Biography

I am a Professor of Finance and Head of the Finance Group at the University of Bristol Business School.

My research interests lie mainly in the areas of capital markets, banking, and corporate finance.  For more information on my research, click here.

I serve as an Associate Editor for The British Accounting Review and I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK). I have received funding for my research from the European Commission (I was the leader of the SHIFT project - 2017-2019 - final rating: 81/100), ESRC (UKRI project) and the Deutsche Bundesbank.

In my career, I have taught modules in banking, corporate finance, capital markets, derivatives, and financial econometrics. I have been a visiting scholar at the Deutsche Bundesbank and I have held visiting teaching appointments at universities in France, Italy, and China.

My research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Financial Intermediation, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and the Journal of Corporate Finance. For more information on my publications, click here.

My work has been presented at global prestigious conferences, such as the annual meetings of the European Finance Association, the SFS Finance Cavalcade, the Financial Management Association, and the Royal Economic Society. Output from my research has also been disseminated in discussion papers of the Deutsche Bundesbank and the European Central Bank.

I have acted as a reviewer for: 

Accounting Horizons; Bank for International Settlements Working Paper series; British Accounting Review; British Journal of Management (ABS 4); Corporate Governance: An International Review; Economics Bulletin; Economics Letters; Economics Notes; European Journal of Finance; Emerging Markets, Finance and Trade; Finance; Finance Research Letters; Financial Stability Working Paper Series of the Bank of England; International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance; International Review of Financial Analysis; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy; Journal of Banking and Finance; Journal of Business Finance and Accounting; Journal of Corporate Finance (ABS 4); Journal of Economics and Business; Journal of Financial Stability; Journal of International Business Studies (ABS 4*) Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money; Journal of Management and Governance; Journal of Regulatory Economics; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (ABS 4); Management Science (ABS 4*); Managerial Finance; Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications; Regional Studies (ABS 4); Spatial Economic Analysis; The Manchester School; The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance.