The Sydney Banking and Financial Stability Conference (SBFC)

Organized by the University of Sydney Business School

Sydney, Australia

The 2025 meeting will be during Monday 15- Tuesday 16 December, 2025 - 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 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

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

Program Committee - 2025

• Md Akhtaruzzaman, Australian Catholic University, Australia
• Zhe An, Monash University, Australia
• Kevin Aretz, University of Manchester, UK
• Deasy Ariyanti, Ghent University, Belgium
• Alexandre M. Baptista, George Washington University, USA
• Pedro Barroso, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
• Swadip Bhattacharjee, University of Wollongong, Australia
• Muhammad Ishaq Bhatti, La Trobe University, Australia
• Banita Bissoondoyal-Bheenick, RMIT University, Australia
• Peilin Cai, Shenzhen University, China
• Guodong Chen, New York University Shanghai, China
• Li Ting, Tina Chiu, Bentley University, USA
• DuckKi Cho, University of Sydney, Australia
• John C. Chu, Monash University, Australia
• Yeow Hwee Chua, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Kristle Romero Cortés, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Wei Cui, University of Sydney, Australia
• Ting Dai, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR
• Evans Darko, Université de Rennes, France
• Priya Dhawan, Indian Institute of Technology, India
• Diemo Dietrich, University of Greifswald, Germany
• Ning Ding, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Yunjiang Dong, Queen’s University, Canada
• Julan Du, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
• Chengbo Fu, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
• Thomas Gehrig, University of Vienna, Austria
• Ning Gong, Deakin University, Australia
• Jesús Gorrín, University of Warwick, UK
• Rangga Handika, Tokyo International University, Japan
• Qing He, School of Finance, Renmin University of China, China
• Christian Hilpert, Deakin University, Australia
• Wenbin Hu, University of Queensland, Australia
• Xiaolu Hu, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
• Fred Huang, University of Sydney, Australia
• Björn Imbierowicz, Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany
• Eduard Inozemtsev, University of Melbourne, Australia
• George Issa, University of Sydney, Australia
• Elvis Janecic, University of Sydney, Australia
• Chanik Jo, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
• Artem Joukov, Wenzhou-Kean University, China
• Madhu Kalimipalli, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
• Masayasu Kanno, Nihon University, Japan
• Baek-Chun Kim, National Chengchi Univesity, Taiwan
• Woochan Kim, Korea University Business School, Korea
• Yun-Soo Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
• Oskar Kowalewski, IESEG School of Management, France
• Sing-Sen Lam, Sun Yat-sen University, China
• Dietmar Leisen, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany
• Urs Lendermann, Deutsche Bundesbank University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Henry Leung, University of Sydney, Australia
• Can Li, Renmin University, China
• Donghui Li, College of Economics, Shenzhen University, China
• Xiangyu Lin, University of Manchester, UK
• Yun Ling, City University of Macau, Macau SAR, China
• Jun Liu, University of Tasmania, Australia
• Rui Liu, Duquesne University, USA
• Yi-Hsin Lo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
• Alejandro Lopez-Lira, University of Florida, USA
• Andre Lot, University of Sydney, Australia
• Yiqing Lu, New York University Shanghai, China
• Shunji Mei, University of Adelaide, Australia
• Deniz Okat, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR
• Takeshi Osada, Saitama University, Japan
• Darius Palia, Rutgers Business School, USA
• Haerang Park, Korea University, Korea
• Shu-Cing Peng, National Central University, Taiwan
• Peter Pham, University of Sydney, Australia
• Adrian Pop, University of Angers, France
• Shusen Qi, Xiamen University, China
• Yancheng Qiu, University of Sydney, Australia
• Dewan Rahman, University of Queensland, Australia
• Gabriele Sampagnaro, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
• Mandeep Singh, University of Sydney, Australia
• Hui Sun, University of Western Australia, Australia
• Amine Tarazi, University of Limoges and IUF France, France
• Aditya Anta Taruna, Australian National University, Australia
• Daniel Marcel te Kaat, University of Groningen, Netherlands
• Thomas To, University of Sydney, Australia
• Hai Hong Trinh, Massey University, New Zealand
• Yi-Da Tsai, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
• Iichiro Uesugi, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
• Arun Upadhyay, Florida International University, USA
• Eric Vansteenberghe, Bank of France, France
• Gertjan Verdickt, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Huaixin Wang, University of Macau, China
• Jin Wang, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
• Wei Wang, Queen’s University, Canada
• Yang Wang, University of Sydney, Australia
• Yichu Wang, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China/UK
• Mark Wu, Gabelli School of Business, Roger Williams University, USA
• Vycke Wu, University of Sydney, Australia
• Cheng Xiang , Chongqing University , China
• Yajun Xiao, Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
• Pramod Kumar Yadav, University of Sydney, Australia
• Juan Yao, University of Sydney, Australia
• Edison Yu, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, USA
• Gaiyan Zhang, University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA
• Jingfeng Zhang, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
• Yunqi Zhang, Nankai University, China
• Tianchen (Hugo) Zhao, University of Maryland, USA
• Rui Zhong, University of Western Australia, Australia
• Yifan Zhou, University of Leicester, UK
• Peng Zhu, Nanjing University, China
• Andrei Zlate, Federal Reserve Board, USA