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Department of Finance
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2015
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Finance PhD Placements / Thesis Titles
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Finance PhD Placements / Thesis Titles
2015/16
Huaizhi Chen
, postdoc, Harvard
Thesis title
: Essays in empirical asset pricing
Hoyong Choi,
Assistant Professor, Erasmus University
Sergei Glebkin
, Assistant Professor, Insead
Thesis title
: Three essays in financial economics
Yiqing Lu
, Assistant Professor, NYU Shanghai’s campus
Thesis title
: Essays on innovation incentives and compensation structure
Milan Martinovic
Thesis title, MPhil in Finance:
Insiders' selling decision of VC-backed IPOs and long-run post-IPO performance
Seyed Seyedan
, Assistant Professor, Sharif University of Technology
Thesis title:
Essays in Financial Economics
Ji Shen
, Guanghua School of Management at Peking University
Thesis title:
Essays on asset pricing in over-the-counter markets
Luana Zaccaria
, Assistant Professor, Einaudi
2014/15
Shiyang Huang,
Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Hong Kong
Thesis title:
Essays on information asymmetry in financial market
Victoria Dobrynskaya
, Assistant Professor, Higher School of Economics
Thesis title
: Downside risk in stock and currency markets
2013/14
Jason Donaldson
, Assistant Professor of Finance, Olin Business School, Washington University in St Louis
Thesis title:
Essays in Financial Contract Theory
John Kuong
, Assistant Professor, INSEAD
Thesis title:
Essays in Financial Economics
Christian von Drathen
, Assistant Professor of Finance, Jindal School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas
Thesis Title
: Essays in Empirical Finance
Jing Zeng
, Lecturer, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Thesis title:
Essays on the theories of financial intermediation
Ping Zhou
, Analyst in Market Risk Modelling, Deutsche Bank
Thesis title:
Essays on Credit Risk
2012/13
Nelson Costa-Neto
, Assistant Professor in Finance, Catholic University of Portugal (Lisbon)
Thesis Title:
Essays on information asymmetry and financial institutions
Pragyan Deb
, Economist, International Monetary Fund
First placement:
Economist, Bank of England
Thesis title:
Essays on the Impact of Competition on Financial Intermediaries
Sean Lew
, Associate, Cornerstone Research
Thesis title:
Essays on market microstructure
Giorgia Piacentino
, Assistant Professor of Finance, Olin Business School, Washington University in St Louis
Thesis Title:
Theories of the effects of delegated portfolio managers' incentives
Marcela Valenzuela
, Assistant Professor, Universidad de Chile
Thesis Title:
Essays in financial economics
Ilknur Zer
, Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington DC
Thesis Title:
Essays in financial economics
2011/12
Vincent Fardeau
, Assistant Professor, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
First placement:
Economist - Division of Research & Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington DC
Thesis Title:
Essays in financial economics
Thomas Maurer
, Assistant Professor of Finance at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis
Thesis Title:
Is Consumption Growth merely a Sideshow in Asset Pricing? - Asset Pricing Implications of Demographic Change and Shocks to Time Preferences
Sitikantha Parida
, Assistant Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Management, Clark University
Thesis Title:
Essays on delegated portfolio management
Qi Shang
, Assistant Professor at the Hanqing Advanced Institute of Economics and Finance, Renmin University of China
Thesis title:
Essays in Asset Pricing and Institutional Investors
Terence Teo
Thesis title:
Essays in disclosure of holdings by institutional investors
Gyuri Venter
, Assistant Professor of Finance, Copenhagen Business School
Thesis Title:
Essays on asymmetric information and trading constraints
Yiyi Wang
Thesis Title:
Rational bubble, short-dated volatility forecasting and profitable trade on implied volatility surface
Yu-Min Yen
, Postdoctoral Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
2010/11
Miguel Anton
, Assistant Professor of Finance, IESE Business School, University of Navarra
Dragana Cvijanovic
, Assistant Professor of Finance, HEC Paris
Thesis Title:
Essays in Real Estate Finance
Nathan Foley-Fisher
, Economist, International Finance Division, Federal Reserve Board
Elizabeth Foote
, Junior Associate, McKinsey
Xiaoxia Hao
, Asset Allocation and Strategic Research Department, China Investment Corporation
Thesis title:
Patent Award and Informed Trading in Stock Market
Zijun Liu
, Economist, FSA
Thesis Title:
Essays in Financial Intermediation
Aytek Malkhozov
, Assistant Professor, McGill University
Thesis Title:
Essays in Asset Pricing
Kenneth McKay
, Risk Management, Morgan Stanley (Hong Kong)
Thesis Title:
Essays in contingent claims analysis
Daniel Metzger
, Assistant Professor of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics
Zhigang Qiu
, Assistant Professor of Finance, Hanqing Advanced Institute of Economics and Finance, Renmin University of China, Beijing.
Thesis Title:
Essays on Delegated Portfolio Management
Yuki Sato
, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Lausanne
Marvin Siepman
Thesis Title (MPhil in Finance):
Two essays on hedge fund risks and returns
2009/10
Claudia Custodio
, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Thesis Title:
Essays in Corporate Finance
Fabian Garavito
, Global Asset Allocation & Alternative Investments Research Team, JP Morgan
Thesis Title:
Essays on delegated asset management
Kalin Nikolov
, European Central Bank
Thesis Title:
Credit Frictions and the Macroeconomy
Marco Protopapa
, Vice President, Euro Area Economic Research, J.P. Morgan
First placement:
Economist, European Central Bank
Thesis Title (MPhil in Finance):
An Essay in Corporate Finance, Managerial Incentives, Financial Constraints and Ownership Concentration.
2008/9
Jan Bena
- Assistant Professor of Finance, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Thesis Title:
Essays on the Interaction between Financial Development and Real Economy
Alexander Bleck
- Assistant Professor of Accounting, Chicago Booth
Thesis Title:
Disclosure and Trading Games in Financial Markets
Pierre Chaigneau
- Assistant Professor of Finance, HEC Montreal
Thesis Title:
Essays on CEO Compensation
Anisha Ghosh
- Assistant Professor of Finance, Carnegie Mellon, Tepper School of Business
Thesis Title:
Essays in Asset Pricing
Keun Jung Lee
Thesis Title:
Three Essays in Corporate Governance in Korea
Christian Reusch
- Quantitative Analyst, Wadhwani Asset Management
Thesis Title:
On the non-linear dynamics of financial market risk and liquidity
Nikolaj Schmidt
Thesis Title:
Essays in Financial Intermediation
2007/8
Gara Minguez Afonso
- Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
2006/7
Sridhar Arcot
, PhD 2007, Assistant Professor, ESSEC Business School, Paris
Thesis Title:
Essays in Corporate Finance
Valentina Bruno
, Assistant Professor, Finance and Real Estate Department, American University
Thesis Title:
Three Essays in Corporate Governance
Michael Gabor Kollo
, PhD 2007, Head of Quantitative Research and Risk, Renaissance Asset Managers
First placement:
PhD Associate, BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
Thesis Title:
Essays on Financial Intermediation
Xuewen Liu
, PhD 2007, Lecturer, Imperial College London
Thesis Title:
Essays on Corporate Finance under Information Asymmetry
2005/6
Peter Kondor
, PhD 2006, Associate Professor of Economics, Central European University
First placement:
Assistant Professor, Chicago Booth (formerly Chicago GSB)
Thesis Title:
Higher-Order Expectations, Risky Arbitrage and Professional Investors
Beatriz Mariano
, PhD 2006, University Carlos III of Madrid
Thesis Title:
Asymmetries of information in financial markets with applications to debt regeneration and financial certification
Freyan Panthaki
, PhD 2006, Equity Derivatives & Synthetics Strategy, Deutsche Bank, Hong Kong
First placement
: Global Equity Derivatives Strategy, Deutsche Bank, New York
Thesis Title:
Foreign Exchange Market Reactions to News: A Microstructure Analysis of Returns, Volatility and Order Flow from the Reuters D2000-2 Electronic Trading System
2004/5
Miguel Segoviano
, PhD 2005, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Thesis Title:
'Portfolio Credit Risk Through Time: Measurement Methodologies'
Andy Jobst
, PhD 2005, Economist, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Thesis Title:
A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Asset Securisation: Risk Modelling, Security Design and Market Pricing
Max Bruche
, PhD 2005, Senior Lecturer in Finance, Cass Business School
First placement:
Assistant Professor of Economics, CEMFI
Thesis Title:
Structural Models of Corporate Bond Prices
Spyros Pagratis
, PhD 2005, Lecturer in Finance, Athens University of Economics and Business
First placement:
Economist, Bank of England
Thesis Title:
Asymmetric Information in Financial Economics: Asset Pricing, Liquidity Pricing and the Resolution of Financial Distress
Paolo Colla
, PhD 2005, Bocconi University
Thesis Title:
Essays on Non-Fundamental Speculation, Trading Behaviour and Strategic Information Sharing
Hassan Syed Naqvi
, PhD 2005, Assistant Professor of Finance, National University of Singapore
Thesis Title:
Essays on Financial Crisis: Implications for Debt-Pricing, Bail Outs and Resource Allocation
2001/2
Robert Kozowski
, PhD 2002, Associate Professor, Imperial College London
First placement:
Assistant Professor, INSEAD
Thesis Title:
Essays on Mutual Fund Performance: Statistical Significance, Persistence and Business Cycle Time-Variation
Jinhui Luo
, PhD 2002, Researcher, Barclays Global Investors
Josef Schuster
, PhD 2002, Director, IPOX Schuster LLC
2000/1
Andrew Ellul
, PhD 2001, Assistant Professor of Finance, Indiana University, Kelley School of Business
1999/2000
Elena Carletti
, PhD 2000, University of Mannheim
1998/9
Ulrike Hoffman-Burchardi
, PhD 1999, Tudor Investments
1996/7
Gleb Sandmann
, PhD 1997, Barclays Capital
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