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Geoff Meeks

Professor of Financial Accounting

BA (Univ. of Cambridge), PhD (Univ. of Edinburgh)

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Professional experience and previous appointments

Geoff Meeks joined Cambridge Judge Business School in 2003, having previously been employed by Price Waterhouse, the University of Edinburgh and the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge. He has held visiting positions at Harvard Business School, INSEAD and London School of Economics. He is a member of the Academic Panel of the Accounting Standards Board and a member of the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network (CCGN).

Research interests

Financial reporting around major events in business finance (especially takeover, bankruptcy, IPO); creative accounting and accounting regulation; corporate governance.

Geoff Meeks is a member of the Finance & Accounting subject group.

Selected publications

Meeks, G. (1977) Disappointing marriage: a study of the gains from merger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Goudie, A.W. and Meeks, G. (1991) "The exchange rate and company failure in a macro-micro model of the UK company sector." Economic Journal, 101(406): 444-457

Botsari, A. and Meeks, G. (2008) "Do acquirers overstate earnings prior to a share for share bid?" Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 35(5-6): 633-670

Meeks, G. and Meeks, J.G. (2009) "Self-fulfilling prophecies of failure: the endogenous balance sheets of distressed firms." Abacus, 45(1): 22-43

Amel-Zadeh, A. and Meeks, G. (2013) "Bank failure, mark-to-market, and the financial crisis." Abacus (forthcoming)

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