Program Overview

On the PhD in Finance programme, you have the opportunity to join a thriving and international faculty.

Benefits

The faculty comprises over 50 scholars conducting state-of-the-art research in all key areas of finance and it is located within the City of London, the world's most prominent financial centre. No other PhD programme in Finance gives you such access to the City of London.

The unique and direct access to leading figures from the real world of finance enables us to blend the latest theory and thinking with the latest real-world experience and developments within the PhD in Finance.

Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 rated Bayes 5^th in the UK for Business and Management research. In total, 92% of our research was rated as world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) – up from 84% in REF 2014.

Research Areas

Our research covers all the core areas of finance, including:

• Asset Pricing
• Banking and FinTech
• Commodity, Shipping Finance and Risk Management
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Governance and ESG
• Finance and the Real Economy
• Financial Econometrics
• International Finance
• Market Microstructure
• Mathematical Finance

As such, our Finance PhD students carry out research in a wide variety of areas and receive feedback from an outstanding array of scholars, all of them at the forefront of the academic debate. The faculty fosters an engaging approach to research where collaborations across areas are encouraged.

We encourage you to learn more about the programme’s faculty or previous students’ achievements by visiting the links below.

We take pride in producing research of the highest academic standard, and our research is published routinely in the top finance journals.

• Faculty members involved in different research areas
• Recent publications from the Faculty of Finance