PhD Alumni

Thesis:  Essays in Asset Pricing and Microstructure of Fixed Income Markets

Current Institution:  PIMCO (Australia)

Primary Supervisor:  Wing Wah Tham

Thesis:  Essays in Valuation

Current Institution:  Bain & Company

Primary Supervisor:  Peter Pham, Yeejin Jang

Thesis:  Essays in Microstructure Liquidity, Asset Pricing, and Short Selling

Current Institution:  Boronia Capital

Primary Supervisor: Peter Swan

Thesis:  Essays on Shareholder Activism and Corporate Governance

Current Institution:  University of Melbourne

Primary Supervisor:  Renée Adams; Jason Zein

Thesis:  Essays on Information and Capital Markets

Current Institution:  Jinan University

Primary Supervisor:  Fariborz Moshirian; Oleg Chuprinin

Thesis:  Product Variety, Innovation and Growth

Current Institution:  University of Technology Sydney

Primary Supervisor:  Wing Wah Tham

Thesis:  Three Essays in International Finance

Current Institution:  Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority

Primary Supervisor:  Fariborz Moshirian, Peter Pham

Thesis:  Essays in Financial Markets

Current Institution:  UNSW

Primary Supervisor:  Jerry Parwada

Thesis:  The Whole is Greater than the Sum of Alternative Risk Premia: A Practical Approach

Current Institution:  GIC (Singapore)

Primary Supervisor:  Jonathan Reeves

Thesis:  Three essays on securities market transparency and design

Current Institution:  Vinva Investment Management

Primary Supervisor:  Peter Swan, Jerry Parwada

Thesis: The Anomolous Outperformance of Australian Small Company Fund Managers

Current Institution:

Primary Supervisor: Jianfeng Shen, Paul Karehnke

Thesis: Essays on market efficiencies from the perspective of investor sentiment, anomalies and institutional trading activity

Current Institution: China Institute of Finance and Capital Markets, China Securities Regulatory Commission

Primary Supervisor: Jianfeng Shen, Konark Saxena

Thesis: The Real Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy and Market Frictions 

Current Institution: UNSW

Primary Supervisor: Fariborz Moshirian

Thesis:  The Impact of CEO Characteristics on Corporate Performance and Financial Reports

Current Institution:  Fortlake Asset Management

Primary Supervisor:  Mark Humphery-Jenner

Thesis:  Fixing the FX Benchmark Fixing Mechanisms

Current Institution:  Capital Markets IQ Pty Ltd

Primary Supervisor:  Li Yang

Thesis:  Essays in Asset Pricing and Market Microstructure

Current Institution:  Monash University

Primary Supervisor:  Rik Sen; Oleg Chuprinin

Thesis:  Essays in Empirical Finance

Current Institution:  University of Sydney

Primary Supervisor:  Fariborz Moshirian

Thesis: Essays on Corporate Ownership Structure, Insider Trading, and Index Fund voting Patterns 

Current Institution: UNSW

Primary Supervisor: Fariborz Moshirian

Thesis: Stock Exchange Competition in a High Frequency World Primary 

Supervisor: Jerry Parwada

Thesis: Essays in Corporate Finance and Banking

Current Institution: Queensland University Technology Primary

Supervisor: Renee Adams

Thesis: Understanding the Effects of Uncertainty on the Macroeconomy and Financial Markets 

Current Institution: Vietnamese – German University Primary 

Supervisor: Li Yang

Thesis: Institutional Ownership and Technology Spillovers 

Primary Supervisor: Zhian Chen

Thesis: Essays on Human Capital, Risk-Taking, and Innovation

Current Institution: Monash University

Primary Supervisor: Jason Zein

Thesis: Market Quality: Joint Impact of Political Lifecycles, High Frequency Trading and Market Fragmentation 

Current Institution: Founder, Executive Chairman – BMC Markets Group

Primary Supervisor: Jerry Parwada

Thesis: Three Essays in Corporate Governance

Current Institution: Monash University

Primary Supervisor: Jo-Ann Suchard

Thesis: Essays in Behavioural Finance 

Primary Supervisor: Bohui Zhang

Thesis: Three Essays in Corporate Finance 

Current Institution: University of Technology Sydney

Primary Supervisor: Ron Masulis

Thesis: Market Design in Fast Markets 

Current Institution: Financial Conduct Authority

Primary Supervisor: Jerry Parwada

Thesis: Three Essays in Financial Economics 

Current Institution: Florida International University

Primary Supervisor: Li Yang

Thesis: Political Relations and Finance

Primary Supervisor: Bohui Zhang

Thesis: Household Finance and the Role of Housing Wealth in Household Financial Decision-Making 

Primary Supervisor:  Li Yang

Thesis: Three Essays on Executives and Boards of Directors

Current Institution: University of Technology, Sydney

Primary Supervisor: Renee Adams

Thesis: Essays on Family Business Groups, Corporate Investments, and Cash Management

Current Institution: The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong

Primary Supervisor: Jason Zein

Thesis: Essays on Corporate Governance in Listed Asian Firms C

Current Institution: Singapore Management University

Primary Supervisor: Jo-Ann Suchard

Thesis: International Aspects of Capital Allocation Efficiency

Current Institution: Gulf Cooperation Council 

Primary Supervisor: Bohui Zhang

Thesis: Three Essays on Director Incentives and Behaviour 

Current Institution: Monash University 

Primary Supervisor: Renee Adams

Thesis: Securities Market Design: Exchange Access Fee, Tick Size, and Dynamic Price Limit 

Current Institution: RoZetta

Primary Supervisor: Peter Swan

Thesis: Essays in Corporate Finance and Governance 

Current Institution: Dimensional Fund Advisors 

Primary Supervisor: Fariborz Moshirian

Thesis: Essays on Concentration, Size, Performance, and Benefits of the Active Fund Management Industry 

Current Institution: The Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics, Xiamen University 

Primary Supervisor: David Feldman

Thesis: Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice with Technical Analysis

Primary Supervisor: David Feldman

Thesis: Truncation Error Treatment for the Model-Free Implied Moment Estimator 

Current Institution: Coinplug Inc.

Primary Supervisor: Li Yang

Thesis: Institutional and Retail Investor Trading Behaviour in Equity Markets 

Current Institution: First Sentier Investors – Realindex Investments 

Primary Supervisor: Peter Swan

Thesis: Theories on Family Firms 

Current Institution: New Economic School, Moscow 

Primary Supervisor: Ron Masulis

Thesis: Essays on Market Frictions, Information and Professional Money Management 

Current Institution: Curtin University

Primary Supervisor: Jerry Parwada

Thesis: Essays in Empirical Finance

Primary Supervisor: Jerry Parwada

Thesis: Essays on Institutional Equity Trading: Transaction Cost and Investor Heterogeneity Impacts 

Current Institution: Australian Institute of Business 

Primary Supervisor: Jerry Parwada

Thesis: The Role of Institutional Environments in International Corporate Finance 

Current Institution: Monash University Primary

Supervisor: Zhian Chen

Thesis: Essays on the Performance and Trading Strategies of Institutional Investors

Primary Supervisor: Jerry Parwada

Thesis: Essays on Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions 

Current Institution: The University of Waikato 

Primary Supervisor: Ronan Powell

Thesis: Dynamic Order Placement Strategies and Stock Market Quality: Further Evidence from a New Approach

Primary Supervisor: Kingsley Fong

Thesis: Essays on Boards of Directors 

Current Institution: The University of Waikato

Primary Supervisor: Lixiong Guo

Thesis: Experiments on the Determinants of Asset Price Bubbles 

Current Institution: The London School of Economics and Political Science

Primary Supervisor: Sian Owen

Thesis: Aspects of globalization: Financial Markets Liberalization, Technological Innovation, Accounting Harmonization and Corporate Finance 

Current Institution: Allianz 

Primary Supervisor: Fariborz Moshirian

Thesis: An Analysis of Private Equity Funds: An Investor’s Perspective 

Current Institution: Anacacia Capital

Primary Supervisor: Jo-Ann Suchard

Thesis: Institutional Investors, Corporate Innovation, and Information 

Current Institution: The University of Queensland

Primary Supervisor: Fariborz Moshirian

Thesis: Essays in Financial Economics 

Current Institution: Entrepreneur First

Primary Supervisor: Fariborz Moshirian

Thesis: Corporate Governance and the Relevance of Private Equity

Current Institution: Macquarie University

Primary Supervisor: Chris Adam

Thesis: Mergers and Acquisitions in the International Insurance Industry 

Current Institution: The University of Queensland

Primary Supervisor: Fariborz Moshirian

Thesis: Characterizations of and Closed-form Solutions for Plain Vanilla and Exotic Derivatives 

Current Institution: IMC Trading

Primary Supervisor: David Feldman

Thesis: Cash Flow Sensitivities and Corporate Financing Constraints 

Current Institution: Australian National University 

Primary Supervisor: Fariborz Moshirian

Thesis: The Impacts of Stamp Duty on Cross-listed Chinese Stocks 

Current Institution: Nasdaq

Primary Supervisor: Peter Swan