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Grace Lepone is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Finance at Macquarie University, affiliated with the Centre for Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Finance. She holds a PhD from Macquarie Graduate School of Management, supported by the Corporate Governance Centre at the Australian Securities Exchange and BT Financial Group. Her research focuses on behavioral finance, market microstructure, and experimental studies, with a particular emphasis on retail investor behavior and regulatory impacts.
Grace has supervised multiple PhD candidates through Capital Markets CRC scholarships, including Thi My Thuong Doan, Anil Gautam, Dionigi Gerace, and Zhini Yang. Her work explores topics like time zone effects on trading behavior, the disposition effect, and the implications of financial regulations such as MiFID II. She collaborates broadly, with projects spanning equity market efficiency, investor psychology, and cross-border trading dynamics.
Her research outputs include studies on retail investor preferences during crises, the impact of MiFID II on equity markets, and the role of birth cohorts in speculative trading. Grace actively contributes to academic discourse through peer-reviewed journals and maintains affiliations with industry partners.
