Researcher

My Expertise

Exchange rates including digital currencies, international finance, market microstructure (equities, bonds, and foreign exchange), innovation, innovation diffusion

Keywords

Fields of Research (FoR)

Financial Economics, International Economics and International Finance, Banking, Finance and Investment, Industry Economics and Industrial Organisation

Biography

I am an Associate Professor of Finance and Scientia Fellow Alumni in the School of Banking and Finance, the University of New South Wales. My work focuses on empirical industrial organisation at the firm and market level. I am particularly interested in understanding the role of and determinants of women participation in innovation and in the international aspect of differences across countries and disciplines. Additional current and past work...view more

I am an Associate Professor of Finance and Scientia Fellow Alumni in the School of Banking and Finance, the University of New South Wales. My work focuses on empirical industrial organisation at the firm and market level. I am particularly interested in understanding the role of and determinants of women participation in innovation and in the international aspect of differences across countries and disciplines. Additional current and past work covers international finance and empirical methods.

I was an Assistant and Associate Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University from 2008-2016. I was a Marie Curie research fellow for the period 2009-2011 and a research fellow at the Duisenberg School of Finance from 2010-2014. My work has been published in top finance and economics journals and has been presented at the AEA, AFA, WFA, EFA, FIRS among many other conferences. I have visited for extended periods Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley), Jones Graduate School of Business (Rice University), and the National University of Singapore.

I have a PhD from Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.

 

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My Grants

2019: Women and Science research grant, Dauphine Foundation

2017-2020: Scientia fellowship

2009-2011: Marie Curie fellowship 


My Qualifications

  • PhD in Finance: Essays in Exchange Rate Microstructure (Warwick Business School, University of Warwick) 
  • MSc in Economics and Finance (Warwick Business School, University of Warwick) 
  • BSc in Accounting and Finance (London School of Economics and Finance)

My Awards

2018: FIRN CFA Prize

           NFA Best Paper in Firm Growth and Innovation

           BFCM Best Paper Award

           Outstanding reviewer - Journal of International Money and Finance           

2016: Outstanding reviewer - Journal of Banking and Finance

2014: Crowell Second Prize by PanAgora Asset Management

2019, 14, 13: Finalist FMA Best Paper Award in Market microstructure


My Research Supervision


Supervision keywords


Areas of supervision

Empirical industrial organizational: market microstructure, innovation.

International finance: exchange rates.


Currently supervising

  • Leo Liu
  • Yufeng Yao
  • David Webb

My Engagement


My Teaching

Trading in Financial Securities, Portfolio Management, Multinational Financial Management (CEMS Program), Corporate Finance (Liberal Arts), International Financial Markets, Banking and Financial Intermediation, International Bank Management, Financial Intermediaries

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Location

UNSW Business School - Ref E12
Level 3, Office 336

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Contact

+61 2 9055 1884