The Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics explores research questions that have an impact across wide sections of society, and that further our understanding of fundamental theories. We feed our research outcomes back into our educational programs to keep them as current and robust as possible.
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NEWS
Top publications
Yanrong Yang published her paper “Identifying the structure of high-dimensional time series via eigen-analysis” in The Journal of the American Statistical Association and Tao Zou published his paper “Fixed and Random Covariance Regression Analyses” in The Annals of Statistics. These two journals are among the premiere statistics journals in the world!
Editor appointment
Francis Hui was appointed Theory & Methods Co-Editor for the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics (A-ranked journal, and our national journal for statistics).
HDR News
Arnan Viriyavejkul (Finance) who has passed his PhD requirements. His thesis is titled “Three Essays in Corporate Finance”. Congratulations Dr. Viriyavejkul!
Top publication
Antje Berndt and Yichao Zhu published their paper “The Decline of Too Big to Fail” in the American Economic Review - one of the world’s most premiere journals.
Associate Editor appointment
Andy Wood has been appointed as Associate Editor of prestigious journal The Annals of Statistics, widely regarded as one of the top three journals in Statistics.
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Actuarial Studies
The Actuarial Studies group has a diverse range of interests that involve collaboration with colleagues in a number of disciplines including economics, finance, demography and statistics.
Finance
The Finance group undertakes rigorous theoretical and empirical research in asset pricing, corporate finance and banking.
Statistics
The Statistics Research Group brings together staff with a diverse range of interests and research agendas ranging from probability theory to applications of statistics.
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