Strathclyde Business SchoolDepartment of Accounting & Finance

Seminar Series 

The departments research seminar series invites prominent scholars from leading universities and research institutions to present their recent work in Accounting and Finance. 

Semester 1

Date Speaker Title
24/09/25 Xiaoyu Xu, Accounting & Finance, University of Strathclyde Waiters, old pals, beggars, and bribers: The economic and social lives of sell-side analysts in China.
01/10/25 Leonid Sokolovskyy, University of Manchester Understanding the Impact of Generative AI on Professional Judgment
 08/10/25 Da Chen, University of Lancaster Understanding ESG disclosures: Financial Motives, Performance and Greenwashing
15/10/25 Tian Gao, University of Manchester Mitigating a demand shock through Fintech
07/11/25 Evgeny Lyandres, Tel Aviv University Quantitative Investments in Decentralized Finance.
12/11/25 Yifan Ma, Erasmus Universitat Rotterdam Financial and Business Cycle Risk Premia
19/11/25 Robert Lockhart, Accounting & Finance, University of Strathclyde Earnings Expectations and Domestic Violence
03/12/25 Haijing Liu, Accounting & Finance, University of Strathclyde Patent Information Access and Local Employment:  Evidence from Patent Library Program

Semester 2

Date Speaker Title
29/01/26 Xuerui Fang, University of Lancaster Valuation Effect of ESG: Market Sentiment or Growth Potential.
06/02/26 Xiaoyun Yu, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF)  Failure to Jettison: The Cost of Labor on the Path to Recovery
11/02/26 Yinuo Pan, University of Strathclyde Dynamic boundary work: Understanding attempts to pursue professionalization in the sustainability field.
18/02/26 Spyridon Gkikopoulos, University of Manchester

Tax Policy, Financial Frictions, and Firm Risk-Taking.
25/02/26 Lianzi Gu, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics Formal–Informal Institutional Interactions and Export Performance.
02/03/26 Nadya Malenko, Boston College

Fund Proliferation, Decentralization, and Shareholder Power.
08/04/26 Emiel Jerphanion, University of Manchester

Tuition and Career Incentives: Evidence from Doctor Medical Billing.
16/04/26 Merih Sevilir, Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH)

Train to Retain: Investing in Employee Development and Well-Being
22/04/26 Gordon Phillips, Dartmouth Tuck

Collaborate or Consolidate? An NLP Text-Mining Analysis of R&D Networks and M&A.
29/04/26 Yong Chen, Texas A&M University

The Economics of Greenwashing Funds.

Semester 1

Date Speaker Title
09/10/24 Prof Cal Muckley, UCD Money management difficulty, customer protection and the detection of early-stage dementia.
23/10/24 Prof Fabio Braggion, Tilburg University The Long-term Effects of Inflation on Inflation Expectations 
06/11/24  Dr Marco Grotteria, LBS Environmental Health Risks, Property Values, and Neighborhood Composition
20/11/24  Prof John Cotter, UCD Asset Allocation with Factor-Based Covariance Matrices 
27/11/24  Dr Chi-Yang Tsou, University of Manchester Financial Frictions and Pollution Abatement Over the Life Cycle of Firms 

Semester 2 

Date Speaker Title
22/01/25 Prof Sabri Boubaker, EM Normandie Business School

How Do Adaptation Initiatives Affect Corporate Debt Choice?
12/02/25 Dr Ruby Brownen-Trinh, University of Bristol Flying semi-blind: an empirical study on auditors’ effort in auditing climate risks
19/02/25 Prof Ralph De Haas, EBRD, KU Leuven and CEPR Blended Finance and Female Entrepreneurship
05/03/25

Prof Lee Parker, University of Glasgow. Joint founding editor of AAAJ

Connecting the Accounting and Management Past and Present: Scientific Management and Office Management Control
12/03/25 Prof Olga Kolokolova, University of Lancaster Save the Date: Analyst / Investor Days as a Trading Signal
19/03/25 Dr Silvina Rubio, University of Bristol Voting Rationales

Economic and Business History at SBS

Date Speaker Presentation
27/02/25

Prof Graeme Acheson, Accounting & Finance 

 The Consuming City: Female Entrepreneurship in Late Victorian Glasgow
23/04/25 Dr Muhan Hu, Accounting & Finance The Original Gangsters: Big 4 Auditors Before They Were Big
14/05/25

Dr Niall MacKenzie, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation

 Communing with Angels: The Development of the Early-Stage Risk Capital Market in Scotland, 1990-Present

Spring Semester

Date Speaker Title
09/04/25 Keith Skowronski, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina

Value Capture in Drug Development Alliances: The Role of Complementary Resources and other R&D Partnerships
12/05/25 Zhi Da, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame You can only lend what you own: Inferring daily institutional trading from security lending supply
11/06/26 Michelle Lowry, LeBow School of Business, Drexel University Corporate Lobbying of Bureaucrats