Finance

The Finance group undertakes rigorous theoretical and empirical research in asset pricing, corporate finance and banking. Our faculty have access to excellent research facilities and weekly seminar and brown bag series. Our research is published in leading scientific journals and discussed at national and international conferences. We engage with government and business entities and offer rigorous, state-of-the-art programs in finance for undergraduate, Masters and Ph.D. students.

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Recent journal articles

Political Promotion, CEO Incentives, and the Relationship between Pay and Performance

Jerry Cao, Michael Lemmon, Xiaofei Pan, Meijun Qian and Gary Tian
Management Science (2018)

Corporate Credit Risk Premia

Antje Berndt, Rohan Douglas, Darrell Duffie, Mark Ferguson
Review of Finance (2018). Vol. 22, Issue 2, Pages 419-454

Understanding Informal Financing

Franklin Allen, Meijun Qian and Jing Xie
Journal of Financial Intermediation (2018)

CEO Compensation in Japan: Why So Different to the U.S.?

Luyao Pan and Xianming Zhou
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2018)

One fundamental and two taxes: When does a Tobin tax reduce financial price volatility?

Yongheng Deng, Xin (Kelly) Liu and Shang-Jin Wei
Journal of Financial Economics (2018)

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Awards and grants

CFA Asia-Pacific Research Exchange Prize

Takeshi Yamada and his co-authors win the CFA Asia-Pacific Research Exchange Prize for papers submitted to the Politics, Stock Markets and the Economy Conference, for "The BOJ Large-scale Purchases of ETFs: Float Reduction and Its Impacts Market Frictions" with Zhuo Chen, Keiichi Ito and Bohui Zhang.

ARC grant success

Meijun Qian was awarded an ARC Discovery Projects grant, for the proposal "Transport and productivity, a study on Australia's largest trading partner."