Financial Integrity Research Network (FIRN) - Seed Funding

Funding: 2004: $40,000

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (Other funds for ARC projects)
Australian Research Council (ARC Special Research Initiatives Seed Funding for Research Networks for projects starting 2003)

Start year: 2003

Summary: FIRN will be directed towards innovation in the integrity and efficiency of Australia s financial system. To address pressing problems and threats associated with this key component of Australia s infrastructure, FIRN will bring together a multi-disciplinary network featuring internationally renowned academics in a unique collaborative research effort which will cross conventional disciplinary boundaries including financial economics, applied statistics, actuarial science, financial mathematics, market micro-structure, accounting and information systems. FIRN will be supported by SIRCA s world-class financial research infrastructure and industry network. It will deliver a range of innovative research, educational, professional development and applied outcomes.

Keywords: Financial Risk Management, Finance Research, Finance Research Services, Financial Mathematics and Statistics, Actuarial and Insurance Research, Financial Econometrics,

FOR Codes: Stochastic Analysis and Modelling, Econometric and Statistical Methods, Finance, Energy systems analysis, Information processing services, Finance and investment services, Information Processing Services (incl. Data Entry and Capture), Information systems, technologies and services not elsewhere classified, Energy systems and analysis

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UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.