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  • Qualification

    PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

  • Location

    Streatham Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    APR-24, SEP-24, JAN-25, APR-25

  • Duration

    4 years

Course summary

Research overview

Our research focuses around the following themes:

Asset Pricing

  • Anomalies
  • Option Pricing
  • Risk
  • Cost of Capital
  • Firm Valuation
  • Volatility Models
  • Mutual Funds Return Predictability

Corporate Finance

  • Cost of Capital
  • Executive Compensation
  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Venture Capital
  • Private Equity and Entrepreneurship
  • Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets
  • Cash Holdings and Payout Policies

Applied Financial Econometrics

  • Risk measurement
  • Portfolio management
  • Asset allocation
  • Quantitative trading strategies
  • Modelling asset price dynamics
  • Modelling exchange rates and commodities

Market-Based Account Research

  • Firm fundamentals and stock returns
  • Equity valuation and accounting conservatism
  • Implied cost of capital
  • Macro-economy/Political economy
  • Firm fundamentals.

You’ll be part of a vibrant research community, with more than 150 current doctoral students. We will foster what makes each of you unique, with an individual training-needs assessment informing the training and support we provide throughout your studies. This will include access to research methods expertise, graduate skills training programmes, and wider support provided through professional associations and Research Councils.

Careers
Skills training

The skills and expertise that you build now are fundamental to your continuing professional development (CPD), and will be part of your toolset throughout your working life.

We strongly recommend that our students take part in the University's Postgraduate Researchers' Programme, which offers training in skills such as:

  • research management
  • personal effectiveness
  • communication
  • networking
  • team-working
  • career management

Tuition fees

Students living in United States
(International fees)

£ 20,600per year

Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.

University information

University of Exeter

  • University League Table

    15th

  • Campus address

    University of Exeter, Northcote House, The Queen's Drive, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4QJ, England

Exeter is a historic cathedral city with UNESCO City of Literature status, and Cornwall has a unique ecology with a rich history of scientific innovation.
Students will find engaged, inclusive, and safe communities, with plenty of opportunities to make lifelong friends from all over the world.
Regular visits to international schools and education exhibitions, plus airport pick-up and international buddy schemes to help students arrive and settle in.

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    8th out of 104

  • Entry standards

    / Max 222
    154 68%

    18th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    87.0 87%

    7th

    4
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 5
    4.09 82%

    26th

    5

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