I joined Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester in January 2015. I previously held appointments at Bank of Japan, Institute for Monetary and Economics Studies (2014) and at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg School of Finance (2011-2014). I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from Rutgers University and received both my B.A. in International Relations and M.A. in International Political Economy from University of Tsukuba.

Recent working papers

• Collective Effervescence in Retail Investors: An Exploratory Inquiry to Understand the Meme Stock Bubble (with K. Hayakawa)

Recent Publication

• Detecting political event risk in the option market, Journal of Banking & Finance, Volume 146, 2023 (with A. Kostakis and L. Mu) 

Research Interests

• Informational (In)efficiency of Financial Markets, Price Discovery, Market Microstructure.
• Investors' communication and interaction, and their impact on their Belief and Decision making (with application of Textual analysis and Social/Linguistic Anthropological approaces).
• Market perceptions of political uncertainty, Energy and Carbon market, High-frequency/Low-latency tradings, Risk neutral densities/moments

In my research, I investigate aspects of financial economics, particularly the informational (in)efficiency of financial markets (e.g. market microstructure, price discovery process). I am currently working on research topics such as Retail investors' communication in social media, Climate change-Energy transition risks on financial institutions, Political event risk.

Ongoing projects 

• Retail Investors' Communication in Social Media
• Risk connectedness of financial institutions

Semester 2

• BMAN10552 Fundamentals of Finance (UG Year 1)
• BMAN20072 Investment Analysis (UG Year 2)