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Qualification
PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
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Location
Streatham Campus
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
APR-24, SEP-24, JAN-25, APR-25
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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
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University information
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Entry standards
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Graduate prospects
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Student satisfaction
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