Finance Down Under 2020 | The University of Melbourne | 4 March 2020 | University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia

The Department of Finance in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne is pleased to continue its annual conference series: Finance Down Under: Building on the Best from the Cellars of Finance.

We invite submissions that embody the best in current empirical and theoretical research. We welcome papers in asset pricing, corporate finance and all other areas of finance. The conference selection committee includes eminent scholars in every facet of finance. With the help of the selection committee, we strive to provide a conference program that is internationally renowned for excellent presentations, discussions, and keynote speeches. The academic sessions on the first day will be comprised of papers from all areas. In addition to these general sessions, a unique feature of the program is that, on the second day, we will have a special session where we honour 'vintage' research in finance that has inspired recent advances and withstood the test of time. In 2020, we will celebrate the body of work by professors Michael Brennan and Eduardo Schwartz. We are honoured to have Professor Brennan, Professor Schwartz, and Professor Michael Brandt as keynote speakers.

In addition to the academic sessions, participants are invited to a half-day tour of the local wine country following the Saturday morning session as well as a conference wine reception.

2020 Speakers

Michael Brenan
Emeritus Professor, UCLA Anderson School of Management and London Business School

Eduardo Schwartz
Distinguished Professor at UCLA and Ryan Beedie Chair in Finance at Simon Frasier University

Michael W. Brandt
Kalman J. Cohen Professor of Business Administration at Fuqua School of Business