Research Grants

2024 CRUCIAL: Climate Risk and Uncertainty Collective Intelligence Aggregation Laboratory

2010 EPSRC ‘TEDDI’ project

2008 Joule Centre award joint with LEC

2007 LU Grant for ‘The Role of Alternation Bias in Paradoxes of Judgment and Perception’

Current Teaching

Econ 401 Economics for Money, Banking and Finance

Econ 412 Behavioural Finance

Econ 434 Topics in Banking Regulation and Financial Stability

Econ 435 Professional Skills Development

CEMBA 503 Business Economic and Financial Literacy

Qualifications

PhD (Warwick), SFHEA

Research Interests

Decision making under risk and uncertainty; the valuation, investment decision and financing of innovation- and R&D-intensive projects; technology policy; particular interest in the civil aerospace industry, the air transport industry, the finance industry, and the fintech industry.

Profile

Kim Kaivanto holds the post of Senior Lecturer in Economics, and is Director of the Climate Risk and Uncertainty Collective Intelligence Aggregation Laboratory (CRUCIAL). He also holds the administrative role of Director of the MSc in Money, Banking and Finance. Prior to joining LUMS, Kim held research fellowships at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics and Warwick Business School.

Kim's research issues from a core interest in theoretical and descriptive models of decision making and behaviour under risk and uncertainty. This is then carried through into and applied to more specific financial, investment, risk quantification and management settings. Kim has worked on a diverse range of research and consultancy projects, including such special topics such as physical and transition climate risk in banking, investor sentiment, security behaviour, civil aerospace R&D support schemes, air transport CO2 emissions, venture capital, the exploitation of social science research, and airport slot allocation rulings.

Kim’s publishes widely, across several disciplines, in both academic and practitioner-oriented journals. Kim has performed over 100 live-air TV interviews, on various international media channels.

In and out of work, Kim finds personal satisfaction and enjoyment in facing diverse challenges, seeking limits, and finding solutions to problems.

Web Links

https://www.crucialab.net/