Andrew Conlin, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Oulu, 2017
• MS, University of Oulu, 2008
• BA, William & Mary, 1995

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Andrew Conlin joined the University of Kentucky in January 2026. He was previously in Finland at Aalto University and the University of Oulu. He earned his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Oulu, where his dissertation examined personality traits and investor behavior. Andrew has taught courses in behavioral finance, corporate finance, investments and personal finance. He has also supervised theses in finance at both the bachelor’s and master’s level. Before entering academia, he worked in NASDAQ trading at Robert W. Baird & Co. and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Vanuatu.

Teaching Expertise:

• Behavioral Finance
• Corporate Finance
• Investments

Research Expertise:

• Behavioral Finance
• Household Finance

Selected Publications:

• What drives stock market participation? The role of institutional, traditional, and behavioral factors, with Kaustia, M. & Luotonen, N., Journal of Banking & Finance, 2023, 106743.
• Early health, risk aversion and stock market participation, with Böckerman, P. & Svento, R., Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2021, 100568.
• Evening chronotype is associated with poor work ability and disability pensions at midlife: a Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study, with Räihä, T., Nerg, I., Jurvelin, H., Korhonen, M., & Ala-Mursula, L., Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2021, 78(8), 567-575.
• Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences, with Linnér, R.K., Beauchamp, J. P., and 95 others, Nature Genetics, 2019, 51(2), 245-257.
• Personality traits and stock market participation, with Kyröläinen, P., Kaakinen, M., Järvelin, M. R., Perttunen, J., & Svento, R., Journal of Empirical Finance, 2015, 33, 34-50.