Elizabeth Whalley
Associate Professor in Finance
MMath (Cambridge), MA (Cambridge), MSc (Oxford), DPhil (Oxford)
Research Interests
Real Options, including environmental/bioeconomic applications, strategic competition and behavioural factors
Dynamic Corporate Finance, including utility-based valuation of Executive Stock Options
Option valuation incorporating market imperfections e.g. transaction costs
Student Feedback and Support Hours
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Expertise
Formerly Research Fellow at Department of Economics, University of Surrey, and accountant at KPMG Peat Marwick
Teaching
Derivative Securities on M.Sc. in Finance/Finance and Economics/Accounting and Finance
Derivatives and Corporate Risk Management on M.Sc. in Business and Finance
Principles of Finance 1, 2nd year undergraduate module for non-WBS students
Selected publications
CE Dangerfield, AE Whalley, N Hanley and CA Gilligan, "What a difference a stochastic process makes: epidemiological-based real options models of optimal treatment of disease". Environmental and Resource Economics (2018).
V Henderson, J Sun and AE Whalley. "Portfolios of American options under general preferences: results and counterexamples", Mathematical Finance, (2014). Earlier version here.
AE Whalley, "Optimal partial hedging of options with transaction costs", Journal of Futures Markets, (2011). Earlier version here.
AE Whalley, "Optimal R&D investment for a risk-averse entrepreneur", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, (2011). Earlier version here.
AKL Milne and AE Whalley, "Time to Build, Option Value and Investment Decisions, A comment", Journal of Financial Economics , 56 325-332 (2000).
AE Whalley and P Wilmott, "Optimal hedging of options with small but arbitrary transaction cost structure", European Journal of Applied Mathematics, 10 117-139 (1999).
AKL Milne and AE Whalley, "Bank Capital and Risk Taking", Bank of England Working Paper (1998).
D Epstein, N Mayor, P Schonbucher, AE Whalley and P Wilmott, "The Valuation of a Firm Advertising Optimally", The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 38 149-166 (1998).
AE Whalley and P Wilmott, "An Asymptotic Analysis of an Optional Hedging Model for Option Pricing with Transactions Costs", Mathematical Finance, 7 307-324 (1997).
Working papers
CE Dangerfield, AE Whalley, N Hanley, J Healey and CA Gilligan, "The effects of variation in management objectives on responses to invading diseases under uncertainty: Forest Pathogens".
M Roberts, CA Gilligan, N Hanley, AE Whalley and JR Healey, "The effect of forest management options on forest resilience to pathogens".
AE Whalley and Z Zhang, "The impact of optimism on the order and timing of entry under duopolistic competition".
D Lin, D Liu and AE Whalley, "The impact of product market characteristics on firms' strategies in patent litigation".
V Henderson, J Sun and AE Whalley, "Executive Stock Options: Portfolio effects".
V Henderson, J Sun and AE Whalley, "The Value of Being Lucky: Option Backdating and Non-diversifiable Risk".
V Henderson and AE Whalley, "Holding On: Modelling Optimism and Stock Sales", in preparation.
S Rossetto and AE Whalley, "To pre-empt or not to pre-empt: simultaneous vs sequential entry in equilibrium", in preparation.
Elizabeth Whalley
Room 2.212
Finance Group
Warwick Business School
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
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Elizabeth.Whalley@wbs.ac.uk