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

• Shumi Akhtar, The University of Sydney, Australia 
• Md Akhtaruzzaman, Australian Catholic University, Australia 
• Searat Ali, University of Wollongong, Australia 
• Zhe An, Monash University, Australia 
• Yanlin Bao, Singapore Management University, Singapore 
• Alexandre Baptista, The George Washington University, USA 
• Swadip Bhattacharjee, University of Wollongong, Australia 
• Banita Bissoondoyal-Bheenick, RMIT University, Australia 
• Yunju Cha, National chengchi university, Taiwan 
• Trevor Chamberlain, McMaster Unversity, Canada 
• Guodong Chen, Shanghai New York University, China 
• Junshi Chen, Massey University, New Zealand 
• Daxuan Cheng, Macquarie University, Australia 
• DuckKi Cho, The University of Sydney, Australia 
• Yeow Hwee Chua, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
• Hengguo Da, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China 
• Evans Darko, Université de Rennes, CNRS, CREM - UMR 6211, France, France  
• Alexander David, University of Calgary, Haskayne School of Business, Canada 
• Pappu Dey, University of Newcastle, Australia 
• Priya Dhawan, O.P. Jindal Global University, India 
• Diemo Dietrich, U Greifswald, Germany 
• Wenzhi Ding, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, SAR 
• Ning Ding, The University of Auckland, New Zealand 
• Julan Du, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR 
• Stephen Fan, The University of Sydney , Australia  
• Zitong Fu, Research School of Accounting, Australian National University, Australia 
• Chengbo Fu, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada 
• Luca Galati, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany 
• Alessio Galluzzi, Reserve Bank of Australia, Australia 
• Yong Kyu (Kevin) Gam, University College Dublin, Ireland 
• Ning Gong, Deakin University, Australia 
• Rangga Handika, Tokyo International University, Japan 
• Jinji Hao, Victoria University of Wellington , New Zealand 
• qing he, School of Finance, Renmin University of China, China 
• Christian Hilpert, Deakin University, Australia 
• Jieying Hong, School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, China 
• Xiaolu Hu, RMIT University, China 
• WENBIN HU, The University of Queensland, Australia 
• Wendi Huang, University of Manchester, UK 
• He (Fred) Huang, The University of Sydney, Australia 
• Hyun Joong Im, University of Seoul, Korea 
• Ivan Indriawan, Adelaide University, Australia 
• Eduard Inozemtsev, University of Melbourne, Australia 
• Chanik Jo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR 
• Masayasu Kanno, Nihon University, Japan 
• Baek-Chun Kim, National Chengchi University, Taiwan 
• Yun-Soo Kim, University of Guelph, Canada 
• Suk-Joong Kim, The University of Sydney, Australia 
• Singsen Lam, Sun Yat-sen University, China 
• Doowon Lee, University of Sydney Business School, Australia 
• Yanru Lee, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, USA 
• Xiaoyang LI, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, SAR 
• Donghui Li, Shenzhen University, China 
• Yizheng Li, University of Auckland & Vlerick Business School, New Zealand 
• Tingjun Liu, Macquarie University Business School , Australia 
• Rui Liu, Duquesne University, USA 
• Yi-Hsin Lo, National Taiwan University , Taiwan 
• Jiang Luo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
• Hygea Marwany, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands 
• Quentin Moreau, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, SAR 
• Van Quoc Thinh Nguyen, University of Sydney, Australia 
• Deniz Okat, University of Technology Sydney, Australia 
• Takeshi Osada, Saitama University, Japan 
• Haerang Park, Korea University, Korea 
• A-Young Park, Financial Supervisory Service, Korea 
• Francisco Pinto, Central Bank of Chile, Chile 
• Shusen Qi, Xiamen University, China 
• Yancheng Qiu, The University of Sydney, Australia 
• Dewan Rahman, University of Queensland, Australia 
• Hedieh Rashidi Ranjbar, Melbourne Business School, Australia 
• Gosia Ryduchowska, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway 
• Amitav Saha, University of Notre Dame, Australia 
• Bo Sang, University of Bristol, UK 
• Hadi Sehatpour, University of Technology Sydney, Australia 
• Nihar Singh, Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi, India 
• Mandeep Singh, University of Sydney, Australia 
• Hui Sun, University of Western Australia, Australia  
• Aditya Taruna, The Australian National University, Australia 
• Daniel te Kaat, University of Groningen, Netherlands 
• Thomas To, University of Sydney, Australia 
• Hai Hong Trinh , VinUniversity, Vietnam 
• David Tripe, Massey University, New Zealand 
• Iichiro Uesugi, Hitotsubashi University, Japan 
• Emilia Vähämaa, Hanken School of Economics, Finland 
• Eric Vansteenberghe, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Banque de France, France 
• Gertjan Verdickt , University of Auckland, New Zealand  
• George Baihan Wang, Queensland University of Technology, Australia 
• Yichu Wang, Nottingham University Business School, China/UK 
• Huaixin Wang, University of Macau, Macau, SAR 
• Jin Wang, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada 
• Erik Wang, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, SAR 
• Vycke Wu, The University of Sydney, Australia  
• Yajun Xiao, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China 
• Han Xiao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China 
• Juan Yao, University of Sydney Business School, Australia 
• Edison Yu, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, USA 
• Yuyang Zhang, The University of Sydney, Australia 
• Yunqi Zhang, Nankai University, China 
• Gaiyan Zhang, University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA 
• Yifan Zhou, Universtiy of Leicester, UK 
• Peng Zhu, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China 
• Omar Zidan, University of Ottawa, Canada