The Department of Finance in the Faculty of Business and Economics is pleased to continue its annual conference series.
Call for papers
The Department of Finance in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne is pleased to continue its annual conference series: Finance Down Under: Building on the Best from the Cellars of Finance. The conference will be held in-person and will take place in Melbourne, Australia on March 2-4, 2023.
Overview
We invite submissions that embody the best in current empirical and theoretical research. We welcome papers in asset pricing, corporate finance and all other areas of finance. The conference selection committee includes eminent scholars in every facet of finance. With the help of the selection committee, we strive to provide a conference program that is internationally renowned for excellent presentations, discussions, and keynote speeches. The academic sessions will be comprised of papers from all areas. In addition to the general sessions, a unique feature of the program is that we honour 'vintage' research in finance that has inspired recent advances and withstood the test of time. In 2023, we will celebrate the body of work in behavioral and household finance by professor Nicholas Barberis. We are honoured to have Professor Barberis, Professor Luigi Guiso, and Professor Olivia Mitchell as our keynote speakers.
In addition to the academic sessions, social activities will take place on Saturday afternoon for all interested attendees.
Paper submission procedure
The deadline for paper submissions is midnight US EST October 7, 2022. Papers should be submitted electronically at http://editorialexpress.com/conference/FDU2023. A submission fee of US$50 will be required for each submission.
Papers will be reviewed by members of the conference selection committee, and authors of selected papers will be notified by December, 2022. For further questions, please contact our conference coordinator, Maree Cassar, at fdu-conference@unimelb.edu.au.
Awards
- The Spencer Martin Best Paper Award, with a prize of A$4,000.
- The CFAM-ARX Paper Award. Jointly sponsored by the CFA Society of Melbourne (CFAM) and the Asia-Pacific Research Exchange of the CFA Institute (ARX), this award will be presented, with a prize of A$1,500, to a paper that has relevance to the Asia-Pacific region and/or to the asset management industry. To be considered for this award, authors need to select the option when submitting their papers.
We hope that you can join us in 2023 in delightful late-summer Melbourne.
FDU Organising Committee
Federico Nardari (Chair), Maurice McCourt, Garry Twite and Qi Zeng
Department of Finance
Faculty of Business and Economics
The University of Melbourne
Conference sessions
Further information on conference sessions will be released closer to the event.
Event registration
Full registration details will be available closer to the conference.
For any questions regarding registration, please contact fdu-conference@unimelb.edu.au
Professor Nicholas C. Barberis
Stephen and Camille Schramm Professor of Finance
Professor Barberis’ research focuses on behavioral finance—in particular, on applications of cognitive psychology to understanding investor trading behavior and the pricing of financial assets. He has published extensively in the top economics and finance journals, gives frequent presentations about his work to both academic and non-academic audiences, and has won numerous awards for both research and teaching. Prior to coming to Yale University, Professor Barberis taught at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Olivia S. Mitchell
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans
Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
Professor of Insurance and Risk Management
Executive Director, Pension Research Council
Dr. Olivia S. Mitchell is International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance/Risk Management and Business Economics/Policy; Executive Director of the Pension Research Council; and Director of the Boettner Center on Pensions and Retirement Research; all at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Mitchell is also Research Associate at the NBER; Independent Director on the Allspring Mutual Fund Boards; Co-Investigator for the HRS at the University of Michigan; and Executive Board member for the Michigan Retirement Research Center; she recently served as Vice President of the American Economic Association. Her research focuses on pensions, risk management, financial literacy, household finance, and public finance. She was awarded the FINRA Investor Education Foundation Ketchum Prize; the Fidelity Pyramid Prize for research improving lifelong financial well-being; the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession; the Roger F. Murray First Prize (twice) from the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance; and the Premio Internazionale Dell’Istituto Nazionale Delle Assicurazioni from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Her study of Social Security reform won the Paul Samuelson Award for “Outstanding Writing on Lifelong Financial Security” from TIAA-CREF. Most recently, she received the Robert C. Witt Award from the American Risk and Insurance Association for her study with Dan Gottlieb entitled “Narrow Framing and Long-Term Care Insurance” in the Journal of Risk and Insurance. She received the MA and PhD degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the BA in Economics from Harvard University.
Luigi Guiso
AXA Professor of Household Finance
Luigi Guiso is the AXA Professor of Household Finance at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance in Rome. He has held positions at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and at the European University Institute in Florence. He has directed the Finance Programme at the Center for Economic Policy Research in London and taught as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Northwestern University and Imperial College. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and honorary foreign member of the American Economic Association. Besides his work in the field of household finance, he has contributed research in the field of labor economics, firm investments and financial decisions, entrepreneurship and banking, political economy and institutions, and in the field of culture and economics. His research has been published in major scholarly journals such as The Review of Economic Studies, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review and Econometrica.
We would like to thank our 2023 Selection Committee
- Heitor Almeida, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- George Aragon, Arizona State University
- Ilona Babenko, Arizona State University
- Pedro Barroso, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
- Sohnke Bartram, University of Warwick and CEPR
- Thomas Bates, Arizona State University
- Robert Battalio, University of Notre Dame
- Gennaro Bernile, University of Miami
- Oliver Boguth, Arizona State University
- Audra Boone, Texas Christian University
- Jonathan Brogaard, The University of Utah
- Stephen Brown, Monash University
- Max Bruche, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Sabrina Buti, Université Paris-Dauphine
- Jie Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Indraneel Chakraborty, University of Miami
- Mikhail Chernov, University of California, Los Angeles
- Tarun Chordia, Emory University
- Oleg Chuprinin, University of New South Wales
- Jonathan Cohn, The University of Texas at Austin
- Riccardo Colacito, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Jennifer Conrad, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Kristle Cortes, University of New South Wales
- Zhi Da, University of Notre Dame
- Sudipto Dasgupta, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Laurence Daures, ESSEC Business School
- Abe De Jong, Monash University
- Stephen Dimmock, National University of Singapore
- Hitesh Doshi, University of Houston
- Ran Duchin, Boston College
- Eliezer Fich, Drexel University
- Cesare Fracassi, The University of Texas at Austin
- Francesco Franzoni, USI Lugano, Swiss Finance Institute
- Fangjian Fu, Singapore Management University
- Michael Gallmeyer, The University of Virginia
- Neal Galpin, Monash University
- Antonio Gargano, University of Houston
- Federico Gavazzoni, BI Norwegian Business School
- Simon Gervais, Duke University
- Ron Giammarino, The University of British Columbia
- Michael Gofman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Luis Goncalves-Pinto, University of New South Wales
- Amit Goyal, University of Lausanne
- Vidhan Goyal, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Jarrad Harford, University of Washington
- Nikolaus Hautsch, University of Vienna
- Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen, Indiana University
- David Hsieh, Duke University
- Eric Hughson, Claremont McKenna College
- Zoran Ivkovich, Michigan State University
- Kris Jacobs, University of Houston
- Christopher Jones, University of Southern California
- Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College London
- David Lesmond, Tulane University
- Kai Li, Macquarie University
- Hong Liu, Washington University in St. Louis
- Dmitry Livdan, University of California, Berkeley
- Christian Lundblad, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Peter MacKay, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Andrew MacKinlay, Virginia Tech
- Kaveh Majlesi, Monash University
- Ben Marshall, Massey University
- Christoph Merkle, Aarhus University
- Alexander Michaelides, Imperial College London
- Sophie Moinas, Toulouse School of Economics
- Lyndon Moore, Monash University
- Pamela Moulton, Cornell University
- Kjell Nyborg, University of Zurich
- Micah Officer, Loyola Marymount University
- Neil Pearson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Davide Pettenuzzo, Brandeis University
- Ludovic Phalippou, University of Oxford
- Peter Pham, University of New South Wales
- Meijun Qian, Australian National University
- Yiming Qian, University of Connecticut
- Uday Rajan, University of Michigan
- Oleg Rytchkov, Temple University
- Stefano Sacchetto, IESE Business School
- Lucio Sarno, University of Cambridge
- Norman Schuerhoff, Swiss Finance Institute
- Ivan Shaliastovich, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Jianfeng Shen, University of New South Wales
- Clemens Sialm, The University of Texas at Austin
- Stephan Siegel, University of Washington
- Rui Silva, Nova School of Business and Economics
- Denis Sosyura, Arizona State University
- Johan Sulaeman, National University of Singapore
- Yuri Tserlukevich, Arizona State University
- Chris Veld, Monash University
- Mitch Warachka, Chapman University
- Michael Weber, The University of Chicago
- Chishen Wei, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Joakim Westerholm, The University of Sydney
- Youchang Wu, University of Oregon
- David Yermack, New York University
- Vijay Yerramilli, University of Houston
- Bart Yueshen, INSEAD
- Stefan Zeume, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Min Zhu, The University of Queensland
2023 Award Winners
The Spencer Martin Best Paper Award | AUD$4,000
CFAM-ARX Paper Award | AUD$1,500
Jointly sponsored by the CFA Society of Melbourne (CFAM) and the Asia-Pacific Research Exchange of the CFA Institute (ARX), this award is presented to a paper that has relevance to the Asia-Pacific region and/or to the asset management industry.