
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 OrganisationBiography
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.
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 Think, Financial 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
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
Contact
Publications
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