Dr Larisa Yarovaya PhD, MS, BA(Hons), SFHEA
Associate Professor of Finance; Programme Director BSc Finance; Deputy Head of the Centre for Digital Finance
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Dr Larisa Yarovaya is Associate Professor of Finance, Programme Director of BSc Finance, and Deputy Head of the Centre for Digital Finance at the Southampton Business School, University of Southampton.
Larisa is a researcher in International Finance and Financial Technologies (Fintech), with specialism in interconnectedness between financial markets, contagion and spillover effect, diversification, hedging and safe haven properties of new markets, including cryptocurrencies, green, and Islamic assets.
Larisa has published her research in peer-reviewed academic journals, such as Journal of Corporate Finance; Journal of Financial Stability; Energy Economics; International Review of Financial Analysis, and European Journal of Finance among others. She also co-edited a book “Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology”, and organises the annual Cryptocurrency Research Conference.
Larisa serves as an Associate Editor in International Review of Financial Analysis; Research in International Business and Finance; and International Review of Economics and Finance.
She also serves as a Subject Editor in Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money; and Emerging Markets Review.
Larisa is a Section Editor of the Heliyon Business and Economics section, and she also serves as a Section Editor in Data-in-Brief Journal.
Larisa’s research has been featured in BBC, Metro UK, Yahoo Finance, Newsweek, Daily Express, Business Essex, Cosmopolitan and elsewhere.
Before starting her academic career, Larisa was an elite Paralympic swimmer for over 16 years, and worked with charities and non-profit organisation supporting children with disabilities and their families in Moscow, Russia. Her interest in Finance developed during the time of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 which severely hit the unstable Russian economy, especially impacting on people and families from less privileged backgrounds. She decided to study finance at the Management Faculty in the Finance University under the Government of the Russian Federation to understand how countries can become more resilient to financial crises. She received the Scholarship of the President of the Russian Federation for foreign education and continued her academic journey in Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK, where she completed her PhD with the project entitled “Return and Volatility transmission in emerging and developed stock markets” under the supervision of Professor Janusz Brzeszczynski and Dr Chi Keung Marco Lau in 2016. Since then Larisa published more than 30 papers in top academic journals and became one of the most cited female authors in the Fintech and cryptocurrency research area.