Research Areas
Staff in the School of Economics and Finance undertake research in a wide range of areas within the extremely broad areas of Economics and Finance.
As part of our commitment to research, we welcome applications from graduate students who want to study towards a Master's or PhD degree in research areas of our staff. For information on these programmes of study, see our Postgraduate Study page, or contact our Postgraduate Coordinator.
On this page:
Research Area of Expertise: Economics
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Prof Morris Altman | Behavioural Economics, Institutional Economics, Quantitative Economic History, Experimental Economics, Ethics and Economic theory, Behavioural Labour, Behavioural Finance, Economic Methodology. |
| Dr Martin Berka | Open Macroeconomic, International Finance, Monetary Economics, Growth. |
| Dr Paul Calcott | Social Regulation and its alternatives, Environmental and Paternalist Intervention. The economics of tort. |
| Dr Chia-Ying Chang | Monetary/Macroeconomic, Endogenous Growth Theory, Industrial Organization Theory, and Labour Economics. |
| Prof Lew Evans | Microeconomics, Industrial Organisation and Econometrics. The operation and performance of markets and organisations. |
| Prof Viv Hall | New Zealand, Australian and Pacific Rim business cycle analysis; Macroeconomic modelling and policy, with particular reference to monetary and fiscal policy; growth and productivity analysis. |
| Prof Dean Hyslop | Analysis of labour markets; Applied Microeconomics Analysis. |
| Dr Jacek Krawczyk | Computational Economics, Mathematical Modelling, Dynamic Games, Optimal Control Theory and viability theory; Applications of the above to Monetary Policy, Portfolio Management, Environmental and Energy Economics. |
| Jerry Mushin | Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, Exchange Rates |
| Assoc. Prof Ilan Noy | International and development economics. Natural disasters, financial crises and capital flow. |
| Dr Vladimir Petkov | Dynamic Games, Contracts, Environmental Economics |
| Assoc. Prof Jack Robles | Game Theory and Economic Theory. Current research: rationality in extensive form games, evolutionary stability in bargaining situations, discrimination (in group bias: as a repeated game equilibrium, and contacts between lawyers and clients. |
| Dr Yigit Saglam | Applied Econometrics, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics |
| Dr Stefanie Schurer | Panel data econometrics, economics of personality, health and labour economics |
| Prof Christoph Thoenissen | Dynamic macroeconomics, monetary policy, business cycle analysis, open economy macroeconomics, financial frictions. |
Research Area of Expertise: Finance
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Dr Stephen Burnell | Monetary and Banking Theory, Microeconomics, Dynamic GE models. Current research: banking and monetary policy in New Zealand; the demand for cash and transactions costs, optimal fiscal policy; and telecommunications and interconnections agreements. |
| Dr Brandon Chen | Corporate Governance, Institutional Investor monitoring; CEO Incentives and Compensation; Board Composition. |
| Dr Toby Daglish | Derivatives, Credit Risk, Fixed Income Securities, Financial Econometrics, Portfolio Theory. |
| Prof Graeme Guthrie | Applications of real options analysis. Corporate finance, including capital budgeting, hedging behaviour. Financial economics. Industrial organization and regulation. Urban economics and real estate markets. |
| Dr Hai Lin | Fixed-income Securities, Asset Pricing, Market Microstructure. |
| Dr Michael Keefe | IPOs, Capital Structure Information and Market Efficiency. |
| Dr Mohammed Khaled | Demand Systems, Economies of Scale and Scope, Production and Cost Frontiers, Stock-market Efficiency Tests, Trends in Stock Prices and Returns. |
| Assoc. Prof Martin Lally | Cost of Capital and Valuation, with a particular interest in the implications of taxes. |
| Ms Dawn Lorimer | Bank and Corporate Treasury and Financial Risk Management: Treasury and Banking Education. |
| Dr John Randal | Stock Price Modelling, Derivative Pricing, Financial Time Series Anaylsis. Current research: the application of robust statistics to financial data, in particular for volatility estimation, and analysis of the leverage effect. |
| Dr Leigh Roberts | Financial Mathematics, Risk Management and Insurance. Combinatorics; Jack Polynominals and Zonal Polynominals. |