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Postgraduate researchers

Find out what some of our current postgraduate researchers are working on.

Sharifah Aljffri

Research interests:

  • Theoretical International Macroeconomics

Research interests:

  • Financial Economics
  • Corporate Finance
  • Banking
  • Regulations
  • Venture Capital

Research interests:

  • Microeconomics
  • Applied microeconometrics
  • Econometrics
  • Financial economics
  • Financial econometrics,
  • Money and banking
  • Financial markets
  • Theory of finance
  • Corporate finance

Research interests:

  • Financial economics
  • Banking
  • Economic growth

Ahmad Alqatary

James Baraniak

Yukun Cao

Research interests:

  • Asset pricing
  • Quantitative finance
  • Financial economics

Qingjun Chen

Junming Chen

Research interests:

  • Macroeconomic theory regarding monetary policy and financial stability, particularly using dynamic (stochastic) general equilibrium models or overlapping-generations models with imperfect competition and nominal rigidities.

Ming Chen

Research interests:

  • Matching Theory
  • Money and Banking

Nicola Delf

Research interests:

  • Health econometrics
  • Health inequality
  • Health policy

Research interests:

  • Health economic evaluation methods of diagnostic technologies.

Neelam Kalita

Research interests:

  • Adolescent health
  • Public health interventions
  • Economic evaluations

Research interests:

  • Health inequalities
  • Mental health

René Junior Kegne Foe

Research interests:

  • Macroeconomics Policy
  • Development Economics
  • Labour Economics
  • Environmental Economics

Jinhyun Kim

Research interests:

  • Economic evaluation of healthcare
  • Health econometrics

Shanyan Lai

Research interests:

  • Financial trading strategy construction and the factor models.

Research interests:

  • Mechanism design
  • Matching
  • Auction and information economics

Xiaowen Li

Xingzhu Li

Research interests:

  • Contract theory
  • Corporate finance

Boen Liang

Research interests:

  • Econometrics

Zhisheng Lin

Research interests:

  • Self-funding for social care and informal care provision and its impact on the social distribution of health.

Shuyi Lou

Huichuan Lu

Research interests:

  • Public Economics

Patrick Lynn

Research interests:

  • Market design (matching and auction)
  • Social choice theory
  • Public economics

Rudy Marhastari

Sarah Martin

Research interests:

  • Spatial econometrics
  • Political economy

Research interests:

  • Banking
  • Financial intermediation
  • Corporate finance
  • Contract theory

Research interests:

  • Risk management in banking
  • Corporate finance
  • Contract theory

Santiago Palacio Ciro

Lin Qin

Research interests:

  • Corporate finance
  • Merger and acquisition
  • Game theory

Research interests:

  • Development economics
  • Microeconometrics
  • Health economics
  • Labour economics

Research interests:

  • Economic evaluation of healthcare interventions by means of estimating opportunity cost of health policies.

Research interests:

  • Sovereign debt
  • Monetary and fiscal policies
  • Vector autoregressive (VAR) models

Abdulla Shaheed

Research interests:

Monetary economics, exchange rates and transmissions mechanism of monetary policy.

Kexin Shao

Research interests:

  • Environmental economics
  • Industrial organisation
  • Microeconomic theory

Research interests:

  • Health Economics
  • Economic Evaluation
  • International Economics
  • Development Alternatives
  • Quantitative Tools and Techniques

Adam Stirling

Ruangrong Suwankarn

Research interests:

  • Market microstructure
  • High-frequency trading
  • Financial economics

Zaheen Umar

Wenting Wang

Research interests:

  • Econometrics
  • Panel data

Ting Xie

Research interests:

  • Applied econometrics, with a particular focus on panel data econometrics.

Yunhao Xu

Research interests:

  • Experimental Economics

Research interests:

  • Resource Economics
  • International Trade
  • Development Economics

Wanyu Zhang

Yijia Zhang

Zuoqi Zhang

Research interests:

  • Cognitive development
  • Health inequality
  • Labour economics

Shanyan Lai