice and Inference when Asset Returns are Self-Exciting
(11am - 12.30pm Wood Theatre) -
30 Oct -
Jacob Sagi
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Vanderbilt University
Information Content of Public Firm Disclosures and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
(11am - 12.30pm Wood Theatre) -
13 Nov -
George LB Wong
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Cash Flows, Equity Valuation, and Corporate Policies
(11am, Venue Economics & Commerce Theatre 1) -
24 Nov -
Mitchell Warachka
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Sinagpore Management University
TBA
(11am, Wood Theatre) -
27 Nov -
Stephen J. Brown
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NYU Stern School of Business
Trust and Delegation
(11am to 12.30pm Prest Theatre)