Our research advances knowledge in corporate finance, banking, asset pricing and derivatives, consumer finance, behavioural finance and financial markets. The Discipline has a regular research seminar, brownbag seminar and PhD seminars. Our PhD intake is two to three high-quality students per year. The Discipline engages international experts to provide highly specialised workshops on innovative empirical approaches.
Our partnerships with industry apply state-of-the art financial modelling and data analysis to tackle challenging problems. We implement a diverse range of methods including mathematical modelling, cross-sectional and time-series econometrics and forecasting, machine learning, and laboratory, online and field experiments.
The Discipline has a 90-minute research seminar on Fridays. The seminar convenor is Dr Haekwon Lee.
Meet our academics and research students.
Associate Professor Joakim Westerholm
Associate Professor Eliza Wu
Professor Suk-Joong Kim
Professor Susan Thorp
Resident Practitioner Sean Anthonisz
Fractional Professor Iftekhar Hasan
Associate Professor Shumi Akhtar
Associate Professor Buhui Qiu
Associate Professor Jing Yu
Dr Quan Gan
Dr Andrew Grant
Dr Amy Kwan
Dr Oh-Kang Kwon
Dr Henry Leung
Dr Claire Liu
Dr Jiri Svec
Dr Juan Yao
Dr Guanglian Hu
Dr Tro Kortian
Dr Evelyn Lai
Dr Haekwon Lee
Dr Michael Shin
Dr Mandy Zhang
Dr George Issa
Dr Thomas To
Dr Junhao Liu
Honorary Associate Igor Geninson
Adjunct Professor Trent Hagland
Adjunct Professor Karina Kwan
Adjunct Professor Annette Mullen
Honorary Associate Ian Pope
Honorary Associate Peter Skalkos
Richard Heath
View our current higher degree by research students.