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14th Finsia-Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies
Banking and Finance Conference

 

Reassessing the Role of Financial Services

Date: Monday 28 + Tuesday 29 September 2009
Conference Dinner: Monday 28 September 2009


Conference Venue: University of Melbourne, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia (click here for map)
Dinner Venue: RACV, Level 2, 501 Bourke St

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Plenary Speakers:
Chris Dalton, CEO, Australian Securitisation Forum (ASF)

The Future Role of Securitisation in the Australia's Financial Market


Kevin Stevenson, Chairman and CEO of Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB)

Key Issues in Financial Reporting for Banking & Finance Professionals
Stephen Halmarick, Colonial First State Global Asset Management

Implications of Massive Sovereign Debt Issuance for Investment Markets

Peter Boxall, Commissioner, Australian Securites and Investment Commissioner (ASIC)

The Introduction of the New Credit Regulatory Regime

John Daley, CEO, Grattan Institute

The Aftermath of a Financial Crisis


Dr. Munawar Iqbal, Chief of Research, Islamic Banking and Finance Division, Islamic Research and Training Institute

Insights for the Western Financial System from the Islamic Banking
Deborah Cope, Commissioner, Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission (VCEC)

Financial Services Efficiency - Regulatory and Tax Review


Prof Kevin Davis, Research Director, Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies

Shadow Financial Committee Regulatory Recommendations



Contributed Paper Sessions and Practitioner Workshops:
Funds Management Measuring Efficiency of Australian Equity Managed Funds: Support for the Morningstar "Star" Rating

John Watson and J. Wickramanayake, Monash University

Conference presentation
Managing funds for after tax returns: unresolved issues about unrealised gains

Gordon D Mackenzie, University of New South Wales


Conference presentation
Perverse Incentives: the Conflict of Interest implicit in Alternative Investment Management Fees

Paul Lajbcygier & David Ghijben, Monash University


Conference presentation

Banking Do Country Specific Factors Have Any Relation with Central Bank Independence And Governance?

Amirul Ahsan, Deakin University, Mike Skully
Monash University

Conference presentation
Market Discipline in New Zealand Registered Banks

W.R. Wilson, L.C. Rose, J.F. Pinfold, Massey University, New Zealand

Conference presentation
Using DEA to investigate bank safety and soundness - which approach works best?

David Tripe, Massey University

Conference presentation
Dividends & Earnings
Errors in Estimating Unexpected Accruals in the Presence of Large Changes in Net External Financing

Yaowen Shan, Stephen Taylor, Terry Walter, University of Technology, Sydney

Conference presentation
Dividend smoothing and the long-run stability between dividends and earnings in Korea

Jin-Ho Jeong, Korea University

Conference presentation
Dividend Stability When Firms Distribute All Profits in Dividends

Khamis Al-Yahyaee, Sultan Qaboos University, Toan Pham, University of New South Wales, Terry Walter, University of Technology Sydney and Macquarie University
Corporate Finance & Derivatives Convertible Security Design and Contract Innovation

Patrick Verwijmeren
University of Melbourne

Conference presentation

On or Off? That is the question

Christine Brown, University of Melbourne

Conference presentation
Are franking credits valuable to Australian shareholders?

Richard Heaney, RMIT

Conference presentation


Asset Allocation International Portfolio Choice and the Economic Value of Jump Timing

Stuart Hyde, Nghia T. Nguyen, Ser-Huang Poon, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester

Conference presentation

Portfolio evaluation using OWA-heuristic algorithm and Data Envelope Analysis

Abhay Kumar Singh, Edith Cowan University Joondalup Campus, Shalini Bharadwaj Gwalior India, Rajendra Sahu, Gwalior India

Conference presentation
The Payoff Distribution Model: An Application to Dynamic Portfolio Insurance

Alexandre Hocquard, Nicolas Papageorgiou and Bruno Remillard, HEC
Montreal

Banking Outsourcing framework for Australian Banking Industry

Paul Anthony McMahon, Southern Cross University


Conference presentation




Switching Costs in Banking: The Regulatory Response

Claire Matthews, Centre for Banking Studies; Massey University, New Zealand

Conference presentation




What Drives Foreign Expansion of the Top 100 Multinational Banks? The Role of Credit Reporting Systems

Hsiangping Tsai, Pei-Hsin Hsiao, Yuan Ze University
Yuanchen Chang, National Chengchi University

Conference presentation
Futures markets and Contracts Non-Convexities in the 10-Year Treasury Note Market

Christopher G. Lamoureux
The University of Arizona
George Theocharides
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

Conference presentation

Determinants of Trading Activity on Single Stock Futures Market-Evidences from Eurex Exchange

Jedrzej Bialkowski,
University of Canterbury
Jacek Jakubowski
University of Warsaw

Conference presentation

Do Option Markets Undo Restrictions on Short-Sales: Evidence from the 2008 Short Sale Ban

Bruce D. Grundy, Bryan Lim,
Patrick Verwijmeren
University of Melbourne

Conference presentation
Information and Stock Markets The effect of analyst forecast on broker market share: new evidence

Rob Brown, Howard Chan,
The University of Melbourne
Robert Faff, Monash University, Yew Kee Ho
University of Singapore

Conference presentation
The Equity and Efficiency of the Australian Share Market with respect to Director Trading

Katherine Uylangco, Steve Easton, University of Newcastle, Robert Faff, Monash University


Conference presentation
Migration and its contribution to the size and value premiums: Australian evidence

Philip Gharghori, Yusuf Hamzah, Madhu Veeraraghavan
Monash University

Conference presentation
Global Finance & The Crisis New Zealand and the Financial Crisis of 2008

David Tripe, Centre for Banking Studies, Massey University

Conference presentation
Are Financial Markets Stable? New Evidence from An Improved Test of Financial Market Stability and the U.S. Subprime Crisis

Sandy Suardi, La Trobe University

Conference presentation

 
Retail Finance & Funds Managers Markets Cost-efficiency in Australian Superannuation Funds

Andrew Worthington
Griffith University

Conference presentation
Financial Planning in Australia: Industry or Profession?

Brian Murphy
Deakin University
Ted Watts
University of Wollongong

Conference presentation
Identifying Market Orientation in the Australian Funds Management Industry: An Exploratory Study

Kate Westberg, Terrence Hallahan, Raju Mulye,
Con Stavros, Michael Schwartz, RMIT University


Islamic Finance Factors That Are Important to The Establishment of Islamic Finance in Australia

John Masters, SIRCA

Financial Performance of Conventional vs Islamic Banks

Mohamed Ariff, Bond University

Conference presentation
The Performance of Islamic Mutual Funds: The Malaysian Case

M. Ishaq Bhatti, Fadillah Mansor, La Trobe University

Conference presentation
  Complementarity Between Equity Based Structures under Islamic Finance and Limited Partnerships in Western Finance

Robert Turnbull, Strategic Advisory
   
Emerging Market Corporate Finance On the dynamic relation between Stock Market Development and Capital Structure of Firms: Evidence from a Developing Country

Boopen Seetanah, University of Mauritius, Kesseven Padachi, University of Technology, Mauritius; Binesh Seetanah, RMIT

Conference presentation

The pricing and performance of IPOs for small-and-medium-sized enterprises: Emerging market evidence

Jirapun Chorruk,
Andrew Worthington
Griffith University

Conference presentation


 
Noise Deafened by Noise: Do Noise Traders Affect Volatility and Returns?

Edward Podolski ¨C Boczar,
Petko S. Kalev, Monash University, Huu Nhan Duong
Deakin University

Conference presentation

Noise and expected return in Chinese A-share stock market

Chong Qian, Chien-Ting Lin, The University of Adelaide

Conference presentation


 
Interest Rate Behaviour Interest Rate Setting Behaviour of Banks: Evidence from Australia and the US

Guay Lim, Sam Tsiaplias, The University of Melbourne

Conference presentation




Interest Rate Spread Determination in an Error Correction Model

Seetaram Navneet, University of Technology, Mauritius, Seetanah Boopen, University of Mauritius, Rojid Sawkut, The World Bank, Ramessur Shalini, University of Technology, Mauritius, Seetanah Binesh, RMIT

Conference presentation
 
New Financial Markets and Contracts Modelling of Surface Air Temperature and Pricing of Weather Derivatives

Anandadeep Mandal
KIIT School of Management, India


Exchange Traded Contracts for Difference: Design, Pricing and Effects

Christine Brown, Jonathan Dark, The University of Melbourne, Kevin Davis, The University of Melbourne and MCFS

Conference presentation
A Microstructure Analysis of the Carbon Finance Market

Don Bredin, Cal Muckley,
University College Dublin, Ireland; Stuart Hyde, University of Manchester, UK


Conference presentation


Lead Sponsor: SIRCA

 

Venue sponsor: Department of Finance, University of Melbourne

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