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Finance & Accounting Subject Group


About the group

The Finance & Accounting group has a central focus on the analysis of financial decisions of business. The group also investigates two principal sources of data informing financial decisions: prices in financial markets in which business operates, and financial reports supplied by business to the financial markets. The group is engaged in researching regulation of company financial reporting and commercial and central banks to locate and reveal risk.

The group focuses on:

  • Business finance
  • Financial policy
  • Empirical corporate finance
  • Investment management
  • Financial reporting
  • Stock markets

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Members

Faculty

Fellows & Associates

PhD students

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Industry engagement

The group is committed to translating research into practice, both through regulators and the private sector, with links to Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Ernst & Young, Morgan Stanley, Warburg Pincus, the IASB and the ASB.

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Publishing output

The Faculty have published in leading international journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking & Finance, Review of Finance, Accounting and Business Research, Journal of Corporate Finance, European Financial Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Harvard Business Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Economic Journal, and Journal of Business Finance & Accounting. They have also held editorial appointments in leading journals, including the Accounting Review, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Banking and Finance, Review of Finance, and Journal of Industrial Economics.

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Financial databases

The group has access to a comprehensive range of financial data via the School and University subscriptions *:

  • Bloomberg
  • Capital IQ
  • Compustat (via WRDS)
  • CRSP (via WRDS)
  • Datastream
  • Eventus (via WRDS)
  • Execucomp (via WRDS)
  • Fame
  • I/B/E/S (via WRDS)
  • Investext
  • RatingsXpress (via WRDS)
  • RiskMetrics (via WRDS)
  • SDC Platinum
  • Thomson ONE Banker
  • TRACE (via WRDS)
  • WRDS

* Information correct as of February 2012

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Seminars

Download a list of recent Finance & Accounting-related seminars that have taken place in Cambridge (pdf, 36KB)

The Finance & Accounting Seminar Series

The Finance & Accounting group runs a regular seminar series during term time.

Visit the "Research Seminars" section for details of both upcoming and previous seminars »

The Joseph Stiglitz Distinguished Speaker Series in Finance

Cambridge Judge Business School's Joseph Stiglitz Distinguished Speaker Series in Finance was launched in 2011. Find out more »

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