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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Conferences and workshops

ANU-RSFAS research camp

ANU-RSFAS is hosting its Annual Summer Research Camp from December 3-5, at the Boat House in Canberra.

ANU Conference on Asset Pricing

Conference date: 26-28 March 2020
Location: QT hotel, Canberra
Submissions begin on September 1, 2019.

SSRN conference announcement

ANU-FIRN Banking and Financial Stability Meeting

ANU and FIRN co-host the annual FIRN Banking and Financial Stability Research Group meeting.

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Recent journal articles

Local Bankruptcy and Geographic Contagion in the Bank Loan Market

Nhan Le, Jawad Addoum, Alok Kumar, Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi

Forthcoming, Review of Finance.

Firms from Financially Developed Economies Do Not Save Less

Alexander Vadilyev

Forthcoming, Critical Finance Review

Monitoring the Monitor: Distracted Institutional Investors and Board Governance

Le Zhang, Claire Liu, Angie Low and Ron Masulis

Forthcoming, Review for Financial Studies

Global political uncertainty and asset prices

Jonathan Brogaard, Lili Dai, Phong Ngo and Bohui Zhang

Forthcoming, Review of Financial Studies

Employee inside debt and firm risk-taking: Evidence from employee deposit programs in Japan

Sudipto Dasgupta, Yupeng Lin, Takeshi Yamada and Zilong Zhang

Forthcoming, Review of Corporate Finance Studies

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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."