The Department of Finance in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne is pleased to expand its annual conference series to embrace a new theme: Finance Down Under: Building on the Best from the Cellars of Finance.
Each year, the Saturday special session will build around a vintage work that has inspired advances and withstood the test of time. The Friday sessions will be open to papers from all areas in Finance. We invite you to join us, March 10-12, 2011 in delightful late-summer Melbourne, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1961 classic, "Dividend Policy, Growth, and the Valuation of Shares," by Miller and Modigliani.
Submissions are invited that embody the best in current theory and empirical advances in corporate finance or asset valuation for the regular Friday sessions. In addition, papers are invited for the special symposium session devoted to new research on distribution policy, growth and valuation.
In all, 15 competitive paper slots are available. Each presenting author is eligible for up to AU$2000 towards airfare and accommodation costs. To ensure the highest quality interaction, overall attendance will be limited to 60. The program outline is as follows.
PROGRAM:
Evening of Thursday March 10, 2011:
Welcome wine reception
Friday March 11:
Keynote Addresses:
Professor Peter Bossaerts (California Institute of Technology, Swiss Finance Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) Professor Stephen Ross (MIT)
Parallel sessions in the morning and afternoon.
Morning Saturday March 12:
Keynote Address on the past and future of research on distribution policy, growth and valuation: Professor Jeff Pontiff (Boston College)
Special session on new research on distribution policy, growth and valuation.
Afternoon Saturday March 12:
Tour of the Yarra Valley situated at the eastern boundary of Melbourne followed by dinner in the valley. The valley is best described as Napa circa 1975 - beautiful and peaceful.
REGISTRATION:
The conference registration fee will include all sessions and functions. For partners and guests, a limited number of social-only registrations will also be available.
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
The deadline for submissions is November 18, 2010. Authors of selected papers will be notified by December 31, 2010.
Please email your submissions to:
CONTACT: AnnMaree Murray
Email: mua@unimelb.edu.au
The final program and further details will be available at the conference website that will be posted at:
http://www.finance.unimelb.edu.au/
CONFERENCE SLELECTION COMMITTEE:
Members of the Conference Selection Committee include:
Renee Adams, The University of Queensland
Anup Agrawal, University of Alabama
Andrew Ang, Columbia University
Effi Benmelech, Harvard University
Simon Benninga, Tel Aviv University
Utpal Bhattacharya, Indiana University
Stephen Brown, New York University
David A. Chapman, Boston College
Bhagwan Chowdhry, UCLA Anderson
Lauren H. Cohen, Harvard Business School
George M. Constantinides, The University of Chicago
Stephen G. Dimmock, Nanyang Technological University
Eliezer Fich, Drexel University
Michael Gallmeyer, University of Virginia
Neal Galpin, Texas A&M University
Nicolae Garleanu, University of California, Berkeley
Ron Giammarino, University of British Colombia
Ning Gong, The University of New South Wales
Richard C. Green, Carnegie Mellon University
David A. Hsieh, Duke University
Zoran Ivkovich, Michigan State University
Ravi Jagannathan, Northwestern University
Marcin Kacperczyk, New York University
Michael Lemmon, The University of Utah
Kian Guan Lim, Singapore Management University
Alexander Ljungqvist, New York University
Anthony W. Lynch, New York University
Craig MacKinlay, Wharton University of Pennsylvania
Robert L. McDonald, Northwestern University
David Musto, Wharton University of Pennsylvania
Kjell G. Nyborg, University of Zurich
Maureen O'Hara, Cornell University
Terrance Odean, University of California, Berkeley
Krishna Ramaswamy, Wharton University of Pennsylvania
Jacob Sagi, Vanderbilt
Anthony Sanders, George Mason University
Christian Schlag, Goethe Universitat Frankfurt am Main
Michael Schill, University of Virginia
Mark Seasholes, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Tom Smith, The Australian National University
Per Stromberg, Stockholm School of Economics
Melvyn Teo, Singapore Management University
Garry Twite, The Australian National University
Dimitri Vayanos, London School of Economics
Jiang Wang, MIT Sloan School of Management
Mitch Warachka, Singapore Management University
Russ Wermers, University of Maryland
David Yermack, New York University
Joe Zhang, Singapore Management University
BEST PAPER AWARDS:
The Organizing Committee will award two Best Paper Awards:
CEG Research Prize in Corporate Finance: AU$2000
JCP Investment Partners Research Prize in Investments: AU$5000
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Bruce D. Grundy, Spencer Martin, Stefan Petry
The Department of Finance
Faculty of Business & Economics
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010 AUSTRALIA
