Corporate Finance Research Meeting
13-14 October 2022
FIRN in partnership with the University of Adelaide Business School cordially invites academics and international visiting scholars at FIRN member institutions to submit a paper to the annual FIRN Corporate Finance Research Group meeting. The aim is to develop a vibrant and collegial community of academics doing research in corporate finance; to promote connections between well-known international academics and the local research community; and to create a platform for exposure of cutting edge research being conducted by FIRN members.
The event will be held from 9am to late at the Mount Lofty Ranges Vineyard, Lenswood. More information about the venue can be found here. We are supporting the local community subjected to Covid. Local transport will be provided. Any questions, please address them to the Program Chair, Jean Canil.
The attached Call for Papers provides more details about the aims of the meeting and the meeting venue.
Submissions are due by 30 June 2022. Here is the link to the paper submission site.
Program Committee: Jean Canil (Chair), Alfred Yawson, Jane Luo and Ralf Zurbrugg.
For more information about the Meeting contact: Dr Jean Canil at jean.canil@adelaide.edu.au
Keynote Speakers
Professor David Reeb
Dr. Reeb holds the Mr. and Mrs. Lin Jo Yan Professorship, with appointments in both accounting and finance. He serves as a Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER), a Fellow at the Academy of International Business (AIB), as the Director of Business Doctoral Programs in NUS Business School, and Head of Department, Accounting.
Dr. Reeb’s research interests range from founding-family ownership to the disclosure of corporate innovation, spanning the organization of accounting firms to shadow insider trading. His work has appeared in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Accounting Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, American Economic Review, Journal of Law and Economics, and the Journal of International Business Studies. His body of research has generated over 5,000 citations in other academic works, according to Web of Science (Google Scholar 17,000+). In addition, his work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The Economist, Forbes, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, Inc. Magazine, SmartMoney, MSNBC, and several other leading publications in the US, Canada, and Australia. He has also been interviewed by CNN, Comcast and Bloomberg TV.
Professor Chang Xin, Simba
Xin CHANG is a Professor of Finance at Nanyang Business School and Associate Dean (Research) overseeing PhD programs and research activities at Nanyang Business School. From 2015 to 2017, He was a tenured University Reader in Financial Economics at Cambridge Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge, J M Keynes Fellow in Financial Economics, Fellow of Darwin College, and Research Fellow of Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance. From 2004 to 2008, he was a Lecturer and then tenured Senior Lecturer in Finance at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He specializes in corporate Finance, especially capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, and stock valuation.
He had taught various courses to undergraduate, honours, master, and PhD students at HKUST, the University of Melbourne, the University of Cambridge, and NTU. Xin was awarded Dean’s award of Research Excellence in 2006 and Dean’s certificate for Excellence in Teaching for 2007 at University of Melbourne. At NTU, he was the researcher of the year for the Division of Banking and Finance in 2009, the MBA Teacher of the Year in 2011, and the Teacher of the year for the Division of Banking and Finance in 2013. He also won Peter Brownell Award for best publication in Accounting and Finance 2007, the best paper awards at the 16th SFM conference in 2008, the 19th SFM conference in 2011, and the 4th World Business Ethics Forum in 2012. He is also the award winner for “Best Professor in Financial Management” in the third Asia’s Best B-School Awards in 2012. In 2013, he received TCFA’s (The Chinese Finance Association) best paper award on corporate finance.