Finance

Overview: The finance group is an energetic and enterprising research cluster that continuously strives for excellence in both its teaching and its scholarship. The group's research strengths cover finance and financial history, financial markets and institutions and not-for-profit financial institutions. The group has a particular interest in not-for-profit organisations and in financial history. Research students benefit from attending courses and tailor-made reading groups to complete their background preparation in finance. Queen's Management School prides itself on research-led teaching and offers its research students experience as teaching assistants in a variety of undergraduate courses. Students regularly attend the School's various seminar series, which attract leading academics from around the world. Students also present their work at these events, gaining invaluable advice and preparation for the academic job market. RESEARCH STRENGTHS Particular strengths within each of these three areas are as follows: FINANCE AND FINANCIAL HISTORY Corporate finance Corporate governance and corporate law Historical asset pricing Financial crises, manias and bubbles UK equity markets in the 19th and 20th centuries UK financial institutions in the 19th and 20th centuries FINANCIAL MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS Capital structure behaviour in UK-quoted firms Demographic change and international capital flows Equity, bond, foreign exchange and derivative markets Long memory, heterogeneity and trend-chasing in financial prices Price discovery in bond markets NOT-FOR-PROFIT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS Credit unions Diversification options for not-for-profit financial institutions Efficiency and performance of not-for-profit financial institutions Networks and co-operation benefits for not-for-profit financial institutions Share this course Share...