Making connections

Business School staff reaching out to their wider network

External seminars and visits

Professor Vivien Beattie delivered the annual ICAEW PD Leake lecture in June. The discussant was Graham Roberts, Finance Director of British Land plc. The lecture, ‘Do Audit Committees Really Engage with Auditors on Planning and Performance?’, drew upon research funded by the the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (with co-researchers Professor Stella Fearnley and Tony Hines).  

Alexandros Kontonikas visited the European Central Bank for a week in May 2011 to conduct research on sovereign bond yield spreads as an external research consultant.

Mario Cerrato was invited to give a talk at the Central Bank of Ireland on ‘The Rise and Fall of the ABS Market’ in March.

Conferences

Chris Veld presented his paper ‘Why do firms really issue convertible bonds? Evidence from the field’ (co-authored with M. Dong and M. Dutordoir) at a seminar at the University of St. Andrews and at the Western Economic Association International Conference, San Diego in June.

Evangelos Vagenas-Nanos presented his paper ‘The Eagle vs The Dragon’ (co-authored with E. Black and M. Guo) at the European Financial Management Symposium, China in March; and also presented ‘Uncertainty Triggers Sentiment: Evidence from Corporate Takeovers’ (co-authored with M. Guo) at the World Finance Conference, Rhodes and the European Financial Management Conference, Braga during June.   

Greg Stoner presented his paper ‘Pacioli’s Forgotten 4th Book: The Ricordanze’ (co-authored with A. Sangster, P. De Lange, and B. O’Connell)  at the Yaroslav V. Sokolov Conference, St. Petersburg State University, Russia in February; and presented the same paper at the European Accounting Association Annual Congress, Rome in April. Greg also presented a paper ‘Introductory Accounting with Matrices’ (co-authored with Anna Vysotskaya) at the Accounting Education Special Interest Group of BAFA, Winchester, in May.

Hong Liu presented his paper ‘Bank type, competition and stability in Japanese banking’ at the British Accounting and Finance Association Conference, Birmingham in April.

Dr Anna Morgan-Thomas led the doctoral colloquium at the most recent annual conference of the Academy of International Business UK & Ireland chapter in Edinburgh. Dr Margaret Fletcher co-chaired, andpresented at, special sessions relating to the JSBED special issue that she co-guest edited, and Dr Alfredo D’Angelo chaired a session at which his most recent work was also presented.

Jim Malley presented his paper ‘The Distributional Consequences of Supply-Side Reforms in General Equilibrium’ (co-authored with K. Angelopoulos and B. Fernandez) at the CESifo Area Conference on Macro, Money & International Finance, Munich; the Center for Planning and Economic Research, Athens; and the Bank of Greece, Athens during February and March 2011. Bernardo Fernandez also presented this paper at the Scottish Economics Society Annual Conference, Perth in April.

Konstantinos Angelopoulos presented his paper ‘Tax Policy in a Heterogeneous Agent Framework’ (co-authored with J. Malley and A. Philippopoulos) at the Center for Planning and Economic Research, Athens; and the Bank of Greece, Athens during February and March.

Konstantinos Angelopoulos presented his paper ‘Fear of Model Misspecification and the Robustness Premium’ (co-authored with J. Malley) at the Royal Economics Society Annual Conference, London in April. He also presented the paper at the Computational Economics and Finance Conference, San Francisco, in June.

Professor Fiona Wilson attended the EFMD annual conference in Brussels in June. The theme of the conference was Management Education in 2025.

International partnerships

Russia

Collaborative agreements for double degrees on taught Postgraduate programmes have been forged with St Petersburg State University and the Finance Academy in Moscow.  Professor Jo Danbolt and Dr. Mark Aleksanyan also visited Russian-Armenian University (Yerevan) in April to explore the possibility for similar collaborative agreements.

China

The University hosted a delegation from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China on 13th June. The delegation was led by Vice President Professor Daorong ZENG and included Professor Rong LIU, Dean of School of Public Finance and Taxation; Professor Guoqing WANG, Chairman of Academic Committee of Public Economics; Professor Feng WEN, Deputy Dean of School of Public Finance and Taxation; Vice Professor Jiandong CHEN, Public Economics and Vice Professor Maoqing FEI, Public Economics.

SWUFE is located in Chengdu, Sichuan province and is a member of the 211 Project, a national initiative to develop approximately 100 first class Chinese universities.

The University signed a Study Abroad and Masters collaborative agreement with SWUFE in 2009 which has proved to be very successful, with a number of students joining programmes in Accounting and Finance in particular. The delegation met with the Business School and discussed the potential for widening the collaboration, including possibilities for research and staff exchange.