Speaker: Nicholas Glozier Seminar Date:Tuesday February 7 2017, 12.00pm Abstract: Nicolas will explore time trends in sleep over the decades that technology has intruded into our lives and examine data from laboratories, developed, developing and pre-industrialised societies about how we sleep. Nick Glozier is the Professor of Psychological Medicine at the Brain and Mind Centre, Sydney Medical School and
Evidence from research based on Italian listed companies suggests that audit pricing is affected by the information asymmetry that surrounds a company. Pierangelo Rosati CMCRC PhD candidate U. of Chieti-Pescara Prof Alex Frino CMCRC Research Director MGSM, Macquarie U. Audit fees are the amount of money that auditors receive for their auditing ser- vices from
Speaker: Stuart Corner Seminar Date: Tuesday November 15 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: What does the Internet of Things mean to you? Wearables? Connected washing machines? Video cameras and remote control of your home? These are the popular views of IoT, but IoT is much more than communicating ‘things’. There’s a whole ecosystem of interconnected and interdependent technologies. And beyond these
This paper analyses the introduction of competition to the Australian equities market with the entry of the Chi-X marketplace. We analyse the impact it has on market quality and provide evidence that market efficiency, as proxied by transaction costs and price discovery, is improved in the wake of competition. We also argue that the market
Speaker: Kim Bell-Anderson, USYD Seminar Date: Tuesday November 8 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: Obesity and related diseases are recognised as wicked problems with many contributing factors. Metabolic disease emerges from the interaction between our genes and the environment. Arguably, the main environmental factor is diet, and nutritional genomics is starting to characterize the effect of food on our genes and the
What is causing the growth in dark pools? New research from the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC), forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Economics, has found that SEC trading rules may be providing dark venues a regulatory advantage over traditional stock exchanges by allowing some traders to circumvent time priority, leading to the rapid
Speaker: Andrew Cottrill, HCF Seminar Date: Tuesday October 24 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: The presenter will focus on what is happening in the industry and how HCF is responding. It will be a discussion with plenty of time for interaction.
Politicians could soon be held accountable for all their quotes! A study demonstrates that sequence labelling techniques produce excellent results for quote attribution of the news. Tim O’Keefe CMCRC PhD candidate University of Sydney A/Professor James Curran CMCRC Research Associate University of Sydney Keywords: Information technology, natural language processing News stories are often driven by
Has the introduction of the ASX’s ETF Market Making Scheme improved efficiency and increased trading activity? A new study answers these questions. Jag Dosanjh PhD candidate, U. Sydney Prof. David Michayluk U. of Technology Sydney Dr Elvis Jarnecic Senior Lecturer, U. Sydney Keywords: Capital markets, market design An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is composed of a group
Speaker: Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney Seminar Date: Tuesday October 18 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: Recent technological advances have led to the production of a big data and complex networks in many domains. Examples include biological networks such as phylogenetic network, gene regulatory network, metabolic pathways and protein‐protein interaction networks. Other examples are social networks such as Facebook network, twitter network,