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
Members
Faculty
- Amir Amel-Zadeh
University Lecturer in Finance - Richard Barker
University Senior Lecturer in Accounting - David Chambers
University Lecturer in Finance - Jenny Chu
University Lecturer in Accounting - Jay Dahya
Research Fellow in Economics & Finance (Visiting) - Elroy Dimson
Visiting Professor of Finance - Gishan Dissanaike
Adam Smith Professor of Corporate Governance, Director of the MPhil in Finance Programme - John Eatwell
Professor of Financial Policy, Director of the Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy (CFAP) - Alexander Ljungqvist
Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Visiting Fellow - Geoff Meeks
Professor of Financial Accounting - Bang Dang Nguyen
University Lecturer in Finance - Raghavendra Rau
Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance, Head of the Finance & Accounting Subject Group - Pedro Saffi
University Lecturer in Finance - Michael Schill
Santander Visiting Fellow - Peter Szilagyi
University Lecturer in Finance - Simon Taylor
Director of the Master of Finance Programme, University Lecturer in Finance - Geoffrey Whittington
Senior Research Associate, Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy (CFAP)
Fellows & Associates
- Kern Alexander
Senior Research Associate, Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy (CFAP) - Peter Allen
Fellow in Finance - Antonia Botsari
Associate in Accounting and Finance - William Brett
Research Assistant, Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy (CFAP) - John Burnham
Fellow in Infrastructure Finance - Nick Cavalla
Fellow in Finance - Robin Chatterjee
Fellow in Accounting - Michael Cohrs
Fellow in Finance - Mia De Kuijper
Fellow in Finance - John Doukas
Fellow in Finance - Mardi Dungey
Senior Research Associate, Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy (CFAP) - Owain Evans
Fellow in Finance - Bradley Fried
CEO in Residence - Joerg Geier
Associate in Executive Education - John W. Glynn
Fellow in Finance - Lisa Goh
Associate in Accounting - Jean-Baptiste Gossé
Research Associate, Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy (CFAP) - Ben Hardy
Fellow in Management, Finance & Physiology (Visiting) - Meiling He
Research Assistant, Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy (CFAP) - Lyudmyla Hvozdyk
Teaching Associate in Finance - Chris Jones
Fellow in Finance - Hayne Leland
Pembroke Visiting Professor of International Finance - Kevin Li
Associate in Finance - Kim-Hwa Lim
Fellow in Finance and Financial Reporting - Ian Marsh
Research Associate, Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy (CFAP) - Arjun Mathrani
Fellow in Finance - Robert A.G. Monks
Fellow in Corporate Governance - Lionel Page
Associate in Finance - Hashem Pesaran
Research Fellow in Finance - Jonathon P. Read
Fellow in Finance - Jochen Reb
Research Fellow (Visiting) - L. Vanessa Smith
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy (CFAP) - Khaled Soufani
Fellow in Finance - Bob Stefanowski
Fellow in Finance - Jeffrey Towson
Fellow in Investment Strategy - Laura Turner
Research Associate, Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy (CFAP) (Visiting) - David Tweedie
Fellow in Accounting - M. Tugrul Vehbi
Research Associate, Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy (CFAP) - Wolf Wagner
Associate in Finance - Ken Wild
Fellow in Accounting - Simon Woolley
Fellow in Finance
PhD students
- Henri Buchsteiner
- Jonathan Faasse
- Justin Foo
- Jeremy Grant
- Lyudmyla Hvozdyk
- Stefan Kuppen
- Despo Malikkidou
- Andreas Markou
- Kirsty McLaren
- Kridsda Nimmanunta
- Chong Wei Wong
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.
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.
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
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 »