About
Dr. Gabriele Lepori is a Lecturer in Finance within the Business School at the University of Southampton. His research focuses on behavioural asset pricing and on interdisciplinary projects involving finance, economics, and public health. He teaches modules on derivatives and behavioural finance.
Dr. Lepori is also the Director of the Master's Degree (MSc) Programme in Risk & Finance, and he's part of the Review Team of the Business School's Research Ethics Sub-Committee.
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Research
Research interests
- Behavioural finance
- Financial markets
- Macroeconomic shocks
- Cryptocurrencies
- Interdisciplinary research (finance, economics, and public health)
Current research
Dr. Lepori's research agenda focuses on behavioural asset pricing. In particular, he investigates how psychological and sociological forces affect decision making under risk and may sway the behaviour of individual investors and the dynamics of financial markets.
He also works on interdisciplinary projects at the intersection among finance, economics, and public health.
His research has been published in prominent academic journals, such as the Journal of Empirical Finance, the Financial Review, the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, and Social Science & Medicine.
His research findings have also been discussed in the financial press and on the radio, including The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Investors Chronicle, and NPR Morning Edition.
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Supervision
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Teaching
Dr. Lepori currently teaches the following modules:
MANG6239 Behavioural Finance (postgraduate level)
MANG3020 Futures and Options (undergraduate level)
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Biography
Dr. Lepori holds a PhD in Economics from Michigan State University, USA. He joined Southampton Business School in September 2019. Prior to joining SBS, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance at Copenhagen Business School, in Denmark, and a Lecturer in Finance at Keele University, UK.
During his academic career, he has also taught as a visiting scholar at Uppsala University, in Sweden, and at the University of Nevada – Reno, in the United States.
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