FIRN Melbourne Asset Pricing Meeting is an annual intensive research meeting hosted in association with FIRN which aims to provide academic members with an opportunity to connect with peers and gain a deeper understanding of Asset Pricing.

We look forward to you joining us.

You are invited to submit your paper to the 13th annual FIRN Melbourne Asset Pricing Meeting hosted by The University of Melbourne and FIRN, Australia’s Global Finance Research Network. The meeting is a one-day conference to be held in person on Monday, 26 October 2026 at The University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia and will include paper presentations and discussions. This year we are very pleased to have Andrea Vedolin, Professor of Finance at Questrom School of Business, Boston University, as our keynote speaker.

We invite researchers to submit unpublished empirical or theoretical papers on all topics in asset pricing and investments to ap-meeting@unimelb.edu.au by 5 June 2026. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: theoretical and empirical models of asset prices and returns, return predictability, empirical methodology, macro-finance, the study of financial institutions as related to asset prices, information and liquidity in asset markets, behavioural investment studies, asset market structure and microstructure, risk analysis, hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, ESG, and alternative investments.

AWARDS: There will be prizes awarded to the best paper and the best discussion at the meeting.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS: Interested authors are invited to submit their papers to ap-meeting@unimelb.edu.au by 5 June 2026. There is no submission fee. Please note, that the FIRN Melbourne Asset Pricing Meeting will be held in person at the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia. Acceptance emails will be sent by 7 August 2026, and you will be asked to confirm your in-person attendance before your paper is included in the conference program.

Keynote Speaker

Andrea Vedolin

Professor of Finance, Department Chair Finance, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

Andrea Vedolin is a professor of finance at Boston University, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow at the Center of Economic Policy Research. Andrea's primary research fields are asset pricing and macroeconomics. Her research has been published in various top journals. She is an associate editor at the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Asset Pricing Studies, and Journal of Financial Econometrics. She earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Lugano.

For more information, please visit the event webpage here.