Ekaterina Ipatova

Ekaterina had joint Roehampton Business School in april 2016; she currently holds a Senior Lecturer in Finance position. Previously, Ekaterina has been visiting lecturer and taught finance, econometrics and quantitative methods at London Business School, Queen Mary University London, Bayes Business School and Westminster Business School. She completed her PhD in 2014 at Bayes Business School in econometrics under the supervision of Prof. Lorenzo Trapani. Ekaterina enjoys volunteering and has completed many projects helping to use big data for social good with the DataKind UK. Currently, she is researching personal finance and is particularly interested in the methods helping to improve financial literacy to affect financial behaviours.

Research interests

Ekaterina is an active researcher. At the moment, she is focusing on the financial literacy area. She is particularly interested in improving financial education to affect financial wellbeing and reduce financial anxiety of the community and young adults. She is also curious to see the effect of cognitive abilities on personal finance decisions and behavioural bias. Ekaterina is a principal investigator in the Southlands Methodist Church grant titled: “The Instrumental Role of Financial Literacy of Young Adults in South West London in Improving Social Mobility and Community Wellbeing”. Ekaterina enjoyed working with big data. In her work with capital markets hedge fund data, Ekaterina investigated if the ability of hedge funds to generate above-market returns is a question of luck or skills. In addition, she looked at the theoretical aspects of working with big data using factor models. Her work is published in international peer-reviewed journals and presented at conferences.

Teaching

• International Corporate Finance (Level 7)
• Economics of Money, Banking and Finance (Level 6)
• Business Finance (Level 6)
• Undergraduate and postgraduate dissertation supervisions
• Academic guidance tutor