Finance

The Business School’s finance researchers are examining how investors and firms allocate scarce resources over time. This covers corporate financial decision-making, investment analysis, portfolio management and financial instruments, and institutions and markets.

The finance group’s research currently addresses:

• Asset pricing - Determining the factors that determine the required rate of return on risky assets.
• The cost of capital - Its application to capital budgeting, the valuation of firms and the regulation of pricing.
• Initial public offerings of equity securities - The factors affecting under-pricing and the history of the under-pricing phenomenon.
• Market microstructure - The impact of "market architecture" on the outcomes of the trading process.
• Securities’ market regulation - The regulation of information disclosure in financial markets and its impact on the financial information environment.
• Risk management - The identification and measurement of financial risks and the management of these risks using financial instruments.
• Banking, financial institutions and regulation - Bank supervision and regulation; the global financial crisis.

• Prof Henk Berkman
• Senior Lecturer Yeguang Chi 
  
• Assoc Prof Lina El’-Jahel 
  
• Dr Paul Geertsema
• Senior Lecturer Xing Han
• Dr John Lee
• Senior Lecturer Helen Lu
  
• Prof Dimitris Margaritis

For more information, contact the following:

Prof Henk Berkman
Professor
Email: h.berkman@auckland.ac.nz
Phone: +64 9 923 4861