Researcher

My Expertise

Exchange rates including digital currencies, international finance, market microstructure (equities, bonds, and foreign exchange), innovation, innovation diffusion

Keywords

Fields of Research (FoR)

Financial Economics, International Economics and International Finance, Banking, Finance and Investment, Industry Economics and Industrial Organisation

Biography

I am an Associate Professor of Finance and Scientia Fellow Alumni in the School of Banking and Finance, the University of New South Wales. My work focuses on empirical industrial organisation at the firm and market level. I am particularly interested in understanding the role of and determinants of women participation in innovation and in the international aspect of differences across countries and disciplines. Additional current and past work...view more

I am an Associate Professor of Finance and Scientia Fellow Alumni in the School of Banking and Finance, the University of New South Wales. My work focuses on empirical industrial organisation at the firm and market level. I am particularly interested in understanding the role of and determinants of women participation in innovation and in the international aspect of differences across countries and disciplines. Additional current and past work covers international finance and empirical methods.

I was an Assistant and Associate Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University from 2008-2016. I was a Marie Curie research fellow for the period 2009-2011 and a research fellow at the Duisenberg School of Finance from 2010-2014. My work has been published in top finance and economics journals and has been presented at the AEA, AFA, WFA, EFA, FIRS among many other conferences. I have visited for extended periods Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley), Jones Graduate School of Business (Rice University), and the National University of Singapore.

I have a PhD from Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.

 

Personal website


My Grants

2023 - 2025: ARC Discovery Grant

2019: Women and Science research grant, Dauphine Foundation

2017-2020: Scientia fellowship

2009-2011: Marie Curie fellowship 


My Qualifications

  • PhD in Finance: Essays in Exchange Rate Microstructure (Warwick Business School, University of Warwick) 
  • MSc in Economics and Finance (Warwick Business School, University of Warwick) 
  • BSc in Accounting and Finance (London School of Economics and Finance)

My Awards

2018: FIRN CFA Prize

           NFA Best Paper in Firm Growth and Innovation

           BFCM Best Paper Award

           Outstanding reviewer - Journal of International Money and Finance           

2016: Outstanding reviewer - Journal of Banking and Finance

2014: Crowell Second Prize by PanAgora Asset Management

2019, 14, 13: Finalist FMA Best Paper Award in Market microstructure


My Research Supervision


Supervision keywords


Areas of supervision

Empirical industrial organizational: market microstructure, innovation.

International finance: exchange rates.


Currently supervising

  • David Webb

My Engagement

Media Releases and Interviews

(Crypto) Currencies Finance

Pound fluctuations - ABC

FTX Bankruptcy

Fox Business - Will FTX's bankruptcy spill into the general economy like Lehman Brothers? 

Fox Business/Crypto News - Bitcoin bubble researcher sees short term price stability

Yahoo Finance - FTX-driven crypto chaos exposes weaknesses but not another 2000 dot-com debacle 

Russian Crises and Cryptocurrencies

       Can Russia use ‘blockchain’ to get around sanctions?  - Business ThinkFinancial Standard

Interviews with: 2GB Radio  with Luke Grant; AusBiz

Cryptocurrencies

ABC NewsRadio - Growing confidence in cryptocurrency creating value spike  - with Thomas Oriti

ABC National Radio - More legitimacy to crypto? - with The Money and Richard Aedy

UNSW Podcast - Business of Finance Podcast - with Camilla Love (eInvest) and Nick Wailes

The Australian - Ukraine conflict and crypto - by Chris Griffith

Law Society Journal - 'We are all tech lawyers now’ – the future of cryptocurrency - by Cat Woods

The Bitcoin bubble: four predictions about the future of cryptocurrency 

 

Central bank digital currencies

When Will Central Banks Switch to Digital Money

Digital Currency Revolution

Building Trust in Digital Currency - Is it Time for Regulation?

 

Libra launch

ABC 24h News Interview - with Ros Childs

ABC Business Interview - with Rachel Pupazzoni

ABC World News Interview - China digital currency

The Bolt Report SkyNews - with Andrew Bolt (covered by the Australian and MSN Australia)

Libra isn't dead yet - The Conversation, NZ Herald's take on the issue

 

Australian Finance Review

Special report November 21 2018 - Fear Rising After Period of Calm

 

Other Australian Outlets

SBS On the Money - Market reacts to UBS buy of troubled Credit Suisse 

9NEWS (covered by several outlets) - Is the global economy about to fall and take Australia with it?

Sydney Morning Herald - Business leaders brush off market volatility

 

Practitioner Outlets

ARX Brief - Practitioner’s Brief: Compensating for a Distorted Picture of Global Innovation

 

Mental Health

Age and mental health in Covid times - UNSW Newsroom

Lockdowns and Mental Health: Age-related effects of the COVID-19 pandemic - Meeting link


My Teaching

Trading in Financial Securities, Portfolio Management, Multinational Financial Management (CEMS Program), Corporate Finance (Liberal Arts), International Financial Markets, Banking and Financial Intermediation, International Bank Management, Financial Intermediaries

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Location

UNSW Business School - Ref E12
Level 3, Office 336

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Contact

+61 2 9055 1884