LSE Finance PhD Placements / Thesis Titles

2015/16

• Huaizhi Chen, postdoc, Harvard
  Thesis title: Essays in empirical asset pricing
• Hoyong Choi,  Assistant Professor, Erasmus University
• Sergei Glebkin, Assistant Professor, Insead
  Thesis title: Three essays in financial economics
• Yiqing Lu, Assistant Professor, NYU Shanghai’s campus
  Thesis title: Essays on innovation incentives and compensation structure
• Milan Martinovic
  Thesis title, MPhil in Finance:  Insiders' selling decision of VC-backed IPOs and long-run post-IPO performance
• Seyed Seyedan, Assistant Professor, Sharif University of Technology
  Thesis title: Essays in Financial Economics
• Ji Shen, Guanghua School of Management at Peking University
  Thesis title: Essays on asset pricing in over-the-counter markets
• Luana Zaccaria, Assistant Professor, Einaudi

2014/15

• Shiyang Huang, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Hong Kong
  Thesis title: Essays on information asymmetry in financial market
• Victoria Dobrynskaya, Assistant Professor, Higher School of Economics
  Thesis title: Downside risk in stock and currency markets

2013/14

• Jason Donaldson, Assistant Professor of Finance, Olin Business School, Washington University in St Louis
  Thesis title: Essays in Financial Contract Theory
• John Kuong, Assistant Professor, INSEAD
  Thesis title: Essays in Financial Economics
• Christian von Drathen, Assistant Professor of Finance, Jindal School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas
  Thesis Title: Essays in Empirical Finance
• Jing Zeng, Lecturer, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
  Thesis title: Essays on the theories of financial intermediation
• Ping Zhou, Analyst in Market Risk Modelling, Deutsche Bank
  Thesis title: Essays on Credit Risk

2012/13

• Nelson Costa-Neto, Assistant Professor in Finance, Catholic University of Portugal (Lisbon)
  Thesis Title: Essays on information asymmetry and financial institutions
• Pragyan Deb, Economist, International Monetary Fund
  First placement: Economist, Bank of England
  Thesis title: Essays on the Impact of Competition on Financial Intermediaries
• Sean Lew, Associate, Cornerstone Research
  Thesis title: Essays on market microstructure
• Giorgia Piacentino, Assistant Professor of Finance, Olin Business School, Washington University in St Louis
  Thesis Title: Theories of the effects of delegated portfolio managers' incentives
• Marcela Valenzuela, Assistant Professor, Universidad de Chile
  Thesis Title: Essays in financial economics 
• Ilknur Zer, Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington DC
  Thesis Title: Essays in financial economics

2011/12

• Vincent Fardeau, Assistant Professor, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
  First placement: Economist - Division of Research & Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington DC
  Thesis Title: Essays in financial economics
• Thomas Maurer, Assistant Professor of Finance at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis
  Thesis Title: Is Consumption Growth merely a Sideshow in Asset Pricing? - Asset Pricing Implications of Demographic Change and Shocks to Time Preferences
• Sitikantha Parida, Assistant Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Management, Clark University
  Thesis Title: Essays on delegated portfolio  management
• Qi Shang, Assistant Professor at the Hanqing Advanced Institute of Economics and Finance, Renmin University of China
  Thesis title: Essays in Asset Pricing and Institutional Investors
• Terence Teo
  Thesis title: Essays in disclosure of holdings by institutional investors
• Gyuri Venter, Assistant Professor of Finance, Copenhagen Business School
  Thesis Title: Essays on asymmetric information and trading constraints
• Yiyi Wang
  Thesis Title: Rational bubble, short-dated volatility forecasting and profitable trade on implied volatility surface
• Yu-Min Yen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

2010/11

• Miguel Anton, Assistant Professor of Finance, IESE Business School, University of Navarra
• Dragana Cvijanovic, Assistant Professor of Finance, HEC Paris
  Thesis Title: Essays in Real Estate Finance
• Nathan Foley-Fisher, Economist, International Finance Division, Federal Reserve Board
• Elizabeth Foote, Junior Associate, McKinsey
• Xiaoxia Hao, Asset Allocation and Strategic Research Department, China Investment Corporation
  Thesis title: Patent Award and Informed Trading in Stock Market
• Zijun Liu, Economist, FSA
  Thesis Title: Essays in Financial Intermediation
• Aytek Malkhozov, Assistant Professor, McGill University
  Thesis Title: Essays in Asset Pricing
• Kenneth McKay, Risk Management, Morgan Stanley (Hong Kong) 
  Thesis Title: Essays in contingent claims analysis
• Daniel Metzger, Assistant Professor of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics
• Zhigang Qiu, Assistant Professor of Finance, Hanqing Advanced Institute of Economics and Finance, Renmin University of China, Beijing.
  Thesis Title: Essays on Delegated Portfolio Management
• Yuki Sato, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Lausanne
• Marvin Siepman
  Thesis Title (MPhil in Finance): Two essays on hedge fund risks and returns

2009/10

• Claudia Custodio, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
  Thesis Title: Essays in Corporate Finance
• Fabian Garavito, Global Asset Allocation & Alternative Investments Research Team, JP Morgan
  Thesis Title: Essays on delegated asset management
• Kalin Nikolov, European Central Bank
  Thesis Title: Credit Frictions and the Macroeconomy
• Marco Protopapa, Vice President, Euro Area Economic Research, J.P. Morgan
  First placement: Economist, European Central Bank
  Thesis Title (MPhil in Finance): An Essay in Corporate Finance, Managerial Incentives, Financial Constraints and Ownership Concentration.

2008/9

• Jan Bena - Assistant Professor of Finance, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
  Thesis Title: Essays on the Interaction between Financial Development and Real Economy
• Alexander Bleck - Assistant Professor of Accounting, Chicago Booth
  Thesis Title: Disclosure and Trading Games in Financial Markets
• Pierre Chaigneau - Assistant Professor of Finance, HEC Montreal
  Thesis Title: Essays on CEO Compensation
• Anisha Ghosh - Assistant Professor of Finance, Carnegie Mellon, Tepper School of Business
  Thesis Title: Essays in Asset Pricing
• Keun Jung Lee
  Thesis Title: Three Essays in Corporate Governance in Korea
• Christian Reusch - Quantitative Analyst, Wadhwani Asset Management
  Thesis Title: On the non-linear dynamics of financial market risk and liquidity
• Nikolaj Schmidt
  Thesis Title: Essays in Financial Intermediation

2007/8

• Gara Minguez Afonso - Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

2006/7

• Sridhar Arcot, PhD 2007, Assistant Professor, ESSEC Business School, Paris
  Thesis Title: Essays in Corporate Finance
• Valentina Bruno, Assistant Professor, Finance and Real Estate Department, American University
  Thesis Title: Three Essays in Corporate Governance
• Michael Gabor Kollo, PhD 2007, Head of Quantitative Research and Risk, Renaissance Asset Managers
  First placement: PhD Associate, BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
  Thesis Title: Essays on Financial Intermediation
• Xuewen Liu, PhD 2007, Lecturer, Imperial College London
  Thesis Title: Essays on Corporate Finance under Information Asymmetry

2005/6

• Peter Kondor, PhD 2006, Associate Professor of Economics, Central European University
  First placement: Assistant Professor, Chicago Booth (formerly Chicago GSB)
  Thesis Title: Higher-Order Expectations, Risky Arbitrage and Professional Investors
• Beatriz Mariano, PhD 2006, University Carlos III of Madrid
  Thesis Title: Asymmetries of information in financial markets with applications to debt regeneration and financial certification 
• Freyan Panthaki, PhD 2006, Equity Derivatives & Synthetics Strategy, Deutsche Bank, Hong Kong
  First placement: Global Equity Derivatives Strategy, Deutsche Bank, New York
  Thesis Title: Foreign Exchange Market Reactions to News: A Microstructure Analysis of Returns, Volatility and Order Flow from the Reuters D2000-2 Electronic Trading System

2004/5

• Miguel Segoviano, PhD 2005, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  Thesis Title: 'Portfolio Credit Risk Through Time: Measurement Methodologies'
• Andy Jobst, PhD 2005, Economist, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  Thesis Title: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Asset Securisation: Risk Modelling, Security Design and Market Pricing
• Max Bruche, PhD 2005, Senior Lecturer in Finance, Cass Business School
  First placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, CEMFI
  Thesis Title: Structural Models of Corporate Bond Prices
• Spyros Pagratis, PhD 2005, Lecturer in Finance, Athens University of Economics and Business
  First placement: Economist, Bank of England
  Thesis Title: Asymmetric Information in Financial Economics: Asset Pricing, Liquidity Pricing and the Resolution of Financial Distress
• Paolo Colla, PhD 2005, Bocconi University
  Thesis Title: Essays on Non-Fundamental Speculation, Trading Behaviour and Strategic Information Sharing
• Hassan Syed Naqvi, PhD 2005, Assistant Professor of Finance, National University of Singapore
  Thesis Title: Essays on Financial Crisis: Implications for Debt-Pricing, Bail Outs and Resource Allocation

2001/2

• Robert Kozowski, PhD 2002, Associate Professor, Imperial College London
  First placement: Assistant Professor, INSEAD
  Thesis Title: Essays on Mutual Fund Performance: Statistical Significance, Persistence and Business Cycle Time-Variation
• Jinhui Luo, PhD 2002, Researcher, Barclays Global Investors
• Josef Schuster, PhD 2002, Director, IPOX Schuster LLC

2000/1

• Andrew Ellul, PhD 2001, Assistant Professor of Finance, Indiana University, Kelley School of Business

1999/2000

• Elena Carletti, PhD 2000, University of Mannheim

1998/9

• Ulrike Hoffman-Burchardi, PhD 1999, Tudor Investments

1996/7

• Gleb Sandmann, PhD 1997, Barclays Capital