A F.E.W. Group Initiative

ANNOUNCING The 1st F.E.W. Mentoring of Women by Women Workshop
CALL FOR PAPERS from JUNIOR FEMALE ACADEMICS

The F.E.W. Group is pleased to welcome special guest Professor Karen Mumford. Karen is a Professor of Economics at the University of York. She received her doctorate in economics from the Australian National University (ANU) in 1991. She has subsequently taught at the ANU, the University of Warwick and the University of York. She has held visiting positions at the ANU, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Princeton. Karen’s research is concerned with labour economics: wage bargaining; industrial disputation; employment dynamics; the relative labour market position of women; and implications from using the family as the unit of analysis. Karen is also the

Chair of The Royal Economics Society's Women's Committee, which was established in 1996 to promote the role of women in the UK economics profession.

DATE: Sunday 7 July, 2013
LOCATION: UWA Business School, Perth.
TIME: 12:30pm to 4:30pm

OVERVIEW: The goal of the mentoring meeting is to provide an opportunity for junior female academics in economics and finance to present their work to senior female academics in economics and finance who will act as mentors for the purpose of constructive discussion, guidance, feedback and professional development. There will also be opportunity for the attendees to socialise and to attend either the Economic Society of Australia annual meeting or the AFAANZ annual meeting (separate registration will be required).

CLICK HERE to download the Call for Papers   

This initiative is proudly supported by the Economic Society of Australia and the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU.

FIRN PhD Courses f

Proudly supported by SIRCA

MasterClass - University of Western Australia -1-5 July

Enrolments are now called for the 2013 FIRN MasterClass. This year's international guest presenters are Professor Geert Bekaert (Columbia) - Topic Asset Pricing and Professor Murillo Campello (Cornell) - Topic Corporate Finance.  Masterclass venue is the UWA Business School, Perth 1-5 July, 2013.

Click here to download the course enrolment form, course syllabus and other information.

Course is open to all PhD students and staff from FIRN member institutions. No course fees apply for participants from FIRN member institutions however, participants are responsible for payment of their own travel and accommodation costs. Please email the FIRN Executive Officer firn@business.uq.edu.au

Behavorial Finance Course - University of Technology, Sydney

Professor Douglas Foster will be presenting a "new" PhD course in Behavorial Finance at UTS Business School, Sydney in 2nd semester 2013.  The Behavorial Finance Course will be delivered in "intensive" mode on the following dates.  Click here to download the course outline, pre-course reading list and other information.

• Module 1 Sat/Sun 3/4 August         
• Module 2 Sat/Sun 31 Aug/1 Sept                                              
• Module 3 Sat/Sun 5/6 October 
  

Please email the FIRN Executive Officer firn@business.uq.edu.au or Course Co-ordinator Professor Douglas Foster for more information or to enrol in this course.                                       

Empirical Finance Course - The University of Queensland 

Professor Tom Smith will be presenting his Empirical Finance course at The University of Queensland Business School.  Course is open to all PhD students from FIRN member institutions.  No course fees apply however participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation arrangements.  Course sylabus will be issued shortly.

• Module 1 Sat/Sun 10/11 August
• Module 2 Sat/Sun 14/15 September
• Module 3 Sat/Sun 19/20 October

Please email the FIRN Executive Officer firn@business.uq.edu.au or Course Co-ordinator Professor Tom Smith for more information or to enrol in this course.

Australian Reception Success in San Diego

Another successful Australian Finance Research reception was held recently at the ASSA/AFA Conference in San Diego.  Guests and FIRN members networked over a glass or two of fine Australian wine at the Marriott Marquis & Marina in San Diego. 

Congratulations to the winners of the lucky door prizes.  The main prize went to Professor Ekkehart Boehmer, EDHEC Business School, Singapore.

FIRN would like to thank event partners Australian National University, UNSW Australian School of Business, UQ Business School, University of Melbourne and University of Western Australia without whose support this major international event on the FIRN calendar would not be possible. 

 Date Claimer - 2014 Australian Reception is scheduled for Friday, 3 January at the Marriott, Philadelphia. 

Congratulations 2012 FIRN Research Prize Winners

 

Best Policy Paper Prize of $10,000 Winners
Carole Comerton-Forde (ANU) and Talis Putnins (UTS) with their paper titled Dark Trading and Price Discovery

Ning Gong and Bruce Grundy (MELBOURNE) with their paper titled Can Socially Responsible Firms Survive Competition? An Analysis of Corporate Employee Matching Grants

 

Best "Team" Research Paper Prize of $10,000 Winners

Mardi Dungey (UTAS); Susan Thorp (UTS) George Milunovich (MACQUARIE) and Minxian Yang (UNSW) with their paper titled Endogenous Crisis Dating and Contagion using Smooth Transition Structural GARCH.