Jeffrey Wong

Jeffrey Wong is Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance. His research expertise is in the areas of Accounting, Finance and Energy Finance with specialization in market behaviour, corporate regulations, complex relationships in financial markets, securities market microstructure, and energy finance.  

His research projects have addressed issues in high frequency trading, market fragmentation, institutional behaviour, complex relationships across financial markets, minimum tick variations, board lot sizes, intraday volatility, trading opportunities and execution costs. He has published in leading internationally refereed journals including the Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Journal of Futures Markets and is a critical part of a successful team that won $1 million in Australian Research Council funding to analyse the impact of High Frequency Trading on financial markets. Outcomes from Jeffrey’s research have contributed to a better understanding of the complex relationship between cross-border exchanges and assisted in shaping the rules and regulations governing securities market design.

Jeffrey is also Head of the Energy Markets Research Centre at the Capital Markets CRC (a large research institute awarded approximately 300m in funding since inception). He previously worked for Singapore Exchange and held executive positions in the funds management industry. As the energy research leader at CMCRC, he engages extensively with government, regulators and industry stakeholders to enable evidence-based decisions. Using his experience in financial and other markets, Jeffrey seeks to incorporate advance techniques into energy markets to make it more fair, efficient, secure, reliable and affordable.

Jeffrey has a PhD and Honours from the University of Sydney, won significant government funding (from Australian Research Council), worked and consulted with the Australian Energy Regulator and NSW government on energy research projects.