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Previous Research Seminars in Accounting and Financial Management

The Department of Accounting and Financial Management of King's Business School organises bi-weekly research seminars in finance. The following research seminars are from previous years. For current events run by the research group, please see the right sidebar.

 

2021/2022 Academic Year

  • 3 November 2021, 13.30-15.00, Oren Sussman (University of Oxford) – Why fire sale discounts are overstated: A study of misallocation and productivity in distressed airlines
  • 24 November 2021, 13.30-15.00, John Turner (Queen’s University Belfast) – Why did shareholder liability disappear? Evidence from the UK insurance industry

  • 09 March 2022, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm, 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.

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    4 May 2022, 1:30pm - 3:00pm, 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?

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    11 May 2022, 1:30pm - 3:00pm, Jie Chen (University of Leeds) - The Disciplinary Role of Major Corporate Customers.

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    13 May 2022 - 1:30pm-3:00pm, Kai Li (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia) - Gender, Competition, and Performance: International Evidence.

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

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    25 May 2022 - 12:30-2:00pm, Mingzhu Wang (King's College London) - The Role of Co-authorship in Analyst Rankings.

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    8 June 2022 - 1:30pm-3:00pm, Philip Valta (University of Bern) - What do market participants learn from share repurchases? Evidence from a return decomposition.

  • 15 June 2022 - 1:30pm-3:00pm, Louis Nguyen (Durham University) - Monitoring Branches.

2020/2021 Academic Year

    Semester 1

  • 2 December 2020, Daniel Ferreira (LSE) – Closing the Gap: Board Gender Quotas and Hiring Practices, 13.30-15.00

  • 9 December 2020, Marc Goergen (IE Business School) – The Cultural Foundations of Corporate Control: An Empirical Enquiry, 13.30-15.00

Semester 2

  • 27 January 2021, Dirk Jenter (LSE) – Shareholder Liability and Bank Failure, 13.30-15.00

  • 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, 15.00-16.30

  • 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, 14.00-15.30

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

  • 24 March 2021, Philipp Krueger (University of Geneva) – The Sustainability Wage Gap, 13.30-15.00

2019/2020 Academic Year

    Semester 1

  • 25 September 2019, Dimitris Petmezas (University of Surrey), Bush House, Room (S)2.03, 14.00-15.30

  • 9 October 2019, Hong Zou (University of Hong Kong), Bush House, Room (S)2.03, 14.00-15.30

  • 16 October 2019, Dr Anastasiya Shamshur (University of East Anglia), Strand Building, Room (S)3.31, 14.00-15.30

  • 6 November 2019, Kim Soin (University of Exeter), Bush House, Room (SE)2.09, 14.00-15.30

  • 20 November 2019, Ettore Croci (Catholic University of Milan), Bush House, Room (SE)1.01, 14.00-15.30

  • 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)

2018/2019 Academic Year

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)