2022
The International Virtual Research Seminars in Finance (IVRSiF) series continued online this year, across the Spring months.
The Finance Research consortium hosted the following speakers:
1 March - Sheridan Titman, The University of Texas at Austin - “The Performance of Characteristic-Sorted Portfolios: Evaluating the Past and Predicting the Future”
29 March - Toni Whited, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan - “Taxes Depress Corporate Borrowing: Evidence from Private Firms”
5 April - Joel Peress, INSEAD - “What do Interest Rates Reveal about the Stock Market? A Noisy Rational Expectations Model of Stock and Bond Markets”
26 April - Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - "Greening the Swiss National Bank’s Portfolio"
2021
Professor Ania Zalewska continued the popular series of International Virtual Research Seminars in Finance (IVRSiF). These took place online between February and December.
This webinar series was organised as a research collaboration by a Finance Research Consortium consisting of the following universities:
Aalborg University Business School, Denmark
BAFFI CAREFIN Centre, Bocconi University, Italy
Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy, University of Bath, United Kingdom
Grenoble Ecole de Management, France
University of Rome - Sapienza, Italy
The following academics spoke on their specified topic, and then took questions from the audience:
2 February – Anjan Thakor, University of Washington St. Louis - "Banking on hard and soft information"
9 February – Anna Pavlova, London Business School - "Benchmarking Intensity"
23 February – Michael Roberts, Wharton - University of Pennsylvania - "CLO Performance"
2 March – Laura Veldkamp, Columbia Business School - "Where Has All the Data Gone?"
9 March – Bruno Biais, HES Paris - "Incentive constrained risk sharing, endogenous segmentation and asset pricing"
13 April – Robert Korajczyk, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University - "Large Sample Estimators of the Stochastic Discount Factor"
27 April – Carol Alexander, University of Sussex - "Latest Research on Crypto Assets and their Derivatives"
Autumn term
28 September - Campbell Harvey, Duke University - "DeFi Opportunities and Risks"
12 October - Xiaoyan Zhang, PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University - "Understanding Retail Investors: Evidence from China"
2 November - Maureen O’Hara, Cornell University - "Financial Market Ethics"
16 November - Roni Michaely, University of Hong Kong - “Financing Payouts"
30 November - Martijn Cremers, University of Notre Dame - “The complexity materiality of ESG ratings: Evidence from ESG funds”
7 December - Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College London - "Carbon emissions and the bank lending channel"
Aside from the IVRSiF event series, the Centre welcomed the following speakers during the Spring term:
12 March - Taisiya Sikorskaya, London Business School - "Benchmarking Intensity"
4 May - Donald Nordberg, Milestones Trust - "Who’s in charge, in whose interest? Ownership and accountability in the charity sector"
14 May - René Levesley, Profile Pension - "The Impact of Biases, Personality and Financial Advice on Investment Decisions”
2020
Professor Ania Zalewska led a series of International Virtual Research Seminars in Finance. These took place online between 22 September and 15 December.
This webinar series was organised as a research collaboration by a Finance Research Consortium consisting of the following universities:
Aalborg University Business School, Denmark
BAFFI CAREFIN Centre, Bocconi University, Italy
Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy, University of Bath, United Kingdom
Grenoble Ecole de Management, France
University of Rome - Sapienza, Italy
The following academics spoke on their specified topic, and then took questions from the audience:
22 September – Professor David Reeb, National University of Singapore - "Nudging the CEO-Employee Pay Gap"
6 October – Professor John Graham, Duke University, Fuqua Business School - "Corporate Flexibility and the Covid crisis"
27 October – Professor Mariassunta Giannetti, Stockholm School of Economics - "Does Money Talk? Market Discipline through Selloffs and Boycotts"
17 November – Professor Mara Faccio, Purdue University, Krannert School of Management - "Political Connections Impede the Schumpeterian Process of Creative Destruction"
8 December – Professor Victoria Ivashina, Harvard Business School - "Why is Dollar Debt Cheaper? Evidence from Peru"
15 December – Professor Russ Wermers, University of Maryland, R.H. Smith School of Business - "International Characteristic-Based Asset Pricing"
2019
Professor Phil Tomlinson, Dr Mariachiara Barzotto and Dr Felicia Fai launch their RSA book 'Revitalising Lagging Regions: Smart Specialisation and Industry 4.0' at the EU Joint Research Centre, Seville, 26th September 2019. View news item
Professor Ania Zalewska delivers the opening keynote address at the Westminster Business Forum policy conference 'Pensions policy and regulation - the future for DB, DC and CDC'. View agenda.
Professor Ania Zalewska discusses challenges of going green at the Sustainable Finance Panel at the 2019 IFABS Angers Conference in France.
Professor Ania Zalewska discusses the growing importance of Fintech and the evolution of the financial markets' structures at the Economic Challenges Panel at the Concilium Civitas Conference in Warsaw, Poland. Watch a recording of the discussion.
Workshop organised in cooperation with Responsible Investor on 'Building the new governance architecture: The bridges between climate action, finance and sustainability', 23 September 2019.
2018
Professor Ania Zalewska, following an in invitation from Sir John Kingman, participated in the roundtable discussion on 'Business Environment – how to drive business investment. Read a summary of the discussion.
'The growing importance of governance to investors'
Renée Friedman, Managing Editor at The Economist Group
30 November 2018
Read more about the event,'The growing importance of governance to investors'.
'Regulation, regulators and the regulated: Perspectives on the regulation of public services'
Andrew Wright, Durham Energy Institute
16 November 2018
Read more about the event, 'Regulation, regulators and the regulated: Perspectives on the regulation of public services'.
'Investor stewardship in the context of the common ownership debate'
Dr Anastasia Petraki, Head of Research and Statistics at the Investment Association (IA)
9 November 2018
Read more about the event, 'Investor stewardship in the context of the common ownership debate'.
'Responding to climate change financial risks: What do insurers need to do?
Patrick Cleary, Prudential Regulation Authority, Bank of England
24 October 2018
Read more about the event, 'Responding to climate change financial risks: What do insurers need to do?.
'Century U.S. Industrial Policy and Its Illusive Beneficiaries'
Professor Amy Glasmeier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Bath
26 April 2018
Organised with the IPR
Read more about the event, 'Century U.S. Industrial Policy and Its Illusive Beneficiaries'.
2017
'CGR seminar series 2017: Environment, technology and regulation'
April to June 2017
Our 2017 seminar series brought together top UK regulators and policy makers to talk about the future industry and regulatory challenges resulting from climate change and the rapidly increasing pace of technological progress in the financial and energy sectors.
2016
Robert Branston spoke at 'The Economist War on Cancer' event in London, co-presenting an interactive strategy session called `'Should tobacco taxes be used to fund cancer care?'
December 2016
Read more about the event, 'The Economist War on Cancer'.
Professor Michael Beverland, Director of the Centre for Research in Advertising & Consumption, and Dr Phil Tomlinson, Associate Professor in Business Economics and member of the Centre for International Business & Management, introduced their new books on industrial policy and manufacturing in Britain.
May 2016
Institute of Mathematical Innovation public lecture
Professor Ania Zalewska
19 February 2016
Read more about the Institute of Mathematical Innovation public lecture.
2015
'Institutional & Individual Investors: Saving for Old Age' conference
University of Bath
22 to 23 June 2015
The Journal of Banking of Finance published a special issue on the event.
2013
'Twenty Years after Cadbury,Ten Years after Sarbanes-Oxley: Challenges of Corporate Governance'
School of Management
24 to 25 June 2013
Read more about the conference 'Twenty Years after Cadbury,Ten Years after Sarbanes-Oxley: Challenges of Corporate Governance'
Read more about the PhD colloquium.
'Regulation and strategic behaviour of tobacco manufacturers'
School of Management
30 January 2013
Read more about the event, 'Regulation and strategic behaviour of tobacco manufacturers'.
2012
'Credit Unions'
Professor John Forker, CGR-SoM
School of Management
7 December 2012
'Determinants of the informal sector'
Ajit Mishra, CGR-Econ
School of Management
9 November 2012
'The case for ofsmoke: the potential for price cap regulation of tobacco to raise £500m per year in the UK'
Rob Branston, CGR-SoM
School of Management
23 November 2012
Professor Eric Thiessen, University of Meinheim
School of Management
2 May 2012
2011
'Understanding Non-Compliance with Corporate Governance Codes: Evidence from Europe'
Professor Rafel Crespi-Cladera, Universitat de les Illes Balears
School of Management
13 April 2011
Dr Stefan Straetmans, University of Maastricht
School of Management
14 March 2011
'Ownership identity and concentration: A study of their joint impact on corporate diversification'
Professor Michael Mayer
School of Management
23 February 2011
2010
'Working the system': How and Why British American Tobacco worked to Promote Impact Assessment and Risk Assessment in the EU'
Dr Katherine Smith, CGR (with the Tobacco Control Research Group)
School of Management
8 December 2010
'Too Interconnected To Fail: Financial Contagion and Systemic Risk in Network Model of CDS and Other Credit Enhancement Obligations of US'
Dr Simone Giansante, School of Management
School of Management
1 December 2010
'Firm survival and relationship banking'
Dr Tina Chang, School of Management
School of Management
24 November 2010
'Americanisation of corporate life'
Prof Ania Zalewska
School of Management, CGR
School of Management
17 November 2010
'OFSMOKE: the case for price regulation in the tobacco market'
Anna Gilmore/Rob Branston, School of Management, CGR (with the Tobacco Control Research Group)
School of Management
10 November 2010
'The impact of regulation on the value of tobacco companies'
Dr Julie Salaber, School of Management, CGR
School of Management
3 November 2010
'How does the operating environment influence consumption and profits in the insurance industry?'
Fotios Pasiouras, Technical University of Crete
School of Management
20 October 2010
Event run jointly with the Accounting and Finance External Speaker Seminar Series
Prof. Gilles Chemla, Imperial Business School
School of Management
12 May 2010
Dr. Rob Branston, University of Bath, School of Management
School of Management
5 May 2010
'Balancing financial and non-financial incentives in performance measurement systems: an investigation of not for profit hospitals'
Margaret Greenwood, University of Bath, School of Management
School of Management
14 April 2010
'Evidence, knowledge, expertise in governance'
Dr. Emma Carmel, Dep. of Social & Policy Sciences
School of Management
24 March 2010
'Co-operative ties and the impact of external factors upon innovation in an industrial district: some insights from the North Staffordshire Table and Giftware sector'
Dr. Phil Tomlison, School of Management
School of Management
17 March 2010
Dr. Ajit Mishra, Dep. of Economics & International Development
School of Management
10 March 2010
'Information and Efficiency: Goal Arrival in Soccer Betting (joint with the Accounting and Finance External Speaker Seminar Series)'
Dr. James Reade, Birmingham University
School of Management
24 February 2010
'Does within-tenure experience make you tougher? Evidence from competition law'
Prof Ania Zalewska, School of Management
School of Management
10 February 2010
2009
'The changing face of share-ownership' (sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust) 15 June 2009. Read more about the conference, 'The changing face of share-ownership'.