Dr Matt Burke

Management School

Lecturer in Finance

matt.burke@sheffield.ac.uk

C101, Western Bank Villa

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Dr Matt Burke
Management School
C101
Western Bank Villa
300-302 Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN

Profile: Matt joined the University of Sheffield after working as a research fellow at the University of Oxford. Matt completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia and has undertaken postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge. Matt has worked as a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). He regularly consults on environmentally related financial risks to central banks, charities and the private sector. Matt also maintains an affiliation to the climaTRACES lab at the University of Cambridge.

Research interests: Matt’s research is focused on the finance of climate change and biodiversity loss. His work studies how market participants respond to environmental risks, and how the financial system may suffer from rising temperatures and lost ecosystem services. Matt also maintains interests in broader financial and economic problems.

Publications

Fry J & Burke M (2022) Quantitative Methods in Finance Using R. Open University Press.

Klusak P, Agarwala M, Burke M, Kraemer M & Mohaddes K (2023) Rising Temperatures, Falling Ratings: The Effect of Climate Change on Sovereign Creditworthiness. Management Science, 69(12), 7468-7491.
Burke M, Fry J, Kemp S & Woodhouse D (2022) Attention to Authority: The behavioural finance of Covid-19. Finance Research Letters, 49, 103081-103081.
Agarwala M, Burke M, Klusak P, Mohaddes K, Volz U & Zenghelis D (2021) CLIMATE CHANGE AND FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY: RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES. National Institute Economic Review, 258, 28-46.
Fry J & Burke M (2020) An options-pricing approach to election prediction. Quantitative Finance, 20(10), 1583-1589.
Burke M & Fry J (2019) How easy is it to understand consumer finance?. Economics Letters, 177, 1-4.

Bernhofen M, Burke M, Puranasamriddhi A, Ranger N & Shrimali G (2024) Integrating Physical Climate Risks and Adaptation into Sovereign Credit Ratings