Previous Research Seminars in Accounting and Financial Management

• 16 November 2022,  (joint with SIME), Orly Sade (Hebrew University) – Using AI and Behavioural Finance to Cope with Limited Attention and Reduce Overdraft Fees. 

• 23 November 2022, Pedro Saffi (University of Cambridge) – Power Grab: Activists, Short Sellers, and Disagreement

• 7 December 2022,  Luc Renneboog (Tilburg University) - In Art We Trust.

• 8 February 2023, Hervé Stolowy (HEC Paris) - Popular expertise in financial markets: An analysis of due diligence posts on WallStreetBets.

• 15 February 2023, Dimitris Petmezas (Durham University) - Does CEO Ethnic Cultural Identity Affect Cross-Border Acquisitions?

• 8 March 2023, Danny McGowan (University of Birmingham) - Prepayment Penalties, Adverse Selection, and Mortgage Default

• 22 March 2023, Luca Taschini (University of Edinburgh) – Carbon Default Swaps.

• 19 April 2023, Cynthia Balloch (London School of Economics) - Asset Allocation and Returns in the Portfolios of the Wealthy

• 26 April 2023, Marc Goergen (IE Business School) - Big Brother is Watching You: The Effect of the CSISC Shareholding Program on Insider Trading

• 17 May 2023, Vasso Ioannidou (Bayes Business School) – Corporate pension risk-taking in a low interest rate environment

• 19 May 2023, Fahad Saleh (Wake Forest University) - Equilibrium in a DeFi Lending Market

• 7 June 2023, Colin Zeng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) - Does New Lease Accounting Standard ASC 842 Affect Bank Loan Pricing 

• 3 November 2021, Oren Sussman (University of Oxford) – Why fire sale discounts are overstated: A study of misallocation and productivity in distressed airlines

• 24 November 2021,John Turner (Queen’s University Belfast) – Why did shareholder liability disappear? Evidence from the UK insurance industry

• 09 March 2022, Andrea Patacconi (Norwich Business School) – An asset partitioning perspective on corporate groups.27 April 2022, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm, Emanuele Bajo (University of Bologna) – I’ll trade, just not today: Individual investor trading activity around birthdays.

• 4 May 2022, Francesca Culasso, Daniele Giordino, and Edoardo Crocco (University of Turin) - (i) Customer agility in the modern automotive sector: how lead management shapes agile digital companies. (ii) Empirical Identification of the Chief Digital Officer role. (iii) Digital Transformation: Is the Covid-19 a catalyst for micro and small enterprises' first steps towards innovation?

• 11 May 2022, Jie Chen (University of Leeds) - The Disciplinary Role of Major Corporate Customers.

• 13 May 2022 - Kai Li (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia) - Gender, Competition, and Performance: International Evidence.

• 18 May 2022 - 1:30pm-3:00pm, Jana Fidrmuc (University of Warwick) - Acquirer insiders’ trades around M&A announcements

• 25 May 2022 - Mingzhu Wang (King's College London) - The Role of Co-authorship in Analyst Rankings.

• 8 June 2022 - Philip Valta (University of Bern) - What do market participants learn from share repurchases? Evidence from a return decomposition.

• 15 June 2022 -  Louis Nguyen (Durham University) - Monitoring Branches.

Semester 1

• 2 December 2020, Daniel Ferreira (LSE) – Closing the Gap: Board Gender Quotas and Hiring Practices

• 9 December 2020, Marc Goergen (IE Business School) – The Cultural Foundations of Corporate Control: An Empirical Enquiry

Semester 2

• 27 January 2021, Dirk Jenter (LSE) – Shareholder Liability and Bank Failure

• 3 February 2021, Darren Kisgen (Boston College) – What’s in a Rating Report? Parsing the Content of Moody’s Credit Rating Reports from 1998-2016

• 10 February 2021, Nico Lehmann (Erasmus School of Economics) – The role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) information in supply-chain contracting: Evidence from the expansion of CSR rating coverage

• 10 March 2021, 13.30-15.00, Roni Michaely (University of Geneva) – Propagation of Political Information

• 24 March 2021, Philipp Krueger (University of Geneva) – The Sustainability Wage Gap

Semester 1

• 25 September 2019, Dimitris Petmezas (University of Surrey)

• 9 October 2019, Hong Zou (University of Hong Kong)

• 16 October 2019, Dr Anastasiya Shamshur (University of East Anglia)   

• 6 November 2019, Kim Soin (University of Exeter)

• 20 November 2019, Ettore Croci (Catholic University of Milan)

• 27 November 2019, Professor Elettra Agliardi (University of Bologna), Bush House, Room (SE)2.09, 14.00-15.30

• 4 December 2019, Amedeo De Cesari (University of Manchester), Bush House, Room (SE)1.01, 14.00-15.30

Semester 2

• 15 January 2020, Dr Mark Aleksanyan (University of Glasgow)

• 12 February 2020, Professor Renee Adams (University of Oxford)

• 4 March 2020, Dr Henry Lahr (The Open University)

• 11 March 2020. Professor Klaus Schaeck (University of Bristol)

• 18 March 2020, Professor Paolo Quattrone (University of Edinburgh)

• 25 March 2020, Professor Emanuele Bajo (University of Bologna)

• 26 March 2020, Dr Panayiotis Andreou (Cyprus University of Technology)

Semester 2

• 16 January 2019, Professor Jeffrey Unerman (Lancaster University)

• 30 January 2019, Dr Ryan Krause, (Texas Christian University), Joint Seminar with Strategy, International Management and Entrepreneurship Research Group

• 6 February 2019, Professor Raghavendra Rau (University of Cambridge)

• 13 February 2019, Professor Dirk Jenter (London School of Economics and Political Science)

• 6 March 2019. Professor Henri Servaes (London Business School)

• 13 March 2019, Professor Chris Chapman (University of Bristol)

• 20 March 2019, Dr Maria Correia (London School of Economics and Political Science)

• 27 March 2019, Emma McDaid (University of New South Wales)

• 29 April 2019, Professor Kai Li (University of British Columbia)

• 8 May 2019, Dr Luca Del Viva (ESADE)

• 15 May 2019, Dr Luciana D'Adderio (University of Strathclyde)

• May 22, 2019, Professor David Yermack (New York University)

• 5 June 2019, Professor Stefano Rossi (University of Bocconi)

• 12 June 2019, Professor Lakshmanan Shivakumar (London Business School)