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The 29th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference was held on 14–16 December 2016 at the Shangri-La Hotel, Sydney. The PhD Forum was held on 13 December 2016.

Keynote speakers

Prize winners

  • Awarded to the best paper presented at the PhD Forum

    Synthetic Shorting with ETFs
    Qifei Zhu, University of Texas at Austin
    Frank Weikai Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  • Awarded to the second best paper presented at the PhD Forum

    Asset Prices, Local Prospects and the Geography of Housing Dynamics
    Preetesh Kantak, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Awarded to the third best paper presented at the PhD Forum

    Relationship Lending in Shadow Banking: Impact of Financial Firms' Cross Holding Relation in Money Market Funds
    Ai He, Emory University

  • Awarded to the best paper presented on Capital Markets / Funds Management / Mutual Funds

    Measuring the Added Value of Stock Recommendations
    Anders Anderson, Swedish House of Finance
    Howard Jones, University of Oxford
    Jose Vincente Martinez, University of Oxford

  • Awarded to the best papers in Banking

    Bank Monitoring and CEO Risk-Taking Incentives
    Anthony Saunders, New York University
    Keke Song, Melbourne University

    Do Banks Differently Set Their Liquidity Ratios Based on Their Network Characteristics?
    Isabelle Distinguin, Saunders, Université de Limoges
    Aref Mahdavi-Ardekani Song, Université de Limoges
    Amine Tarazi, Université de Limoges

  • Awarded to the best paper in Corporate Finance / Corporate Governance / Institutional Block Holders

    Does Stock Market Liquidity Affect Real and Accrual-Based Earnings Management?
    Dan Li, University of Hong Kong
    Ying Xia, Monash University

  • Awarded to the best paper in Banking / Finance / Investment Management in Asia-Pacific markets

    Private Information in the Chinese Stock Market: Evidence from Mutual Funds and Corporate Insiders
    Yeguang Chi, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  • Awarded to the second best paper in Banking / Finance / Investment Management in Asia-Pacific markets

    Information Environment, Systematic Volatility and Stock Return Synchronicity
    Jing Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Steven X. Wei, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Wayne Yu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  • Awarded to the best paper using data generated by SIRCA

    High Frequency Trading and Co-Movement in Financial Markets
    Laura Malceniece, Stockholm School of Economics
    Karlis Malcenieks, Stockholm School of Economics
    Talis Putnins, University of Technology Sydney

  • Awarded to the best paper presented on Derivatives / Quantitative Finance

    How Does Stock Illiquidity Affect the Informational Content of Option Prices?
    Luis Goncalves-Pinto, National University of Singapore
    Jing Xu, Renmin University of China

Further enquiries

For any further information or questions please email us at bankconf@unsw.edu.au