Alison Taylor
Assistant ProfessorOverview
Alison Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University. Her research focuses on climate risk and financial stability.
She received her PhD in Economics from University of Toronto, an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Warwick and a B Comm. in Management Economics and Finance from the University of Guelph.
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Academic Area
- Finance
Interest Topics
- Economics
- Finance & Investment
- Risk
- Social Impact & Sustainability
Faculty Details
Profile
Full Bio
Alison Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University.
She received her PhD in Economics from University of Toronto, an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Warwick and a B Comm. in Management Economics and Finance from the University of Guelph.
Her research focuses on climate risk and financial stability.
Academic Degrees
PhD University of Toronto, Economics June 2023
Major: Finance; Minor: Econometrics
Committee: Pat Akey, Peter Cziraki (chair), and Craig Doidge
MSc University of Warwick, Economics September 2016
Graduated with Merit
BComm University of Guelph, Management Economics and Finance June 2013
Emphasis: Finance
Graduated with Distinction
Teaching
Instructor
- Introduction to Finance, Queen's University, Sep 2023-Present
Teaching Assistant, Sep 2017-Dec 22
- Introduction to Microeconomics, University of Toronto, 3 semesters
- Introduction to Macroeconomics, University of Toronto, 3 semesters
- Energy and the Environment, University of Toronto, 1 semester
- Money, Banking and Financial Markets, 4 semesters
- Financial Economics I: Asset Pricing, 6 semesters
- Financial Economics II: Corporate Finance, 3 semesters
- Economics of Risk Management, 1 semester
- Empirical Finance Economics (Undergraduate and Graduate) 2 semesters
- Asset Pricing (MA and MFE) 1 semester
Research
Working Papers
1. Does financial distress affect emerging risk taking? Evidence from banks and hurricane risk in the household mortgage market
- Presentations: FMA Doctoral Student Consortium (Fall 2022); Bertram Scholar
Dinner (Fall 2022); Canadian Sustainable Finance Network Conference (Summer
2022); University of Toronto empirical microeconomics seminar (Summer 2022);
University of Toronto financial economics seminar (Fall 2020; Fall 2021) - Media Coverage: University of Victoria Centre for Social and Sustainable
Innovation Year in Review (Forthcoming)
2. Climate litigation risk, investor learning and competitor firm spillovers.
- Presentations: UCLA Climate Adaptation Research Symposium (Fall 2021);
Bank of Canada Graduate Student Paper Award Workshop (Fall 2021); EFA
Doctoral Tutorial (Summer 2021); CIREQ Interdisciplinary PhD Symposium
on Climate Change (Summer 2021); AFA poster presentation (Winter 2021);
UT Austin PhD Symposium (Summer 2020); University of Toronto financial
economics seminar (Fall 2019)
3. Local information decay with P. Cziraki, J. Gider, and J. Mondria
• Presentations: Texas A&M*
Work In Progress:
1. Unsuccessful activism, unforeseen impacts: Do corporate greenhouse gas emissions
increase following failed shareholder proposals? With T. Artiga González and P. Calluzzo
*Presentation by co-author
Awards
Scholarships and Awards
• 2022 AFA Travel Grant
• 2022 EFA Travel Grant (unused)
• 2021 Bertram Scholar (Canadian Foundation for Governance Research)
• 2020 SSHRC Doctoral Awards (waitlisted)
• 2017-2022 U of T Program Fellowship Funding
• 2012 Dean’s Scholarship
• 2008-2013 Board of Governor’s Entrance Scholarship
Grants
• 2022 AFA Travel Grant
• 2022 EFA Travel Grant (unused)
Discussions
• 2023 NFA: “Follow the pipeline: Anticipatory effects of proposed regulations” by S. Chang, J. Kalmenovitz and A. Lopez-Lira
Service
Academic Service
• 2019-2022 First Year PhD Student Mentor
• 2020 U of T Economics Graduate Committee
• 2018-2020 U of T Women in Economics, PhD Information Session organizer