The Melbourne asset pricing meeting has a strong emphasis on building on existing research being undertaken by Australian based FIRN members. The program also includes a presentation by an international keynote. Program papers are selected in a variety of different formats each year depending upon the design of the program.
FIRN Melbourne Asset Pricing Meeting
The 12th Annual Melbourne Asset Pricing Meeting will be held in-person on the 27th October 2025 at the University of Melbourne.
You are invited to submit your paper to the 12th annual Melbourne Asset Pricing Meeting hosted by The University of Melbourne and FIRN, Australia’s Global Finance Research Network. The meeting is a one-day conference to be held in person on Monday, 27 October 2025 at The University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia and will include paper presentations and discussions. This year we are very pleased to have Nikolai Roussanov, the Moise Y. Safra Professor of Finance at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, as our keynote speaker.
We invite researchers to submit unpublished empirical or theoretical papers on all topics in asset pricing and investments to ap-meeting@unimelb.edu.au by 7 June 2025. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: theoretical and empirical models of asset prices and returns, return predictability, empirical methodology, macro-finance, the study of financial institutions as related to asset prices, information and liquidity in asset markets, behavioural investment studies, asset market structure and microstructure, risk analysis, hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, ESG, the impact of COVID19, and alternative investments.
AWARDS
There will be prizes awarded to the best paper and the best discussion at the meeting.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Shuang Chen, Joachim Inkmann, Bryan Lim, and Lucie Lu.
For further information about the meeting or the submission process, please send an email to ap-meeting@unimelb.edu.au.
Interested authors are invited to submit their papers, there is no submission fee. Please note, that the Melbourne Asset Pricing Meeting will be held in person at the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia. Acceptance emails will be sent by 7 August 2025, and you will be asked to confirm your in-person attendance before your paper is included in the conference program.
DEADLINE
7 June 2025
Please submit your papers to:
ap-meeting@unimelb.edu.au
This year’s keynote speaker is Nikolai Roussanov.
Nikolai Roussanov is Moise Y. Safra Professor and Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on areas of interaction between asset pricing and macroeconomics, ranging from equity to fixed income, currency, and commodity markets, to entrepreneurship and individual financial behavior. His articles have been published in the Journal of Finance, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Management Science, and won a number of prizes, including the 2015 AQR Insight Award. He currently serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Financial Economics and has in the past served on editorial boards of the Journal of Finance and Journal of Monetary Economics, as Editor of the Review of Asset Pricing Studies, and President of the Macro Finance Society. At Wharton he has taught courses on Behavioral Finance, Fixed Income Securities, and Consumer Financial Decision Making to undergraduate and MBA students, as well as Empirical Methods in Finance aimed at students in the doctoral program.
Roussanov received an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Harvard College in 2001 and a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Chicago in 2008.
Program TBA