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
Upcoming conference
The ANU-FIRN Money, Credit and Financial Stability Meeting will be held in Canberra on 18th September 2026. Jun Pan, SAIF Chair Professor at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, will give the keynote. The Call for Papers is here (Submission deadline: 21 June 2026).
Top publication
Congratulations to Kassel Hingee, Janice Scealy and Andy Wood for their Journal of American Statistical Association publication!
Editor appointment
Emi Tanaka is now the Chief Editor of the R Journal
Award
Anna von Reibnitz and Jananie William received the Fran Hayes Award Special Commendation (as the runner-up for the main award) for their paper: Curtis, S., William, J., von Reibnitz, A., Glennie, M. and Pekarek, A. 2025. “Bridging disclosure and action: The role of intermediaries in gender pay gap regulation”, Journal of Industrial Relations
Top publication
Congratulations to Kelly Liu and Kun Li for their publication in the internationally renowned journal, Management Science!
Award
Janice Scealy was awarded the 2025 ANU College of Business and Economics Research Award for Excellence in Research Engagement & Social Impact.
ARC Discovery Grants
Congratulations to Francis Hui and Yanrong Yang for their separate ARC Discovery Grant 2025 successes!
PhD completion
Congratulations to the following (former) students who have completed their PhDs
- Submissions:
- Lyndon Ang (Stats) - Methods for Correcting Selection Bias in Non-Probability Samples via Data Integration.
- Houren Hong (Stats) - Extrinsic Semiparametric Methods for Spherical Regression: Models, Robust Estimation and Applications
- Completions:
- Jiazhen Xu (Stats) - Advances in Object Oriented Data Analysis
- Yaodong Zhang (Finance) - Three Papers on Heterogeneous Investors and Their Financial Market Implications
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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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