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Meet the current thesis students at the School of Economics and Finance, and find out what their research topics are.

If you intend to apply for thesis study in Economics or Finance, then your application needs to be directed through the Faculty of Graduate Research for PhD applications. For Master’s thesis study see our Master of Commerce information page.

Lorena Di Bono

Essays on Migration

Darcy Harcourt

Pricing and Valuation of Variable Annuities with Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits

Loan Nguyen

Essays on regulatory economics

Cristhian Prieto Duran

Empirical essays on economics of natural disasters

Helena Sarkodie

Right to Work Laws and Venture Capital Investments

Belinda Storey

Pricing of risk in coastal property and sea level rise

Huong Ngoc Vu

Macroeconomic policies in small and developing countries

Timothy Wilson

Disaster impacts

Zijun Zhao

Green innovation and carbon disclosure

Willian Bejarano

The nonlinear effects of interbank market frictions on monetary policy transmission mechanism

Jern Tat Chin

Using machine learning models for financial market predictions

Mike Zhou

Machine learning in finance

Menglian Du

Essays on financial economics

Van Nguyen Thi

Three essays on climate finance

Ying Liu

Geographic representation in economics

Nidhi Ramburuth

Child Penalty and Women's Labour

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