Bridging the gap between academia
and the finance industry in Aotearoa, New Zealand

The Auckland Centre for Financial Research (ACFR) builds knowledge and understanding in social and sustainable finance, commodity and financial markets, and empirical finance. We engage with industry partners and government agencies to produce world-class research, share knowledge and expertise, and offer valuable insights to the finance industry.

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Applied Finance Letters

Notes regarding our open access journal.

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Members are selected based on the quality of their recent academic research output.

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2025 New Zealand Capital Market Symposium

The 9th New Zealand Capital Market Symposium will bring together leading finance industry experts and academics to discuss the critical role of AI and FinTech in the financial sector.

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Problem debt, buy now pay later & young adults in Aotearoa

We surveyed 705 Kiwis between 18 and 34 years of age about debt use, attitudes, demographics, and behavioural traits.

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LGBT policies impact investor behaviour

This overview is based on the academic paper entitled “LGBT policy, investor trading behavior, and return comovement”, authored by Nhut H. Nguyen, Hung X. Do, Lily Nguyen, Quan M.P. Nguyen

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Mood, music and money: what our Spotify playlists reveal about the emotional nature of financial markets

Our paper finds a new measure of the mood of a nation in a particular point in time which is continuous, and more importantly, language free.

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Microstructure model based on the Cox-BESQ process with application to optimal execution policy

In this work we build a model to describe the evolution of an asset at high frequency.

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