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The 34th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference (AFBC) was organised by the Institute of Global Finance and the School of Banking and Finance, UNSW Business School. The Conference was held on virtually on 15-17 of December 2021.

The AFBC is the most significant and prestigious finance conference in the Asia-Pacific region. It brings together the world's foremost leaders of thought from the financial community, providing international academics and industry professionals with the opportunity to meet and share their research and interest in finance-related fields. The Conference Committee would like to invite all academics and practitioners to participate.

Conference speakers

  • Allen Berger, University of South Carolina
  • Jonathan Kearns, Reserve Bank of Australia
  • William Nordhaus, Yale UniversityÌý
  • Lubos Pastor, University of Chicago
  • Philipp Schnabl, New York University
  • Toni Whited, University of MichiganÌý

Prizes

BlackRock Prize

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

Risk Price Variation: The Missing Half of Empirical Asset Pricing

Andrew Patton, Duke University

Brian Weller, Duke University

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Bureau van Dijk, a Moody’s Analytics Company Prize

Awarded to the best papers in Banking

Liquidity Regulation and Bank Risk

Foly Ananou, Université de Limoges, LAPEÌý

Amine Tarazi, Université de Limoges, LAPEÌý

John Wilson, University of St Andrews, Centre for Responsible Banking & Finance

Dimitris Chronopoulos, University of St Andrews, Centre for Responsible Banking & Finance

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Bureau van Dijk, a Moody’s Analytics Company Prize

Awarded to the best paper in Corporate Finance

Is Democracy Good for Corporate Investment?

Qie Yin, Hong Kong Baptist University

Zigan Wang, The University of Hong Kong

Yan Li, The University of Hong Kong

Youan Wang, The University of Hong Kong

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RoZetta Institute (SIRCA) Research Prize Prize

Awarded for the best paper using data generated by RoZetta

From Rating to Investing: Do Credit Rating Analysts Outperform in Bond Fund Management?

Haoyi Luo, The University of Melbourne Xiaolu Hu, RMIT University

Vivian Zijin Xu, The University of Melbourne

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Australian Securities Exchange Prize

Awarded to the best paper presented on Derivatives / Quantitative Finance

Accelerated American Option Pricing with Deep Neural Networks

Urban Ulrych, University of Zurich and Swiss Finance Institute

David Anderson, University of Zurich