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:

Empirical Asset Pricing: We examine the forces that determine required returns across liquid and illiquid risky assets, helping to better understand risk premia, market efficiency, and the pricing of uncertainty.

Sustainable Finance: Our research explores how climate change, biodiversity loss, and other non-financial risks reshape investment decisions, asset values, and corporate risk management in the transition to a sustainable economy.

Financial History: By drawing on historical evidence, we generate insights into modern financial markets, institutional development, and the origins and consequences of financial crises.

Corporate Finance: We study how firms innovate and make strategic decisions about investment, financing, and payouts in dynamic and uncertain environments.

Machine Learning in Finance: We apply advanced data science and machine learning techniques to asset pricing, portfolio construction, risk management, and financial decision-making.

Banking, Financial Institutions, and Regulation: Our work examines bank behaviour, supervision, and regulatory design, with particular attention to financial stability and lessons from the global financial crisis.

• Professor Henk Berkman
• Dr Justin Case
• Dr Yeguang Chi 
  
• Associate Professor Lina El-Jahel 
• Dr Xing Han
• Dr Maryam Hasannasab
• Dr Dulani Jayasuriya
• Dr John Lee
• Dr Michelle Li
• Dr Pengfei Liu
• Dr Edmund Lou
• Professor Dimitris Margaritis
• Dr Marty Pham
• Dr Gertjan Verdickt
• Dr Leo Xiao
• Dr Zijun Zhao

For more information, contact:

Associate Professor Lina El-Jahel
Disciplinary Area Lead Finance
Email: l.eljahel@auckland.ac.nz