Finance

Finance at UBC covers research interests ranging from game-theoretic models of corporate finance, to applications of Bayesian analysis in empirical finance, to theoretical modeling of equilibrium asset pricing.

Name Research Interests
Agarwal, Isha Banking; International Finance; Corporate Finance; macroeconomics; Banking, Corporate Finance, International Finance, Macroeconomics
Baldauf, Markus Financial Markets; Information Economics; Industrial Organization; Regulation; Market Microstructure
Bena, Jan Innovation; Corporate innovation; Asset pricing of technological progress; Private equity; Corporate ownership structure; Frictions in raising external finance; Entrepreneurship; Ownership of startup companies; Finance and industrial organization; Product market interactions; Innovation, Corporate innovation, Asset pricing of technological progress, Private equity, Corporate ownership structure, Frictions in raising external finance, Entrepreneurship, Ownership of startup companies, Finance and industrial organization, Product market interactions
Bian, Bo Empirical corporate finance; Productivity; Innovation; Bankruptcy; Bankruptcy, Empirical corporate finance, Innovation, Productivity
Dias Saraiva-Patelli, Ella Asset pricing and international finance; Asset pricing and international finance
Donaldson, Glen Risk management, Volatility forecasting, Asset valuation, Financial econometrics, Financial markets and price behavior
Favilukis, Jack Consumption and Production Based Asset Pricing; Heterogeneity and Inequality; Incomplete Markets; Real Estate
Fisher, Adlai Asset pricing, financial econometrics, volatility modelling, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions
Garlappi, Lorenzo Financial Economics; Asset pricing; Macro-Finance; Decision Theory; Financial Economics, Asset pricing, Macro-Finance, Decision Theory
Giammarino, Ronald corporate theory; bank regulation; real options; corporate theory, bank regulation, real options
Gornall, Will Corporate finance ; Venture capital; Banking
Hu, Allen Big Data and AI in Finance; Information in Financial Markets; Behavioral Finance; Entrepreneurial Finance; Corporate Finance; Big Data and AI in Finance, Information in Financial Markets, Behavioral Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance, Corporate Finance
Lazrak, Ali Asset pricing, Corporate Finance, Behavioral Finance, Household portfolio choice; Asset pricing and portfolio selection theory, preference theory under uncertainty
Li, Kai corporate governance, CEO compensation, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism, gender in corporate decision making, board of directors, national culture, innovation, Finance
Ortiz-Molina, Hernan Corporate finance and governance, executive compensations, industrial organization, interactions bet; Corporate finance and governance, executive compensations, industrial organization, interactions bet
Pikulina, Elena Institutional investors; Corporate finance; Experimental and behavioral finance
Zhang, Shaojun expected return; macroeconomy; climate change; expected return, macroeconomy, climate change