2026 Doctoral Participants

    2026 Doctoral Participants
    FMARC 2026 brought together a group of outstanding doctoral students in Finance and Accounting for its Doctoral Colloquium and Mentoring Session. Below, you can meet the participants, explore their research, and learn more about the work they presented to our distinguished Mentors.
    Doctoral Students
    Swiss Finance Institute
    Paper Title: Managerial Beliefs and Agency Conflicts | Best Doctoral Paper Award
    Aarhus University
    Paper Title: Information processing under ambiguity in financial markets | Doctoral Paper Award (Runner-Up)
    University of Warwick
    Paper Title: Large Language Models, Price Discovery, and the Limits to Adoption
    University of Bristol
    Paper Title: When the Press Falls Silent: The Impact of Local Newspaper Closures on Corporate Greenwashing
    IE Business School
    Paper Title: Climate Losses and Insurer Portfolio Reallocation
    University of York
    Paper Title: Do Dividend Strips Force a Bubble? Long-Horizon Discounting and the No-Bubble Restriction
    Harvard Business School
    Paper Title: The Traffic Light Effect in ESG Ratings
    The University of Manchester
    Paper Title: Mitigating a Demand Shock through Fintech
    Doctoral Mentors

    FMARC 2026 was delighted to welcome Alessandro Previtero (Indiana University), Audra L. Boone (Colorado State University), Alexander Michaelides (Imperial College London) and Devin Shanthikumar (University of California, Irvine) as our esteemed Doctoral Mentors.

    Professor
    Imperial College London
    Alexander Michaelides is a Professor of Finance at Imperial Business School since 2013.
    Associate Professor | Lead Mentor
    Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
    Alessandro Previtero is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University.
    Professor
    Colorado State University
    Professor Boone is the Ajay Menon Professor of Business in the College of Business at Colorado State University.
    Associate Dean
    University of California - Irvine
    Devin Shanthikumar is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Merage and Professor in Accounting.