Business School

Dr Evangelos Vagenas-Nanos

Evangelos Vagenas-Nanos
  • Lecturer (Accounting and Finance)

email: Evangelos.Vagenas-Nanos@glasgow.ac.uk


Research interests

Mergers and Acquisitions; Behavioural Finance; Corporate Finance

Biography

Evangelos joined the department in 2010 as a lecturer in Finance. Previously, he was a teaching assistant in Finance at Durham Business School. Evangelos gained a BA in Economics from Aristotle University (Greece) while at Durham University he obtained an MSc in Finance and Investment as well as a PhD in Finance (2011). He also holds the Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) in Teaching and Learning in higher Education qualification.

His main research areas of interest lie in Corporate Finance, especially within the sub-field of Mergers and Acquisitions and Capital Structure as well as Behavioural Finance. Investigating these fields, Evangelos’ PhD thesis focuses on the impact of managerial and investor sentiment on bidders’ abnormal returns.

Evangelos is also involved in the supervision of undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students.

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2010

Croci, E., Petmezas, D., and Vagenas-Nanos, E. (2010) Managerial overconfidence in high and low valuation markets and gains to acquisitions. International Review of Financial Analysis, 19 (5). pp. 368-378. ISSN 1057-5219 (doi:10.1016/j.irfa.2010.06.003)

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Postgraduate: Mergers and Acquisitions; Behavioural Finance; International Corporate Finance

Research projects and work in progress

Uncertainty Triggers Sentiment: Evidence from Corporate Takeovers (with Michael Guo)

The Dragon vs. The Eagle (with Emma Black and Michael Guo)

The Impact of M&As in Stock Price Informativeness (with Leonidas Barbopoulos)

The Benefits of Market Timing