Tim Kooijmans

I am a lecturer (assistant professor) in finance at RMIT, School of Economics, Finance and Marketing. 

My primary research interests are in financial intermediation and corporate finance, and my work focusses on understudied (historical) settings that have features particularly useful to shed light on these topics. 

I am also interested in the role that financial intermediaries and finance have played historically in shaping our world. For example, my research shows how credit and financial innovation (mortgage-backed securities) were central in the Dutch Atlantic slave trade during the 18th-century, and I investigate how this affected the living conditions of the people enslaved on coffee and sugar plantations. In 2024, this project received an €800,000 grant from the Dutch research council.

I have presented my work at leading conferences, such as the AFA, the SFS Cavalcade and the CICF. My work has been published in the Journal of Financial Markets and the Journal of Economic History. 

I earned a Master Degree in Economic History at the University of Amsterdam, and a PhD in Finance at Monash University (2020).

E: tim.kooijmans@rmit.edu.au