We are delighted to welcome Athina Petropoulou and Efthymios Rizopoulos as Post-doctoral Research Fellows at the Centre for Global Finance (CGF), School of Finance and Management, SOAS University of London. Athina and Efthymios joined CGF on the 1st of May 2020.
Athina is responsible for various research tasks under the AXA Chair in Global Finance. She has joined us from the University of Bath. Her core research interests lie in the areas of banking, where she investigates credit risk, liquidity risk, efficiency and competition across alternative banking models (e.g., community banks). Her other research interests also include finance and financial econometrics and she has been involved in research projects at the University of Bath and the University of Kent. Her research work has been presented at leading international academic conferences such as IFABS and INFINITI among others.
Efthymios is working on the ESRC-DFID research project (ES/N013344/2) ‘Delivering Inclusive Financial Development and Growth’. He has joined us from the University of Manchester. His research focuses on market microstructure, market quality and fragmentation, liquidity and asset-pricing. His research interests also extend to financial technology, crypto currencies, banking, green finance, behavioural finance, algorithmic and high frequencies trading, capital and financial markets and FOREX. His work has been presented in major conferences such as the FMA 2018 European Conference, European Financial Management Association 2017 Annual Meeting, Financial Econometrics and Empirical Asset Pricing Conference, Kyle Conference: Market Mechanisms and their impact and others.