Dr Wanling Rudkin

About me:

Dr Wanling Rudkin obtained her PhD in Finance from the University of Liverpool in 2022, thesis entitled “Essays in Sustainable Finance”. Prior to joining Exeter, she was a Lecturer in Finance at Swansea University and Associate Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. Wanling has published in Regional Studies, The European Journal of Finance and International Review of Financial Analysis.

Wanling’s research interests lie in evaluating financial markets through empirical modelling. As one of the pioneers of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) in Finance, Wanling views financial markets as noisy dynamic systems and leverages the power of TDA to capture the underlying behaviour of the market. Her research output emerging from her PhD has focused on the role of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in the cross-section of stock returns. Wanling is enthusiastic about the application of event studies and treatment effects to understand information and policy shifts upon financial time series. An ongoing research agenda generalises her early publications to focus on empirical asset pricing for equity and bond valuation.

Interests:

• Asset Pricing
• Event Studies and Treatment Effects
• Quantile Regression
• Topological Data Analysis (TDA)

Qualifications:

Ph.D. in Finance (University of Liverpool)

M.Sc. in Finance (University of Salford)

B.Sc. in Mathematics (The University of Manchester)