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.
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?
11 May 2022, 1:30pm - 3:00pm, Jie Chen (University of Leeds) - The Disciplinary Role of Major Corporate Customers.
13 May 2022 - 1:30pm-3:00pm, 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 - 12:30-2:00pm, Mingzhu Wang (King's College London) - The Role of Co-authorship in Analyst Rankings.
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)