The 2024 Sydney Banking and Financial Stability Conference

Organized by the University of Sydney Business School

Sydney, Australia

9-10 December, 2024

Aim of SBFC

Our primary objective in organising this conference is to foster is to foster a platform where 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 endeavours to address the most pressing and contemporary issues concerning 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

Keynote Speakers

• Professor Ron Masulis Scientia Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia

• Professor Avanidhar (Subra) Subrahmanyam Distinguished Professor of Finance, UCLA, USA

Journal Sponsorship

• Papers selected for presentation in the 2023 SBFC may be considered for publication in the following sponsoring journals:
• International Review of Economics and Finance
• Pacific Basin Finance Journal

• Authors whose papers are accepted for presentation at the conference are encouraged, but not obligated, to submit their papers to one of these sponsoring journals for publication in either a special issue or regular issues. The conference committee members will act as guest/handling editors.
• Papers submitted to each journal will be reviewed following these journals’ standard review process.
• Details regarding the journal submission processes will be provided after the conference.

Conference Convenor

• Suk-Joong Kim (University of Sydney, Australia) 

Founding Conference Chairs

• Suk-Joong Kim (University of Sydney, Australia) 
• Eliza Wu (University of Sydney, Australia) 
• Iftekhar Hasan (Fordham University, USA & 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   
• 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