Dr Paula Lopes-Cocco

Assistant Professorial Lecturer; Departmental Tutor

Research Interests

• Retirement Saving and Investments
• Personal Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit

Selected papers

• "Expenditures and financial well-being", (with João Cocco and Francisco Gomes), March 2016

• "Reverse Mortgage Design", (with João Cocco), September 2015

• "Defined Benefit or Defined Contribution? A Study of Pension Choices", (with João Cocco), The Journal of Risk and Insurance, 78, 931-960, December 2011

• "How Deep is the Annuity Market Participation Puzzle", (with Alex Michaelides and Joachim Inkmann), Review of Financial Studies, 24:1, 279-319, January 2011

• "Credit Card Debt and Default over the Life-Cycle", Journal of Money Credit and Banking, 40, 4, 769-790, June 2008

• "Rare Events and Annuity Market Participation", (with Alex Michaelides), Finance Research Letters, 4, 2, 82-91, June 2007

• "The Effects of Load Factors and Minimum Size Restrictions on Annuity Market Participation", FMG DP 473 (UBS PRP 19), November 2009. (Working paper)

Teaching

• Office Hours (internal LSE access only)

Lectures/classes

• FM320 Quantitative Finance (seminars only)
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• FM430 Corporate Finance and Asset Markets (seminars only)
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