PhD research and student profiles

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

Lorena Di Bono

Essays on Migration

Darcy Harcourt

Pricing and Valuation of Variable Annuities with Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits

Helena Sarkodie

Right to Work Laws and Venture Capital Investments

Huong Ngoc Vu

Macroeconomic policies in small and developing countries

Timothy Wilson

Disaster impacts

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

Noel B. Del Castillo

Mental health consequences of extreme weather events

Boxiong Wang

The long-term effects of disasters on social identity and post-disaster community dynamics

Yousef Abdeljawad

The Impact of the Christchurch Earthquakes (2010-2011) on Labour Productivity in the Canterbury Region in New Zealand

Quanfu Zhang

The effects of climate change and natural hazards on household economic behavior

Cansu Inal Kaynar

Influence of the Reuse of Heritage Buildings on the Resilience of New Zealand Small Town Centres

Mohammad Nemati

Social security and population ageing

Wanchen Dong

Asset pricing and financial economics

Chamika Maldeniye Koralalage

Quantitative Finance, Derivative Pricing, Financial Mathmatics

Thushini Dissanayake

Climate Finance, Asset Pricing, Behavioural Finance

Siyi Lu

The impacts of extreme heat on economics in New Zealand

Mele'ana L. Tapu

Climate change adaptation and human capital in Tonga

Ke Wang

Measuring Economic, Infrastructure, and Psychological Recovery after the 2023 Auckland Anniversary Flood and Cyclone Gabrielle