Accounting and Finance

MPhil/PhD Finance

Research areas

Our research focuses around the following four themes:

  • asset pricing and valuation
  • corporate finance and corporate governance
  • financial markets
  • financial econometrics and risk management

The Accounting and Finance research group comprises of staff from the Department of Accounting and the Xfi Centre for Finance and Investment. The Xfi centre provides a high quality teaching facility and offers students, financial professionals and global financial institutions a direct gateway to practical business solutions through the work of leading academics and practitioners.

Our research focuses on the sustainable delivery of leading-edge research across a broad range of areas within the disciplines of accounting and finance. We are recognised as a leading centre of excellence in financial markets research and our supportive research environment was highlighted in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.

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