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.

Boxiong Wang — Boxiong Wang

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

Siyi Lu — Siyi Lu

The impacts of extreme heat on economics in New Zealand

Huong Ngoc Vu

Macroeconomic policies in small and developing countries

Ke Wang — Ke Wang

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

male PhD student head shot — Timothy Wilson

Disaster impacts

Picture of Menglian Du PhD student — Menglian Du

Essays on financial economics

Photo of Mike Zhou PhD student — Mike Zhou

Machine learning in finance

Nidhi Ramburuth — Nidhi Ramburuth

Child Penalty and Women's Labour

Quanfu Zhang — Quanfu Zhang

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

Noel Del Castillo — Noel B. Del Castillo

Mental health consequences of extreme weather events

Picture of Van Nguyen Thi PhD candidate — Van Nguyen Thi

Three essays on climate finance

Willian Bejarano PhD candidate — Willian Bejarano

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

Ying Liu — Ying Liu

Geographic representation in economics

Mohammad Nemati — Mohammad Nemati

Social security and population ageing

Thushini Dissanayake — Thushini Dissanayake

Climate Finance, Asset Pricing, Behavioural Finance

Wanchen Dong — Wanchen Dong

Asset pricing and financial economics

Chamika Maldeniye Koralalage — Chamika Maldeniye Koralalage

Quantitative Finance, Derivative Pricing, Financial Mathmatics

Han Lin — Han Lin

Essays in Labour Economics