SIRCA would like to thank all researchers who submitted papers in consideration for the ‘Pitching Research’ Symposium to be held in Sydney 27 February, 2015.
All researchers who submitted papers will shortly receive email notification confirming that their papers have been received for review.
SIRCA will notify the researchers chosen for inclusion in the ‘Pitching Research’ Symposium by 30 January 2015.
SIRCA would like to thank all researchers who submitted papers so far for the Pitching Research Symposium.
Deadline for submissions: 19 January 2015
The symposium will be held on Friday 27 February, 2015 at SIRCA.
For more details on the symposium are available here and submissions should be sent to callforpapers@sirca.org.au
SIRCA is pleased to announce a new innovation in the Young Researcher Workshop (YRW) programme 2015.
Professor Robert Faff from the University of Queensland Business School will co-ordinate and lead a one day symposium comprising ‘pitching research’ presentations.
The symposium will be held on Friday 27 Feburary, 2015 at SIRCA.
For more details on this symposium are available here and submissons should be sent to callforpapers@sirca.org.au.
Deadline for submissions: 19 January 2015
Advancements in Information and Communication Technologies have paved the way to new business models, markets, networks, services, and players in the financial services industry. Following the success of recent global FinanceCom workshops, SIRCA is pleased to support the Sydney 2014 FinanceCom Workshop on Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry, focusing on the theme ”New’ Emergent Trends of IT in the Finance Industry’. The workshop spans multiple disciplines, including technical, services, economic, sociological and behavioral sciences. SIRCA representatives will be present to talk about developments which will benefit our research community.
Details of the event are as follows:
Date: Friday 12th December 2014
Venue: Darlington Centre at the University of Sydney (174 City Road, Darlington NSW 2006, Sydney, Australia)
Click here for details on registration and the full workshop agenda.
SIRCA is pleased to announce a new innovation in the Young Researchers Workshop (YRW) programme for 2015.
Coinciding with his role as AFAANZ Visiting Research Professor, Professor Robert Faff from the University of Queensland Business School will co-ordinate and lead a one-day symposium comprising ‘pitching research’ presentations.
More details on this symposium are available here and submissions should be sent to callforpapers@sirca.org.au.
The symposium will be held on Friday 27 February, 2015 at SIRCA.
Sirca are pleased to provide our Members with access to the presentation slides prepared by Dr. Danika Wright (University of Sydney) entitled “Indices, Investments and Ideology: 50 Years of Residential Real Estate Research”. Dr. Wright highlights the benefits that researchers can gain through the use of RP Data via Sirca. These can be found within the Member Portal > DL2 > RP Data > RP Data Presentations.
Sirca is pleased to announce a $1,000 Best Paper sponsorship for the upcoming Financial Market and Corporate Governance Conference (FMCGC) to be held in Fremantle April 9-10, 2015. The prize will be awarded to the best paper which has used Sirca data (including ASX intraday tick data and regulatory disclosures, and Thomson Reuters intraday tick data and news). Please note that the use of Sirca data must be acknowledged in the paper.
To submit a paper and learn more about the FMCGC please go to their website for further information. Submissions close on January 30, 2015.
The Philip Brown Prize for Best Published Paper is awarded to the best paper published in an A* journal in the previous calendar year using Sirca data. This prize is to recognise the significant contribution of Philip Brown in the establishment of Sirca and the work he did in developing databases to be used for finance and accounting research. The Philip Brown Prize is awarded annually through recommendation from senior scholars around Australia and New Zealand.
Sirca would like to congratulate this year’s joint winners on their successful publications from 2013:
Terrence Hendershott and Ryan Riordan for their co-authored paper ‘Algorithmic Trading on the Market for Liquidity’, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 48, No. 4, Aug. 2013.
Michael Souček and Neda Todorova for their co-authored paper ‘Realised volatility transmission between crude oil and equity futures market: A multivariable HAR approach’, Energy Economics, Vol. 40, Nov. 2013.
On Thursday 7th August, 2014 between 9.30-11.30am, Sirca will be performing maintenance and providing updates to our datasets which will result in the Sirca portal and all datasets within being temporarily unavailable.
We thank you for your understanding.
Jinyoung Jang and Sorin Daniliuc, from the Australian National University, are the winners of this years Sirca Best Paper Award given at the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) annual conference.
Sirca congratulates you both for your winning paper entitled The impact of organisational and managerial acquisition experience on M&A performance.
