4 FMCG Conference held in Wellington
The 4th annual Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference, and associated PhD Symposium, was hosted for the first time by Victoria University during April.
The 4th annual Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference, and associated PhD Symposium, was held recently at Victoria University of Wellington (Symposium) and the Rydges Hotel Wellington (Conference).
Established by Associate Professor Balasingham Balachandran (La Trobe Business School), this conference was being hosted overseas for the first time after being held in Melbourne, Australia, for its first three years.
In opening the conference Professor Bob Buckle, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Victoria Business School, commented that: "Research, sharing ideas, and improving financial practice and public policy through conferences like this are a crucial part of the process of advancing understanding and practice", and thus in future avoiding the severe social costs from events of the past such as the Global Financial Crisis and the earlier Asian Financial Crisis.
This year's conference was particularly fortunate in having six world renowned academics as keynote speakers: Professor Peter Clarkson, Professor Jonathan Karpoff, Professor Ron Masulis , Professor Stephen Taylor, Professor Tom Smith and Professor Ross Watts.
In addition, papers were presented by academics and PhD students working in Australia, China, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Indonesia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and United States.
External sponsors of the event included Curtin University, Macquarie University, Queensland University of Technology, La Trobe University, and the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand. Victoria University was represented by the School of Accounting and Commercial Law, the School of Economics and Finance, and the Centre for Accounting, Governance and Taxation Research.
The conference was also the occasion for the Accounting Research Journal to donate an award for the best paper presented at the conference by a PhD student. The winner of the award, announced at the Conference Dinner, was Mark Humphrey-Jenner from the Australian School of Business at UNSW.
Next year's conference will be held in Queensland, Australia.