• Corporate Governance from both finance, economics and accounting perspectives
• Corporate Finance
• Earnings Management
• IPOs
• Debt market and instruments including credit risk
• Banking and Investment
• International Accounting
• Emerging capital market

The group is headed by Professor Jean Chen.

Members of the group are drawn from a variety of academic and practitioner backgrounds, creating a diverse pool of knowledge and expertise. Profiles of the group members including research papers, journal contributions, conference presentations, publications and teaching areas can be found under the individuals profile details of the Finance and Accounting Group. 

Research active members of the Finance and Accounting Group include:

Dr Sam Agyei-Ampomah's main research interests are in areas of Market Efficiency, Anomalies, Trading Strategies and Transaction costs, Equity Market Integration, Fund Performance and Volatility, Derivatives and Risk Management. His research in these areas have been presented at international conferences and have appeared in academic journals such as Journal of Business Finance and Accounting; Transnational Corporations Journal and the European Financial Management.

Professor Jean Chen's research interests cover a wide range of topics in the area of financial economics and financial management, in particular, corporate governance and corporate finance, where she has published widely in books and leading academic journals, such as Corporate Governance: An International Review, European Accounting Review, Journal of Business Research, International Review of Finance, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics. She serves on the editorial board for the academic journals Corporate Governance: An International Review, Journal of Accounting Studies - A Publication of the Accounting Society of China, and is an associate editor of Nankai Business Review International. She is also a regular reviewer for 6 major international academic journals in financial and economic studies. She has delivered international conference plenary/keynote speeches and seminars on topics related to corporate governance, participating in advisory and review bodies.

Dr Dimitrios Gounopoulos' main research interests are in Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), Earnings Management, Corporate Governance, Bond Issues, Emerging Capital Markets, International Accounting Issues. Dimitris has strong collaboration with Vrije University of Amsterdam on projects looking Energy Efficiency. He is also involved in the area of Shipping Finance in collaboration with Department of Maritime Studies, University of Piraeus.

Dr Andrew Mason gained more than 20 years hands on experience in the financial sector, in Investment Management and Investment Banking, prior to returning to academia. This includes positions as Economist and Investment Strategist at leading investment banks Nomura and Citicorp before moving into investment management. Andrew held senior investment management roles at leading pension funds including USS, one of the UK’s largest funds, and U.S. mutual fund Kemper. He was a top performance ranked investment manager by WM (UK) and Lipper (US). He was also Head of Equities at Philips Pension Fund, one of the largest pension funds in Europe and has experience of asset allocation and specialist mandates including hedge funds and private equity. His research interests focus on areas of investment, hedge funds, private equity, pension funds, asset allocation and behavioural aspects of investment.

Dr Julinda Nuri's main research interests lie in the areas of capital structure issues, corporate governance, efficiency of emerging capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and the effect of accounting manipulations on stock price returns.

Professor Dimitris Petmezas' main research interests lie in M&As and Corporate Finance. His current research focuses on the impact of managerial agency costs on corporate investment and financing policy decisions. His research also looks into factors that affect value creation for shareholders in merger and acquisition activity and its relation with behavioural issues such as managerial overconfidence. His research is presented every year in highly prestigious international conferences (SWFA 2009 Best Paper Award). Dimitris also serves as ad-hoc referee in several top academic journals.

Professor Frank Skinner's research interest centres around fixed interest securities, broadly defined. This means Frank can be working on topics of valuation (Mortgage Backed Securities and Credit Default Swaps are recent examples) investment strategies (such as contingent immunization) and financial contracting (such as the use of various bond covenant clauses). Moreover Frank also deals with issues regarding credit risk such as the risk of bank failure and issuers regarding hedging such as hedging financial instruments and currencies subject to credit risk. His work is published in a very broad range of journals.

Dr Evangelia Varoutsa's research interests focus on the management accounting area. More precisely on topics of management accounting change (such as innovations and implementation of new management accounting systems), management control (such as control and performance techniques), and supply chain management (such as governmental mechanisms for inter-organizational relationships).