Lecturer in Finance
BE(Hons)(Cant) BSc DipGrad MFinc PhD(Otago)
Tel +64 3 479 5626
Email pakorn.aschakulporn@otago.ac.nz
Office OBS 5.15
Pakorn (Beam) Aschakulporn joined the Department of Accountancy and Finance as a Finance Lecturer in 2022. He is a member of the department's Postgraduate Committee and AKO (Learning and Teaching) Committee.
Beam is the deputy director of the Derivatives and Quantitative Finance Group and the organiser of the semiannual department’s PhD Workshop and Postgraduate Seminars.
Beam's primary research area lies in derivatives and quantitative finance, a field in which he earned his PhD. Under the supervision of Professor Jin E. Zhang, his “PhD thesis [was] formally recognised by the Division of Commerce as being of exceptional quality”.
Teaching
Current
Past
Supervision
Current
Doctor of Philosophy
- Tianjiao Li
- Ruizi Hu
- Wen Xu
- Weihan Li
Master of Finance
- Mohan Zhang
- Darcy Hunter
- Vincent Mooney
- Duncan Roff
Completed
Master of Finance
- Ben Wilkinson
- Jasper Struwig
Summer Research Scholarship
- Arrian Ryan
- Jasper Struwig
- Andre Castaing
Publications
Gehricke, S. A., Aschakulporn, P., Suleman, T., & Wilkinson, B. (2023). The effect of divestment from ESG Exchange Traded Funds. Proceedings of the 6th Annual Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI) Conference. Retrieved from https://sustainablefinancealliance.org/
Li, W., Zhang, J. E., Ruan, X., & Aschakulporn, P. (2023). An empirical study on the early exercise premium of American options: Evidence from OEX and XEO options. Proceedings of the Auckland Centre for Financial Research Derivative Markets Conference. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland Centre for Financial Research. Retrieved from https://acfr.aut.ac.nz/
Aschakulporn, P. (2023, February). The Edgeworth and Gram-Charlier densities. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Finance Colloquium, Wellington, New Zealand.
Aschakulporn, P. (2022, February). Bakshi, Kapadia, and Madan (2003) risk‐neutral moment estimators: A Gram‐Charlier density approach. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Finance Colloquium, [Online].
Struwig, J., Aschakulporn, P., & Zhang, J. E. (2022). The implied volatility smirk of pharmaceutical options during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the Auckland Centre for Financial Research New Zealand Finance Meeting (NZFM). Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland Centre for Financial Research. Retrieved from https://acfr.aut.ac.nz