Methodological and Empirical Advances in Financial Analysis

The Stata workshop on Data Visualisation and Programming has been completed with great success.

Fans of Stata, it is with great pleasure to announce the MEAFA research training workshop on Stata, 15-18 February 2011.

It is with great pleasure to announce the Fourth Meeting on MEAFA, 27-28 Jan 2011.

The bi-annual Professional Development Workshop in Quantitative Analysis Using Stata is a great success story.

MEAFA is excited to announce the upcoming Professional Development Workshop in Quantitative Analysis Using Stata, specially because this year we have the Multiple Imputation (MI) module given by Yulia Marchenko (the developer of the -mi- suite in Stata).

MEAFA is glad to welcome Prof Günther Gebhardt as an affiliated international member.

The 3-day MEAFA research training workshop on Neural Networks in Econometric System Identification, Forecasting and Control, 15-17 Feb 2010, confirmed all the expectations and counted with the presence of 22 people from the academia (PhD students and academics from a wide range of disciplines) and private sector.

MEAFA was so overwhelmed with the interest for the workshop on Multilevel/mixed Models Using Stata, 10-12 Feb 2010, that a second identical workshop was run back-to-back during 8-10 Feb 2010. In the end, all places were booked out within three days of the initial announcement (max 34 per day).

We are delighted to proclaim the conclusion of another very successful event at the Faculty of Economics and Business. Each year the workshop is growing and attracting more national and overseas contributions.

It is with great pleasure to announce the MEAFA research training workshop on Neural Networks in Econometric System Identification, Forecasting and Control, 15-17 Feb 2010.

In order to satisfy the high demand for the workshop on Multilevel/mixed Models Using Stata, 10-12 Feb 2010, an identical workshop will run back-to-back during 8-10 Feb 2010.

The demand for the workshop on Multilevel/mixed Models Using Stata, 10-12 Febr 2010 has been overwhelming and all places have been reserved within 3 days of the initial announcement !

We are cheerful to announce MEAFA’s newest international members: Prof Roger Willett and Dr Michal Falta from the University of Otago, New Zealand.

It is with great pleasure to announce a MEAFA research training workshop on Multilevel/mixed Models Using Stata, 10-12 February 2010.

MEAFA is very pleased to announce the affiliation of three new scholars from The University of Sydney: Dr Neal Arthur, Dr Sandra van der Laan and Dr Jiri Svec.

It is with great pleasure that we announce the Third Meeting on MEAFA, 21-22 Jan 2010.

The 2009 Australian and New Zealand Stata Users Group meeting has proven to be a great achievement, gathering people from different disciplines and across Australia and New Zealand.

Two key MEAFA members, Stuart McLeay and Demetris Christodoulou have published the paper "Bounded Variation and the Asymmetric Distribution of Scaled Earnings" in Accounting and Business Research.

Congratulations to Sandy who has successfully defended her thesis examination and has been awarded with a PhD.

Dear fans of Stata, it is with great pleasure to announce the 2009 Australian and New Zealand Stata Users Meeting (ANZSUM), hosted by MEAFA.