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Finance

Start date:
Duration:
Five to six years
Application deadline:
Applications are now closed
Fee:
Fully funded
Location:
London, UK

Conduct research to develop a more robust financial system

Within the Department of Finance, our world-class researchers engage with and disseminate research to practitioners, policy-makers and academic colleagues to develop a more robust financial system.  

The research interests of faculty span four core themes – Innovation and Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance, Finance and Risk Management, and Financial Analysis. They hold expertise within derivative pricing and hedging, quantitative risk management and asset allocation, financial econometrics, stochastic volatility modelling, credit risk modelling, catastrophe risk analysis, M&A and private equity. 

You may also be co-supervised by faculty in other departments in the School, depending on your research interests. 

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Research centres and partnerships

The Business School is home to several research centres and institutes, offering a diverse range of activities that bring together academics and specialists

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The Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis

Where Imperial College London finance faculty collaborate with external academics and industry professionals to develop cutting-edge research, influencing global industry practice and public policy.  

The Grantham Institute, Imperial College London

Grantham Institute for Climate Change

Focussing on research relating to a sustainable, resilient, zero-carbon future. 

Financial Technology

Acting as a hub for the interdisciplinary research that is needed to develop innovations, reveal insights and answer questions; bringing together the activities of academics, startup companies, established industry and governmental organisations. 

Climate Finance and Investment

Works to unlock solutions within capital markets to address the challenges posed by global climate change. 

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Teaching experience

PhD students on the Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) scholarship will undertake 150 hours of teaching assistant duties from year three of the programme. There will be opportunities for PhD students to engage in teaching activities within the Business School’s Finance Masters’. 

Doctoral Theses in Finance

Name

Thesis

Supervisor

Lu Liu

Essays on Mortgage and Housing Markets 

Professor Tarun Ramadorai and Professor Marcin Kacperczyk

Adrian Lam

Three Essays on Sustainable Finance 

Dr Claudio Custodio and Professor Marcin Kacperczyk

Salim Baz

Essays in Empirical Financial Economics

Dr Lara Cathcart and Professor Alex Michaelides

Yi Zhang

Text Mining in Climate Finance

Professor Alex Michaelides

Antoine Uettwiller

Essays in Financial Economics

Professor Tarun Ramadorai and Dr Chris Hansman

Louiza Bartzoka

Essays in Household Finance

Professor Tarun Ramadorai

Vitaliy Ryabanin

Market Level and Firm Level Implications of Financial Distress

Professor Alex Michaelides

Moritz Wiedemann

Institutional investors' role in the energy transition; green innovation and decarbonization; and the social and economic impact of opioid abuse

Professor Patrick Bolton and Dr Chris Hansman

Giulio Carlo Venturi

Essays on Central Bank Digital Currency: literature review and quantitative evaluation of implications for banking, financial stability, and payment systems

Professor David Miles and Dr Ansgar Walther

Zhengming Li

Essays on Alternative Finance

Professor Gilles Chemla

Yifan Eva Yang

Essays in Corporate Finance

Professor Franklin Allen and Dr Claudia Custodio

Tong Yu

Essays on Open Banking

Professor Ramana Nanda and Professor Franklin Allen

'Win' William Monroe

Essays in Financial Intermediation

Professor Jose-Luis Peydro and Professor Marcin Kacperczyk

Matilde Faralli

Essays in Climate Finance

Professor Marcin Kacperczyk and Dr Claudia Custodio

Artur Anschukov

Essays in Asset Pricing

Dr Harjoat Bhamra

Meet your faculty

Our PhD programme fosters close collaboration between leading Finance faculty and doctoral students, developing their research interests and providing continuous support and guidance throughout the programme.  

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Enrico Biffis

Enrico Biffis

Professor of Actuarial Finance - Academic Director, Centre for Climate Finance & Investment
Enrico's Imperial Profile
Patrick Bolton

Patrick Bolton

Professor of Finance & Economics - Research Director, Centre for Climate Finance & Investment
Patrick's Imperial Profile
Lara Cathcart

Lara Cathcart

Professor of Finance – Academic Director for MSc Finance, MSc Financial Technology, and MSc Risk Management & Financial Engineering
Lara's Imperial Profile
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