Research interests

Financial economics & Corporate finance

Scholarships and Awards

• Dean’s List of Exceptional Doctoral Theses (Massey University)

• Massey University Doctoral Conference Grant 2025

• ARPM Bootcamp Scholarship 2024

• Massey CFA Student Scholarship 2024

• Massey University Doctoral Scholarships

Selected publications

2025

• The global geopolitical-energy uncertainty index and total factor productivity: New evidence from firm-level analysis (2025)

Energy Economics (A*)

• Energy market deregulation: A new perspective on dividend smoothing (2025)

Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money (A)

• The lead-lag relationship of US fiscal policy uncertainty: New evidence from R2 decomposed connectedness measures (2025)

Finance Research Letters (A)

• Introducing a new index of central bank digital currency development (2025)

Quality & Quantity

• Demographic-governance factors shaping cryptocurrency holding behavior (2025)

Finance Research Letters (A)

2024

• Sectoral uncertainty spillovers in emerging markets: A quantile time-frequency connectedness approach (2024)

International Review of Economics & Finance (A)

• Firm productivity in the Energy-electricity sector over the last two decades with crisis: The role of cross-listing (2024)

Energy Economics (A*)

2023

• Measuring the energy-related uncertainty index (2023)

Energy Economics (A*)

Our index is updated annually via Policyuncertainty.com

• The geopolitical risk spillovers across BRICS countries: A quantile frequency connectedness approach (2023)

Scottish Journal of Political Economy (A)

• Contemporaneous and lagged R2 decomposed connectedness approach: New evidence from the energy futures market (2023)

Finance Research Letters (A)

Refereeing Activity

Energy Economics (A*) · Finance Research Letters (A) · International Review of Economics and Finance (A) · Journal of Commodity Markets (A) · Applied Economics Letters (B) · Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies (B) · Energy Reports · Energy and Climate Change  · Journal of Economics Finance and Administrative Science · PLOS ONE

Teaching Activity

2026

• Principles of Finance and Money (UEH, Vietnam)

2025

• 178.380 - Business Forecasting (Massey University, New Zealand)

2024

• 178.380 - Business Forecasting (Massey University, New Zealand)

• 125.230 - Business Finance (Massey University, New Zealand)