Dr Mark Aleksanyan
- Senior Lecturer (Accounting & Finance)
email:
Mark.Aleksanyan@glasgow.ac.uk
R467 Level 4, Gilbert Scott Building, Glasgow, G12 8qq
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7826-1452Biography
Mark joined the University of Glasgow in September 2004, having previously worked as a lecturer in Leeds Metropolitan University Business School. He obtained his first degree in Mathematical Economics in 1997 from Yerevan State Institute of Economy. He obtained his postgraduate masters degree MPhil in International Finance in 2000, and received PhD in Accounting and Finance in 2004, both from the University of Glasgow. Throughout 1996-1999, prior to his academic career, he worked in Armenia, where he held various positions in a financial services firm, the Ministry of Finance and Economy and then the Government of Armenia. His main research interests concern the decision-making behaviour and practice of financial analysts and other financial market participants.
Research interests
Mark is a member of the Accounting research cluster.
Areas of expertise:
- Information processing and decision-making
- Financial analysts
- Equity valuation models
- Empirical accounting
- Financial disclosures
Grants
2019. ICAS (lead applicant, with S.Abhayawansa, K.Lee and I.Tsalavoutas): £17,200
2018. Foreign and Commonwealth Office Programme. £82,973
2017. Cusator Wards Endowment of the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow. £2,517
2015. Cusator Wards Endowment of the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow. £3,000
2010. Adam Smith Research Foundation Seedcorn Fund. £1,000
Supervision
Mark is interested in supervising projects examining:
- information processing and decision-making by professional investors and financial analysts (using qualitative or quantitative research methods),
- impact of technology and regulations on practice of capital market actors and financial information intermediaries (using qualitative or quantitative research methods),
- corporate reporting and value relevance.
Current doctoral supervision
- Jiang, Shaoshuai
The role of board members' education and political connection on firms' default risk and cost of debt: evidence from China - Li, Yaohua
Three essays on financial analysts - Liu, Chen
Manager characteristics and narrative disclosure quality
Teaching
Courses taught
- International Financial Analysis (MBA)
- Financial Analysis & Equity Valuation (MSc)
- Financial Statement Analysis & Valuation (BSc Honours)
- PhD masterclass (selected topics)
Previously taught
- International Corporate Finance (MSc)
- International Capital Markets (MSc)
Additional information
Working papers
- The conduct of sell-side analyst stock recommendations: A strong structuration analysis (with Kenneth Lee, Melina Manochin and Elaine Harris)
- Do State Visits Affect Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions? (with Zhiwei Hao, Evangelos Vagenas-Nanos and Patrick Verwijmeren)
- Inside the black-box of analysts' bounded rationality: a study of contexts that matter (with Subhash Abhayawansa)
- Fear and media coverage: The case of insider trading in takeover targets (with Betty Wu, Jo Danbolt, and Antonios Siganos)
- Analysts’ bias: optimism or obfuscation (with Nana Oiza Akubelem)
Research in progress
- Integrated reporting and accounting information quality (with Subhash Abhayawansa)
Refereeing (academic journals)
- Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal
- Accounting and Business Research
- Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research (on Editorial Board)
- European Management Journal
- Journal of Intellectual Capital
- Qualitative Research in Financial Markets (Associate Editor)
- Review of Business and Economics Studies (on Editorial Board)
