On Saturday, December 7th, 11:00 a.m., Moscow time, Zoom, Finance professor Patrick J. Kelly would like to talk to NES students to introduce them to the possibility of obtaining a PhD at the University of Melbourne and answer any questions they may have. He will also talk about life in Australia.

There will be two New Economic School graduates joining the meeting from the University of Melbourne: Ekaterina Volkova, МАE’2012 and Eduard Inozemtsev, МАE’2013

Patrick J. Kelly is an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance in the Faculty of Business and Economics at The University of Melbourne. Previously Dr. Kelly was an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Finance Department at the New Economic School in Moscow (2010-2017)
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The Finance PhD at the University of Melbourne
Our world-class Finance PhD program at the University of Melbourne begins with two years of advanced course work in finance, economics, econometrics, mathematics, and statistics. Dissertation supervision is provided by the Department’s faculty. The faculty regularly publish in the leading Finance and Economics journals. Generous scholarships, fee waivers, conference attendance reimbursement, and a research allowance are available throughout the program.

The Department of Finance at the University of Melbourne wants to attract the very best doctoral candidates to study with us. The Department has an experienced group of senior faculty (Professors Carole Comerton-Forde, John Handley, Carsten Murawski, Federico Nardari and Garry Twite) and a wonderful group of young graduates from Alabama, Arizona State, Tel Aviv, Bocconi, Warwick, Georgia State, UC Santa Barbara, University of Texas at Austin, Kellogg, ESSEC, Cambridge Judge Business School, Tilburg, Columbia, Konstanz, Melbourne, Wharton, Zurich, University of Washington, University of Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State, Monash, Newcastle, Tsukuba, UNSW, NYU, Cornell and Erasmus University Rotterdam.

The information session will be presented by members of the Department of Finance and will cover:
∙ The structure of the Finance PhD program
∙ The research and publications of the Department’s faculty members
∙ The Department’s weekly seminar series and annual Finance Down Under Conference
∙ The Department’s large set of databases
∙ The application procedure
∙ The funding, support, and placement of our doctoral students.