Department of Finance

Finance Down Under Conference
- March 2011

The seventh MDRG conference was held from 11-12 March, 2011. Information about the conference can be found below:

• Programme - (PDF - 83KB)
• Conference Information
• Registration - (PDF - 57KB)

Third Annual Society for Financial Econometrics (Asia) Conference June 2010

The third SOFIE conference was held from 16-18 June 2010. Information about the conference can be found below:

• Programme - (PDF - 126KB)
• Conference Information
• Registration - (PDF - 27KB)
• Abstracts - (PDF - 202KB)

Finance Down Under Conference
- March 2010

The sixth MDRG conference was held on Thursday 25 March 2010. Information about the conference can be found below:

• Programme - (PDF - 76KB)
• Conference Information
• Registration - (PDF - 39KB)
• Speakers and Papers

Finance Down Under Conference - April 2009

The fifth MDRG conference was held on Tuesday 7 April, 2009. Information about the conference can be found below:

• Programme
• Conference Information
• Registration - (PDF - 73KB)
• Speakers and Papers

Melbourne Derivatives Research Group Conference - March 2008

The Fourth MDRG conference was held on Wednesday 19 March, 2008. The programme and papers from the conference are available below:

• Brochure
• Speakers and Papers

CORRELATIONS AND COPULAS
Risk Management Conference

A one-day conference for risk management professionals; and finance, econometric, actuarial and mathematics academics. The successful event was hosted by the University of Melbourne on Friday 21 September 2007.

Go to the Risk Management conference page for more information

NYU Down Under Derivatives Conference - March 2007

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