Each year, we honour 'vintage' work in finance that has inspired recent advances and withstood the test of time. In 2018, we will celebrate "The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration" by Professors Sanford Grossman and Oliver Hart. We are honoured to have Professor Oliver Hart (2016 Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences), Professor Ron Masulis and Professor Clemens Sialm as keynote speakers.
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FDU Organizing Committee
Ali Akyol, André Gygax, Federico Nardari and Qi Zeng
Department of Finance
Faculty of Business & Economics
The University of Melbourne
Finance Down Under, 2-4 March 2017
Finance Down Under, 3-5 March 2016
Finance Down Under, 5-7 March 2015
Finance Down Under, 6-8 March 2014
Finance Down Under, 7-9 March 2013
Finance Down Under, 15-17 March 2012
Finance Down Under, 11-12 March 2011
Third Annual Society for Financial Economics (Asia) Conference, 16-18 June 2010
Finance Down Under, 25 March 2010
Finance Down Under, 7 April 2009
Melbourne Derivatives Research Group Conference, 19 March 2008
Correlations and Copulas - Risk Management Conference, 21 September 2007
NYU Down Under Derivatives Conference, 29 March 2007
| Name | Institution |
| Tim Adam | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| Reena Aggarwal | Georgetown University |
| Anup Agrawal | University of Alabama |
| George Aragon | Arizona State University |
| Kerry Back | Rice University |
| Sohnke Bartram | University of Warwick |
| Thomas Bates | Arizona State University |
| Robert Battalio | University of Notre Dame |
| Henk Berkman | The University of Auckland |
| Antje Berndt | Australian National University |
| Gennaro Bernile | Singapore Management University |
| Utpal Bhattacharya | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Oliver Boguth | Arizona State University |
| Audra Boone | Texas Christian University |
| Bradyn Breon-Drish | University of California San Diego |
| Jonathan Brogaard | University of Washington |
| Stephen Brown | New York University |
| Max Bruche | Cass Business School |
| Sabrina Buti | Dauphine University |
| Indraneel Chakraborty | University of Miami |
| Gilles Chemla | Imperial College |
| Tarun Chordia | Emory University |
| Ric Colacito | UNC |
| Zhi Da | University of Notre Dame |
| Stephen Dimmock | Nanyang Technological University |
| Ran Duchin | University of Washington |
| Espen Eckbo | Dartmouth College |
| Roger Edelen | University of California Davis |
| Andrew Ellul | Indiana University |
| Joseph Fan | CUHK |
| Eliezer Fich | Drexel University |
| Thierry Foucault | HEC, Paris |
| Fangjian Fu | Singapore Management University |
| Michael Gallmeyer | University of Virginia |
| Federico Gavazzoni | INSEAD |
| Simon Gervais | Duke University |
| Ron Giammarino | University of British Columbia |
| Luis Filipe Goncalves-Pinto | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Todd Gormley | Washington University in St Louis |
| Vidhan Goyal | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Johh Griffin | UT Austin |
| Mark Grinblatt | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Sebastian Gryglewicz | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| Bing Han | University of Toronto |
| Jarrad Harford | University of Washington |
| Samuel Hartzmark | University of Chicago |
| Nikolaus Hautsch | University of Vienna |
| Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen | London Business School |
| Burton Hollifield | Carnegie Mellon University |
| David Hsieh | Duke University |
| Eric Hughson | Claremont McKenna College |
| Philipp Illeditsch | University of Pennsylvania |
| Zoran Ivkovich | Michigan State University |
| Kris Jacobs | University of Houston |
| Shane Johnson | Texas A&M University |
| Travis Johnson | UT Austin |
| Jennifer Juergens | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |
| Marcin Kacperczyk | Imperial College London |
| Raymond Kan | University of Toronto |
| Robert Korajczyk | Northwestern University |
| Nitin Kumar | Indian School of Business |
| Howard Kung | London Business School |
| Laurence Lescourret | ESSEC Business School |
| Karl Lins | University of Utah |
| Laura Xiaolei Liu | Peking University |
| Dmitry Livdan | University of California, Berkeley |
| Michelle Lowry | Drexel University |
| Peter Mackay | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Andrew MacKinlay | Virginia Tech |
| Igor Makarov | London School of Economics |
| Ron Masulis | UNSW |
| Christoph Merkle | Khne Logistics University |
| Alexander Michaelides | Imperial College |
| Roni Michaely | Cornell University |
| Sophie Moinas | University of Toulouse |
| Vikram Nanda | University of Texas |
| Phong Ngo | Australian National University |
| Maureen OHara | Cornell University |
| Micah Officer | Loyola Marymount University |
| Neil Pearson | University of Illinois |
| Kim Peijnenburg | HEC, Paris |
| Ludovic Phalippou | Oxford University |
| Peter Pham | UNSW |
| Jeffrey Pontiff | Boston College |
| Uday Rajan | University of Michigan |
| David Reeb | National University of Singapore |
| David Robinson | Duke University |
| Harley Ryan Jr | Georgia State University |
| Oleg Rytchkov | Temple University |
| Stefano Sacchetto | University of Navarra |
| Jacob Sagi | UNC |
| Batchimeg Sambalaibat | Indiana University |
| Shrihari Santosh | University of Maryland |
| Lucio Sarno | Cass Business School |
| Norman Schürhoff | Université de Lausanne |
| Rick Sen | UNSW |
| Ivan Shaliastovich | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Jianfeng Shen | University of New South Wales |
| Clemens Sialm | University of Texas |
| Stephan Siegel | University of Washington |
| Rui Silva | London Business School |
| Tom Smith | University of Queensland |
| Denis Sosyura | Arizona State University |
| Johan Sulaeman | National University of Singapore |
| Yuri Tserlukevich | Arizona State University |
| Patrick Verwijmeren | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| Mitch Warachka | University of San Diego |
| Michael Weber | University of Chicago |
| Chishen Wei | Singapore Management University |
| Mindy Xiaolan | UT Austin |
| David Yermack | New York University |
| Bart Yueshen | INSEAD |
| Stefan Zeume | University of Michigan |
| Edith Hotchkiss | Boston College |
Oliver Hart
2016 Nobel Laureate in Economics
Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics Harvard University
Oliver Hart is currently the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1993. He works mainly on contract theory, the theory of the firm, corporate finance, and law and economics. His research centers on the roles that ownership structure and contractual arrangements play in the governance and boundaries of corporations. He has published a book (Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure, Oxford University Press, 1995) and numerous journal articles. He has used his theoretical work on firms in two legal cases as a government expert (Black and Decker v. U.S.A. and WFC Holdings Corp. (Wells Fargo) v. U.S.A.). He is the 2016 co-recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Finance Association, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and has several honorary degrees. He has been president of the American Law and Economics Association and a vice president of the American Economic Association.
Ron Masulis
AGSM Scholar, Scientia Professor, Macquarie Group Chair of Financial Services
Ron Masulis is the Scientia Professor of Finance and the Macquarie Group Chair of Financial Services at the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales. Ron received his MBA and PhD from the University of Chicago. He is a recognised authority in the areas of empirical corporate finance and corporate governance. His published research spans investment banking, financial institutions, market microstructure, international finance, private equity, law and economics and corporate governance topics such as mergers and acquisitions, boards of directors, executive compensation, ownership structure and business groups. Among financial economists worldwide, he has one of the highest sustained rates of top tier publications and frequency of citations across a range of top journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Accounting and Economics and Journal of Law and Economics.
Ron has won a number of top research awards, including five Journal of Financial Economics All Star Paper Awards. He has served on the Board of Directors/Executive Committee of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association and the Financial Management Association (FMA). He previously served as the FMA’s Vice President of Global Services and recently was elected the FMA's Vice President of the 2018 Program. Ron currently serves on the board of directors of the Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS), is an advisory editor of Financial Management and the Journal of Multinational Financial Management, an associate editor of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal and is a past associate editor of the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance and Review of Financial Studies. He is also a research associate at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and senior academic fellow at the Asia Bureau of Finance and Economic Research and a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. In February 2015, he was the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Term Professor of Economics and Finance at NUS and from September 2015 to year end he was a Distinguished Visiting Research Professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business.
Clemens Sialm
Professor of Finance and Economics, the University of Texas at Austin
Clemens Sialm is a Professor of Finance and Economics, the Eleanor T. Mosle Fellow, and the Director of the AIM Investment Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a Research Associate in the Asset Pricing and Public Economics programs of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Sialm received an M.A. in economics from the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. Prior to joining the University of Texas, he taught at Stanford University and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. During the 2013-2014 academic year, he was the Mark and Sheila Wolfson Distinguished Visiting Associate Professor at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Sialm’s research interests are in the areas of investments, asset pricing, and taxation. He analyzes the investment strategies, performance, and behaviors of institutional and individual investors. He also investigates investment decisions of retirement savers. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, and the Journal of Public Economics, among others. He obtained in 2011 the Research Excellence Award from the McCombs School of Business. Sialm’s research has been frequently cited in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Economist.
2018 Award Winners
2018 Best Paper Award (AUD 4,000)
TBD
2018 Best Asia Pacific Paper (AUD 1,500)
TBD
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