Congratulations to the joint winners of the SIRCA Best Paper Award from the 28th Annual Australasian Finance & Banking Conference (AFBC). The winning papers were:

“Price Discovery in Stock and Options Markets” by Vinay Patel (University of Technology, Sydney), Tālis Putniņš (University of Technology, Sydney), David Michayluk (University of Technology, Sydney) and Sean Foley (University of Sydney)

and;

“Communicating Stability in the Financial System: On the Causal Effects of Transparency on Growth” by Robert Faff (University of Queensland), Shams Pathan (University of Queensland) and Natalya Zelenyuk (University of Queensland).

Congratulations on this well deserved recognition from UNSW and the AFBC. We look forward to reading your future research papers.