Faculty of Economics and Commerce Department of Finance

Sean Pinder
Senior Lecturer

Biography

Prior to taking up this position in 2001, Sean lectured at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the Department of Accounting and Finance at the University of Newcastle and prior to that at Monash University. Sean has also taught at the postgraduate level at Lancaster University in England, the Melbourne Business School and the Adelaide Graduate School of Business. He has undertaken a range of consulting activities for firms operating in both the domestic and international marketplace and has developed and delivered professional short-courses on treasury risk management, derivatives and capital budgeting issues for major Australian and international companies. Sean has an extensive research profile with his work appearing in leading Australian and international journals and has received a number of prizes for his research.

 

In 2007 Sean was awarded the Pearson Education Accounting/Finance Lecturer of the Year Award, endorsed by the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand and judged by the Education Directors of CPA Australia, the ICAA and the NZICA. The announcement was made at the recent AFAANZ annual conference in Brisbane. Sean is a coauthor of the widely used McGraw-Hill textbook, Business Finance. In its 9th edition the text was awarded an Australian Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing in 2006 by the Australian Publishers Association.

 


Qualifications

BCom (Hons) Monash, PhD Newcastle

Teaching responsibilities

Business Finance and Corporate Finance.

Research Interests

Issues relating to the valuation of derivative securities and the analysis of corporate financial decision making.

Professional Affiliations

Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand

Publications

Journal Articles
  1. Steve Easton and Sean Pinder. 2007. "Predicting Reserve Bank of Australia Interest Rate Announcements using the 30-Day Interbank Cash Rate Futures Contract: Beware the Target Rate Tracker", Australian Economic Review, 40 (1): pp. 119-122.
  2. Jessica Curtis and Sean Pinder. 2007. "Break fee restrictions: Where's the harm?", Agenda: A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, 14 (2): pp. 111-122.
  3. Steve Easton and Sean Pinder. 2007. "A Refutation of the Existence of the Other January Effect", International Review of Finance, 3-4 (7): pp. 89-104.
  4. Dean Hanlon and Sean Pinder. 2007. "An empirical investigation of whether Australian capital gains tax reforms influence individual investor behaviour", Pacific Basin Finance Journal, 15 (5): pp. 481-493 .
  5. Krishnan Maheswaran and Sean Pinder. 2006. "Dealing with dividend dilemmas", The Finance and Treasury Professional, 18 (1): pp. 14 - 15.
  6. Krishnan Maheswaran and Sean Pinder. 2005. "Australian Evidence on the Determinants and Impact of Takeover Resistance", Accounting and Finance, 45 (4): pp. 613-634.
  7. Les Coleman and Sean Pinder. 2005. "Capturing Value with Real Options", Journal of Banking and Financial Services (ISFB), 119 (4): pp. 44-46.
  8. Christine Brown and Sean Pinder. 2005. "The Impact of Net Buying Pressure on Implied Volatilities Observed from SPI Futures Options", Review of Futures Markets, 2 (14): pp. 199-216.
  9. Krishnan Maheswaran and Sean Pinder. 2005. "Project Evaluation Techniques of Corporate Australia", The Finance and Treasury Professional, 17 (3): pp. 18-19.
  10. Krishnan Maheswaran and Sean Pinder. 2005. "The Debt vs Equity Decision", The Finance and Treasury Professional, 17 (4): pp. 16-17.
  11. S Pinder. 2003. "An Empirical Examination of the Impact of Changes in Market Microstructure on the Determinants of Options Bid-Ask Spreads", International Review of Financial Analysis, 12 pp. 563 - 577.
  12. I Ivanovic, S Pinder and P Howley. 2003. "An Examination of the Australian Wheat Futures Contract", Accounting Research Journal, 16 (1): pp. 68-79.
  13. S.A. Easton and S.M. Pinder. 2000. "The Demutualisation of AMP Society: An Example of the Valuation of Collars Comprising Asian Options", Australian Journal of Management, 25 (3): pp. 283-298.
  14. H.C. Chan and S. M. Pinder. 2000. "The Value of Liquidity: Evidence from the Derivatives Market", Pacific Basin Finance Journal, 8 pp. 483-503.
  15. S.A. Easton and S Pinder. 1998. "The Pricing of Low Exercise Price Options", Australian Journal of Management, 23 (2): pp. 203-212.
  16. S.A. Easton and S Pinder. 1998. "Understanding and Valuing Arithmetic Average Price Options", Accounting Research Journal, 11 (2): pp. 412-415.
  17. S Pinder. 1998. "The Relative Pricing of Commonwealth Bank Shares and Instalment Receipts", Accounting Research Journal, 11 (1): pp. 293-297.
  18. S.A. Easton and S Pinder. 1996. "The Pricing of Australian Government Sector Initial Public Offerings", Applied Economic Letters, pp. 603-605.
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Books
  1. Peirson, G., Brown, R., Easton, S., Howard, P. and S. Pinder, 2006. Business Finance
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