My current research interest is in a number of distinct areas of theoretical and applied economics and finance: financial economics/econometrics, investment funds, derivatives and risk management, financial services, fintech, international finance & economics, economic policies, sustainable development
Work in Progress:
- Normative & positive evaluation of microfinance lending (with P. Simmons, University of York, UK)
- Determinants of financial access in Thailand
- Bitcoin’s valuation: markets versus technical operation
- P2P lending: repayment and investors’ characteristics
- International equity return correlation (with M. Alomari, German Jordanian University; D.M. Power)
- Portfolio weighting: Combined economic factors
- Performance of families of funds
- The mis-selling of Islamic funds (with K. Alotaibi, PAAET Kuwait; C. Helliar, University of South Australia)
- Socially responsible investment funds’ holdings, governance and performance (with C. Helliar, University of South Australia; B. Petracci, University of Bologna)
- Civil war and foreign investment (with A. Gunasekarage, Monash University; D.M. Power, University of Dundee)
- Airlines’ risk management (with T. Maisalee, Vnet Venture Capital Securities Management, Thailand)