The Sydney Banking and Financial Stability Conference (SBFC), Since 2016

Organized by the University of Sydney Business School

Sydney, Australia

The 2026 meeting will be during Monday 30 November - Tuesday 1 December, 2026 - In Person ONLY

The Call for Papers is at https://sbfc.sydney.edu.au/CallForPapers/

Aim of SBFC

Our primary objective in organising this annual conference is to provide a platform for international academics can gather, interact, and exchange their latest insights in Banking, Financial system stability, and other topics within the traditional and emerging fields of Finance. By facilitating this forum, we aim to prioritise collaborative efforts to address the most pressing contemporary issues in banking and financial stability. Furthermore, we aspire to contribute to public policy discussions on enhancing our collective framework and fortifying the financial system’s resilience for the future.

Conference Convenor

• Suk-Joong Kim, University of Sydney, Australia 

Scientific Committee

• Charles Calomiris, Columbia University, USA  
• Manthos Delis, Audencia Business School, France  
• Bill Francis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA  
• Vasso Ioannidou, Bayes Business School, UK  
• Kose John, New York University, USA  
• Michael Koetter, Halle Institute for Economic Research, Germany  
• Iikka Korhonen, Bank of Finland, Finland   
• Ross Levine, University of California Berkeley, USA  
• Ronald Masulis, University of New South Wales, Australia  
• Nadia Massoud, University of Melbourne, Australia  
• Camelia Miniou, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, USA  
• KwangWoo Park, KAIST, Korea   
• Steven Ongena, University of Zurich, Switzerland  
• Christine Parlour, University of California Berkeley, USA   
• Gabriele Sampagnaro, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
• Anthony Saunders, New York University, USA  
• Xian Sun, Johns Hopkins University, USA  
• Amine Tarazi, Université de Limoges, France  
• James Vickery, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, USA  
• Gaiyan Zhang, University of Missouri, USA

Program Committee - 2026