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