Finance Division

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Research Faculty

Isha Agarwal

isha.agarwal@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Banking, international finance, corporate finance, macroeconomics

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Markus Baldauf

markus.baldauf@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Finance, industrial organization, applied microeconomics.

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Jan Bena, Division Chair

jan.bena@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Innovation: corporate innovation, asset pricing of technological progress, private equity: corporate ownership structure. frictions in raising external finance, entrepreneurship: wwnership of startup companies, finance and industrial organization.

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Bo Bian

bo.bian@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Empirical corporate finance, innovation and entrepreneurship, political economy

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Murray Carlson

murray.carlson@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Current research interests include empirical studies of corporate decisions and asset prices.

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Ella D.S. Patelli

ella.patelli@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Asset pricing and international finance, with a special interest in the role of learning in incomplete information.

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Glen Donaldson

glen.donaldson@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Current research interests include volatility forecasting, asset valuation, financial econometrics, as well as financial markets, price behaviour, and risk management.

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Jack Favilukis

jack.favilukis@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Consumption and production based asset pricing, heterogeneity and inequality, incomplete markets, real estate.

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Adlai Fisher

adlai.fisher@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Current research interests include asset pricing, financial econometrics, volatility modelling, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions.

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Lorenzo Garlappi

lorenzo.garlappi@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Asset pricing, credit risk and real options, portfolio choice and asset allocation.

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Ron Giammarino

giammarino@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Current research interests include questions in corporate finance, real options, and market concentration.

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Will Gornall

will.gornall@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Corporate finance, venture capital, banking.

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Robert L. Heinkel

robert.heinkel@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Current research interests include theoretical and empirical studies of corporate behaviour due to market imperfections and theoretical and empirical studies of institutional investment management.

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Ali Lazrak

ali.lazrak@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Political economy and finance, asset pricing with ESG concerns, voting theory, time inconsistency.

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Kai Li

kai.li@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism, culture and finance, corporate innovation, machine learning.

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Alberto Mokak Teguia

alberto.mokakteguia@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Behavioral finance, institutional investors, liquidity, heterogeneous beliefs, disclosure, OTC markets.

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Hernan Ortiz-Molina

hernan.ortiz-molina@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Corporate finance and governance, executive compensation, interaction between real and financial decisions, cross-sectional determinants of stock returns.

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Elena Pikulina

elena.pikulina@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Institutional investors, corporate finance, eperimental and behavioral finance.

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Instructors

Carlos da Costa

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Darren Degraaf

darren.degraaf@sauder.ubc.ca

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Iman Elmarashly

iman.elmarashly@sauder.ubc.ca

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Ruth Freedman

ruth.freedman@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Debt covenants, market microstructure, trading mechanisms.

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Pennie George

pennie.george@sauder.ubc.ca

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Caren Lombard

caren.lombard@sauder.ubc.ca

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Jose Pizarro

jose.pizarro@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Asset pricing and environmental economics and finance.

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Yuan Shi

yuan.shi@sauder.ubc.ca

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James Shou

james.shou@sauder.ubc.ca

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Bill Tilford

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Emeritus Faculty

Stanley W. Hamilton

stanley.hamilton@sauder.ubc.ca

Research Interests:

Real estate investments and valuation, price behaviour, institutional investment management.

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Students - PhD

Xinyu Cao

BPhil (Xiamen), MSc (LSE), MA (Chicago), PhD Student

Email: xinyu.cao@sauder.ubc.ca

Percy (Xuhui) Chen

BA (Southwest University)

Research Interests:

Asset pricing, corporate finance

Email: xuhui.chen@sauder.ubc.ca

Gen Li

BBA (St. Francis Xavier), MFin (UC, San Diego)

Email: gen.li@sauder.ubc.ca

Xiyue (Ellen) Li

BS, BMgt (Nankai), MSc (British Columbia) PhD Candidate

Research Interests:

Corporate finance

Email: xiyue.li@sauder.ubc.ca

Yingxiang Li

BS (SWUFE), MS (Peking University) PhD Candidate

Email: yingxiang.li@sauder.ubc.ca

Xing Liu

BA (Renmin), MFin (Tsinghua) PhD Student

Research Interests:

Corporate finance; entrepreneurial finance; corporate governance

Email: xing.liu@sauder.ubc.ca

Dongliang Lu

BS (Shanghai Jiaotong), MS (Columbia) PhD Student

Research Interests:

Asset pricing, corporate finance, financial intermediation

Email: dongliang.lu@sauder.ubc.ca

Juan Martin Rinaldi

BA (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba), MSc (Universidad Torcuato di Tella)

Research Interests:

Asset pricing, macro finance

Email: jmartin.rinaldi@sauder.ubc.ca

Valentina Rutigliano

BSc (Bocconi), PhD Candidate

Email: valentina.rutigliano@sauder.ubc.ca

Jin (Iris) Wang

BCom (British Columbia), MSc (Queen's) PhD Candidate

Research Interests:

Corporate finance; shareholder activism; institutional investors; executive compensation

Email: iris.wang@sauder.ubc.ca

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Zhanbing Xiao

BA (Xi'an Jiaotong), MPhil (Chinese U. of Hong Kong) PhD Candidate

Research Interests:

Banking; financial intermediation; institutional investors

Email: zhanbing.xiao@sauder.ubc.ca

Chunxue Yang

BEcon (Peking), MS (UIUC) PhD Student

Email: chunxue.yang@sauder.ubc.ca

Shiqi Zhang

BEcon (Central University of Finance and Economics), MS (Peking), PhD Student

Research Interests:

Asset pricing

Email: shiqi.zhang@sauder.ubc.ca

Keling Zheng

BEng (Nanjing), MSc (British Columbia) PhD Student

Research Interests:

Asset pricing

Email: keling.zheng@sauder.ubc.ca

Students - past placements

2022	Khalil Esmkhani	Columbia University (Post-Doc)
	Xuejing (Joyce) Guan	Shanghai Jiao Tong University
	Coby Fang Hu	Lingnan University
	Julian Vahl	Theory & Practice
2020	Guangli Lu	The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
2019	Jiri Knesl	University of Oxford
	Terry Zhang	Australian National University
2018	Jinfei Sheng	University of California - Irvine
2017	Charles Martineau	University of Toronto - Rotman
	Ercos Valdivieso	Sung Kyun Kwan University
	Kairong Xiao	Columbia University
	Sheng-Jun Xu	University of Alberta
	Ting Xu	University of Virginia - Darden
2016	Alexandre Corhay	University of Toronto - Rotman
	Haibo Jiang	Tulane University
2015	Milka Dimitrova	CUNEF
	Alejandra Medina	OECD
	Gonzalo Morales	University of Alberta
2013	Vincent Gregoire	University of Melbourne
	Pablo Moran	University of Calgary
	Alberto Romero	Bank of Mexico
2012	Michael J. Mueller	Bank of Canada
	Thomas Ruf	University of New South Wales
2011	Zhongzhi Song	Cheung Kong, China
	Shubo Wang	Vanderbilt
	Feng Zhang	University of Utah
2010	Oliver Boguth	Arizona State University
	Mike Simutin	University of Toronto
2009	Huasheng Gao	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
	David Newton	Concordia University
	Kyung Shim	University of New South Wales
2008	Julian Douglass	Barclays Group
	Charles Gaa	University of Oregon
	Lars-Alexander Kuehn	Carnegie Mellon University
2007	Jeff Colpitts	UBS
2006	Jan Schneider	University of California, Los Angeles
2005	Amir Barnea	University of Texas at Austin
	Sean Finucane	University of Exeter
	Longkai Zhao	Beijing University
2004	Issouf Soumare	Laval University
2003	Xifeng Diao	University of Calgary
	Amir Rubin	Simon Fraser University
	Joshua Slive	HEC Montreal
2002	Stephen Burke	Phillips, Hager & North
	Daniel Smith	Simon Fraser University
	James Storey	Royal Bank of Canada
2001	Lorenzo Garlappi	University of Texas at Austin
	Yonggan Zhao	Nanyang Technological University
2000	Nalinaksha Bhattacharyya	University of Manitoba
	Yinghu Liu	Wells Fargo Bank
	Jacob Sagi	University of California, Berkeley
	Patrick Savaria	Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
1999	Nathalie Moyen	University of Colorado at Boulder
	David Peterson	QuIC Financial Technologies
1998	Murray Carlson	University of Texas at Austin
	Mary Kelly	Wilfrid Laurier University
	Lisa Kramer	University of Toronto
1997	Khang Min Lee
1996	Bryan R. Routledge	Carnegie Mellon University

Students - job candidates

2022 Job Market Candidates

Xing Liu

Finance

Previous degrees:

M.A. Finance, Tsinghua University, PBC School of Finance
B.A. Economics (Track: Insurance), Renmin University of China

Research interests: Insurance, InsurTech, FinTech, consumer and household finance, behavioral and experimental finance, private equity

Supervisory Committee Members: Jan Bena (Chair), Will Gornall, and Sabrina T. Howell (NYU)

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Iris Wang

Finance

Previous degrees:

Queen’s University, Smith School of Business
M.Sc. in Business Economics
University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business
B.Com. in Finance (with Honours)

Research interests: Empirical corporate finance, corporate governance, labor finance, venture capital, FinTech

Supervisory Committee Members: Li Kai (Co-Chair), Jan Bena (Co-Chair), Bian Bo, Ralph Winter

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Zhanbing Xiao

Finance

Previous degrees:

B.S. Economics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2011 - 2015.
MPhil. Finance, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015 - 2017.

Research interests: Climate finance; ESG; big data; financial institutions

Supervisory Committee Members : Supervisor: Hernan Ortiz-Molina; Committee Members: Kai Li, Isha Agarwal, Thomas Davidoff, Xin Zheng

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Sally Bei, Division Assistant
sally.bei@sauder.ubc.ca

Our people

Research Faculty

Isha Agarwal

Markus Baldauf

Jan Bena, Division Chair

Bo Bian

Murray Carlson

Ella D.S. Patelli

Glen Donaldson

Jack Favilukis

Adlai Fisher

Lorenzo Garlappi

Ron Giammarino

Will Gornall

Robert L. Heinkel

Ali Lazrak

Kai Li

Alberto Mokak Teguia

Hernan Ortiz-Molina

Elena Pikulina

Instructors

Carlos da Costa

Darren Degraaf

Iman Elmarashly

Ruth Freedman

Pennie George

Caren Lombard

Jose Pizarro

Yuan Shi

James Shou

Bill Tilford

Emeritus Faculty

Stanley W. Hamilton

Students - PhD

Xinyu Cao

Percy (Xuhui) Chen

Gen Li

Xiyue (Ellen) Li

Yingxiang Li

Xing Liu

Dongliang Lu

Juan Martin Rinaldi

Valentina Rutigliano

Jin (Iris) Wang

Zhanbing Xiao

Chunxue Yang

Shiqi Zhang

Keling Zheng

Students - past placements

Students - job candidates

2022 Job Market Candidates

Xing Liu

Iris Wang

Zhanbing Xiao

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