Lee Smales
Associate Professor
Curtin Graduate School of Business
Curtin University
Australia
Biography
"Lee is currently an Associate Professor (Finance) with Curtin's Graduate School of Business. Before joining Curtin, Lee was an associate lecturer with University of New South Wales where he also completed his PhD in finance with a thesis topic considering the dynamics of Australian interest rate future markets. Lee has also previously held the position of senior lecturer in Curtin University's School of Economics & Finance. Prior to embarking on his academic career, Lee spent 8 years working for Citigroup trading foreign-exchange and interest rate derivatives. Lee’s research interests are closely aligned with this prior career and focus on financial markets, particularly the market response to news-events and the impact of prevailing sentiment and microstructure on this reaction."
Research Interest
"Market microstructure, Market efficiency, Futures markets, Foreign exchange market, Interest rate markets, Capital markets, Behavioural finance"
Publications
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Smales LA, N Apergis (2016) "The influence of FOMC member characteristics on the monetary policy decision-making process." Journal of Banking and Finance 64: 216-231.
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Smales LA (2016) "News sentiment and bank credit risk." Journal of Empirical Finance 38: 37-61.
