Prize winners
PhD Forum – 1st Prize
Awarded to the best paper presented at the PhD Forum
Lesser-Known Stocks and Signal Cleanse
Chengwei Wang, INSEAD
PhD Forum – 2nd Prize
Awarded to the second best paper presented at the PhD Forum
Procyclicality of the Correlation between Dividend Growth and Consumption Growth
Nancy Xu, Columbia University
PhD Forum – 3rd Prize
Awarded to the third best paper presented at the PhD Forum
The Peso Problem: Evidence from the S&P 500 Options Market
Ti Zhou, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
BlackRock Prize
Awarded to the best paper presented on Capital Markets / Funds Management / Mutual Funds
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Agency Cost of Debt During the Financial Crisis
Hami Amiraslani, London School of Economics & Political Science
Karl Lins, University of Utah
Henri Servaes, London Business School
Ane Tamayo, London School of Economics & Political Science
SIRCA Prize
Awarded to the best papers using data generated by SIRCA
Price Discovery in Stock and Options Markets
Vinay Patel, University of Technology Sydney
Talis Putnins, University of Technology Sydney
David Michayluk, University of Technology Sydney
Sean Foley, University of Sydney
Communicating Stability in the Financial System: On the Causal Effects of Transparency on Growth
Robert Faff, University of Queensland
Shams Pathan, The University of Queensland
Natalya Zelenyuk, University of Queensland
BankScope Prize
Awarded to the best papers in Banking
Shadow Banking and Asset Pricing
Jinji Hao, Washington University in St. Louis
The Impact of Unconventional Monetary Policy on Firm Financing Constraints: Evidence from the Maturity Extension Program
Nathan Foley-Fisher, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Rodney Ramcharan, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Edison Yu, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Zephyr Prize
Awarded to the best paper in Corporate Finance
Peer Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility
Jie Cao, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hao Liang, Singapore Management University
Xintong Zhan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
CFA Institute Research Award
Awarded to the best papers presented on investment management research
Financial Institutions, Aggregate Liquidity Provision, and the Contagion Process
Christian Lundblad, University of North Carolina
Zhongyan Zhu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fight Inside the Wrapper: The Balance of Power between Insurance Companies and Asset Management Companies
Massimo Massa, INSEAD
Vijay Yadav, ESSEC Business School
ASX Prize
Awarded to the best paper presented on Derivatives / Quantitative Finance
Industry Interdependencies and Cross-Industry Return Predictability
David Rapach, Saint Louis University
Jack Strauss, University of Denver
Jun Tu, Singapore Management University
Guofu Zhou, Washington University in St. Louis
Keynote speakers
The Keynote speakers for the Conference include:
Selection Committee
Members of the Selection Committee include:
- Renée Adams, University of New South Wales
- Allen Berger, University of South Carolina
- Ekkehart Boehmer, EDHEC
- Claudio Borio, Bank for International Settlements
- Michael Brennan, University of California LA
- Stijn Claessens, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- J. David Cummins, Temple University
- Asli Demirguc-Kunt, World Bank
- Douglas Diamond, University of Chicago
- Jin-Chuan Duan, National University of Singapore
- Robert Faff, University of Queensland
- Joseph Fan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Mark Flannery, University of Florida
- Kenneth French, Dartmouth University
- Bruce Grundy, University of Melbourne
- Robert Jarrow, Cornell University
- Kose John, New York University
- Andrew Karolyi, Cornell University
- Larry H. P. Lang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Deborah Lucas, MIT
- Ronald Masulis, University of New South Wales
- Vikram Nanda, Rutgers University
- Maureen O'Hara, Cornell University
- Terrance Odean, University of California, Berkeley
- Jay Ritter, University of Florida
- Richard Roll, UCLA
- Anthony Saunders, New York University
- Henri Servaes, London Business School
- Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University
- Tom Smith, University of Queensland
- Bruno Solnik, HEC School of Management
- Rene Stulz, Ohio State University
- Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, UCLA
- Xuan Tian, Indiana University
- Chu Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
All submitted papers undergo a peer review process before being accepted for presentation at the AFBC. Full papers undergo a blind review process by a selection committee independent of the author. Conference proceedings are delivered via SSRN.
Further Enquiries
For any further information or questions please email us at
bankconf@unsw.edu.au.